Vive la France!
Dukas’ heroic brass fanfare to La Peri opens this MSO concert of French orchestral masterpieces. Fauré’s somber, descriptive incidental music for Pelléas et Mélisande and Debussy’s playful Rhapsody for Clarinet, performed by MSO clarinetist Kate Berning-Alfred, whet the musical appetite for the program’s pièce de résistance, Saint-Saën’s magnificent Organ Symphony, led by William Schrickel and featuring organist Kathrine Handford.

William Schrickel, conductor
Kate Berning-Alfred, clarinet
Kathrine Handford, organ

Paul Dukas—Fanfare from La Peri
John Tartaglia - Pavane for Strings and Harp (World Premiere)
Gabriel Fauré—Pelléas et Mélisande: Suite, op. 80
Claude Debussy—1st Rhapsody for Clarinet and Orchestra
Camille Saint-Saëns—Symphony #3, op. 78 in C minor (“Organ”)

Hamline United Methodist Church, St. Paul