On this Halloween night as we begin the Día de los Muertos holiday, let us treat you to a free 1-hour concert. No tickets are required; simply walk in the door! The program features orchestral works that vividly illustrate traditional scenes of death. In “Danse macabre” a detuned violin calls the spirits of the dead (or even the skeletons!) into a frenzied dance on the stroke of midnight. “Death and Transfiguration” illustrates a slowing heart (or clock), a final breath, and a transfiguration into the heavens above.

Program

Jean Sibelius: “The Death of Mélisande” from Pelléas et Mélisande 

Camille Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre

Sergei Prokofiev: “Death of Tybalt” from Romeo and Juliet

Richard Strauss: Death and Transfiguration

Free, no tickets are required.