Name: Verdi's Requiem with Artelize
Start: 2023-04-16T15:00:00
Location: Artelize Hall

Susanna Summers

Sonny Jerry

Iza Belle Yol

John Paul Carson

Paula Jory

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Scheherazade didn't tell stories because she loved storytelling. She told stories to stay alive — weaving one tale into the next, night after night, keeping the sultan hooked until he forgot to execute her. She was the original cliffhanger artist. The first showrunner.

Rimsky-Korsakov heard that and wrote one of the most cinematic, sensual, and adventure-filled works in the entire orchestral canon. Four movements. A solo violin that plays Scheherazade herself — threading through waves, shipwrecks, festivals, and lovers' embraces. It sounds like the films we watch today, except it was written in 1888.

The concert opens with Saint-Saëns' Bacchanale from Samson et Dalila — six minutes of pure orchestral seduction, setting the atmosphere before Scheherazade takes over and holds you for the full 45 minutes. This is music for anyone who has ever been completely lost in a story. It ends, and you'll want to hear it again immediately.

Scheherazade: 1001 Nights in 90 Minutes

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Every season deserves a finale that means something. This one is built around two opposing ideas: the perfect ending and the impossible one.

Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony stops mid-sentence. Two movements, then nothing. He never explained why. The most famous incomplete work in the repertoire — and arguably the most perfect, because its silence says everything the notes can't. It opens the evening like a question.

Mozart's "Jupiter" Symphony closes it with the answer. The final movement is the most architecturally elaborate thing Mozart ever wrote: five themes, running simultaneously, woven into a fugue so dense and so inevitable that when it ends, it feels like the only possible conclusion to anything — the season, the year, music itself. Beethoven heard it and spent a decade trying to write something as good.

Together they make an argument: some things need to stay open. Some things need to close properly. A great season finale knows which is which. After the final chord, drinks will be served in the foyer. You are not required to leave quickly.

(Finishing) Unfinished Business

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Verdi's Requiem with Artelize

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