SOLI 2022-2023 Concert Season
When:
January 16, 2023 to February 27, 2023
Where:
San Antonio Botanical Garden
About the Event:
Event Producer:
SOLI Chamber Ensemble
Anne L. Schelleng, Managing Director
P.O. Box 6062; San Antonio, TX 78209
Music: Contemporary Classical, Chamber Music
Activities: Concert season
January 16 - Woven
San Antonio Botanical Garden
The repertoire for SOLI’s second concert of the season features composers who weave the sounds and spirit of their cultural heritages into contemporary classical works. Latin Grammy-award-winning composer Gabriela Frank’s Hilos “…alludes to the beauty of Peruvian textiles, both in their construction and in their pictorial content of everyday life” and creates sonorities evocative of indigenous music. African-American composer Shawn Okpebholo’s compositions have been described as “devastatingly beautiful” and “fresh and new and fearless,” and his ethnomusicological fieldwork in both East and West Africa often finds its way into his music. SOLI will give the world premiere of CONFLUX by San Antonio native Niccolo Athens, known for blending the Western tonalities and heritage of his youth with the Eastern modes and harmonic palate of his adopted home Tianjin, China.
February 27 - Voiced
San Antonio Botanical Garden
Giving voice to our cultures and traditions is at the heart of SOLI’s final concert of the season, presented with guest artists EnsembleNEWSRQ. The Afro-Dutch traditions of the colonial period and the contributions of Africans to the formation of New York and the country are deftly illuminated in Trevor Weston’s Pinkster Kings, scored for SOLI’s instrumentation plus percussion and narrator. Originally written in 2001 and just as applicable in today’s climate, Kevin Puts’ And Legions Will Rise affirms the power in all of us to transcend during times of tragedy and personal crisis. Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate’s Shawi’ Imanompa’ (Raccoon Talk)”, based on an ancient Chickasaw Raccoon Song, includes a unique opportunity for the audience to exercise their voice in the performance – creating textures of sounds evocative of the animals’ chattery troublemaking nature.