Arts and Music (Audio)
253 episodes - English - Latest episode: 24 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMusic 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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Contemporary Art and Performance in Public Spaces
October 30, 2019 21:00 - 58 minutes - 27 MBSan Diego is poised to re-imagine some of its most iconic public spaces, such as Horton Plaza Park, Balboa Park and many other locations. Three innovative curators who have created change-making arts programming for public spaces in cities across the US talk about their vision to boost audience engagement and the practical implications of contemporary arts production in high-volume public spaces. Moderated by Jonathon Glus, Director of the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture, th...
Arthur Szyk: Soldier in Art
October 14, 2019 21:00 - 58 minutes - 26.9 MBArthur Szyk often said, “Art is not my aim, it is my means.” In this talk, Irvin Ungar exposes the viewer to the breadth and depth of the power, purpose, and persuasion of the artist Arthur Szyk who saw himself as a fighting artist, enlisting his pen and paintbrush as his weapons against hatred, racism, and oppression before, during, and after World War II. Series: "Taubman Symposia in Jewish Studies" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 34901]
The Private Art of Theodor Dr. Seuss Geisel - Dinner in the Library 2019
October 01, 2019 21:00 - 40 minutes - 18.5 MBTheodor Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, created paintings and sketches for his own enjoyment. Some of these pieces were on loan from the Geisel estate and exhibited at the UC San Diego Library for the 16th annual Dinner in the Library gala. Join a panel of distinguished speakers as they explore broad themes woven throughout Geisel’s works and its literary and artistic impact. Panelists Mary Beebe, Stuart Collection, Seth Lerer, Professor of Literature, and Rob Sidner, Mingei International Museum, e...
George Butterworth's The Banks of Green Willow - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
July 26, 2019 21:00 - 11 minutes - 5.65 MBA close friend of Ralph Vaughan Williams, George Butterworth was a largely self-trained composer who was immersed in English folk music. His works grew directly out of his contact with the English countryside, as exemplified by "The Banks of Green Willow" with its evocation of pastoral life in all its idealized simplicity and tranquility; indeed, the composer characterized it as an "idyll." As was common in his music Butterworth bases this piece on several old English folk melodies, creating...
Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
July 26, 2019 21:00 - 13 minutes - 6.45 MBOriginally written as the second (slow) movement of a string quartet, Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" went on to become one of the most popular symphonic works of the 20th century in its final orchestral arrangement. The solemn character of the Adagio has led to its frequent use as mourning music, much to Barber’s distress since it was not his intention to write a requiem. It was broadcast following the announcement of President Roosevelt’s death in 1945, and performed by the New York ...
Ralph Vaughan Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
July 25, 2019 21:00 - 37 minutes - 17.4 MBCommissioned in 1936 to compose a large-scale piece for a choral society's centenary celebration, Ralph Vaughan Williams instead wrote for them a cantata for soprano, baritone, chorus, and orchestra titled "Dona Nobis Pacem" – and it was anything but a celebration piece. Dona Nobis Pacem (“Give Us Peace”) was the composer’s protest against war and a cry for peace at a time of growing international tension. Three years later, Vaughan Williams' worst fears would be realized. Series: "La Jolla S...
Maurice Ravel's La Valse - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
July 20, 2019 21:00 - 14 minutes - 6.97 MBThough suspicious of German music in general Maurice Ravel was an unabashed fan of the waltz, and wrote several pieces that incorporated that distinctive rhythm. Of "La Valse," the composer wrote that “I had intended this work to be a kind of apotheosis of the Viennese waltz, with which was associated in my imagination an impression of a fantastic and fatal sort of dervish’s dance.” Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 35007]
Charles Ives' From Hanover Square North... - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
July 19, 2019 21:00 - 12 minutes - 5.98 MBCharles Ives' "From Hanover Square North..." commemorates the sinking of the British liner Lusitania by a German submarine in 1915. That moment when Ives and his fellow commuters heard the news on a Manhattan subway platform - a sudden fusion of grief, anguish, and community spirit – became the inspiration for Ives' composition, but in typically idiosyncratic fashion Ives didn't render the scene realistically; rather, it was the starting point for a musical meditation in which Ives registere...
