Now playing · Tue Oct 6 · 7:00pm
The Story of Babar Concert
Billed as “Nature Unbound: Music Inspired by the Great Outdoors,” the concert centres on Poulenc’s The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant, his setting of Jean de Brunhoff’s picture book for narrator and piano, with Jim Crowley of the English department narrating and Deborah Nemko of the music department at the piano. Also on the programme are Sibelius’s The Pines, Rachmaninoff’s Lilacs and Gershwin’s Promenade (Walking the Dog).