Boulanger, Barber, Mahler

Be drawn into the dark and foreboding sound world of trailblazing French composer Lili Boulanger’s D’un soir triste.

Beautiful prose by the writer James Agee paints a picture of Tennessee in 1915, where a small boy lies in the grass and describes the sounds around him. Barber masterfully evokes childhood memories in his orchestration, and celebrated Aotearoa New Zealand soprano Anna Leese will sweep audiences up into the vivid scene.