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Arts and Music (Audio)

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Music and art have the power to evoke emotion in us. This collection features artists, musicians and their work. Visit: uctv.tv/arts

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John Luther Adams: Wind Garden - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego

January 31, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.33 MB

For the Stuart Collection at the UC San Diego, Adams created a musical composition with and within the signature landscape of the campus: the eucalyptus grove. There are no pre-recorded elements, everything that occurs in "The Wind Garden" is driven by the wind and the light conditions on the site, in real time. This work never repeats itself. Hidden in the trees are 32 small loudspeakers and 32 accelerometers that measure the movements of the trees in the wind. As the velocity of the wind c...

Tattooed Trucks of Nepal - Horn Please

January 28, 2022 21:00 - 39 minutes - 17.7 MB

Throughout Nepal, large freight trucks painted by artists provide special visual entertainment for travelers along the highways and dangerous mountain roads of the Himalayas. These creatively painted scenes and sayings can be clever, witty and even profound - offering food for thought to the viewer. Former Peace Corps volunteer and UC San Diego lecturer emeritus Ron Ranson, along with filmmaker Sudarson Karki, document the Nepali custom of painting trucks with icons of their country, spiritu...

Stuart Collection at UC San Diego - Richard Fleischner: La Jolla Project

January 27, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.32 MB

Richard Fleischner's "La Jolla Project" is located on the Revelle College lawn at UC San Diego. Seventy-one blocks of pink and gray granite are arranged in configurations that refer to architectural vocabulary: posts, lintels, columns, arches, windows, doorways, and thresholds. These elements transform an ordinary, nearly flat lawn into a space with allusions ranging from an ancient ruin to a contemporary construction site. What is most important for Fleischner is to interpret and essentializ...

Richard Fleischner: La Jolla Project - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego

January 27, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.32 MB

Richard Fleischner's "La Jolla Project" is located on the Revelle College lawn at UC San Diego. Seventy-one blocks of pink and gray granite are arranged in configurations that refer to architectural vocabulary: posts, lintels, columns, arches, windows, doorways, and thresholds. These elements transform an ordinary, nearly flat lawn into a space with allusions ranging from an ancient ruin to a contemporary construction site. What is most important for Fleischner is to interpret and essentializ...

Mozart: Serenade for Winds in C-Minor; K388 - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus

January 19, 2022 21:00 - 24 minutes - 10.9 MB

In this excerpt from Music is Always Subject to Change, the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus transforms the traditional orchestra to feature small ensembles and to highlight their core of talented musicians. La Jolla Symphony Winds presents Mozart: Serenade for Winds in C-Minor; K388. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 37742]

Developing Pia: A Look Inside Workshop Sessions and Dramaturgical Conversations

January 11, 2022 21:00 - 29 minutes - 13.2 MB

Leading theater artists experiment with cutting-edge multimedia aesthetics to create "Pia's Wonderous Adventures in Tlaxlandia" - a new work deeply connected to the contemporary Chicanx experience. Inspired by the desire to honor the memory of his mother, playwright José Cruz González created the heroic character of a young girl named Pia who deals with challenging topics in a magical world that models empathy for young viewers and causes them to ask important real-life questions… all while...

Gabrieli: Canzoni in Echo - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus

January 10, 2022 21:00 - 5 minutes - 2.18 MB

In this excerpt from Music is Always Subject to Change, the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus transforms the traditional orchestra to feature small ensembles and to highlight their core of talented musicians. La Jolla Symphony Brass presents Gabrieli: Canzoni in Echo. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 37740]

Barber: Adagio for Strings - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus

January 04, 2022 21:00 - 8 minutes - 3.76 MB

In this excerpt from Music is Always Subject to Change, the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus transforms the traditional orchestra to feature small ensembles and to highlight their core of talented musicians. La Jolla Symphony Strings presents Barber: Adagio for Strings. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 37743]

William Byrd: The Earl of Oxford’s March - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus

January 03, 2022 21:00 - 4 minutes - 1.8 MB

In an excerpt from the virtual concert, Music is Always Subject to Change, the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus transforms the traditional orchestra to feature small ensembles and to highlight their core of talented musicians. La Jolla Symphony Brass presents William Byrd: The Earl of Oxford’s March. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 37739]

Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus

December 30, 2021 21:00 - 33 minutes - 14.8 MB

In this excerpt from Music is Always Subject to Change, the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus transforms the traditional orchestra to feature small ensembles and to highlight their core of talented musicians. La Jolla Symphony Strings presents Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 37744]

Tielman Susato: Pavane Bataille - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus

