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Message from the Maestro Dear Friend, Please join us for another exciting season at the Oakland East Bay Symphony. We've planned a season that continues with the high level of invention you have come to expect from us. Opening Night features music of the Americas. Gershwin, Ellington and Bernstein are well known American masters and Ginastera's Estancia is one of the most famous works to come out of Latin America. We also look forward to the return on the amazing Sara Davis Buechner as piano soloist. Carmina Burana combines the recently merged OEBS, Oakland Youth Orchestra and Oakland Symphony Chorus with a trio of soloists well known in our area and beyond. Erwin Schulhoff is a composer I have been looking forward to introduce to our audiences. A victim of the Holocaust, he was an important musician in his day and was greatly influenced by American jazz. The February concert also features our Principal Trumpet in a concerto by Mieczyslaw Weinberg, who lost most of his family in the Holocaust and lived out his life in the Soviet Union. For the Brahms Violin Concerto I have invited Andrew Sords, a rising star among young violinists. We'll also do elder statesman Ned Rorem's Letters from Paris, which combines the gently tonal music for which he is known with the witty, slightly risqué texts for which he is equally famous. David Requiro is already a genuine star in the music world, having won the Naumburg Prize and released an excellent first CD. We are thrilled to welcome him as soloist. The remainder of the concert will be used to connect to the Filipino community. May brings three of the most exciting personalities from the world of jazz together for the first time. Daniel Bernard Roumain, Taylor Eigsti and the incomparable Paula West will perform separately and in combination for a concert that will make for a truly thrilling season finale. With warm regards, Michael Morgan Music Director |
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