Igor Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale
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| Free with general admission |
*General museum admission is FREE for residents of Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties.
Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings starts 2023 with a presentation of Igor Stravinsky’s masterpiece The Soldier’s Tale, presented in collaboration with Eisenhower Dance Detroit.
The concert includes choreography by Eisenhower Dance Detroit’s dancers, as well as music and narration provided by Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings. These talents will merge to tell the tale of a soldier who returns from the army and makes a deal with the Devil, trading his old violin for a magic book that can tell the future and make him rich.
When Stravinsky wrote the The Soldier’s Tale in 1918, he was already revered for his great ballets that brought dance and music together so seamlessly, but World War 1 and the Russian Revolution brought extraordinary financial hardship. Stravinsky’s genius was to create the The Soldier’s Tale as a masterpiece in miniature, with dancers and narration accompanied by only 7 instrumentalists – two strings, two winds, two brass and percussion.
The performance will include three narrators. Singer, award-winning songwriter and actor Lulu Fall, will narrate the role of the soldier. Soprano Jocelyn Zelasko will portray the role of the Devil and Carl Grapentine, long-time host of the morning program on WFMT/ 98.7 FM, Chicago's Classical music station, will take on the role of a narrator.
The concert also includes Bach’s Partita No. 1 with music played by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s associate concertmaster, Kimberly Kaloyanides Kennedy, and the world premiere of a new piece for reed quintet by Nathalie Joachim called Radical Revelations.
Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings starts 2023 with a presentation of Igor Stravinsky’s masterpiece The Soldier’s Tale, presented in collaboration with Eisenhower Dance Detroit.
The concert includes choreography by Eisenhower Dance Detroit’s dancers, as well as music and narration provided by Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings. These talents will merge to tell the tale of a soldier who returns from the army and makes a deal with the Devil, trading his old violin for a magic book that can tell the future and make him rich.
When Stravinsky wrote the The Soldier’s Tale in 1918, he was already revered for his great ballets that brought dance and music together so seamlessly, but World War 1 and the Russian Revolution brought extraordinary financial hardship. Stravinsky’s genius was to create the The Soldier’s Tale as a masterpiece in miniature, with dancers and narration accompanied by only 7 instrumentalists – two strings, two winds, two brass and percussion.
The performance will include three narrators. Singer, award-winning songwriter and actor Lulu Fall, will narrate the role of the soldier. Soprano Jocelyn Zelasko will portray the role of the Devil and Carl Grapentine, long-time host of the morning program on WFMT/ 98.7 FM, Chicago's Classical music station, will take on the role of a narrator.
The concert also includes Bach’s Partita No. 1 with music played by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s associate concertmaster, Kimberly Kaloyanides Kennedy, and the world premiere of a new piece for reed quintet by Nathalie Joachim called Radical Revelations.