Festival Thursday

All Souls Interfaith Gathering in Shelburne (map)

10:30AM | INSIDE PITCH with David Serkin Ludwig: The City of Love: New Sounds from Paris

The allure of Paris attracted many of the great artistic minds who drew inspiration from one another. Change was in the air, and composers like Debussy and Ravel experimented with exotic harmonies and textures that became the hallmarks of French music. David will discuss how the music of foreign composers like Prokofiev and Stravinsky absorbed those new sounds and made an integral contribution to Parisian musical life.

12PM | CONCERT II: NEW SOUNDS FROM PARIS

Claude Debussy’s reimagination of harmonic boundaries opened doors for all composers ever since. His string quartet of 1893 remains one of the greatest works for any instrumental ensemble. The other three works on this program give us a taste of Paris’s rich musical fabric between 1920 and 1924.