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Tuesday, March 20
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and its sensational conductor Myung-Whun Chung
Hill Auditorium
Pizza at 6:30 p.m. in the Alumni Center
Concert begins at 8 p.m. at Hill Auditorium
The UMS is pleased to offer a special Arts and Eats package to this concert, which includes great seats in the Hill mezzanine for only $12, plus free pizza in the Alumni Center before the concert. There also will be a brief talk during the pizza dinner by Rachel Lauber, a conductor and music director in the Southeastern Michigan area, and graduate of the U-M School of Music, Theatre and Dance.
To order tickets, visit http://www.arts.umich.edu/ums or visit the UMS Ticket Office in the Michigan League and mention the ORCHESTRE PHILHARMONIQUE ARTS & EATS OFFER. Limit of two tickets per person. Offer expires Thursday, March 15, at 5 p.m.
Arts & Eats is sponsored by the U-M Credit Union and Arts at Michigan, with support from the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan.
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Symphonie fantastique was written by the 27-year-old Hector Berlioz just three years after Beethoven's death and to this day, the piece evokes a wide range of emotions. Inspired by Thomas de Quincy's 1822 autobiographical work, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, the musical narrative represents a man's hallucination of a torrid love affair that ends in his execution for the lover's murder. Perhaps no orchestra is better suited to present this all-French program, which also includes Ravel's Mother Goose Suite, than the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and its sensational conductor Myung-Whun Chung, which made its stunning UMS debut in 2002.
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