Rand Steiger's Template for Improvising Trumpeter and Orchestra - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
July 14, 2019 21:00 - 15 minutes - 7.33 MBAs noted by the title, this piece centers on the talents of virtuoso trumpeter Peter Evans in a performance that is largely (though not entirely) improvised in performance. Evans’ tones are manipulated at times by the composer through digital signal processing, in what amounts to another interdependent and improvised performance; indeed, the watchwords for the entire enterprise are exploration and collaboration. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 33855]
Sibelius' Symphony No. 5 in E-flat Major - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
July 06, 2019 21:00 - 34 minutes - 15.9 MBConductor Steven Schick leads the La Jolla Symphony in a performance of Jean Sibelius’ mighty "Symphony No. 5," which drives to its triumphant conclusion on six shattering chords for full orchestra. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 34889]
Remembrance of Things Past - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
July 04, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 40.6 MBLa Jolla Symphony & Chorus closes its 64th season with a reflection on the composer/soldiers of World War I, from Maurice Ravel to Ralph Vaughan Williams to George Butterworth, whose life was tragically cut short in the war. Music from the same time by Charles Ives, and a favorite of Benjamin Britten, Barber's Adagio for Strings, rounds out a program that is both steeped in memory and full of messages for our own time. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 34007]
Wolfe's Fuel - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
July 01, 2019 21:00 - 20 minutes - 9.59 MBPulitzer Prize-winner Julia Wolfe has taken particular pleasure in writing music for film, and we hear her "Fuel" with a film by Bill Morrison. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 34887]
Saint-Saëns' Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
June 23, 2019 21:00 - 24 minutes - 10.8 MBYoung Artist Winner Anne Liu performs Camille Saint-Saens’ witty "Second Piano Concerto," which has been described as “beginning with Bach and ending with Offenbach.” Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 34888]
Looking to the Future - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
June 17, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 35.7 MBSteven Schick leads a sharply varied program. Pulitzer Prize-winner Julia Wolfe has taken particular pleasure in writing music with film, and we hear her "Fuel," with a film by Bill Morrison. Young Artist Winner Anne Liu performs Camille Saint-Saens’ witty "Second Piano Concerto," which has been described as “beginning with Bach and ending with Offenbach.” The concert concludes with Jean Sibelius’ mighty "Symphony No. 5," which drives to its triumphant conclusion on six shattering chords for ...
Bernstein's Symphony No. 3 Kaddish - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
May 23, 2019 21:00 - 42 minutes - 19.1 MBLeonard Bernstein's "Kaddish" Symphony interweaves an ancient Jewish prayer for the dead with a text written by Bernstein himself that violently challenges God's apparent disinterest in the face of human suffering, before finally reaching an accommodation with the Creator. This conflict is reflected by music that is by turns aggressive, even dissonant, and serenely harmonious. Bernstein dedicated the work's late 1963 premiere "To the Beloved Memory of John F. Kennedy." Series: "La Jolla Sym...
Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
May 15, 2019 21:00 - 26 minutes - 12.2 MBTwo things mark Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 in F Major, his shortest symphony and one of the least-performed. The first is its energy; contrary to classical sonata form there is no slow movement. The second is its unflagging good humor. The Eighth is full of high spirits, unexpected twists, unusual colors, and musical jests. In the symphony's lightness some listeners detect traces of the influence of Haydn and Mozart, but as with all of Beethoven's work the language is uniquely his own. Ser...
Patricia Patterson: Aran Canvas
April 30, 2019 21:00 - 5 minutes - 2.76 MBIn 1960 a young American art student named Patricia Patterson first traveled to Inishmore, largest of the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland. The windswept landscape and its ancient culture made a deep and lasting impression, as did the relationships she developed during many visits and prolonged stays in the years since. Patterson has continued to draw on her vivid memories of Aran as inspiration for paintings and sketches. Series: "Portrait of the Artist" [Arts and Music] [Show ID:...
The Three Cantors
April 30, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 40.8 MBThe Taubman Symposia in Jewish Studies at UCSB hosts a live musical performance by The Three Cantors: Cantor Mark Childs (Congregation B’nai B’rith, Santa Barbara) Cantor Marcus Feldman and Organist Aryell Cohen (Sinai Temple, Los Angeles) and Cantor Shmuel Barzilai (Chief Cantor of the Vienna Jewish Community). Series: "Taubman Symposia in Jewish Studies" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 34681]
Laurie San Martin's nights bright days - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
April 29, 2019 21:00 - 11 minutes - 5.3 MBAmerican composer Laurie San Martin writes music that creates a compelling narrative by exploring the intersection between texture and line. Critics have described her music as exuberant, colorful, forthright, high octane, tumultuous, and intricate. This piece's title, "nights bright days" is borrowed from Shakespeare's Sonnet 43, and reflects its late-night composition. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 34687]
Bernstein Centennial - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
April 22, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 35.5 MBAfter meeting Laurie San Martin, one of this country’s most important ebullient composers, we experience the lightness of a classical great — the seldom-heard 8th Symphony of Beethoven — and conclude with Leonard Bernstein’s extraordinary and poignant Symphony No. 3 (Kaddish), with chorus, soprano soloist and narrator. The Bernstein piece, named for the Jewish prayer for the dead, was dedicated to the late President John F. Kennedy and premiered in the days after of his assassination in 1963....
