Pre-concert lecture at 7:15 PM in the lower lobby.
Kenneth Kiesler, conductor
Daniel Fendrick, Winner 2016 SMTD Concerto Competition, bassoon
Joan Holland, harp

"Parisians in America,” music of, by, and for Parisians, with two revolutionary symphonies and two French solo pieces. The brilliant and bold Paris Symphony, Mozart’s confident introduction to the Parisian audience, opens the concert. The USO and UPO join forces to perform Symphonie Fantastique, the earth-shatteringly revolutionary and personal, hallucinogen-induced dream-symphony with almost cinematic scenes of the young composer’s morbid nightmares, unrequited love, and unrelenting fixation on a young actress. 2016 SMTD Concerto Competition winner Daniel Fendrick joins the USO for the bassoon concerto by Marcel Bitsch, and Professor Joan Holland performs Debussy’s impressionistic and evocative Sacred and Profane Dances.

PROGRAM: Mozart- Symphony No. 31; Debussy- Sacred and Profane Dances; Bitsch- Concerto for Bassoon; Berlioz- Symphonie Fantastique