Portland’s own award-winning media artist Rose Bond, in collaboration with the Oregon Symphony, debuts never-before-seen animation projected onto the walls of the concert hall with a live performance of Berio’s Sinfonia. Bond’s breathtaking art will bring to life the late-1960s sounds, styles, ideas, and texts that inspired Berio’s revolutionary music, including its emotional tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. Classical Series Concert
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
• Rose Bond, animator
* Roomful of Teeth, vocal ensemble
Wagner: Overture and Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser
* Caroline Shaw: Partita for 8 Voices
•* Berio: Sinfonia
Tickets start at $24
A teaser trailer for Rose Bond’s stunning animation, which will be set to Berio’s Sinfonia
Roomful of Teeth performs and excerpt from Caroline Shaw’s Partita for 8 Voices, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and 2014 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
Pierre Boulez conducts The Swingle Singers and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Berio’s Sinfonia
Award-winning designer Michael Curry draws from ancient Mayan tradition to create a mysterious setting for Revueltas’ La noche de los mayas.
Ravel’s magnificent showpiece builds up to such astonishing intensity that it brings audiences to their feet every time.
