Des Moines Symphony

Symphonic Haunts - 8 pm

Sat, October 20, 2007
8:00 pm

Strauss: Overture to “Die Fledermaus” (The Bat)

Dvorak: Noonday Witch

Saint-Saens: Danse Macabre

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

The supernatural has long been a part of literature, drama and music. Our season of celebration has a spooky start, featuring music that is chilling, thrilling, and spine-tingling. It begins with the overture to Strauss’ beloved operetta Die Fledermaus and Dvorak’s Noonday Witch. The Des Moines Symphony’s own Jonathan Sturm is featured in the mysterious Danse Macabre based on Henri Cazalalis’ death poem. The expressive Pictures at an Exhibition invokes the imagination and ends this concert on a majestic note.

During the concert the lobbies will showcase our own Pictures at an Exhibition with artwork from local area students. Select Des Moines schools (grade school through college) will participate in a music enrichment activity. Students will have the chance to hear a quartet play this work and draw what the music has inspired in them. Twelve drawings will be showcased in the lobbies during the concert. Drawings will be placed with plaque cards telling the artist, age and school. Concert attendees will be able to see how music can relate to art and how age interprets music.

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