Prometheus | Music for the Senses [04/04/24]

Andris Nelsons, conductor

Yefim Bronfman, piano

Anna Gawboy, lighting research

Justin Townsend, lighting designer

Tanglewood Festival Chorus

James Burton, conductor

Anna CLYNE Color Field

WAGNER Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde

Intermission

LISZT Prometheus

SCRIABIN Prometheus, Poem of Fire, for piano, color organ, chorus, and orchestra

This week's performances by the Tanglewood Festival Chorus are supported by the Alan J. and Suzanne W. Dworsky Fund for Voice and Chorus.

A program of color: It opens with Anna Clyne’s Color Field, inspired in part by the vibrancy of a Mark Rothko painting. Followed by Richard Wagner’s ecstatic Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde, and Franz Liszt’s Prometheus. The program closes with Alexander Scriabin’s Prometheus, Poem of Fire. When Alexander Scriabin’s wrote Prometheus, Poem of Fire, he conceived of a “light organ” that would project colors corresponding to his music. Prometheus premiered in 1911 with future BSO Music Director Serge Koussevitzky, whose 150th birthday year we celebrate in 2024.

The Friday Preview talk on April 5 will begin at 12:15pm. Admission included with ticket.

Saturday, April 6, at 6:15pm

Admission included with 8pm concert ticket on April 6

Anne Chao, flute

Cynthia Tseng, piano

MESSIAEN Le Merle Noir

Panel Discussion: How We Hear – the evolution of music perception

Dr. Lisa Wong, moderator (Associate Co-Director, Arts & Humanities Initiative, Harvard Medical School)

Dr. Aniruddh D. Patel (Tufts University, author of Music, Language, and the Brain)

Alexandra Rieger (Cognitive Neuroscientist, Mechatronic Sensory Design Engineer, and Multi-Instrumentalist)

Thursday's performance will end around 9:15pm, Friday's performance will end around 3:15pm, and Saturday's performance will end around 9:45pm.

Prometheus | Music for the Senses

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