Our final season concert opens with American composer Jessie Montgomery’s Transfigure to Grace. Taken from her ballet written in 2019 for the 1619 project, it is best described in the composer’s own words: “This episodic suite recalls some of the essential themes of water and transformation from the ballet, with the French horn playing a primary role as it leads the major transitions between sections of the suite. The music begins with vivid imagery of water evolving into a dynamic surge; it is meant to evoke an unfinished chapter in our journey toward equality and grace of humankind.”

Program

Jessie Montgomery | Transfigure to Grace
Claude Debussy | La Mer
Charles T. Griffes | The White Peacock
Igor Stravinsky | The Firebird Suite (1919)