Name: Reflections on Carmen
Start: 2021-07-30T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2021-07-31T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Harris Theater

Organization

Grant Park Music Festival

Conductor

Carlos Kalmar

Orchestra

The Grant Park Orchestra

Reflections on Carmen

Willard

United States

Harris Theater

Public

Symphony No. 8 in G major

Entr'acte

Carmen Suite

Approved

Watch Grant Park Music Festival Lecture Host, Seth Boustead, discuss pieces from the July 31st and August 1st live-streamed performance inside the Harris Theater. Pieces include Haydn Symphony No. 8, Caroline Shaw Entr'acte, and Schedrin Carmen Fantasy. 

The GPMF performances this weekend will be live-streamed on the Festival's YouTube page, so be sure to check it out after viewing this informative lecture.

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2021 GPMF Carmen and Haydn Symphony Pre-Concert Lecture with Seth Boustead

In 1967, Cuban choreographer Alberto Alonso embarked upon a dance piece for the prima ballerina assoluta Maya Plisetskaya. It was to be inspired by the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet. Alonso had trouble settling upon a composer for the project when the solution was right under his nose: the ballerina's husband, Rodion Shchedrin was a well respected Soviet composer. Soon, Shchedrin had produced the Carmen ballet.

Fast forward to 2021, in anticipation of the Grant Park Music Festival performance of Shchedrin's score, choreographer Melina Bezanis created this video short with fellow dancers Rayan Lecuriex-Durival, Virginia Santussi and Thibaut Witzleb. Enjoy!

English

Reflections on Carmen by Haydn, Shaw, C., Shchedrin, From (2021/2021), Conductor Carlos Kalmar, Harris Theater, Willard, United States

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