Symphonie fantastique with Anne Akiko Meyers

Name: Symphonie fantastique with Anne Akiko Meyers
Start: 2025-01-10T19:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-01-10T21:30:00-05:00
Location: Gaillard Center

Schedule

Fri Jan 10 2025 at 07:30 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Gaillard Center | Charleston, SC

During this concert, you’ll have once-in-a-lifetime experience with your Charleston Symphony, featuring the extraordinary violinist Anne Akiko Meyers and revered Austrian conductor Hans Graf. You’ll be captivated by Ravel’s Mother Goose and Barber’s Violin Concerto, as well as the epic orchestral masterpiece that is Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique. From tender love scenes to a gripping march to the scaffold and an opium-fueled nightmare, Berlioz’s mesmerizing composition takes you on a thrilling, unforgettable journey.
Grammy Award-winner Anne Akiko Meyers will perform Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto — a piece she once played for a massive audience of 750,000 in Australia. The concerto is famous for several reasons, not the least of which being that in its final movement Barber requires the soloist to prevail with a thrilling, consuming, and breathtaking finale.
Hector Berlioz composed Symphonie fantastique while he was wracked with passion, fixated on an unrequited love, and deeply inspired by Beethoven. In doing so, he gave the world five movements of intense narrative portraying love’s torment and bliss through the opium dreams of an imaginative young man. In 1830, nothing like it had ever been heard before. Today, it endures as a captivating work of art that spans the orchestra’s instruments, with everything from a delicate waltz theme to ravenous and eerie chaos, and it is regarded as the pièce de résistance of Berlioz’s compositions.