The California Festival takes place Nov. 3-19 across the state, with dozens of distinct performances throughout San Diego spotlighting new musical compositions written in the last five years.
Rafael Payare of the San Diego Symphony, Gustavo Dudamel of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Esa-Pekka Salonen of the San Francisco Symphony are shown in an undated photo.A state-wide festival of new music kicks off this week, and the numbers are impressive: 100 performing arts organizations, 140 composers and 180 new compositions.
For Gilmer, contemporary music — like all music — is a lens into the time and place in which it was written."It's always hard to predict how people in the future will look at our current times. I think that a lot of music that's written today is reflective of the human experience of today. So, you know, climate concerns. Issues of justice. Issues of the joy of nature. Music has always reflected the time in which it was created.
An example: Carlos Simon's"Wake Up," commissioned by the San Diego Symphony. This work was performed by the symphony last month and is powerful, gorgeous and inventive — and its unique, site-specific instrumentation includes pieces of scrap metal from the Jacobs Music Center construction zone. Catch it again Nov. 10-11 at the Rady Shell.
The San Diego Symphony had hoped the festival would take place in their indoor home, the historic Jacobs Music Center, which has been undergoing extensive renovations. Earlier this summer, however, symphony leadership announced that the opening would be delayed until sometime in 2024. All San Diego Symphony performances for the California Festival have been moved to the Rady Shell.
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