TIME MACHINE
Saturday, August 5, 8pm Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
Tickets: $22-$34
Sponsored by:
Laura Karpman: Transitive Property of Equality (West Coast Premiere)
Kevin Puts: Percussion Concerto featuring Evelyn Glennie, percussion
Askell Masson: Konzertstück for Snare Drum and Orchestra featuring Evelyn Glennie, percussion
Michael Daugherty: Time Machine for orchestra and three conductors (West Coast Premiere)
Guest Conductors Carolyn Kuan and Jeri Lynne Johnson
Grammy Award-winning percussionist, Evelyn Glennie, returns to Santa Cruz, and three composers join her for a race through musical and metaphorical time. Four-time Emmy Award-winner, Laura Karpman makes her Festival debut for the West Coast Premiere of Transitive Property of Equality, a continuum of symphonic sounds that stretches from 1773 to 2006, celebrating and incorporating renowned works by Mozart, Rossini, Mussorgsky, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, and Dvorak. Composer Kevin Puts, now a favorite of Festival audiences who’ve witnessed this twenty-something become an impressive thirty-something, returns with his new Percussion Concerto to be performed by Evelyn Glennie, for whom it was written. Glennie will also perform a Concerto for Snare Drum and Orchestra by Icelandic composer Askell Masson. Then Michael Daugherty, one of America’s most performed living composers, returns to the Festival for the West Coast Premiere of a work for three conductors and orchestra called Time Machine. This piece divides the orchestra into three spatially separated ensembles, each with its own tempo, and each with its own conductor. For this synchronizing feat, Alsop has invited two Taki Concordia Conducting Fellowship winners to join her on the podiums. Time Machine moves us backward in time for the first movement, titled Past, and then propels us forward to the 22nd century for the second, Future.
A Talkback Session with Marin Alsop, Evelyn Glennie, and the composers follows the concert.
