{"id":2265478,"date":"2026-02-03T22:21:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2265478"},"modified":"2026-02-03T22:21:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:21:25","slug":"bangor-symphony-delivers-joy-in-concert-of-new-and-familiar-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bangor-symphony-delivers-joy-in-concert-of-new-and-familiar-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangor Symphony delivers joy in concert of new and familiar\u00a0music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"bdn_paywall_content\">\n<p><iframe title=\"Everlit Audio Player\" width=\"100%\" height=\"130px\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/everlit.audio\/embeds\/artl_1Pn5bCokmEa?ui_title_intro=Listen+now%3A&amp;ui_title_icon=headphones&amp;client=wp&amp;client_version=2.7.1\"><\/iframe><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Everlit Audio Player\" src=\"https:\/\/everlit.audio\/embeds\/artl_1Pn5bCokmEa?ui_title_intro=Listen+now%3A&amp;ui_title_icon=headphones&amp;client=wp&amp;client_version=2.7.1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"130px\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>The audience at the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bangorsymphony.org\/\">Bangor Symphony Orchestra<\/a>\u2019s concert was pummeled joyously with symphonies new and familiar at the Collins Center for the Arts in Orono on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>A young composer and an emerging flutist wowed concertgoers in the first half and the musicians, led by Conductor and Music Director Lucas Richman, filled their heads with images of a spring meadow and thunderstorm in Ludwig van Beethoven\u2019s Symphony No. 6 in F Major in the second half. <\/p>\n<p>Titled Ethereal Storytelling, the concert featured a new work by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ellisludwigleone.com\/\">Ellis Ludwig-Leone,<\/a>\u00a0winner of last year\u2019s Ellis-Beauregard Foundation\u00a0Composer Award, as well as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart\u2019s only flute concerto and Ludwig van Beethoven\u2019s \u201cPastorale\u201d symphony. During intermission, the most repeated words were \u201cwow, just wow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New York-based Ludwig-Leone turned to the novel \u201cNorth Woods\u201d by Daniel Mason for inspiration. The book tells the stories of the inhabitants of a New England house over the centuries.<\/p>\n<p>The first movement depicts a pair of runaway Puritan lovers. The second \u201cimagines a single beetle traversing bodies of decaying matter\u201d and the third \u201cis vast, imagining time from the perspective of a stand of trees,\u201d the composer wrote in the program notes. The trees are elms, which have been nearly wiped out in New England due to Dutch elm disease, carried by invasive beetles.<\/p>\n<p>The son of visual artists, Ludwig-Leone painted vivid pictures of runaway lovers, lonely beetles and a soaring but doomed forest of elm trees. An eclectic artist who has written ballet and chamber music and tours with his band San Fermin, which combines indie rock, pop and classical influences, the 36-year-old composer will have much more to say through his work.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/trionfoflute.com\/\">Anthony Trionfo<\/a>\u00a0is a dynamic player who moves like a dancer as he plays. It\u2019s as if Mozart\u2019s notes lovingly enveloped him as he brought this soaring concerto to life. Trionfo wowed the audience and performed with a joyous intensity and proved the New York Times correctly praised him for his \u201cbreezily virtuosic\u201d playing. Thunderous applause brought him back onstage for a lovely, lilting encore at the concerto\u2019s end.<\/p>\n<p>Trionfo, who grew up in Las Vegas, is with Young Concert Artists, based in New York City. The symphony has brought other rising stars to Maine through that program. In November 2024, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bangordailynews.com\/2024\/11\/20\/bangor\/bangor-culture\/violinist-lun-li-tchaikovsky-unplayable-concerto-bangor-symphony-orchestra-joam40zk0w\/\">Lun Li performed<\/a>\u00a0Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky\u2019s only violin concerto.<\/p>\n<p>Beethoven\u2019s 6th symphony, known as \u201cPastorale,\u201d was animated by Walt Disney Studios in the 1940 film \u201cFantasia.\u201d Before the concert began, Lucas warned the audience that the animated frolicking centaurs and fawns along with the thunder-bolt tossing Zeus depicted in the movie might pop into concertgoers\u2019 heads as the orchestra played. <\/p>\n<p>They did, but the overwhelming images were of spring when trees and plants are coming back to life. In this symphony, Beethoven reflects on his lifelong love of nature. The musicians Sunday took the audience on a joyous journey from a cold and frozen Maine landscape to the colorful countryside around Vienna where the composer took long walks and found harmony between art and the natural world, according to the program notes.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s concert marked the end to a collaboration between the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation and the Bangor Symphony. Ludwig-Leone\u2019s composition is the sixth and final classical music award the foundation will make, according to Donna Marie McNeil, the Rockland-based foundation\u2019s founding executive director.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have turned our resources instead to independent documentary film making,\u201d she said earlier this week. \u201cResiding in midcoast Maine near the Camden International Film Festival and Maine Media Workshops, we felt that was a natural offering in conjunction with the community, especially in these times when truth telling is so important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many of Sunday\u2019s concert goers, including this one, will mourn the loss.<\/p>\n<p><em>The concert may be watched online at<\/em><em> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/watch.bangorsymphony.org\">\u00a0<\/a><\/em><em> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/watch.bangorsymphony.org\">watch.bangorsymphony.org<\/a><\/em><em>\u00a0Friday through Feb. 20.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.bangordailynews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The audience at the Bangor Symphony Orchestra\u2019s concert was pummeled joyously with symphonies new and familiar at the Collins Center for the Arts in Orono on Sunday. 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