December 27, 2021 21:00 - 4 minutes - 2 MB

In this excerpt from Music is Always Subject to Change, the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus transforms the traditional orchestra to feature small ensembles and to highlight their core of talented musicians. La Jolla Symphony Brass presents Tielman Susato: Pavane Bataille. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 37741]

Music is Always Subject to Change - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus

December 05, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour - 34.7 MB

In this virtual concert, the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus transforms the traditional orchestra to feature small ensembles and to highlight their core of talented musicians. This concert is in three sections, representing the various orchestral instrument families - brass, winds, and strings. La Jolla Symphony Brass: William Byrd: The Earl of Oxford’s March Gabrieli: Canzoni in Echo Tielman Susato: Pavane Bataille La Jolla Symphony Winds: Mozart: Serenade for Winds in C-Minor; K388 La Joll...

The Elixir of Love Turns Into a Virtual Labor of Love

October 08, 2021 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.26 MB

One of UC Santa Cruz's most popular live events had to go virtual this year due to COVID-19 restrictions, but the student performers were up to the challenge. Watch how they took a fully staged production of The Elixir of Love and made it their own, individually performing remotely, complete with costumes and sets, and turning the entire performance into one superb filmed opera. Enjoy! Series: "UCTV Prime" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 37468]

Photographing Sunflower Fields with UC Davis Student Emily

September 09, 2021 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.3 MB

Join UC Davis Strategic Communications intern and student, Emily Choi, for a quick trip down I-80 to photograph nearby sunflower fields. Series: "UCTV Prime" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 37403]

CRISPaper: Understanding CRISPR Gene-Editing through Art

September 04, 2021 21:00 - 16 minutes - 8.06 MB

To Sheng-Ying Pao, the power of reframing CRISPR lies in what is absolutely ordinary: paper. In CRISPaper, Pao revisited a cultural past in the ancient art of papermaking. In ancient China, wild rice was used to make paper. Pao took rice stalks from plants edited with CRISPR and ground the fibers into pulp. She then poured the pulp over a mesh screen. Every time she dipped the screen into water, the plant fibers would lift and resettle on top of the mesh, eventually making paper. Through the ...

SuddenRush in Concert

August 29, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour - 30.6 MB

These five siblings got their start playing in various other bands in the Vancouver music scene before joining together to form SuddenRush. Their sound is a seamless blend of Hmong sentimental song style and epic country rock, which works so well together it’s surprising more people haven’t thought to do it. The band had a break-through hit with their song “Mi Noog” in 2007, and has remained popular with Hmong audiences in Canada and the US ever since. Series: "Critically Human" [Arts and Mus...

Mariachi Arcoiris

August 24, 2021 21:00 - 46 minutes - 21.5 MB

Mariachi Arcoiris de Los Angeles prides itself on being the world’s first LGBTQ mariachi band. Their tight, energetic, and intricate sound has been honed by the work they’ve had to do to navigate the typically hypermasculine and heteronormative world of mariachi as gay and trans musicians. The band has performed at numerous gay and transgender pride events as well as in the #SchoolsNotPrisons tour for the California Endowment. They have been featured multiple times on Univision morning shows,...

Ellas in Concert

August 23, 2021 21:00 - 44 minutes - 20.5 MB

Ellas is a new trio that performs an exciting blend of mariachi, jazz, country, and various other styles. This performance presented by UC Merced UpstART is one of their debut concerts. Series: "Critically Human" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 37327]

La Santa Cecilia in Concert

August 15, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour - 29.6 MB

The band La Santa Cecilia, named for the patron saint of music, is dedicated to voicing the experience of a new bicultural generation in the United States. Their music is rooted in their Mexican heritage, but also inspired by traditions of bossa nova, rumba, bolero, tango, jazz, rock, and klezmer. They have made seven albums, and their 2013 release Treinta Días won the Grammy for Best Latin Rock Album (Alternative or Urban). They have also been nominated for two Latin Grammies, and their albu...

Sallyswag in Concert

August 11, 2021 21:00 - 57 minutes - 26.9 MB

Sweden is mostly known internationally for being a pop music powerhouse, but they also have an equally vibrant folk and world music scene less well known to the outside world. Sallyswag is a nine-woman power band that has taken that scene by storm, weaving together its roots in dance hall, Balkan, R&B, Swedish folk, hip-hop, and afro-beat to create an entirely original sound that’s been electrifying audiences since their foundation in 2014. They took home the Newcomer of the Year award at the...

