Sublime Sorcery: Music and the Supernatural
The supernatural played a starring role in the music of the Romantic Movement. The suggestive power of music, its capacity to stimulate the imagination, and its grip on the subconscious made it an ideal medium for expressing the mysterious turns of the human psyche.
This concert features haunting instrumental and vocal works by Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Liszt and Saint-Saëns. All these works were inspired by supernatural phenomena and the human perception of the otherworld. The music was accompanied by narration from the writings of E.T.A. Hoffmann.
Sublime Sorcery: Music and the Supernatural was part of our 2002-2003 Season.
More from our 2002-2003 Season: