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Symphonie Fantastique
April 11 & 12, 2025
Program

Eric Jacobsen, conductor

Virginia Symphony Orchestra Chorus, 

     Robert Shoup, Chorusmaster

 

Ferguson Center for the Arts, Newport News, Friday, April 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM

Sandler Center for the Performing Arts, Virginia Beach, Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM

Anna Clyne

(b. 1980)

This Moment

 

 

John Adams

(b. 1947)

Harmonium

I. “Negative Love” by John Donne                                                  

II. “Because I could not stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson

III. “Wild Nights” by Emily Dickinson

 

Virginia Symphony Orchestra Chorus

 

 

 

-- intermission --

 

 

Hector Berlioz

(1803 - 1869)

Symphonie fantastique

I. Rêveries, Passions                                                                         

II. Un bal (A Ball)

III. Scène aux champs (Scene in the Country)

IV. Marche au supplice (March to the Scaffold)                            

V. Songe d'une nuit du sabbat (Dream of a Witches' Sabbath)   

 

Beth Sholom Village (Aviva Pembroke)
Chrysler Museum of Art
The Williams School
Program Notes

—©Jennifer More, 2025

Anna Clyne
This Moment
John Adams
Harmonium
Hector Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique
Virginia Arts Festival
Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd
Arts Enter Cape Charles
Roadstead Montessori High School
WTJZ
Governors School for the Arts
Texts for Harmonium
I. Negative Love or The Nothing
John Donne
II. Because I could not stop for Death
Emily Dickinson
III. Wild Nights
Emily Dickinson
CBN
Merit 2.0
BOB FM
Seven Venues
Arts Alliance
Artist Biographies
Eric Jacobsen
Conductor, VSO Music Director
Robert Shoup
Chorusmaster
Virginia Symphony Orchestra Chorus
Chrysler Museum of Art
WHRO
The Breeden
Towne Bank
Sentara