Thalia Symphony: Earth & Sky

Eric Whitacre — Lux Aurumque
Claude Debussy — "Nuages" from Three Nocturnes
Barbara Harbach — Symphony No. 9 "Celestial Symphony"
Johannes Brahms — Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90

Experience music that takes us up into the skies and then brings us down to earth.  Whitacre's ethereal Lux Aurumque and Debussy's brooding "Nuages" contrast with Harbach's graceful, dramatic "Celestial Symphony" and Brahm's earthy, passionate Symphony No. 3.

Barbara Harbach is Curators’ Distinguished Professor Emerita of Music at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She formerly taught at Washington State University and is widely recognized as a composer and keyboardist. The "Celestial Symphony" is derived from Harbach's (2014) score to the silent film The Birth, Life and Death of Christ (1906), directed by the trailblazing French filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché (1873-1968).

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