Good old Shakespeare coined the phrase 鈥渁ll the world鈥檚 a stage鈥 as a way to chronicle man鈥檚 journey through the seven stages of life.
The 蜜柚直播 Symphony Orchestra won鈥檛 go nearly that deep in their 鈥淎ll the World鈥檚 A Stage鈥 concert this weekend. There is no probing look into the psyche of aging or the joys and regrets of a life lived as Shakespeare鈥檚 poem does.
Instead the orchestra, in the second installment of the 2019-20 MasterWorks series, is traversing classical music鈥檚 connection to the stage, from opera to theater.
Guest Conductor Aram Demirjian, music director of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra and a regular at the podium for the Philadelphia Orchestra, will lead the TSO in a program that goes from Rossini鈥檚 deliciously fun and familiar overture to 鈥淭he Italian Girl in Algiers鈥 to Haydn鈥檚 Symphony No. 60 in C major, which borrows liberally from 鈥淚l Distratto,鈥 the music Haydn wrote for the play 鈥淟e Distrait鈥 by 17th century French poet/playwright Jean-Fran莽ois Regnard.
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The program also includes Pulitzer Prize winning composer Caroline Shaw鈥檚 鈥淓ntr鈥檃cte鈥 for strings that was inspired by Haydn and Stravinsky鈥檚 Pulcinella Suite, which he was commissioned to write in 1920 for impressario Sergei Diaghilev鈥檚 Ballets Russes.
The TSO performs 鈥淎ll the World鈥檚 A Stage鈥 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 9, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 10, at Catalina Foothills High School, 4300 E. Sunrise Drive. Tickets are $46 to $56 through .