Midwest Premiere for Bagpipes, Piano and Orchestra, featuring Spanish bagpiper Cristina Pato
Wentz Concert Hall, Naperville,
March 21
Symphony Center, Chicago,
March 23
CHICAGO (February 17, 2015) – CHICAGO – The scintillating gypsy Carmen, the wildly bohemian sounds of the
gaita (Spanish bagpipes) and the perils of gluttony and lust all come together as inspiration for the
Chicago Sinfonietta’s
spring concert, “Primal Instincts.” Sinfonietta
Music Director Mei-Ann Chen with special guest artists including renowned Spanish
gaita player Cristina Pato and singers from
Roosevelt University CCPA Conservatory Chorus
and the Glen Ellyn children’s chorus Anima,
lead a concert inspired by artistic expressions of passion, fate, gluttony and love. The Chicago Sinfonietta performs “Primal Instincts” twice: first, in the western suburbs at Wentz
Concert Hall of North Central College, Naperville, Saturday, March 21 at 8 pm, and then again in its downtown Chicago home venue of Symphony Center,
Monday, March 23 at 7:30 pm.
“One of the wonderful things about music is that it can take us on a journey. In this concert, entitled
Primal Instincts, music becomes an intense, visceral experience,
and through it we can explore the full gamut of human emotions and
desires,” said Chen. “The three remarkable works we will perform, with
their connecting, interweaving themes of romance,
passion, and human vices, combine to bring us on an incredible
excursion.”
The “Primal Instincts” program opens with selections from
Carmen Suites No.1 and No.2, orchestral works drawn from Georges Bizet’s 1875 opera
Carmen and arranged by Ernest Guiraud, inspired by the fictional
Spanish gypsy Carmen and her seduction of the soldier Don José. Then,
Pato joins the orchestra for the
U.S. Premiere of Emilio Solla’s
A Galician Voyage: Concerto for Bagpipes, Piano & Orchestra, a
fiery jazz-tango inspired work commissioned by Pato and premiered in
Barcelona, Spain in the fall of 2014. As a bagpiper, pianist and
composer, Pato has had an active professional career
devoted to Galician popular and classical music and jazz; her careers
have led to performances on major stages throughout the United States,
Europe, India, Africa and China. In 1999, she became the first female
Gaita player to release a solo album.
The orchestra delivers the final primordial blow with one of the most overpowering works of all time, Carl Orff’s scenic cantata
Carmina Burana, inspired by medieval texts about the fickleness
of fortune and the dangers of gluttony and lust (among other topics),
with guest choral singers and vocal soloists.
Tickets
Single
tickets range from $16-$99 for concerts at Symphony Center and $46-$58
for concerts at Wentz Concert Hall, with special $10 pricing available
for students at both concerts.
Tickets can be purchased by calling the Chicago Sinfonietta at
312-236-3681 ext. 2 or online at
www.chicagosinfonietta.org.
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