Taiwan Philharmonic opens its 2020/21 performance season with world-renowned violinist Ray Chen. Maestro Shao-Chia Lu has chosen three works that showcase the orchestra he has guided over the past ten years, brought to world-class standards, and led in innumerable highly-acclaimed recordings. The first work is by French composer Paul Dukas and one that millions of people around the world first came to know through Walt Disneys animated feature film Fantasia, in which Mickey Mouse assumes the title role in The Sorcerers Apprentice. Another early-twentieth-century Frenchman, Maurice Ravel, set the ancient Greek fable of Daphnis and Chloe as an hour- long ballet score that bursts with ravishing, evocative moments and ends with a veritable orgy of sound. Lastly, Camille Saint-Saens third violin concerto is one of the mainstays of the romantic violin repertory, music of great lyrical beauty as well as of pyrotechnical displays, in great hands with Ray Chen.