2022/2023 Season
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¡CONEXIONES! CUBATHURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2022 | 7:30 PM Teatro Esperanza Find Esperanza’s current COVID safety policies HERE.
Generously funded by the Paul M. Angell Family Foundation. |
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ENGOMA ENTEERA:
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Described as “an African Bartók,” Justinian was trained in both Kiganda (Ugandan) folk music and Western classical music, receiving his doctoral degree in composition at Northwestern University. He will compose several new pieces for Orchestra 2001’s musicians, using extended instrumental techniques, microtones, and polyrhythms that marry contemporary classical music and traditional Kiganda folk music.
Stay tuned for more information about our first public concert for this exciting series (early April 2023), conducted by Na’Zir McFadden.
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BIRTH OF THE COOLIn Spring 2023, we will present the local premiere of the iconic Miles Davis/Gil Evans Birth of the Cool fusion of mid-century jazz and classical genres, approximately 75 years after the music’s creation. The history of this ground-breaking musical hybrid was relayed directly by Orchestra 2001 guest composer/conductor and original Birth of the Cool musician, the late Gunther Schuller, who described its evolution during informal sessions with classical and jazz artists in the late 1940s, in Gil Evans’ basement apartment. The results forged new directions for jazz and classical music that influenced decades of artists in concert halls, jazz clubs, and film scores. |
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GEORGE CRUMB:
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Exhibits of Crumb’s scores will be followed by performances of several of his chamber music works at the Slought Foundation, Esperanza Arts, and Cherry Street Pier. Crumb’s brilliant “Metamorphoses, 10 Fantasies for Amplified Piano, Book 2” (2020) will be performed by the performer he wrote it for, Orchestra 2001 pianist Marcantonio Barone, presented with images of the works of art that influenced Crumb’s modern take on “Pictures at an Exhibition.”