Andreas Delfs, conductor
DUKAS The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
KIRKLAND SNIDER (WORLD PREMIERE) Eye of Mnemosyne*
MUSSORGSKY/RAVEL Pictures at an Exhibition
MUSSORGSKY/Night on Bald Mountain
*RPO Centennial Commission
Hear the world premiere of a new work that included imagery projected on the walls of Kodak Hall.
MOVEMENT II - MORI from CandyStations on Vimeo.
From the website of composer Sarah Kirkland Snyder:
EYE OF MNEMOSYNE (pronounced "neh-MAH-sen-knee") is a 21' seven-movement multimedia orchestral work that explores memory as a deity while illuminating the advent and influence of George Eastman's Kodak and its lens of nostalgia. In this narrative, videographer Deborah Johnson and I reimagine George Eastman as a vessel of the Greek Goddess of Memory, Mnemosyne, and focus on the essential role that women -- the Kodak Girls -- played in Kodak's success in advertising and film processing. Here the Kodak Girls are presented as descendants of Mnemosyne, muses who influenced and inspired how Americans began to arrange, capture, and experience their lives’ recollections using the instrument of the camera and the power of the snapshot.
I. Mnemonic
II. Mori (Memory of the Dead)
III. Vivere (Power of the Snapshot)
IV. Memento (Defense Against Time)
V. Nostos (War Story)
VI. Ephemera (Fragmented Memory)
VII. Psyche/Epilogue: (Legacy/Spirit)
Broadcast of RPO Concerts on WXXI Classical is made possible by a grant from Dr. Ralph Jozefowicz in honor of WXXI Classical's 50th Anniversary.
This broadcast will repeat on Monday, November 11, 2024.
07_PSYCHE_MUSEENDING from CandyStations on Vimeo.
