Los Angeles Philharmonic
Part of: Carnegie Hall Live on WQXR
Anne Akiko Meyers: Also performing , and , and May 17.
Performers
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel, Music and Artistic Director
Anne Akiko Meyers, Violin
Program
GABRIELA ORTIZ Kauyumari (NY Premiere)
ARTURO MÁRQUEZ Fandango for Violin and Orchestra (NY Premiere)
COPLAND Symphony No. 3
Encore:
COPLAND "Celebration after Billy's Capture" from Billy the Kid Suite
Event Duration
The printed program will last approximately two hours, including one 20-minute intermission.At a Glance
Old music and forms inspiring fresh beginnings is one theme that these three pieces share. Gabriela Ortiz turned to a Native Mexican tradition and tune for a piece that marked the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s return to the Walt Disney Concert Hall stage following its pandemic hiatus; Arturo Márquez notes the “challenge to compose new works from old forms” that underlies his exploration of the Mexican fandango heritage through the vehicle of a violin concerto; and Aaron Copland created perhaps his most solidly traditional symphonic work to capture the optimism and euphoria of the United States at the end of World War II. These three works also share an enormous rhythmic vitality, a keen interest in orchestral color, and a palpable sense of celebration.
They are hardly clones, however; distant but friendly cousins, perhaps. Ortiz’s Kauyumari suggests a stylized ritual accessing a spiritual world. Márquez’s Fandango brings a venerable tradition up through history and a prayer to a dizzyingly kinetic dance. Copland made no recourse to folk or vernacular material in his Third Symphony (the first movement of which was composed in Mexico), but develops his characteristic open sound into a sort of abstract Americana, capped with blazing affirmation by music based on his Fanfare for the Common Man.
—John Henken