Concerts - February 2009
Imagination's Dream, Symphony and Song
- February 21 , 2009 - Cascade Theatre, Redding, 7:30 pm
- February 22, 2009 - Laxson Auditorium, Chico, 2:00 pm
- Berlioz - Roman Carnival Overture
- Burnham - The Bird's Companion
- Mahler - Symphony #4
- Heidi Melton, soprano
Poetry and music are the twin arts, and this concert brings them together. A world premiere by Chico State professor Russ Burnham sets to music the verse of the evocative American poet William Carlos Williams in The Bird’s Companion. Gustav Mahler’s surprisingly intimate Fourth Symphony includes a hauntingly innocent child’s vision of Heaven. Pictures in music of an Italian street scene (Roman Carnival Overture, by Berlioz) open the festivities.
Conductor Kyle Wiley Pickett will give a free pre-concert talk one hour before the concerts begin.