The Morton H. Myerson Symphony Center will host Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s first family program of the year on Saturday, October 2, 2021 with the premiere of Philharmonia Fantastique: The Making of the Orchestra. This concerto for orchestra with animated film was inspired by Mason’s desire to offer kids (including his own) a fresh guide to the orchestra. Created with multi-Oscar-winner Gary Rydstrom (director) and Academy Award nominee, Jim Capobianco (animator), the team worked out of Skywalker Ranch, George Lucas’s campus of creativity north of San Francisco. Philharmonia Fantastique embodies Mason’s belief that the orchestra explores not only our emotional depths but is also our finest example of interactive technology, art and science. In the film a mercurial Sprite guides the animation, flying inside a flute to see its keys up close; jumps on a viola string to activate the harmonic series; and zips through a trumpet as its valves slice shafts of air. Dallas Symphony Orchestra co-commissioned Philharmonia Fantastique with Chicago Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
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