For this episode, Brian McWhorter talks with Dr. Susan Pickett – musicologist and professor emerita from Whitman College – to discuss composer Louise Farrenc (1804-1875). The upcoming Eugene Ballet/Orchestra Next production of Taming of the Shrew features Farrenc’s music throughout, including all three of her symphonies as well as the Nonet. More information about the show can be found at eugeneballet.org
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Silver Linings and Steampunk Fantasies | Eugene Ballet
May 10, 2022 -
[…] The pandemic’s silver lining was the extended development time Artistic Director Toni Pimble enjoyed creating her latest full length ballet, Taming of the Shrew, opening this weekend at the Hult Center for the Performing Arts. Originally set to premiere in April of 2021, the results are nothing less than amazing: a full length two-act (42 scenes) ballet with three extended pas de deux, set in the 19th century’s steampunk era; more than 60 steampunk-inspired costumes; three gigantic fantastical mobile steampunk machines; an enormous set of otherworldly machinations that magically morph and mutate before your very eyes; and a female composer’s score, rarely, if ever, heard before in the Pacific Northwest and played by Orchestra Next. (Learn more about composer Louise Farrenc on Orchestra Next’s podcast HERE.) […]