Repeats of the Fort Worth Symphony’s Friday night concert are highly recommended. The program included a world premiere from Brian Raphael Nabors and, with...
Humperdinck’s opera is based on the Grimm brothers’ fairytale. Its prelude deftly mingles music noble, tender, happy and downright jolly. FWSO horns were in particularly fine form in their opening moments to shine.Suite draws on Charles Perrault’s children’s tales. Spano led the orchestra in a performance of diaphanous delicacies, with just enough sparkle at the right moments and a suavely calibrated final crescendo.
With the orchestra playing the Stravinsky upstage from stand lights, evocatively costumed dancers, vividly choreographed by Tim O’Keefe, brought theaction to life downstage. The sinister Kastchei and his minions jerked and flung themselves about in red and black. In a brilliant red tutu, Nicole Von Enck’s Firebird flitted and pirouetted as if lighter than air.
Music director Robert Spano leads the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra on April 21, 2023 at Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth. , Rieko Hatato the gracious Princess Tsarevna, abetted by four princesses in pink. Yet again, Spano had the orchestra vividly characterizing the music, from finely finished pianissimos to thrilling but carefully controlled explosions of brass. It was a concert to leave you full of wonder at both music and musicians — and this time at dancers as well.
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