May 24 8:00 PM MEMORIAL DAY
First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica

Made possible with support from the American Youth Symphony Board of Directors

Andre Jolivet
  Song of Linos (1944)
Igor Stravinsky
  Octet (1923/52) 125th Birthday
Pierre Boulez
  Memorial (1985)
Claude Debussy
  Dances Sacred and Profane (1903)
Paul Dukas
  Fanfare from La Peri (1912)
Olivier Messiaen
  O Sacrum Convivium (1937)
  Colors of the Celestial City (1963) 100th Birthday
Jean Yves Daniel-Lesur
  The Song of Songs (1949) 100th Birthday

Gloria Cheng, piano
Maria Casale, harp
Jacaranda Chamber Ensemble
Mark Alan Hilt, conductor
Jacaranda Chamber Singers
Grant Gershon, conductor

Memories, tributes and gifts from generation to generation make up this kaleidoscopic season finale. The youthful Messiaen founded a group called Young France, Jeune France. In that spirit, one of our oldest and finest pre-professional orchestras, the American Youth Symphony ("superb" - The New York Times), partners this evening with the busy young professionals of Jacaranda to speak memory.

Memories, tributes and gifts from generation to generation make up this kaleidoscopic season finale. The youthful Messiaen founded a group called Young France, Jeune France. Next to him, Jolivet and Daniel-Lesur are the most prominent composers of Jeune France. Their most brilliant music will open and close the concert. Jolivet's quintet for flute, violin, viola, cello and harp opens with virtuosity, speed, color and magic. To close, the enormously gifted Grant Gershon has handpicked a choir of soloists to reveal one of the most spectacularly colored choral masterworks almost never heard. Between them you will hear a harp sextet, wind octet, a wind and string nonet, and brass dectet, each astonishing – and a small orchestra of winds and percussion for Messiaen's glittering concerto featuring Gloria Cheng.