Esa-PEKKA SALONEN AND LONDON’s PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA RETURN WITH
THREE AMBITIOUS PROGRAMS THAT INCLUDE A RECENT CELLO CONCERTO BY
SALONEN HIMSELF AND THE WEST COAST PREMIERE OF A CAL PERFORMANCES
CO-commission exploring the lives of Bay Area immigrants.
Dreamers
Engaging with an issue that speaks uniquely to our times, acclaimed
Peruvian composer Jimmy López will compose Dreamers, a new oratorio
informed by interactions with Bay Area and campus immigrant
communities, telling deeply personal stories through music and opening
his process to audiences through a series of public programs. For
Dreamers, he teams up with a frequent collaborator as librettist—the
Pulitzer Prize-winning, Cuban American playwright Nilo Cruz.
Additional Residency Highlights
Salonen conducts the rarely performed complete score for The Firebird.
Bartók’s virtuosic Concerto for Orchestra, his last completed work,
is paired with Salonen’s dazzling 2017 Cello Concerto, featuring
Norwegian cellist Truls Mørk, and Sibelius’ evocative The
Oceanides. And Bruckner’s magnificent Seventh Symphony shares a
program with Schoenberg’s moody tone poem for strings, Verklärte
Nacht.
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