Join the MSO under the baton of Chief Conductor Jaime Martin for this fast-paced, action-packed homage to the heroic.
Turn-of-the-century English composer Ethel Smyth was a heroic rebel of the highest order. A bisexual leader of the suffragette movement, she served a stint in prison, and challenged the prejudices of the musical establishment. Her intensely powerful and socially-damning 1906 opera The Wreckers follows a hypocritical community of Cornish plunderers who lure ships amidst raging storms onto rocks to loot their cargo.
Debussy's divine masterpiece, La Mer, is a rich and evocative portrayal of the sea and its many moods. In this shimmering work, he reveals his attachment to "my old friend, the sea; it is always endless and beautiful."
Inspired by Beethoven’s Eroica (heroic) Symphony, Strauss wrote his tone poem, Ein Heldenleben, to depict the various key ingredients in the life of a hero, including Adversaries, Companions, Battles, and Works of Peace.