Music Director Joseph Young and Berkeley Symphony continue the 2019-2020 season with the World Premiere string orchestra version of Mary Kouyoumdjian's Become Who I Am featuring the San Francisco Girls Chorus and the Bay Area premiere of Bryce Dessner's song cycle Voy a Dormir featuring mezzo-soprano Kelley O'Connor in her debut appearance. Concluding an evening of music that explores the finding of one's voice is Brahms's Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68, a work that took the composer almost twenty years to complete.
Originally written for chorus, string quartet and audio playback, Mary Kouyoumdjian's Become Who I Am will be performed for the first time in an expanded version for string orchestra. The work explores the theme of gender inequality through a series of interviews with members of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus with the responses serving as the basis of the libretto and a pre-recorded backing track.
Described by the Los Angeles Times as "the kind of composer who personifies what might be next for classical music," Bryce Dessner continues to expand an impressive catalogue of works that includes commissions by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Kronos Quartet and Eighth Blackbird, as well as the 2016 Golden Globe nominated score for the motion picture blockbuster The Revenant. Based on texts from the poetry of Argentinian feminist Alfonsina Storni, Voy a Dormir received its world premiere in February 2018 by the Orchestra of St. Luke and Kelley O'Connor, for whom the work was written. Bryce Dessner said, "Kelley and I worked collaboratively on choosing the poems and were both deeply moved by the beauty and power of Storni's words as well as the story of her life in which she struggled through difficult economic circumstances as a single mother and later breast cancer." The song cycle traces the arc of four late poems that concludes with Voy a Dormir (I am going to sleep), written before her death by suicide in 1938.
$15 to $96.
Presented by Berkeley Symphony
show less
Originally written for chorus, string quartet and audio playback, Mary Kouyoumdjian's Become Who I Am will be performed for the first time in an expanded version for string orchestra. The work explores the theme of gender inequality through a series of interviews with members of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus with the responses serving as the basis of the libretto and a pre-recorded backing track.
Described by the Los Angeles Times as "the kind of composer who personifies what might be next for classical music," Bryce Dessner continues to expand an impressive catalogue of works that includes commissions by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Kronos Quartet and Eighth Blackbird, as well as the 2016 Golden Globe nominated score for the motion picture blockbuster The Revenant. Based on texts from the poetry of Argentinian feminist Alfonsina Storni, Voy a Dormir received its world premiere in February 2018 by the Orchestra of St. Luke and Kelley O'Connor, for whom the work was written. Bryce Dessner said, "Kelley and I worked collaboratively on choosing the poems and were both deeply moved by the beauty and power of Storni's words as well as the story of her life in which she struggled through difficult economic circumstances as a single mother and later breast cancer." The song cycle traces the arc of four late poems that concludes with Voy a Dormir (I am going to sleep), written before her death by suicide in 1938.
$15 to $96.
Presented by Berkeley Symphony
Music Director Joseph Young and Berkeley Symphony continue the 2019-2020 season with the World Premiere string orchestra version of Mary Kouyoumdjian's Become Who I Am featuring the San Francisco Girls Chorus and the Bay Area premiere of Bryce Dessner's song cycle Voy a Dormir featuring mezzo-soprano Kelley O'Connor in her debut appearance. Concluding an evening of music that explores the finding of one's voice is Brahms's Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68, a work that took the composer almost twenty years to complete.
Originally written for chorus, string quartet and audio playback, Mary Kouyoumdjian's Become Who I Am will be performed for the first time in an expanded version for string orchestra. The work explores the theme of gender inequality through a series of interviews with members of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus with the responses serving as the basis of the libretto and a pre-recorded backing track.
Described by the Los Angeles Times as "the kind of composer who personifies what might be next for classical music," Bryce Dessner continues to expand an impressive catalogue of works that includes commissions by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Kronos Quartet and Eighth Blackbird, as well as the 2016 Golden Globe nominated score for the motion picture blockbuster The Revenant. Based on texts from the poetry of Argentinian feminist Alfonsina Storni, Voy a Dormir received its world premiere in February 2018 by the Orchestra of St. Luke and Kelley O'Connor, for whom the work was written. Bryce Dessner said, "Kelley and I worked collaboratively on choosing the poems and were both deeply moved by the beauty and power of Storni's words as well as the story of her life in which she struggled through difficult economic circumstances as a single mother and later breast cancer." The song cycle traces the arc of four late poems that concludes with Voy a Dormir (I am going to sleep), written before her death by suicide in 1938.
$15 to $96.
Presented by Berkeley Symphony
read more
Originally written for chorus, string quartet and audio playback, Mary Kouyoumdjian's Become Who I Am will be performed for the first time in an expanded version for string orchestra. The work explores the theme of gender inequality through a series of interviews with members of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus with the responses serving as the basis of the libretto and a pre-recorded backing track.
Described by the Los Angeles Times as "the kind of composer who personifies what might be next for classical music," Bryce Dessner continues to expand an impressive catalogue of works that includes commissions by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Kronos Quartet and Eighth Blackbird, as well as the 2016 Golden Globe nominated score for the motion picture blockbuster The Revenant. Based on texts from the poetry of Argentinian feminist Alfonsina Storni, Voy a Dormir received its world premiere in February 2018 by the Orchestra of St. Luke and Kelley O'Connor, for whom the work was written. Bryce Dessner said, "Kelley and I worked collaboratively on choosing the poems and were both deeply moved by the beauty and power of Storni's words as well as the story of her life in which she struggled through difficult economic circumstances as a single mother and later breast cancer." The song cycle traces the arc of four late poems that concludes with Voy a Dormir (I am going to sleep), written before her death by suicide in 1938.
$15 to $96.
Presented by Berkeley Symphony
show less
Date/Times:
2430 Bancroft Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94720
The Best Events
Every Week in Your Inbox
From Our Sponsors
UPCOMING EVENTS
Great suggestion! We'll be in touch.
Event reviewed successfully.