LJ White's Community Acoustics - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
March 19, 2019 21:00 - 14 minutes - 6.94 MBLa Jolla Symphony & Chorus present the World Premiere of "Community Acoustics" by LJ White. In this piece White expands the boundaries of traditional classical music performance to create an active and immersive sonic environment. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 34638]
Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 3 in D Minor - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
March 15, 2019 21:00 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MBAnton Bruckner's much-revised Symphony No. 3 in D Minor is full of the composer's glorious writing for brass instruments, coupled with large-scale thematic shifts. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 34639]
Philip Glass' Cello Concerto No. 2 Naqoyqatsi - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
March 13, 2019 21:00 - 40 minutes - 18.7 MBRenowned cellist Katinka Kleijn is featured in Philip Glass' Cello Concerto No 2, derived from his score for Godfrey Reggio's film "Naqoyqatsi." The Symphony is under the baton of Steven Schick. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 34637]
Finding Friendship with Improv Comedy
March 12, 2019 21:00 - 1 minute - 1.07 MBTaylor Davis was a theater kid who feared forgetting words and messing up lines on stage. When she came to UC Davis, she tried out improv comedy on a whim with Birdstrike Theater. It ended becoming something very special for her. She loved the idea that there were no lines to mess up and that the entire goal of it was to be goofy and make people laugh. Series: "UCTV Prime" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 34587]
Stephanie Richards: New Trumpet Music
March 05, 2019 21:00 - 58 minutes - 26.9 MBAfter her debut record, new music trumpeter Stephanie Richards follows up with a premiere of works from her latest project. Using New York City as a backdrop, Richards selected poems from icons including Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, and Allen Ginsberg to name a few, and has crafted music for quartet that explores a spontaneous prose of grit and brilliance; the ugly beauty of the city. Presented by Fresh Sound In conjunction with Hearing the Future, the San Diego Symphony’s fourth annual Jan...
Deep Roots - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
March 01, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 51.5 MBKatinka Kleijn – champion of new music and a member of the Chicago Symphony – is soloist in Philip Glass’ graceful Second Cello Concerto, drawn from his score to the film Naqoyqatsi. The concert concludes with one of Anton Bruckner’s most compact and attractive symphonies, dedicated to Wagner and full of Bruckner’s glorious writing for brass. Emerging composer LJ White adds to the fun with a new work commissioned by the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts an...
Jewish Music - From Bessarabia to Broadway - Lytle Memorial Concert
February 21, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBPianist Cecil Lytle and friends celebrate the Jewish folk traditions of Eastern Europe with spoken word, Klezmer music, and songs from the Yiddish theater. Featured performers include bassist Bertram Turetzky, singer Eva Barnes, and the Second Avenue Klezmer Band. Series: "Rebecca Lytle Memorial Concerts" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 34298]
Beatles Revolutions - Let It Be
February 19, 2019 21:00 - 47 minutes - 21.8 MBThe Beatles' final concert, their late-era conflicts, and the complicated history of director Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s Let It Be documentary all arise in this discussion between musician Alan Parsons and Music Professor David Novak (UC Santa Barbara). Parsons was a teenage sound engineer at Abbey Road studios when he was assigned to record audio for the Beatles as they worked through this iconic album. Novak draws Parsons into dialogue about recording equipment, studio layouts, and the musical ...
Montage 2018
January 30, 2019 21:00 - 53 minutes - 24.8 MBCurated by UCSB Professor of Flute Jill Felber, the departments fifth annual showcase concert features back-to-back performances by outstanding faculty, students, and alumni from the UCSB Department of Music. Series: "Soundscape" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 34363]
Handel's Messiah Part 1 - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
January 16, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 28.1 MBWe know Messiah very well, but few know that Mozart re-scored Handel's Messiah for a much larger orchestra, making this performance of a holiday favorite an often-heard rarity. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 34406]
Florence Price's Violin Concerto No. 2 - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
January 14, 2019 21:00 - 16 minutes - 7.38 MBCo-concertmaster David Buckley is soloist in the dynamic Second Violin Concerto of Florence Price, a prolific African-American composer that made her long career in Chicago, where her music was championed by the Chicago Symphony in the 1930s. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 34404]
Qingqing Wang's Between Clouds and Streams - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
January 14, 2019 21:00 - 17 minutes - 7.36 MBChinese-American composer Qingqing Wang celebrates this nation of immigrants in her stunning composition, the 2018 Thomas Nee Commission. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 34405]
Celebrating Tradition - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
January 08, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 44.2 MBThe December 2018 concert teases our sense of memory. We know Messiah very well, but few know that Mozart re-scored Handel's Messiah for a much larger orchestra, making this performance an often-heard rarity. Co-concertmaster David Buckley is soloist in the Second Violin Concerto of Florence Price, a prolific African-American composer that made her long career in Chicago, where her music was championed by the Chicago Symphony in the 1930s. Our collective musical memory is intimately combined ...
