To be sure, music varies from person to person, but Plato sees it as a “moral code” and “gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, charm and splendor to life and all.” .”
One of the reasons Western classical music has survived so long is its continuing cultural value. This is perhaps an affirmation of Plato’s beliefs. It is popular all over the world and people who listen to it should accept it as an active listener rather than a passive listener. It’s also not necessarily stuffy for a rich gray-haired or blue-haired audience.
In that vein, the Vallejo Symphony Orchestra’s 90th season, beginning November 12, will feature three concerts, including two performances on Saturday and Sunday at the Empress Theater, presenting new and old ballets from the 20th century and three We offer an interesting program combining two marquee ballet productions. Composer of Duke Ellington’s ‘The River Ballet Suite’.
The Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director and Conductor, Mark Taddei, and members of the Board of Trustees have organized a trio of concerts around a theme, especially ballet music. The program also includes standard repertoire works by Brahms, Rossini, Ravel, Grieg and Mendelssohn, but also includes works by mid-20th-century black American composer Julia Perry and symphonic composer Trey Maclar. It also includes contemporary songs from residence.
The first concert scheduled for November 12th and 13th will be called “Game of Cards” and will feature Brahms’ Double Concerto in A Minor for Violin, Cello and Orchestra, written in 1887. and will be played in about 34 minutes. Soloist violinist Stephan Hirsch and cellist son Alexander Hirsch are not the stars of the show, but are essentially the protagonists of a fast-paced orchestral drama with folk echoes. The Elder Hirsch is formerly concertmaster of the Symphony Orchestra and conducts the string chamber music program at Roosevelt University’s Performing Arts College of Chicago. Alexander, who has performed with the Houston Symphony Orchestra and Boston His Pops, is the co-artistic director of NEXUS Chamber Music, an international collective of artists committed to performing chamber music.
The orchestra will also perform Rossini’s “Barber of Seville” overture. This is his jolly 1816 work, scurrying for seven minutes and musically summing up what is considered the greatest comic his opera of all time. The overture is widely performed in concert halls.
The concert featured Stravinsky’s “Jeu de Cartes” (Card Game) ballet, a 24-minute production written in 1936 for the American Ballet Theater Company (then led by a young George Balanchine). Also known as “ballet”. in three transactions.
Although not as famous as the Russian composer’s ballets The Firebird or The Rite of Spring, it is considered a neoclassical masterpiece and was inspired by his favorite game, poker. Full of merriment with quotes from Beethoven, Johann Strauss, Ravel, Driebe, Tchaikovsky and even Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, Symphony spokesman Tim Zumwalt said: . Make your orchestra stand out.
A second concert, called “Fairy Tale,” scheduled for February 25 and 26, will offer Perry’s “Small Pieces for Orchestra.” In her press conference, Tadej described her own music as “brilliantly crafted” and “a neoclassical style distilled through the challenges she faced as a female composer of color in America.” A unique expression of the sensibility of
Pianist Elisabeth Dormann, finalist of the 2018 International Bach Competition Leipzig, will perform a 29-minute Grieg Piano Concerto written in 1868. After the timpani roll, the piano enters in a series of descending octaves, making her one of the most famous openings in all of classical music. The second movement is lyrical and characterized by harmonies. The final movement, the third, is a showcase for the soloists, and the finale references Norwegian folk dances and imitation of the Norwegian instrument Hardanger.
Ravel’s Ma mère l’oye (Mother Goose) ballet, a top-grossing work, began as a group of piano miniatures, later organized and eventually expanded into a 1912 ballet score. It’s one of his most profound climaxes of the 20th century,” Zumwalt said.
Musically and structurally, it is a series of tableaus, among which are “Dance and Scenery of the Spinning Wheel”, “Pavane of Sleeping Beauty in the Woods”, “Conversation of Beauty and the Beast”, “Hop o’ My Thumb”, Princess of the Pagoda, Laidronet”, “Fairy Garden”.
“The River” concludes the 2022-23 season on May 20th and 21st and features two American productions. Ellington’s ‘The River Ballet Suite’ and another is the world premiere of Makler’s ‘you echo in me’.
One of the inventors of jazz and America’s great cultural contribution to the world, Ellington wrote “The River” for Alvin Ailey and the American Ballet Theater in 1970. To the sea as a metaphor for life,” Zumwalt said.
A storyteller, Maclar creates dramatic and poignant stories that “take the listener on an unexpected journey through memories of hope, play, struggle and triumph,” said Zumwalt.
McLurer holds a doctorate in composition and theory from the University of California, Davis, and degrees from the Juilliard School and the University of Missouri. His principal teachers include Micah Pello, Melinda Wagner, Stephen Freund and W. Thomas McKennie.
Violin virtuoso Cordura Merckx is concertmaster of the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra and guest conductor of many other orchestras, including the Houston Symphony and the Dresden Philharmonic, and explores 19th-century concertos in Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto. complete it.
Approximately 25 minutes long from start to finish, the three movements of the 1844 Concerto are played seamlessly. The first begins with the violin opening the theme of the concerto rather than the orchestra. This is an innovation that has inspired other composers. The second is sometimes called a “song without words”, allowing the soloist to imbue his imagination with it. The third begins with its own fanfare and ends with a bubbly feat.
In 2016, he became Music Director of the Vallejo Symphony Orchestra and in 2007, Orchestra Wellington (New Zealand). Taddei’s New York City ballet debut led to his three Balanchine ballet re-invitations the following year, and he made his mainland debut last year with the Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra, he said. Zumwalt said.
A graduate of Manhattan’s Juilliard School, he has worked with classical music greats such as Kiri Te Kanawa and Anne Sophie von Otter. He has also been joined by jazz and popular music luminaries such as Joshua Redman, Diana Krall, Art Garfunkel and Kenny Rogers.
Taddei’s history includes nearly 30 recordings for Sony, BMG, Koch, Columbia, Trust, ASV, Universal, Rattle, Concordance and Kiwi Pacific labels.
Pre-concert talks take place one hour before each orchestral performance and feature conversations between Taddei and guest artists, providing insight into the programme.
The Vallejo Symphony can also be heard on Vallejo’s KZCT-FM 89.5. All three concerts will be rebroadcast in sequence at 10:30 am on November 18th. March 10th; Live interviews with guest artists and program footage posted on Facebook/VallejoSymphony.
The Vallejo Symphony has also contributed concert recordings to San Francisco radio station KDFC-FM 90.3’s “Bay Area Mix” program. This symphony has been featured nine times since 2015.
When the season begins, Makler will team up with Vallejo’s school to found Sound Explorers!
In a press statement, Zumwalt said the program “will guide a diverse group of young people in creating their own music.” No previous musical background is required. Instruction focuses on hands-on, experiential learning that “meets students where they are and promotes their individual identity and vocal development.”
Taddei will provide additional support. Student works are exhibited by symphonies at annual youth concerts at the Empress, school recitals, and other community events.
if you go
Vallejo Symphony
8pm and 3pm
November 12th and 13th
February 25th and 26th
May 20th and 21st
empress theater
330 Virginia Street
Tickets: (707) 643-4441
www.vallejosymphony.org
Single tickets, $40-$70, available online Jan 2
Group discount for 10 people or more
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