For the first time since 2017, the Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra joins forces with Bainbridge Chorale for an all-French concert that revels in pageantry, color, and shared musical experience. The program features the brilliant brass of Dukas’s La Péri, the elegant lyricism of Fauré’s Pavane, the sacred intimacy of Messiaen's O sacrum convivium, and the luminous orchestral colors of Debussy’s Nocturnes. The evening culminates in a performance of Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem, a work of warmth and serenity that offers a profoundly moving expression of reflection, unity, and the transcendent power of music.
Program:
Paul Dukas: Fanfare pour précéder La Péri
Gabriel Fauré: Pavane, Op. 50
Olivier Messiaen: O sacrum convivium!
Claude Debussy: Nocturnes
– intermission –
Maurice Duruflé: Requiem, Op. 9
-Madeleine Smith, mezzo-soprano & Darrell Jordan, baritone