The Mercury Orchestra returns to the stage with a FREE concert at DCR’s Hatch Memorial Shell on the Charles River Esplanade in partnership with our colleagues from the Longwood Symphony Orchestra.
Long, long before there was videoconferencing, composers used music to deliver sensations and stories from other worlds, real and imagined. The Mercury Orchestra recreates the jarringly different styles of dancers of various social classes, all crowded together in the popular Mexico City dance hall El Salón México, as illustrated by Aaron Copland. Meanwhile, Scheherazade must tell Middle Eastern folk stories—of a sultan, prince and princess, sea adventures—so vividly and compellingly that she may escape death, in Rimsky-Korsakov’s lustrous, spectacular suite based on Arabian Nights (One Thousand and One Nights).
