Monteux Festival Orchestra - Goossens's Oboe Concerto (ft. Emily Tsai)

Join us for our second festival orchestra concert of the season, featuring Respighi’s Fountains of Rome, Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé, Suites No. 1 and 2, and guest artist Emily Tsai in the Goossens Oboe Concerto.

Respighi’s Fountains of Rome is a tone poem evoking the picturesque scenery of Rome through four vignettes, each featuring one of Rome’s fountains at a new time of day. The work opens with the Valle Giulia at dawn. The second movement recalls the Triton Fountain at morning. Next, Respighi invites us to the Trevi fountain at midday, and finally, the work closes at the Villa Medici at dusk.

Eugene Goossens’s oboe concerto is a challenging, free-form work and rarely performed gem—today the most well-known among his compositions. Goossens composed it for his brother Léon, a skilled oboist who was a member of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and who premiered works by many other notable British composers of the day, including Elgar, Britten, and Vaughan Williams. The orchestral version of the concerto received its premiere at the Proms in 1930.

Before his ballet Daphnis et Chloé premiered in 1912—danced by the Ballets Russes in Paris and conducted by Monteux leading the Orchestre Colonne—Ravel was already at work preparing the first of its orchestral suites, with the second following two years later. Ravel had conceptualized the ballet as a symphonie chorégraphique, but throughout his collaboration with choreographer Michel Fokine the two struggled to agree on the musical trajectory of the work. Ravel completed Daphnis et Chloé, Suites No. 1 and 2 by 1913, and the suites ultimately came to transcend the ballet in popularity.

Full program:

• Respighi - Fountains of Rome
• Goossens - Oboe Concerto, featuring Emily Tsai
• Ravel - Daphnis & Chloe, Suites 1 and 2

The address of our concert hall known as the Forest Studio is 42 Melody Lane (off old track road) in Hancock, ME 04640. Concerts start at 5:00 PM and last approximately 2 hours and include an intermission. Doors open at 4:30 PM. 

For more details visit monteuxmusic.org or email Stan Renard, Executive Director at info@monteuxmusic.org

NOTE: Single tickets get assigned the best seats available at the time of purchase. We have a small hall and thus, do not have a seating chart that you can use to select your seating location. But we will take good care of you! However, if you and your friends are buying tickets separately but wish to seat next to each other please email us at info@monteuxmusic.org and we will do our best to accommodate you. Our three last Sunday concerts in July sell out and as such we recommend you purchase your tickets to those concerts much in advance.

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We look forward to seeing you at our concerts!

The Monteux Team