Summary: Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO Oct 5-7. French conductor Alain Altinoglu leads a program of richly scored works, including Poulenc's joyfully devotional Gloria. The power of Gounod's Saint Cecilia Mass is best described by his contemporary Saint-Saens: "This simplicity, this grandeur, this serene light which rose before the musical world like a breaking dawn…at first one was dazzled, then charmed, then conquered."
