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An NCPA Presentation

Four Orchestral Masterpieces

In this series of talks on Western classical music, Dr. Cavas Bilimoria takes listeners through musical concepts, the lives of composers and their famous works, interspersed with examples from recorded music. The first talk this month will focus on four orchestral masterpieces: Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 3 from his only opera Fidelio; Wagner’s Prelude to Die Meistersinger, which introduces four of the opera’s central melodies; Johann Strauss’s spirited overture to Die Fledermaus; and Sibelius’s Finlandia, a symphonic poem that became a symbol of Finland’s struggle against Czarist rule at the end of the 19th century.

Entry free on a first-come-first-served-basis.