7/28/23
7pm, Strings Music Pavilion, Steamboat Springs, Colorado
A deal with the devil leads to a raucous, diabolical fable-drama in Stravinsky’s A Soldier’s Tale.
The soldier at the center of Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat is a Faustian anti-hero for the ages, trading his soul for worldly riches and fame. Conceived together with Swiss poet C.F. Ramuz as a portable theater piece during World War I, when large-scale productions were not possible, Stravinsky brought all of his cheeky wit and rhythmic precision to bear in this modernist masterpiece.
Mark Gould, conductor
Brian McWhorter, narrator
STRAVINSKY L’Histoire du Soldat
Vijay Gupta, violin
Maximilian Dimoff, bass
Benjamin Lulich, clarinet
John Clouser, bassoon
Michael Sachs, cornet
Domingo Pagliuca, trombone
James Ritchie, percussion