Susanna Mälkki conducts Debussy’s “La Mer” (The Sea) on tonight’s “Evening Concert”

Tonight at 7:00 on the Evening Concert on WILL-FM 90.9 you’ll hear “La Mer”, The Sea, Symphonic poem by Debussy with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra led by guest conductor Susanna Malki. Also on the program: Sibelius’ “Suite No.1 from “The Tempest”.

For more about the relationship between Debussy's "La Mer" and the famous print "Great Wave" by Hokusai see this article at the Metropolitan Musemu of Art website here; http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/now-at-the-met/2014/debussy-la-mer

Tuesday November 17: Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO 15-46)

Susanna Mälkki conducts La mer

Sibelius: Suite No. 1 from The Tempest
Stravinsky: Violin Concerto in D Major Leila Josefowicz, violin;
Thomas Ades (b.1971): and all shall be well
Debussy: La mer
[CSO fill: Dvorák: The Water Goblin; Sir Mark Elder, conductor]