Name: University Symphony Orchestra: Mediterranean Travels
Start: 2025-02-01T20:00:00-06:00
Location: Mandel Hall at the University of Chicago

University Symphony Orchestra: Mediterranean Travels

Mediterranean Travels
Chase away the winter doldrums with a musical journey around the Mediterranean! The University Symphony Orchestra serves as your guide, with colorful depictions of lands to the south crafted by well-known composers from northern Europe. The Englishman Edward Elgar wrote his concert overture Alassio, or In the South, while on a family holiday in Italy during the winter of 1904. The Frenchman Jacques Ibert compiled his three-movement suite Escales, or Ports of Call, following several Mediterranean voyages he made in the years after World War I, after winning the prestigious Prix de Rome. And the Russian master Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov fashioned his Capriccio Espagnol, “a brilliant composition for orchestra,” in 1887 as an exuberant representation of his fond memories of his brief visit to Spain some 25 years earlier. All three works are masterful musical embodiments of the culture and climate of these Mediterranean lands.
Free admission. Donations at door: $10 / $5 students