With juggling, humour, poetry, and the company of “La Cervantona” and “El Cervantillo,” two comedians from the Spanish Golden Age, we transport families to some of the episodes of Don Quixote that inspired the music of German composer Telemann.
Programme:
J. B. Lully, Chaconne des Scaramouches
G. P. Telemann, Suite Burlesque de Quixotte
With compositions by Maurice Ravel, this concert in the Family Music Series invites you to enjoy tales that have left their mark on more than a few generations, like Sleeping Beauty, Little Tom Thumb, and Beauty and the Beast.
Programme:
Maurice Ravel:
Ma mère l’oye...
This is the story of a bird with powers. It does everything it can to teach its fellow forest dwellers about the importance of the nature around them where they make their home.
A reluctant lumberjack, a naive princess, a distracted lion, a scrap metal collector who could...
When Pulcinella takes out his old violin and begins to sing and play like only he can, a story begins that narrates this musical tale for families where music and words join forces to breathe life into the characters.
This work is an adaptation by Fernando Palacios of the Pulcinella Suite,...
Musical story for narrator and clarinet, violin, and piano trio
La mota de polvo (The Speck of Dust) is a musical story that narrates the adventures of a tiny being, one of the particles we see floating in the air when a ray of sunshine comes in through the window. With the...
When he was only 12 years old, Edward Elgar (1857-1934) composed some tunes to accompany a theatre show he was going to stage with the other children in his family. He wrote the tunes down in a sketchbook and, forty years later, recovered the sketches to create his two orchestral...
