Voyage Festival: Past Epiphanies

YST Alumni Orchestra

with

LIEN BOON HUA, conductor

PROGRAMME

JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU

Selections from Les Indes galantes

IGOR STRAVINSKY

Pulcinella

ABOUT THIS EVENT

“Pulcinella was my discovery of the past, the epiphany through which the whole of my late work became possible.” - Igor Stravinsky

The Voyage Festival 2022 opens with a brilliant display of orchestral colors, featuring two masterpieces by Jean-Philippe Rameau and Igor Stravinsky, performed by the alumni of Yong Siew Toh Conservatory. 

Composed in 1920, Stravinsky’s Pulcinella launched the neoclassical movement in music, paving the way forward (ironically) by looking to the past and shunning the compositional advances of the modernists as well as the excess of his own earlier work with one fell swoop. Instead, he looked with equal parts nostalgia and wonderment to works of the past as an alternative way forward to the future.

Rameau’s second opera, Les Indes Galantes (1735), tells four stories of love in exotic places with strikingly original and adventurous music that was criticized by its audiences as being “noisy and jarring”, largely because of its depictions of what the European world would have deemed “savages”. With a nod to reclamation and to Stravinsky’s appropriation of older music to chart new futures, six alumni composers reimagine Rameau’s original suite, in an arrangement specifically commissioned for this Festival.

TICKETING INFORMATION

Out of respect for other concertgoers, no children under 6 years of age will be allowed admission.

To help keep our community safe, here are the measures that we will be adhering to:

• Only individuals who are fully vaccinated or exempted from Vaccination-Differentiated Safe Management Measures (VDS)* may be admitted to performances with more than 500 audience members.

• *Exempted from VDS: Individuals who have recovered from a COVID-19 infection and are within 180 days of their first positive test result, individuals who are medically ineligible for COVID-19 vaccination, and children aged 12 and below.

• All audience members must warrant that all vaccination and VDS information is correct when requested for disclosure.

• All audience members must consent to the collection, use and disclosure of personal data in relation to the ticket holders’ vaccination and VDS data.

• Do bring along your photo identification and proof of vaccination. We regret that patrons who do not have their photo ID or proof of vaccination may be denied entry. Please visit the MOH website for details.

* Please refer to ystmusic.nus.edu.sg for the latest event updates.