May 6, 2021
Wonderful… Soul-refreshing…”—Kathryn Juneau, Viola When 30 California Symphony musicians came together last month to record the Poetry in Motion season finale series, it was the largest gathering of California Symphony musicians in one place since the February 2020 BRAHMS FEST concerts. We asked how it felt to be playing together again. Michel Taddei, Assistant Principal Bass—”This
April 21, 2021
Viet Cuong (b.1990)Next Week’s Trees—World Premiere “Light is an invitation to happiness,” wrote beloved poet Mary Oliver in “Poppies”. We could all use such an invitation about now. We’ve been through a period of darkness, of present dread and future fear, a time of foreboding and separation. But such things don’t last.
February 19, 2020
The New York Times has called his music “alluring” and “wildly inventive” and his compositions have already been featured in concerts at Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center. We sit down with our newest Composer-in-Residence Viet Cuong to talk marching band, his compositional style, and connections to former Young American Composers-in-Residence Chris Theofanidis, Kevin Puts,