Hallelujah - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
December 19, 2018 21:00 - 4 minutes - 2.1 MBSince its premiere in Dublin in 1742 Handel's oratorio "Messiah" has become one of Western music's best-loved and most-performed choral works. Originally part of the oratorio's third section, which celebrates Christ's resurrection, the "Hallelujah" chorus has become a perennial Christmas staple, and arguably the best-known choral work in the repertoire. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 34361]
For Unto Us a Child is Born - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
December 17, 2018 21:00 - 4 minutes - 2.01 MBSince its premiere in Dublin in 1742 Handel's oratorio "Messiah" has become one of Western music's best-loved and most-performed choral works. "For Unto Us a Child is Born" is taken from the first (nativity) section of "Messiah," which celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 34360]
Lineage - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
December 09, 2018 21:00 - 1 hour - 37.1 MBLa Jolla Symphony & Chorus begins their 64th season with questions about lineage: Where do we come from? How does the music of our past inform our understanding of the future? "Lineage," a piece by young Canadian composer Zosha de Castri, recalls how her grandmother's tales shaped her own sense of being Canadian. Igor Stravinsky's Petrushka was inspired by his memories of Russian Shrovetide fairs, in all their color and excitement. Finally, everything on the planet began with water, and in c...
Young People's Concert 2018 - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
November 28, 2018 21:00 - 52 minutes - 23.9 MBThe Young People's Concert is a fun and informative "family-friendly" introduction to the symphony. Host/Conductor Steven Schick and the orchestra perform annotated excerpts from the 2018 season-opening concert, including Tan Dun's striking "Concerto for Water Percussion and Orchestra" and Igor Stravinsky's beloved ballet "Petrushka." The program features an audience Q&A in addition to the Conductor's commentary. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 34001]
Rap on Trial: Is it a Crime to Rhyme?
November 15, 2018 21:00 - 5 minutes - 2.43 MBShould your art send you to prison? Rap lyrics are increasingly turning up as evidence in courtrooms across the country. The fictional characters portrayed in violent gansta rap songs are often a far cry from the true personalities of the artists behind them, yet uninitiated audiences easily conflate artist with character and fiction with fact. On a broader scale, using rap lyrics as evidence in criminal cases also raises questions about artistic freedom, freedom of speech and the rights of a...
Shake On It The Musical
November 08, 2018 21:00 - 1 hour - 45.1 MBShake On It, the musical, is a collaborative piece by students in UC Santa Barbara’s College of Creative Studies. Over the course of two quarters students from a variety of majors worked together to bring this concept to life. Collectively creating the music, script, and the set, undergraduates from across the UCSB campus gained valuable experience of the workshopping and play production process. Series: "Soundscape" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 34064]
The Wind Garden by John Luther Adams - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
October 22, 2018 21:00 - 26 minutes - 12 MBRenowned composer John Luther Adams discusses “The Wind Garden,” his soundscape installation for the Stuart Collection at UC San Diego, with the Collection’s Mathieu Gregoire. Series: "Stuart Collection at UC San Diego" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 30732]
Charles McPherson Ensemble - UC San Diego Jazz Camp 2018
August 16, 2018 21:00 - 19 minutes - 9.12 MBJazz has been hailed as "America's original art form," and the annual Jazz Camp at UC San Diego is a five-day immersive summer program designed for intermediate to advanced level jazz musicians, ages 14–adult. Students work directly with internationally renowned jazz artists, exploring styles ranging from classic bebop to contemporary open-form. The Camp culminates in a finale concert performed by eight student ensembles, each under the direction of a faculty member. This program showcases a...
