2001 - Return to Grandeur: The Tale of the Lost City of Gold; The music of Samuel Barber

The Victor Performance Ensemble' program for the 2001 season is Return to Grandeur: The Tale of the Lost City of Gold, with music from Samuel Barber' Medea: Dance of Vengeance.

This year's program is based on the legendary city of gold, a religious Mecca of the ancient Aztec nation and its destruction by a European expedition in the early 15th century.

The legend claims that once there was an ancient city whose riches were so vast that their very walls were made of gold.

The religious city had only one protection. It was completely hidden from the rest of the world.

Legends of the city and its riches made their way across the Atlantic to Europe during the height of exploration.

An expedition set out from Europe to find this legendary city in the 15th century. The expedition found the city attacked it, destroying everything in its path, stealing all of its riches and murdering its defenseless people.

On its return, the ships and all of the riches mysteriously disappeared in an area of the Atlantic now known as the Bermuda Triangle.

Victor will be living through the event as members of the ancient city during its destruction. The program is a reenactment of the events with one major twist, they will be traveling backwards through time, taking you from the city in its ruin and returning it to its original grandeur.