The Chicago Philharmonic's concert on Sunday at the Music Institute of Chicago will explore music written for Molière's play Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, a 1670 satire about the pretensions of members of the bourgeoisie who aspired to live like aristocrats.
This 3:00 p.m. program at the Music Institute's Nichols Concert Hall in Evanston also holds chamber works written by the late Romantic composers Richard Wagner, Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss.
Actors in costume will present some of the scenes from Molière's famous comedy, in a lively exploration of how the music complements the action onstage. First, the orchestra will play excerpts from Jean Baptiste Lully's original music, performed at the play's premiere in 1670.
Scott Speck, the Philharmonic's new music director, plans to conduct these excerpts the way they were originally directed.
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