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"Michael Morgan is the Mad Hatter of symphony music directors, creating wildly imaginative
concerts where other more tradition-rooted directors fear to go."
~ Oakland Tribune
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  Heroes & Giants
Friday, February 24, 8pm

Michael Morgan, Conductor

Featuring works by two of the brightest figures in a generation of European musicians whose careers were prematurely terminated by the rise of the Nazi regime: Czech composer and pianist Erwin Schulhoff and composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg.

Program    Prices     February 24, 2012
  

William Harvey, trumpet
   
  Stops on the Orient Express
Friday, March 16, 8pm

Michael Morgan, Conductor

We'll open the program with Schubert's delightful Overture in C Major and continue with composer Ned Rorem's Letters from Paris. Andrew Sords makes his debut with OEBS playing one of the greatest concertos ever written, Brahms' richly harmonic Violin Concerto.

Program    Prices     March 16, 2012
  

Andrew Sords, violin
   
  Notes from the Philippines
Friday, April 20, 8pm

Michael Morgan, Conductor

David Requiro makes his OEBS debut playing Dvorak's Cello Concerto, written during the composer's final year in New York. Also on the program will be works by Filipino composers, including a new work by a Filipino jazz composer commissioned by OEBS.

Program    Prices     April 20, 2012
   

David Requiro, cello
   
  Season Finale: Do That Voodoo
Friday, May 18
, 8pm

Michael Morgan, Conductor

Daniel Bernard Roumain blends his Haitian roots with classical and techno textures. Bay Area native and musical prodigy Taylor Eigsti returns home to present the World Premiere of a work he's writing for jazz piano and orchestra. And jazz vocalist Paula West will delight us with a set backed by the orchestra.



Program    Prices     May 18, 2012
  

Daniel Bernard Roumain

Taylor Eigsti Paula West
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