LOCOMOTIVES, BUTTERFLIES AND PUPPETS at Flato Markham Theatre

Flato Markham Theatre
171 Town Centre Blvd, Markham

Stay warm this December as the KSO presents a concert of strikingly programmatic music filled with machinery, fantasy and folklore. “Locomotives vibrate in harmony” with Honegger’s mechanically modernistic mouvement symphonique: Pacific 231. Jing Ye narrates with her violin the Chinese “Romeo and Juliet” folk tale, The Butterfly Lovers-a story of broken hearts, beautifully set to music that merges eastern melodies with western instruments. A mischievous puppet comes to life in Stravinsky’s descriptive, imaginative and exhilarating score to the ballet Petrushka.

Kristian Alexander | conductor
Jing Ye | violinist
Michael Berec | host

7:10 p.m.   Prélude: pre-concert recital.
7:20 p.m.   Pre-concert talk.

Intermission discussion and Q&A with Jing Ye and Michael Berec. Post-concert reception.