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What’s a Conversation Concert?
Conversation Concerts by ChorSymphonica
A Conversation Concert is a unique event, where soloists, chorus and orchestra are employed to illustrate points of a pre-performance lecture. In twenty minutes, we explore the musical and historical context of the programmed work, in order to make the composer’s e몭orts more accessible to our modern ears, and more relevant to our contemporary way of life. For our Wheaton programs, we translate the lectures into Spanish, so that the message of the music reaches more people. Following the introduction, we perform the entire work, uninterrupted. “I 몭rst learned how to do this by watching Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic Young People’s Concerts on TV, ” says founder and conductor