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Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Chamber Classics: The Soldier’s Tale
Category: Kids, family and Music
This production will be live streamed - tickets will be available for purchase beginning January 25 on the Knoxville Symphony website.
Aram Demirjian, conductor
Marble City Opera, Directed by James Marvel
KSO Principal Quartet
Narrated by Kathryn Frady
Choreography by Lisa Hall McKee
The story of L'histoire is a Faustian tale of a young soldier who makes a deal with the Devil. Walking down a lonely road, the soldier stops to play his fiddle, and the Devil (in disguise) listens. Approaching the young soldier, the Devil offers him a trade: the fiddle for a book that can tell the future.
This performance features a staged performance of Stravinsky’s neoclassical theatre piece “The Soldier’s Tale” with a seven-piece orchestra on stage. Musicians will be joined on stage by Knoxville’s Marble City Opera performers as they relate the story through narration and dance. This charming cautionary tale tells the story of a soldier who trades his fiddle to the devil for fame and fortune (reminiscent of “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”!) allowing audiences to join in the story through live storytelling set to music. This program also includes Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No. 6 featuring the KSO Principal Quartet.
STRAVINSKY: The Soldier’s Tale
MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No. 6 in F Minor, op. 80
