Rachmaninoff & Stravinsky

Thursday
December 3, 2009, 7:00 p.m.- Laura Turner Concert Hall

Friday
December 4, 2009, 8:00 p.m.- Laura Turner Concert Hall

Saturday
December 5, 2009, 8:00 p.m.- Laura Turner Concert Hall

Nashville Symphony
Giancarlo Guerrero, Conductor
Nashville Symphony Chorus
George Mabry, Chorus Director
Twyla Robinson, Soprano
Bryan Griffin, Tenor
Darren K. Stokes, Bass-baritone

Stravinsky -  Symphony of Psalms
Dominick Argento -  Le Tombeau d’Edgar Poe
Rachmaninoff -  The Bells, Op. 35

The Nashville Symphony celebrates Edgar Allan Poe with two pieces inspired by the beloved writer. Poe's resonant poem served as inspiration for Rachmaninoff's choral symphony The Bells, which would prove to be one of the composer's own favorite works. American composer Dominick Argento's Le Tombeau d'Edgar Poe is a haunting, evocative work that adapts the writer's beloved poem "Annabel Lee." The iconoclastic modern Russian master Stravinsky looked to the Old Testament for his Symphony of Psalms, creating a wholly original work of liturgical music — notable for its unique scoring and its intensity of feeling. This concert will be a magnificent showcase for the stirring voices of the Nashville Symphony Chorus.

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