![]() ![]() The first movement depicts “the splendid city of Celephaïs in Ooth-Nargai beyond the Tanarian Hills.” Lovecraft describes it in an eponymous story: In 2017, French composer Guillaume Connesson completed The Cities of Lovecraft, a symphonic suite of tone poems inspired by Dreamlands locales. Though Lovecraft is most famous for creating Cthulu and other horrors beyond human comprehension, connoisseurs also cherish his Dream Cycle, a series of short stories and novellas set in the Dreamlands, a fantasy world which may only be reached through sleep. Lovecraft was a pioneer of the genre known as weird fiction. In the early 20 th century, the American author H. In this post, discover how a Lovecraftian cityscape shaped this vivid orchestral tone poem. Opening the program is Celephaïs from The Cities of Lovecraft, a recent work by French composer Guillaume Connesson. 1 together with Ravel’s vibrant orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. On November 22, 23, and 24, the Houston Symphony presents Trifonov Plays Tchaikovsky, a program featuring world-renowned virtuoso Daniil Trifonov in Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. ![]()
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