I am elated that JoAnn Falletta has accepted my invitation to drop by WPRB tomorrow. She has always been a conductor after my own heart.
As music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Virginia Symphony Orchestra (among her numerous other credits), she has championed dozens of works which could easily be classified as unusual or neglected. She is also an indefatigable champion of new music.
Falletta is in Princeton this week with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, as part of this year’s Edward T. Cone Composition Institute. The institute is an intensive workshop and lab for young composers who are shepherded through the process of getting their music from manuscript through rehearsals to performance. They are also provided with valuable career insights into what it means to be a professional composer.
The program will culminate in a public concert made up of four world premieres, including Luke Carlson’s “The Burnished Tide,” Brendan Faegre’s “Dirt to Gold,” Shuyin Li’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night,” and Reinaldo Moya’s “Siempre Lunes, Siempre Marzo,” tomorrow night at Richardson Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Institute director Steven Mackey’s “Urban Ocean” will also be heard.
Tomorrow morning on WPRB, Falletta will talk a little bit about the institute and some of her other upcoming projects. She is a prolific recording artist. The entire show will be devoted to selections from her extensive discography.
Some of the composers you can expect to hear will include Miguel del Águila, Romeo Cascarino, Eric Ewazen, Kenneth Fuchs, Gustav Holst, E.J. Moeran, Jerome Moross, Behzad Ranjbaran, and Marcel Tyberg, among others. You may even get to hear Falletta play the guitar.
Expect her visit around 9:00. I hope you’ll join me, tomorrow morning from 6 to 11 a.m. ET, at WPRB 103.3 FM, or online at wprb.com. Keep it classy with glassy-eyed Classic Ross Amico.
