Songs of the Sea

Robert Spano, guest conductor Angela Meade, soprano Ryan McKinny, bass-baritone Kansas City Symphony Chorus BENJAMIN BRITTEN ' Four Sea Interludes' and Passacaglia from Peter Grimes RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS A Sea Symphony Experience the power of the sea in music inspired by the majesty and mystery of the ocean. Benjamin Britten’s opera Peter Grimes is one of the 20th century’s true operatic masterpieces, and the sea is a character all its own in the tragedy. The interludes and passacaglia from the opera vividly depict the sea at dawn, in moonlight and whipped up into a storm. Ralph Vaughan Williams' A Sea Symphony will also be performed.