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Saturday, August 8, 8:00 pm
Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
Tickets: $30-$45
Enrico Chapela: ínguesu [West Coast Premiere]
Avner Dorman: Spices, Perfumes, Toxins! [Galen Lemmon & Steve Hearn, percussion]
Brett Dean: Moments of Bliss [U.S. Premiere]
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Two U.S. Premieres. Three composers in the house! A night of energy and bliss! One of the most exciting young talents to emerge from Latin America, Mexican composer Enrico Chapela joins us for the West Coast Premiere of ínguesu, a work that pays homage to the great Mexican composer Carlos Chávez (music director of the Cabrillo Festival, 1970-73!). It’s a musical rendering of the 1999 Mexico vs. Brazil soccer match, the greatest achievement in the history of Mexican soccer and the ultimate expression of Mexican nationalism. The Dallas Morning News said the composer “transmutes the cheers and jeers of the…match into an Ivesian collage of chatter, blast and slide.”
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Then Israeli-born composer Avner Dorman returns to the Festival for the performance of Spices, Perfumes, Toxins!, a double percussion concerto which brings Festival Orchestra percussionists Galen Lemmon and Steve Hearn center stage. It’s a demanding and virtuosic work that combines Middle-Eastern drums, orchestral percussion, and rock drums with orchestral forces—to create a unique sound, at once enticing and dangerous. Following Dorman, we will welcome Australia’s most prominent composer, Brett Dean. He is currently writing his first full-length opera and basing it on Bliss, the first novel of celebrated Australian writer Peter Carey. Dean has chosen four scenes from this powerfully dark and satirical tale and shaped them into a suite for four purely orchestral movements that will form the basis for several orchestral interludes throughout the opera. Tonight the composer joins you for the U.S. Premiere of Moments of Bliss, which just won the Australian Classical Music Award for Best Composition.
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“This music is just going to sweep the audience. The Indian influence in the first movement makes me feel at home. The Middle Eastern atmosphere of the second movement is just magical, and the third movement is a tour de force.”—Conductor Zubin Mehta on Spices, Perfumes, Toxins!
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A Talkback Session with Marin Alsop, guest artists, and composers follows the concert.
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Photos (clockwise from L): Galen Lemmon, Steve Hearn, Avner Dorman (all by rr jones), Brett Dean (Mark Coulson), Enrico Chapela
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