Tarot Magic in Music

Discover tarot’s influence in classical music. Drawing inspiration from the exhibition Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions, composer Victoria Bond’s program opens with excerpts from the opera Carmen, in which Carmen reads her own tarot cards. Pieces by Maurice Ravel and Katherine Hoover touch on folk magic themes and traditions. The program culminates in Bond's Instruments of Revelation, inspired by three tarot cards: the Magician, the High Priestess, and the Fool.

Program

BIZET: Quintet Card Scene from Carmen (arr. Victoria Bond)
RAVEL: Tzigane
HOOVER: Kokopeli
BOULEZ: Domaines
DVORAK: Songs My Mother Taught Me

Victoria Bond, Instruments of Revelation
Victoria Bond, composer
Carol Wincenc, flute
Charles Neidich, clarinet
Hahnsol Kim, violin
Michael Nicolas, cello
Mohamed Shams, piano

This concert takes place in Gilder Lehrman Hall on the Ground Floor. Doors to the Hall will open 30 minutes before the concert begins. Attendees are invited to view Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions before the concert from 5:30 to 7 PM.

Please e-mail public_programs@themorgan.org with questions about accessibility.

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