The Festival season kicks off with works by Dylan Mattingly, Bela Fleck and Andrew Norman and Opening Night promises the thrill of all three composers in the house! The world premiere of Dylan Mattingly's Sky Madrigal invites audiences to experience the work of an exceptional young composer whose music has been celebrated as "an audacious blend of post-minimalism, traditional modernism, rock, jazz and more." (San Francisco Chronicle) Sky Madrigal is, in Mattingly's words, "a piece about perfection." Narratively tells the story of an ascent-Mattingly was drawn to the account of Mallory and Irvine, two mountaineers who disappeared while attempting to climb Mount Everest.
Famed banjo virtuoso and 15-time Grammy Award-winner Bela Fleck performs as soloist in the West Coast premiere of his own composition, The Impostor, a concerto for banjo and orchestra. Dedicated to banjo master Earl Scruggs, The Impostor is Fleck's first large-scale work for orchestra. The Impostor highlights the banjo's familiar fireworks as well as its rarely captured ability to produce songlike melodies the orchestra shines with vivid colors and harmonies as Fleck's bluegrass influences come to the forefront. [The documentary film Bela Fleck: How To Write A Banjo Concerto will be screened at the Del Mar Theatre on July 30, followed by a Q&A with Bela Fleck.]
After winning over Marin Alsop and Cabrillo Festival audiences with Gran Turismo in 2012 and Unstuck in 2013, Andrew Norman returns with Play, a sprawling orchestral cycle and the most ambitious piece the composer has written to date. "Much of this piece is concerned with who is playing whom," writes Norman. Play was fertile ground to delve deeply into some of the inspirations that drove Norman's compositional process, including interpersonal relationships, video game dynamics, live performance the piece also explores the many definitions of the word "play," ranging from the innocent and light-hearted to the dark and malevolent.
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