The title of Gabriela Ortiz's Kauyumari refers to a magical blue deer, sacred to the Huichol people of Mexico, which she invokes to reflect on our grateful return to post-pandemic live performance. In the one-movement concerto Odisea, commissioned by Gustavo Dudamel for Jorge Glem, Venezuelan composer Gonzalo Grau highlights his country's national instrument, the versatile, four-stringed cuatro. On the surface Johannes Brahms's Second Symphony seems like a sunny summer idyll, but shadows abound.
ARTISTS
Gustavo Dudamel
CONDUCTOR
Jorge Glem
CUATRO
San Francisco Symphony
PROGRAM
Kauyumari
Gabriela Ortiz
Odisea: Concerto for Venezuelan Cuatro and Orchestra
[First San Francisco Symphony Performances]
Gonzalo Grau
Symphony No. 2
Johannes Brahms
The title of Gabriela Ortiz's Kauyumari refers to a magical blue deer, sacred to the Huichol people of Mexico, which she invokes to reflect on our grateful return to post-pandemic live performance. In the one-movement concerto Odisea, commissioned by Gustavo Dudamel for Jorge Glem, Venezuelan composer Gonzalo Grau highlights his country's national instrument, the versatile, four-stringed cuatro. On the surface Johannes Brahms's Second Symphony seems like a sunny summer idyll, but shadows abound.
ARTISTS
Gustavo Dudamel
CONDUCTOR
Jorge Glem
CUATRO
San Francisco Symphony
PROGRAM
Kauyumari
Gabriela Ortiz
Odisea: Concerto for Venezuelan Cuatro and Orchestra
[First San Francisco Symphony Performances]
Gonzalo Grau
Symphony No. 2
Johannes Brahms
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