The Soldier's Tale VSO StravinskyPlus: L'Histoire du Soldat Type: Concert $35.00 A performance of Stravinsky's great chamber work L'Histoire du Soldat and Schoenberg's captivating chamber work Pierrot Lunaire in the intimate Orpheum Annex. More details Date and time June 9 2013, 7:30 p.m. Location Orpheum Annex, 823 Seymour Street near Robson Vancouver Contact Email contact 604.876.3434 VSO The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra presents: Stravinsky's great chamber work, L'Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier's Tale) was written in 1918 as a theatrical work for small ensemble, taken from the French libretto written by C.F. Ramuz, and based on a Russian folk tale. The story sees a soldier trade his fiddle to the devil for a book that accurately prophesies the future of the economy. The soldier is of course deceived (the deal was with the devil, after all), and though he gains wealth, he realizes that wealth means nothing weighed against what he has lost: all that is dear to him, including his immortal soul. Bramwell Tovey narrates, and VSO Principal Percussion Vern Griffiths conducts. Similar in nature, Schoenberg's captivating chamber work Pierrot Lunaire (translated as Pierrot in the Moonlight or Moonstruck Pierrot) is a musical setting of poems from Albert Giraud's cycle of French poems of the same name. The poems are stylistically delivered by the soprano narrator, Valdine Anderson, while the small chamber orchestra performs Schoenberg's complex, fascinating score. Bramwell Tovey conducts..
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823 Seymour Street