Sat Oct 24 · 8:00pm
French Adventures: From Fairy Tales to the Sea
Méhul's First Symphony opens a French programme completed by Ravel's Ma Mère l'Oye, the fairy-tale suite he first wrote as a piano duet for two children, and Debussy's La mer. Méhul was a leading opera composer of the Revolutionary years whose symphonies went largely unplayed for a century afterwards.