Monday, September 24, 2012
School of Music: A Soldier's Tale
Description:
Michael Votta leads the U.S. Army Field Band and Soldiers' Chorus, along with members of UMD Chamber Singers, in an all-Stravinsky program featuring L'Histoire du Soldat (A Soldier's Tale).
A work the composer said should be "read, played, and danced," A Soldier's Tale uses three actors to tell the story of a soldier who trades his fiddle to the devil for a book that predicts the future of the economy.
Also on the program: Mass, one of Stravinsky's only works written without a commission.
Stravinsky scholars have speculated that this work, an austere 19-minute setting of the Roman Catholic Mass, was the product of "a spiritual necessity."
{Will appear in FYI on Sep 21, 2012
Start Time:
8:00 PM
End Time:
9:30 PM
Room:
Dekelboum Concert Hall
Common Location Name:
Clarice Smith PAC
Web Address:
music.umd.edu/events/17482
Other Contact Information:
Cara Natalie Fleck
School of Music
+1 301 405 7283
music-marketing@umd.edu
http://music.umd.edu/events/17482
