April 21, 8:00 pm
First Pres Santa Monica

Olivier Messiaen
  Meditation No. 2 & Meditation No. 5
  from Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité (Meditations on the Mystery
  of the Holy Trinity,1969)
  Dieu parmi nous (God Among Us)
  from La Nativite du Seigneur (The Nativity, 1935)

Sofia Gubaidulina
  Hell und Dunkel (Light and Darkness,1976)
Henri Dutilleux
  Three Strophes on the name of Sacher (1982)
Sofia Gubaidulina
  Risonanza (Resonance, 2001) West Coast Premiere
    
                                               
Mark Alan Hilt, organ
Timothy Loo, cello
Jacaranda Chamber Orchestra
Scott Dunn, conductor

In many ways Gubaidulina is the spiritual successor to Messiaen. His musical manifestation of Catholicism was as catholic in its sources of inspiration as can be imagined — Hindu talas, exotic birds, and Peruvian myth, for starters. Her post-Soviet Russian Orthodoxy was tempered by Asian folk music in a largely Muslim town with an Imam in her family tree. While Dieu Parmi Nous marks the ecstatic conclusion to his first major cycle,  the Meditations come from Messiaen's most profound organ cycle and a late turning point. With Light & Darkness Gubaidulina took the mantle of solo organ music. Risonanza, with its 3 trumpets, 4 trombones, and string sextet, integrates the organ with an unusual ensemble to achieve spectacular results.