Honorary Adene and Richard Wilson Concert: L’Histoire du Soldat

Vassar’s brilliant music faculty perform the music of Rogerson, Richard Wilson, and Stravinsky’s iconic L’Histoire du Soldat. Scored for seven instruments and narrator, L’Histoire is the story of a soldier named Joseph who meets the Devil in disguise. The Devil makes a deal with Joseph with terrible consequences. Written at the end of World War I, Stravinsky uses the influences of tango, waltz, ragtime, klezmer instrumentation and textures, and Bach in his Grand Chorale. Thomas Sauer, piano, Grace Park, violin, Drew Minter, narrator, Marka Young, violin, Daniel Merriman, bass, Ian Tyson, clarinet, Elisabeth Romano, bassoon, James Osborn, trumpet, Paul Bellino.