Mercury Orchestra performs Ravel and Debussy July 19, 2008

Mercury Orchestra performs Ravel and Debussy
Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 8:00 pm

Ravel La valse (The Waltz)
Ravel Piano Concerto in G
Debussy La mer (The Sea)

Albert Kim, piano
Channing Yu, conductor

The Mercury Orchestra, established in 2008, opens its first concert with a colorful program of French impressionist music for symphony orchestra. Maurice Ravel’s witty, nostalgic, lyrical, and sometimes macabre deconstruction of the classical Viennese waltz (La valse) offers a sharp contrast to his sprightly and sublime Piano Concerto in G. Claude Debussy’s symphonic portrait La mer evokes three distinct personalities of the sea: De l'aube à midi sur la mer (From dawn until noon on the sea); Jeux de vagues (Play of the waves); Dialogue du vent et de la mer (Dialogue of wind and sea).

Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Official Website: http://mercuryorchestra.org