“Guests can travel around the world and back in time with musicians from the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra and the New Bedford Whaling Museum during ‘Echoes of the Panorama’ on Oct. 7,” reads an unsigned Tuesday (10/2) article in SouthCoastToday (New Bedford, MA). The event “will feature music inspired by the sea and exotic ports of call, performed next to the spectacular [painting] Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage ‘Round the World.… ‘Echoes of the Panorama’ includes a private viewing of the Grand Panorama, an hour-long performance by members of the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra [plus] hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar…. In 2017 the Whaling Museum completed the conservation of the 1,275-foot-long Grand Panorama … painted in 1848 by Benjamin Russell and Caleb Purrington. The enormous painting depicts a voyage around the world through the eyes of a 19th–century whaler…. The painting reveals New Bedford as a global cosmopolitan hub with connections to the rest of the world forged through the enterprise of whaling. The symphony [will perform] William Alwyn’s String Quartet No. 10, ‘En Voyage’; String Quartet No. 6, ‘Brazilian’ by Heitor Villa-Lobos; and Theme and Variations for Flute and String Quartet, Op. 80 by Amy Beach.”
Posted October 5, 2018
