“You see everything through the lens of your own system”
What is right and what is wrong?
Is seeing believing?
Is love what you think it is?
Who can I trust?
Should we really judge by appearances?
Shaken out of old certainties, the philosophers of the era we now called the Enlightenment started with these radical doubts. So it’s where we start Six Chapters of the Enlightenment, six special seasons exploring the thought that made the modern world.
If you’re new to the Orchestra, you should know that we play on instruments from the period the music was written. Each concert needs hours of research to understand centuries of performance tradition, making old music new.
If you’re already a fan, our lovingly-crafted performances will be combined more than ever with a special effort to help you discover what the composers were thinking, and how the times they lived in influenced their music.
