MainStage 1: New Beginnings (Palo Alto)

Submitted by the Event Organizer

PROGRAM:
George Frideric Handel – Concerto Grosso, Op. 6., No. 12
Shawn Okpebholo – “Fractured Water,” World Premiere
commissioned by the SFCO with support from the NEA and Emerging Black Composers Project
Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 1

To Celebrate the SFCO’s New Beginning with Jory Fankuchen at the helm, we kick off our season with Handel’s Concerto Grosso.  While the concerto grosso was a standard model for the time, Handel creates a fresh new take by  incorporating the full range of his compositional styles, including trio sonatas, operatic arias, French overtures, Italian sinfonias, airs, fugues, themes and variations and a variety of dances.  The world premiere of Shawn Okpebholo’s “Fractured Water” celebrates water as a precious resource by transforming it into a musical instrument. The piece brings awareness to pressing concerns about water pollution, conservation, and preservation.  Despite the risks posed to vital waterways throughout the world, Fractured Water also brings hope. And to close out the concert,  Beethoven’s delightful First Symphony hearkens to his predecessors, Haydn and Mozart, while clearly displaying the beginnings of Beethoven’s own style and character. 

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