Beats & Beethoven
CONCERT OVERVIEW
SUPER, IMPERIAL, CLASSICAL
Delta David Gier, conductor
Leo Taylor, Aaron Ragsdale, Leigh Wilson,
and Ed Zaryky, SDSO percussionists
Elissa Cassini, violin
Camilla Tassi, projection designer
Viet Cuong / Re(new)al: Percussion Quartet Concerto
Wiprud / Concerto for Violin No. 2 "on the brink" (World Premiere)
Beethoven / Symphony No. 4
Plus works from Music Composition Academy Students:
Sy Bordeaux / Anxiety
Kili Cole / Unfinished
Viet Cuong's unique percussion concerto is devoted to finding unexpected ways to breathe new life into traditional ideas, similar to renewable energy initiatives. Theodore Wiprud's violin concerto contemplates how we are coping with the Earth's changing climate and humanity's ingenuity and compassion for each other and our planet. Two innovative new pieces matched with the innovative Beethoven.
Concerto for Violin No. 2 "on the brink" by Theodore Wiprud was commissioned by The Climate Music Project. Learn more about The Climate Music Project HERE.
"If any of Beethoven's contemporaries had written this symphony, it would be considered that composer's masterwork..." - Music professor Robert Greenberg
This concert is generously sponsored by
Bob & Rita Elmen Family Foundation
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