| Saturday Jun 03, 2017 7:30 PM - Saturday Jun 03, 2017 9:30 PM | $8.00 - $20.00 |
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New Millennium Chamber Orchestra presents Women Composers: A Celebration
Join Music Director James Richard Frieman and the New Millennium Chamber Orchestra as they mark the conclusion of NMCOs fifth season with "Women Composers: A Celebration."
This mini-festival of music by female writers, both historical and current, spans nearly two centuries of musical history, ranging from the German Romantic tradition to the highly-diverse musical culture of the present day. Four of the works are for solo instruments and orchestra:
NMCO Concertmaster and fiddle champion Colyn Fischer essays "The Blue Room," a passionate, electrifying new two-movement violin concerto by the young Chicago-born composer Reena Esmail. She writes: "The title was taken from a poem called White Key, by the Poet Laureate of California, Carol Muske. The line reads, like the light on the bed / In the blue room where I last held you. The poem is such a poignant expression of love and loss and has resonated with me for years, since the day I first heard it."
Innovative OutBach® pianist Donna Coleman brings her rendering of Clara Wieck Schumann's only complete work for piano and orchestra, the Concerto in A Minor, Op. 7. This wonderfully imaginative virtuoso masterpiece is all the more astonishing when we consider that Clara completed it when she was just 17 years old!
Margaret Warton, NMCO principal flautist, plays Cecile Chaminade's virtuoso showpiece, the Concertino for flute and orchestra, one of the best known and most beloved works in the flute repertoire.
Donny Lobree, NMCO principal violist, is featured in a work by the award-winning Bay Area composer Nancy Bloomer Deussen, "Mulholland Recollections." This piece has been re-scored by Nancy expressly for Donny and NMCO from a movement of her earlier Clarinet Concerto.
The orchestra will also play two fanfares from the year 2000 by California composers: Adrienne Albert's inspirational "Courage" and Jacqueline Hairston's "Trilogy on Spirituals - Fanfare," commissioned by the Bay Area Women's Philharmonic.
Mark your calendar now for this exciting and adventurous program of music by these outstanding female composers!
Performances are at Transfiguration Episcopal Church in San Mateo on June 3rd and First Presbyterian Church of Palo Alto on June 4th. Kids of school age (HS and younger) are free when accompanied by an adult.
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LocationTransfiguration Episcopal Church (View)
3900 Alameda de las Pulgas
San Mateo, CA 94403
United States
Categories
| Minimum Age: 5 |
| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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