Fantasy & Enchantment

Friday, April 2, 2027 at 7:30 PM in The Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences Crickets Theater

PRESENTED BY GRAY HARE ANALYTICS AND THE SS FOUNDATION:

Join the Lubbock Symphony Chamber Orchestra for a night of whimsical music to lighten your soul.

Haydn’s Symphony No. 101, “The Clock,” is a humorous piece that earned its name from the plucked strings that sound like the ticking of a clock in the second movement. Haydn wrote the symphony for a small orchestra, with the ensemble transforming into a bumbling village band at one point. Some future publishers tried to “correct” this section, not in on Haydn’s delightful joke.

Bird’s Serenade for Wind Instruments is a chamber piece that highlights the beauty of wind instruments, including the English horn. The piece is light, airy, and joyful. It won the Paderewski Prize for best American chamber work in 1901.

Ravel had no children of his own, but he enjoyed telling fairytales and writing music for his friends’ children. He originally wrote Mother Goose Suite as a piano duet for Mimi and Jean Godebski, aged six and seven. Eventually developed into a ballet and an orchestral suite, the piece weaves together folk tales such as Sleeping Beauty; Tom Thumb; Beauty and the Beast; and The Green Serpent. The unique orchestration calls for a smaller orchestra, with doubled wind and horn parts but no trumpets, trombone, or tuba. A harp and celesta are called upon to enhance the dazzling, magical atmosphere.

Haydn – Symphony No. 101 in D Major, Hob.I:101 (“The Clock”)

Bird – Serenade for Wind Instruments, op. 40

Ravel – Mother Goose Suite

Eric Allen, conductor

This performance is also made possible in part by The CH Foundation; Helen Jones Foundation, Inc.; the Lubbock Symphony Guild; the Texas Commission on the Arts; the National Endowment for the Arts, and a grant by the City of Lubbock as recommended by Civic Lubbock, Inc.

This performance takes place in the Lubbock Cultural District.