It is always a wonderful treat to be connected to contemporary composers. Back in November, Philip Glass paid us a visit when we presented Bobby McDuffie and the Venice Baroque Orchestra in the West Coast premiere of his new violin concerto. This picture was shot by an audience member catching a program page with Glass’s picture and him seated in front. Nice shot.
The concerto was terrific, especially the beautiful second movement.
Kronos comes this April with a new piece by Steve Reich, part of a co-commissioning project that we are a part of. We hope Steve will be here. Kronos has appeared with us somewhat regularly over the last 16 years. They did the West Premiere of Henryk Gorecki’s Third String Quartet for us several years ago, a dark but beautiful piece. Gorecki passed away last month.
Cool new stuff is coming next season. We have another Ellen Taaffe Zwillich commission to look forward to next season. It will be a sextet with piano performed by the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, violist Michael Tree and bass Harold Robinson in February 2012 Also the same month, Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony are doing a new Mason Bates piece. In March 2012, Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony are performing a new percussion concerto by Jennifer Higdon featuring Colin Curry, percussionist. Kaiji Saariaho’s new piece “Orion” will be performed by Franz Welser-Mőst and the Cleveland Orchestra in April 2012. There is a lot coming up. Subscriptions for next season go on sale next month.
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