ARCHIVE: Legends and Fairy Tales - October 9, 2022

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Program

4pm - Concert

• Liadov - Baba Yaga

• Liadov - The Enchanted Lake

• Liadov - Kikimora

• Bruch - Violin Concerto No. 1, Mvt I - Aidan Watts, Lake Forest High School, Soloist

• Garrop - Becoming Medusa

• Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake Suite

Program Notes

The LFCO 22-23 season opens with musical depictions of legends and fairytales. Anatoli Liadov’s Trilogy of tone poems depict fantastical characters from Russian folklore. Baba Yaga and Kikimora both tell the stories of witches that hunt children, while The Enchanted Lake is a beautiful, atmospheric depiction of a moonlit lakeside scene, inhabited by fairies and wood sprites. 

Becoming Medusa by Evanston-based composer Stacy Garrop explores the origin story of the famous snake-haired Medusa, and Tchaikovsky’s magical score to Swan Lake tells the tale of Siegfried and Odette despite the magical spell that the evil sorcerer Von Rothbart has cast upon Odette.