Celestial, sparking lights glitter in this evening of ground-breaking music. Faur茅鈥檚 suite from Pell茅as et M茅lisande opens in resplendent yet tumultuous style - The first musical setting of Maurice Maeterlinck鈥檚 play of the same name, which would inspire other composing greats, including Debussy, Sibelius and Schoenberg.
We move to more ethereal heights with the world premiere of Stephen McNeff鈥檚 The Celestial Stranger; then 150 years since the birth of Schoenberg we celebrate this radical composer with a performance of a work that changed the course of musical history as we know it 鈥� with a revolutionary shift in tonality and the breakdown of the traditional tonal system, Verkl盲rte Nacht threw his name out into the world and forged his way as the creator of dodecaphonic music, more commonly known as serialism. To conduct 麻豆社 NOW for the first time we welcome the wonderful Portugeuse conductor, Joana Carniero.