Fauré, Sargent & Paris

Program & Artists

Fauré Shylock Suite
Fauré Masques et bergamasques
Fauré Pavane
Artwork by John Singer Sargent and others

Leon Botstein conductor

Tickets

3-Concert series Up to 20% off the full price

Part of TŌN’s Sight & Sound series

In the popular series Sight & Sound, The Orchestra Now explores the parallels between orchestral music and the visual arts. Each performance includes a discussion with conductor and music historian Leon Botstein accompanied by on-screen exhibition images and live musical excerpts, then a full performance of the works and an audience Q&A.

Artist John Singer Sargent was 18 when his family moved to Paris, and within only a few years he was making a name for himself amidst a “painters row” in the Left Bank, becoming one of the best portrait artists in France by age 23. He soon moved to the more cosmopolitan Right Bank, where he painted the infamous “Madame X” and took steady commissions from wealthy patrons. Meanwhile, Gabriel Fauré was hitting a turning point in his career in Paris; several of his works were premiered at the Société nationale de musique, and he eventually became head of the Paris Conservatoire. Both artists successfully melded the end of Romanticism with the dawn of Modernism.

Concert Details

The event will last approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes.

Introduction by a Met Museum curator

Discussion, on-screen exhibition images, and live musical excerpts
Leon Botstein and The Orchestra Now

Intermission
20 min

Gabriel Fauré Shylock Suite
19 min
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Gabriel Fauré Masques et bergamasques
14 min
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Gabriel Fauré Pavane
6 min
Listen

Q&A with the audience

All timings are approximate. Program and artists subject to change.

Sample the Music

Fauré Shylock Suite

Fauré Masques et bergamasques

Fauré Pavane

Image: John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925). Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau) (detail), 1883–84. Oil on canvas; 82 1/8 x 43 1/4 in. (208.6 x 109.9 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1916 (16.53)

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