Baskets 2 Bytes

August 09, 2021 21:00 - 5 minutes - 2.92 MB

This short film showcases two community-engaged graduate student research projects related to California Indian baskets. Learning about basket traditions from local Yokuts basket weavers connects to an exploration of how 3D digitization of baskets can assist with cultural revitalization. These projects were funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. Series: "Critically Human" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 37331]

The Art and Science of Music with Victor Minces - Creative Conversations

June 11, 2021 21:00 - 46 minutes - 22 MB

Victor Minces teaches the science of music. He seeks to transform our perception of everyday experiences by revealing the physics behind them. Through his program, Listening to Waves, he works to make science accessible to all and imbue creativity in the scientific process. Hear his perspectives on teaching, arts education and more in this engaging conversation. Series: "Education Channel" [Science] [Arts and Music] [Education] [Show ID: 37090]

Andrés Martin's Unstoppable

June 03, 2021 21:00 - 40 minutes - 17.7 MB

As a highlight of their 2020-2021 Season, Camarada presents the world premiere of a newly-commissioned work by Tijuana-based bassist and composer Andrés Martin. Unstoppable is a work in four movements for flute, violin, and double bass that reflects its creator's multiculturalism. In conversation with Rafael Fernández de Castro, Director of UC San Diego's Center for US-Mexican Studies, and Beth Ross Buckley, Co-Artistic Director of Camarada, Martin discusses Unstoppable's genesis and structur...

Ariane Mnouchkine - 2019 Kyoto Laureate in Arts and Philosophy

March 29, 2021 21:00 - 51 minutes - 21.5 MB

Allan Havis, UC San Diego Professor of Theater and Dance and Director of the UC San Diego Film Studies program, is joined by visiting scholar Robert Marx to host a rare, candid discussion with revolutionary theater director Ariane Mnouchkine, who founded the Parisian avant-garde stage ensemble Théâtre du Soleil in 1964, which she continues to direct today. Series: "Kyoto Prize Symposium" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 36810]

Berkeley Ceramicist and War Vet Creates Cups to Kick Off Conversations

February 09, 2021 21:00 - 5 minutes - 2.94 MB

Ehren Tool is the ceramics studio manager in the Department of Art Practice at UC Berkeley. In his off-time, he makes clay cups that he hopes start conversations about war. Series: "UC Berkeley News" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 36762]

William Wegman: La Jolla Vista View - A Conversation with Stuart Collection at UC San Diego

August 05, 2020 21:00 - 58 minutes - 26.5 MB

Known for his playful and ironic photo portraits of Weimaraners with names like Fay Wray and Man Ray, William Wegman is an accomplished artist in a variety of media. He joins Stuart Collection's Mary Beebe and Mathieu Gregoire to discuss the genesis and installation of his piece for the Collection, "La Jolla Vista View." Wegman also shares his thoughts about creative inspirations, methods, and processes. Series: "Stuart Collection at UC San Diego" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 36136]

Ian Hamilton Finlay: UNDA - A Conversation with Stuart Collection at UC San Diego

July 15, 2020 21:00 - 56 minutes - 25.7 MB

UC San Diego Library's Nina Mamikunian joins Stuart Collection's Mary Beebe and Mathieu Gregoire for an exploration of "UNDA" (Latin for "wave"), the late Ian Hamilton Finlay's 1987 contribution to the Collection. Topics discussed include Finlay's artistic influences and creative methods for the piece in the context of his long career. Series: "Stuart Collection at UC San Diego" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 36055]

Terry Allen: Trees - A Conversation with Stuart Collection

July 06, 2020 21:00 - 58 minutes - 26.7 MB

Visual artist, songwriter, musician, and raconteur extraordinaire Terry Allen joins Stuart Collection's Mary Beebe and Mathieu Gregoire for a wide-ranging exploration of the history and methods of creating "Trees," his installation for the Collection. Other topics for conversation include comments about Allen's public artworks that followed that initial commission and his latest album, "Just Like Moby-Dick." Series: "Stuart Collection at UC San Diego" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 36054]

Alexis Smith: Snake Path and Same Old Paradise

June 22, 2020 21:00 - 58 minutes - 26.7 MB

Anthony Graham from Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego joins Stuart Collection's Mary Beebe and Mathieu Gregoire to discuss the work of Los Angeles-based artist Alexis Smith. Smith's collaboration with the Collection began in 1992 with her iconic Snake Path, and continues with her monumental mural Same Old Paradise, slated for installation on-campus in 2021. The trio of panelists offer insights into Smith's themes and creative strategies. Series: "Stuart Collection at UC San Diego" [Arts ...

