“ he beheld the glittering minarets of the city, and saw the graceful galleys riding at anchor in the blue harbour, and watched the gingko trees of Mount Aran swaying in the sea-breeze. The first movement depicts “the splendid city of Celephaïs in Ooth-Nargai beyond the Tanarian Hills.” Lovecraft describes it in an eponymous story: In 2017, French composer Guillaume Connesson completed The Cities of Lovecraft, a symphonic suite of tone poems inspired by Dreamlands locales. Though Lovecraft is most famous for creating Cthulu and other horrors beyond human comprehension, connoisseurs also cherish his Dream Cycle, a series of short stories and novellas set in the Dreamlands, a fantasy world which may only be reached through sleep. Lovecraft was a pioneer of the genre known as weird fiction. In the early 20 th century, the American author H. In this post, discover how a Lovecraftian cityscape shaped this vivid orchestral tone poem. Opening the program is Celephaïs from The Cities of Lovecraft, a recent work by French composer Guillaume Connesson. 1 together with Ravel’s vibrant orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. On November 22, 23, and 24, the Houston Symphony presents Trifonov Plays Tchaikovsky, a program featuring world-renowned virtuoso Daniil Trifonov in Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.
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