Dallas Chamber Symphony presents “Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto 2” at Moody Performance Hall

Dallas Chamber Symphony, led by Artistic Director and Conductor Richard McKay, will launch its eighth season with a dynamic concert, Saint-Sans Piano Concerto 2, featuring works by three French composers. Celebrating its centenary this year, Maurice Ravels (1875-1937) neo-baroque orchestral suite (1919), Le Tombeau de Couperin, will start the program. Renowned pianist Christopher Goodpasture will then solo with orchestra on Camille Saint-Sans (1835-1921) dramatic Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor (1868). Francis Poulencs innovative and lively Sinfonietta (1947) concludes the program. Presented together, the works are demonstrative of the transformation of turn-of-the-twentieth century Parisian tastes from the conservativism of late-romantic Saint-Sans, through the flexible, diplomatic and more modern Ravel, to the more free-spirited and avant-garde Poulenc.