RACHMANINOFF TO ELLINGTON: MUSIC & HEALING
August 11, 2021, 7pm ET | Hatch Shell
Boston Landmarks Orchestra, Christopher Wilkins, conductor
Chyrstyn Mariah Fentroy, Boston Ballet soloist
Boston String Academy
Jean Appolon Expressions
Peter DiMuro/Public Displays of Motion
Urbanity Dance
Sergei Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances
Bedřich Smetana Dance of the Comedians from Bartered Bride
Camille Saint-Saëns The Swan from Carnival of the Animals
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Danse nègre
Duke Ellington The River
Arturo Márquez Danzón No. 2
Partners from Boston’s dance community explore connections between music, movement, and well-being. Ellington’s “river ballet” portrays human life, flowing from its source to the ocean beyond. Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances rock and sway with unbounded vitality in the composer’s final orchestral work.
Choreographer Peter DiMuro/Public Displays of Motion (PDM) will bring his “Postcards From the Front” to the Hatch Shell stage. This piece pairs the recorded expe