Event FinderUC Davis Symphony Orchestra
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- In person
- Location
- Mondavi Center, 523 Mrak Hall Drive, Davis, CA 95616
About This Event
In Shostakovich's Eleventh Symphony, we hear the tunes of Russian revolutionary anthems (“Listen,” “You Fell as Victims,” “Rage, Tyrants”) — folk songs that carry the memory of the people massacred by the Tsar in 1905 on Bloody Sunday. Grammy Award-winning composer Jessie Montgomery wove fragments of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” — itself an anthem written at the height of the Black American experience during Jim Crow — into her Hymn for Everyone, which was composed in the shadow of the pandemic. Alma Mahler's songs' existence run counter to Gustav Mahler's opposition to her artistry — which despite being written before her marriage to Gustav, is her own hymn to a voice she wasn't supposed to have. “The music is at once absolutely gorgeous and extremely idiosyncratic. [Alma] clearly knew the musical language of her time — of art song especially — inside out, and she does the most bizarre, compelling, expressive things with that knowledge, while at the same time writing this extremely listenable, lush music.” — Sara Couden, contralto soloist (California Symphony)