Holly Hofmann Ensemble - UC San Diego Jazz Camp 2018
August 15, 2018 21:00 - 19 minutes - 9.13 MBJazz has been hailed as "America's original art form," and the annual Jazz Camp at UC San Diego is a five-day immersive summer program designed for intermediate to advanced level jazz musicians, ages 14–adult. Students work directly with internationally renowned jazz artists, exploring styles ranging from classic bebop to contemporary open-form. The Camp culminates in a finale concert performed by eight student ensembles, each under the direction of a faculty member. This program showcases a...
Mark Dresser Ensemble - UC San Diego Jazz Camp 2018
August 14, 2018 21:00 - 20 minutes - 9.29 MBJazz has been hailed as "America's original art form," and the annual Jazz Camp at UC San Diego is a five-day immersive summer program designed for intermediate to advanced level jazz musicians, ages 14–adult. Students work directly with internationally renowned jazz artists, exploring styles ranging from classic bebop to contemporary open-form. The Camp culminates in a finale concert performed by eight student ensembles, each under the direction of a faculty member. This program showcases a...
Gabriel Fauré's Requiem - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
August 09, 2018 21:00 - 36 minutes - 16.9 MBThe requiem has long been a popular form among composers, and celebrated practitioners of the genre include Mozart, Verdi, Brahms, Berlioz, and Britten. Unlike those of his fellow composers, Fauré’s Requiem contains no Sturm und Drang, no thundering crescendos or rallying cries to the deceased. Rather, it’s a gentle, contemplative work, more of a meditation on transience than an exhortation. It contains most of the form’s familiar elements, including mixed chorus and soloists (in this ins...
Anthony Davis Ensemble - UC San Diego Jazz Camp 2018
August 09, 2018 21:00 - 25 minutes - 11.9 MBJazz has been hailed as "America's original art form," and the annual Jazz Camp at UC San Diego is a five-day immersive summer program designed for intermediate to advanced level jazz musicians, ages 14–adult. Students work directly with internationally renowned jazz artists, exploring styles ranging from classic bebop to contemporary open-form. The Camp culminates in a finale concert performed by eight student ensembles, each under the direction of a faculty member. This program showcases a...
Ornette Coleman's Lonely Woman - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
August 09, 2018 21:00 - 15 minutes - 7.1 MBAsher Tobin Chodos’ adventurous arrangement of Ornette Coleman’s Lonely Woman places a quartet of jazz soloists within a symphonic context. Just as innovator Coleman sought to reframe jazz conventions in an idiosyncratic style, so Chodos’ arrangement seeks to reposition this 1959 work in a modern idiom, one that embraces and even expands upon the challenges of a composition that, in Chodos’ words, “occupies a middle ground between specificity and discrepancy.” Most importantly, this new tak...
Igor Stravinsky's Symphony in 3 Movements - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
August 08, 2018 21:00 - 23 minutes - 11.2 MBThough acknowledging connections between World War II and his "Symphony in 3 Movements," which premiered in 1946, Igor Stravinsky stated the piece was not program music based on extra-musical events, insisting that "the Symphony is not programmatic. Composers combine notes. That is all." In truth the 3 sections were each written for different purposes, then combined into a whole that, while very appealing, is not quite unified in the sense of a traditional symphony. Stravinsky himself sugge...
Rob Thorsen Ensemble - UC San Diego Jazz Camp 2018
August 06, 2018 21:00 - 16 minutes - 7.45 MBJazz has been hailed as "America's original art form," and the annual Jazz Camp at UC San Diego is a five-day immersive summer program designed for intermediate to advanced level jazz musicians, ages 14–adult. Students work directly with internationally renowned jazz artists, exploring styles ranging from classic bebop to contemporary open-form. The Camp culminates in a finale concert performed by eight student ensembles, each under the direction of a faculty member. This program showcases a...
Courtney Bryan's As Yet Unheard - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
August 03, 2018 21:00 - 17 minutes - 8.31 MBCourtney Bryan’s remarkable As Yet Unheard, a work for orchestra and chorus, commemorates Sandra Bland’s tragic death in police custody in 2013. Using the text of Sharan Strange’s poem, soprano Helga Davis speaks to us in Bland’s voice, prodding us to relive the circumstances of her death and to seek answers to painful questions too long unasked. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 33856]
Olivier Messiaen's Un sourire - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
August 03, 2018 21:00 - 10 minutes - 4.23 MBThe title "Un Sourire" translates as "A smile." Olivier Messiaen, who composed the piece to mark the 200th anniversary of Mozart's death in 1991, did not attempt to imitate Mozart's style. Rather, he based his piece on the knowledge that Mozart's music was not necessarily a direct expression of his emotional life. Messiaen fashioned his gentle homage to reflect that aspect of Mozart's music combined with his own love of birdsong. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ...