Top-of-the-charts Romanticism meets a contemporary fusion of symphony, electronic music and improvisation in a tour-de-force concert that will open Oakland East Bay Symphony's 25th anniversary season Friday, November 8, at 8 pm at the Paramount Theatre. Music Director Michael Morgan has programmed the kind of musical range, interest and innovation for the opening that dynamically demonstrates the orchestra's long-established reputation for audience-captivating and imaginative music.
The November 8 concert will feature the Oakland East Bay Symphony debut of Canadian-American soprano Othalie Graham performing two of opera's most heroic and bravura moments: Verdi's "Ritorna vincitor!" from Aida and the Immolation Scene from Wagner's Gotterdammerung in celebration of the 200th anniversaries of both composer's births in 1813. Contemporary American composer Mason Bates' music returns to Oakland East Bay Symphony with Mothership, which features his alchemical mixture of orchestral timbres, electronic music and improvisation. Maestro Morgan will also conduct Copland's Appalachian Spring, the first piece for which he took the podium for the first time as Music Director of the Oakland East Bay Symphony in 1990, and the concert is rounded out by Verdi's Overture to La Forza del Destino and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Gotterdammerung by Wagner. The concert will be preceded by a talk given by John Kendall Bailey at 7 pm.
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The November 8 concert will feature the Oakland East Bay Symphony debut of Canadian-American soprano Othalie Graham performing two of opera's most heroic and bravura moments: Verdi's "Ritorna vincitor!" from Aida and the Immolation Scene from Wagner's Gotterdammerung in celebration of the 200th anniversaries of both composer's births in 1813. Contemporary American composer Mason Bates' music returns to Oakland East Bay Symphony with Mothership, which features his alchemical mixture of orchestral timbres, electronic music and improvisation. Maestro Morgan will also conduct Copland's Appalachian Spring, the first piece for which he took the podium for the first time as Music Director of the Oakland East Bay Symphony in 1990, and the concert is rounded out by Verdi's Overture to La Forza del Destino and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Gotterdammerung by Wagner. The concert will be preceded by a talk given by John Kendall Bailey at 7 pm.
Top-of-the-charts Romanticism meets a contemporary fusion of symphony, electronic music and improvisation in a tour-de-force concert that will open Oakland East Bay Symphony's 25th anniversary season Friday, November 8, at 8 pm at the Paramount Theatre. Music Director Michael Morgan has programmed the kind of musical range, interest and innovation for the opening that dynamically demonstrates the orchestra's long-established reputation for audience-captivating and imaginative music.
The November 8 concert will feature the Oakland East Bay Symphony debut of Canadian-American soprano Othalie Graham performing two of opera's most heroic and bravura moments: Verdi's "Ritorna vincitor!" from Aida and the Immolation Scene from Wagner's Gotterdammerung in celebration of the 200th anniversaries of both composer's births in 1813. Contemporary American composer Mason Bates' music returns to Oakland East Bay Symphony with Mothership, which features his alchemical mixture of orchestral timbres, electronic music and improvisation. Maestro Morgan will also conduct Copland's Appalachian Spring, the first piece for which he took the podium for the first time as Music Director of the Oakland East Bay Symphony in 1990, and the concert is rounded out by Verdi's Overture to La Forza del Destino and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Gotterdammerung by Wagner. The concert will be preceded by a talk given by John Kendall Bailey at 7 pm.
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The November 8 concert will feature the Oakland East Bay Symphony debut of Canadian-American soprano Othalie Graham performing two of opera's most heroic and bravura moments: Verdi's "Ritorna vincitor!" from Aida and the Immolation Scene from Wagner's Gotterdammerung in celebration of the 200th anniversaries of both composer's births in 1813. Contemporary American composer Mason Bates' music returns to Oakland East Bay Symphony with Mothership, which features his alchemical mixture of orchestral timbres, electronic music and improvisation. Maestro Morgan will also conduct Copland's Appalachian Spring, the first piece for which he took the podium for the first time as Music Director of the Oakland East Bay Symphony in 1990, and the concert is rounded out by Verdi's Overture to La Forza del Destino and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Gotterdammerung by Wagner. The concert will be preceded by a talk given by John Kendall Bailey at 7 pm.
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