The Madison Symphony Orchestra continues its Overture Concert Organ series with Fanfares & Flourishes on Tuesday, October 23 at 7:30 PM in Overture Hall. MSO Principal Organist Samuel Hutchison joins forces with the brass and percussion section of the MSO for majestic fanfares and a selection of works designed to fill Overture Hall with a sound spectacular.
Tickets are $15 for adults and $9 for students aged 6-18. Tickets are on sale now through Overture Center Box Office.
The concert begins with the martial and heroic themes of Marcel Dupré's Heroique Poem, a commemoration of the restoration of the Cathedral in Verdun in 1935. Georg Philipp Telemann's Suite in F Major for Two Horns and Organ follows with a series of sprightly dance movements. J.S. Bach's great Fugue in E-flat Major is a triple fugue in three sections with three themes believed to symbolize the Trinity.
The second movement from American composer Paul Creston's Concerto for Marimba, entitled Calm, brings a moment of serenity to the program before Richard Strauss's Festival Entry closes the first half of the program with a ringing climax. The second half opens with a thrilling splash of brilliant brass in Paul Dukas's Fanfare from La Peri, followed by Sigfrid Karg-Elert's delightful Praise the Lord with Drums and Cymbals and Francesco Onofrio Manfredini's Concerto for Two Trumpets. And Charles-Marie Widor's Lord, Save Thy People—premiered by the composer at the armistice service in the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris in 1918—brings the concert to a close with a proud and intensely emotional march.
The Overture Concert Organ, the gift of Pleasant T. Rowland, was commissioned by the MSO. The 174-ton, 4,040-pipe marvel is among the most significant concert organ installations in America and is believed to be the heaviest moveable object in any theater in the world. -- www.madisonsymphony.org
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