Discovery Charter School: Virtual STEAM Night 2019-2020

June 09, 2020 21:00 - 25 minutes - 9.85 MB

Students, teachers, and administrators from Discovery Charter School talk about their experiences with STEAM education and share STEAM inspired projects, Series: "STEAM: Adding Arts to STEM Education" [Science] [Arts and Music] [Education] [Show ID: 36069]

Music and the Border

May 27, 2020 21:00 - 1 hour - 38.2 MB

The US/Mexico border has served as a creative catalyst for artists for more than a century, but perhaps never more than now as barriers between both societies have grown. Join us for a lively discussion with three leading musicians on how they reflect on the border through their music, creating art that forges connections and common community. Moderated by radio journalist Betto Arcos, a regular contributor to NPR, BBC Radio 3 and LAs KPCC, the panel features Arturo OFarrill, multi-Grammy-win...

Fashion Enabling Compassion - Compassion Beyond Borders

May 08, 2020 21:00 - 18 minutes - 8.4 MB

Evie Evangelou, the founder of Fashion 4 Development believes fashion and the arts are invaluable tools for communication. She describes her work with the UN and designers to create a more compassionate world. Series: "Compassion Beyond Borders" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 35907]

Othello in the Seraglio: The Tragedy of Sümbül the Black Eunuch

April 28, 2020 21:00 - 42 minutes - 19.4 MB

The cosmopolitan character of the Ottoman empire, the challenges of reimagining classical music and literary texts, and the difficulties of making an opera on a small budget all arise in this conversation between composer Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol and UC Santa Barbara professor Abdulhamit Arvas about Sanlıkol’s Turkish coffee house opera Othello in the Seraglio. In this video, Sanlıkol richly describes the complicated creative journey his opera made from its initial conception to completion. Series...

Stars of Jazz

April 11, 2020 21:00 - 27 minutes - 12.7 MB

The challenge of blending three sound sources, the kinescope recording system, and the multimedia afterlives of 1950s television programs all arise in this conversation between film professor Ross Melnick, UCLA archivist Mark Quigley, and sound engineer Nicholas Bergh about the ABC television program Stars of Jazz. In this video, Quigley discusses the process of selecting which episodes to restore, and Bergh describes the principles of sound fidelity that guide his restoration work. Series: "...

Brahms' Symphony No. 3 in F Major - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus

March 25, 2020 21:00 - 36 minutes - 16.8 MB

Johannes Brahm's Symphony No. 3, composed in 1883, is the shortest, subtlest, and most concise of his four symphonies. Each movement demonstrates Brahms' mastery of the form as he ranges from boisterous to introspective, ending on a note of dignified restraint. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 35728]

Anahita Abbasi's why the trees were murmuring - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus

March 18, 2020 21:00 - 15 minutes - 7.05 MB

Emerging composer Anahita Abbasi, recipient of a Steven and Brenda Schick Commission, premieres an adventurous work that expresses the perspectives of a diverse community through the interplay of multiple soloists and the orchestra. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 35727]

Michael Pisaro's Umbra and Penumbra - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus

March 12, 2020 21:00 - 41 minutes - 18.1 MB

Los Angeles-based composer Michael Pisaro's "Umbra & Penumbra" features virtuoso percussionist Greg Stuart as a soloist whose sounds function as the foundation of the piece, rather than as an ornament. The role of the orchestra is to draw out, and expand upon, the colors each sound casts. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 35726]

Montage 2019

March 10, 2020 21:00 - 56 minutes - 26.1 MB

The UCSB Department of Music's sixth annual showcase concert features performances by outstanding faculty, students, and alumni from the department. Faculty artists include soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian, cellist Jennifer Kloetzel, violist Jonathan Moerschel, violinist Ertan Torgul, and pianists Sarah Gibson, Natasha Kislenko, and Robert Koenig. The UCSB Percussion Ensemble, Cello Squad, Clarinet Ensemble, Flute Ensemble, Young Artists String Quartet, and members of the UCSB Jazz Combos perform,...

Brahms' Academic Festival Overture - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus

March 05, 2020 21:00 - 11 minutes - 5.17 MB

Brahms' "Academic Festival Overture," which the composer offhandedly characterized as "a potpourri of student songs," features an unusual treatment of standard sonata form. What emerges is one of those rarities in classical music: a fun piece, full of antic humor, that invites the listener to laugh along with the composer. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 35725]

Abbasi • Pisaro • Brahms - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus

February 26, 2020 21:00 - 1 hour - 47.1 MB

La Jolla Symphony has not performed Brahms’ mighty Third Symphony, considered one of his most lyrical works, in a quarter of a century. The Symphony also premiered two commissioned works: a new piece by emerging Iranian composer Anahita Abbasi entitled "why the trees were murmuring," and Michael Pisaro’s "Umbra & Penumbra," featuring percussionist Greg Stuart. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 34848]

