20:30 hrs. Teatro Degollado
12:30 hrs. Teatro Degollado
Program 7
STORIES FROM THE BIBLE
Danail Rachev, Guest Conductor
Katherine Rivas, Flute
Giuseppe VERDI, Nabucco: Overture
Cécile CHAMINADE, Concertino for flute in D major, Op. 107
Katherine Rivas, flute
Miklós RÓZSA, Ben-Hur: Suite
Elmer BERNSTEIN, The Ten Commandments (1956): Prelude
Camille SAINT-SAËNS, Samson et Dalila: Bacchanale
Thursday, March 23, 8:30 PM Teatro Degollado
Friday, March 24, 8:30 PM Palcco
Sunday, March 26, 12:30 PM Teatro Degollado
First Season 2017
The last program of the Orchestra Season is a prelude to the celebration of Holy Week: On Thursday the 23rd and Sunday the 26th of March, music inspired by various episodes of the Bible will be offered for the listeners’ delight.
The program opens with the emblematic Overture to the opera “Nabucco” by Giuseppe Verdi, which narrates the episode in which the Jews were captured by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. Two selections of film music follow: the Suite from Ben-Hur, by Miklós Rósza, and the Elmer Bernstein Prelude to The Ten Commandments. Another Old Testament story to be presented is that of Samson and Delilah, in the form of the orgiastic Bacchanale from the French opera on this subject by composer Camille Saint-Saëns. OFJ Flautist Katherine Rivas will offer her interpretation of the 1902 Concertino for flute in D major by French composer Cécile Chaminade.
*Music Appreciation lectures, Thursday at 7:00 PM and Sunday at 11:00 AM
*Discounts, 30%, for students, teachers, persons with disabilities and seniors
*Programming subject to change without notice