John Adams' Harmonium - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus

January 28, 2020 21:00 - 39 minutes - 17.8 MB

The 1981 premiere of John Adams' "Harmonium" signaled the arrival of a major new talent. A "choral symphony" based on poems by John Donne and Emily Dickinson, this piece marked Adams' pursuit of a new path as a composer, one that employed some of the techniques of minimalism in service of a new harmonic language. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 35504]

Celeste Oram's a loose affiliation of alleluias - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus

January 23, 2020 21:00 - 21 minutes - 9.87 MB

Thomas Nee Commission recipient Celeste Oram presents a new concerto for orchestra, violin soloist Keir GoGwilt, and three offstage voices. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 35502]

Robert Schumann's Violin Concerto in D Minor - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus

January 22, 2020 21:00 - 30 minutes - 14.2 MB

Virtuoso violinist Keir GoGwilt is the featured soloist in Robert Schumann's vibrant "Violin Concerto in D Minor." Once rescued from an early undeserved obscurity, this piece quickly became one of the most popular in the violin repertoire. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 35503]

Oram Schumann Adams - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus

January 14, 2020 21:00 - 1 hour - 40.5 MB

Adventurous programming is a signature trait of La Jolla Symphony and this concert is no exception, featuring a newly commissioned work along with two popular favorites. Nee Commission recipient Celeste Oram's, "a loose affiliation of alleluias" is an ambitious concerto for violin and three voices. Robert Schumann's "Violin Concerto" features virtuoso violinist Keir GoGwilt in one of that composer's most adventurous and popular pieces. Finally there's John Adams' "Harmonium," the large-scale...

Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus

January 03, 2020 21:00 - 38 minutes - 17.8 MB

Béla Bartók's "Concerto for Orchestra" is one of that composer's most accessible and popular works. Composed at a time when Bartók was terminally ill with leukemia, the Concerto is nonetheless full of energy and humor. In Bartók's words this music is intended to be "a life-assertion," and it served as a great composer's final artistic statement. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 35400]

The Central Park Five with Anthony Davis

January 01, 2020 21:00 - 54 minutes - 25.3 MB

Opera News has called UC San Diego Music Professor Anthony Davis A National Treasure, for his pioneering work in opera. His six operas include works centered on recent historical figures & events, including Malcolm X and Patty Hearst. Davis' latest opera The Central Park Five, an exploration of the wrongful conviction of five teenagers of color in NYC in the 1980s, premiered at Long Beach Opera in 2019 to international acclaim. In this conversation with UC San Diego Music Professor Emeritus...

Rossini's Overture to William Tell - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus

January 01, 2020 21:00 - 13 minutes - 6.2 MB

Rossini's 1829 opera "William Tell" is rarely performed today, but its Overture lives on as one of the most popular works in the classical repertoire. The Overture is essentially an instrumental suite written in four parts and performed without pause. The best-known section is the last, the allegro vivace, famously used as the rousing theme music for "The Lone Ranger" radio and TV series (and notoriously so in "A Clockwork Orange). Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show...

Price's Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus

December 20, 2019 21:00 - 29 minutes - 13.9 MB

In the 2018/2019 season the La Jolla Symphony performed Florence Price's "Violin Concerto No. 2," and inaugurates their 2019/20120 season with Price's "Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major." Florence Price was the first African-American woman to have a symphonic piece performed in the 1930's by a major orchestra, but her work has been sadly neglected in the decades since. The chance discovery of several scores in 2009, including the two Violin Concertos, has sparked renewed interest in her comp...

Rossini Price Bartók - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus

November 20, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 37.4 MB

Steven Schick conducts the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus in their first concert of the 2019/2020 season combines the popular and the unfamiliar. First up is Giachino Rossini's "Overture to William Tell," a perennial concert favorite with deep roots in pop culture. Next is Florence Price's "Violin Concerto No. 2," a lyrical piece forgotten for seventy years until its chance rediscovery in 2009. The concert concludes with Béla Bartók's dazzling "Concerto for Orchestra," one of that composer's m...

Young People's Concert 2019 - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus

November 13, 2019 21:00 - 55 minutes - 25.4 MB

In this fun and informative program Conductor Steven Schick guides the audience through excerpts from Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra and Florence Price's Violin Concerto No.1 as well as the complete William Tell Overture by Rossini. Schick places particular emphasis on the orchestra's organization and how the various sections interact with each other, with each of the musical selections serving as examples. He also invites questions from the audience. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus...