To close out our 2019, we'll be back at Freight & Salvage for our fifth annual End-of-Year Concert on Sunday, December 8. We'll be playing a diverse selection of highlights from our 2019 Open Sessions, but this time we'll actually rehearse! After playing with over 700 local musicians this year at venues all across the Bay Area, Awesöme Orchestra will bring local composers, listeners, musicians, and our ever-widening community under one roof for an evening of celebration, and highlights from our 2019 season. Buy Tickets Here.
The genre-bending evening features a diverse program, including an arrangement of “Steve Biko” from A Tribe Called Quest’s Midnight Marauders with MC RyanNicole, William Grant Still’s Dismal Swamp, and music from The Land Before Time by James Horner. Two local composers will also have their work showcased: Cellista (Freya Seeburger)’s piece “Look Homeward, Angel” from Transfigurations which features MC Demone Carter and Soprano Sarah Booth, and the premiere performance of “Agnus Dei” from Arturo Rodriguez’s Requiem Sinfonica, written in commemoration of those lost in Oakland’s 2016 Ghost Ship Fire.
Arturo Rodriguez has so far composed eight out of nine movements for his Requiem Sinfonica, and for the third year in a row, Awesöme Orchestra is premiering a movement at their End-of-Year Concert. A long term project, Rodriguez and Awesöme Orchestra plan to commission and professionally record all nine movements of Requiem Sinfonica, and premiere them in Oakland on the five-year anniversary of the tragedy in December 2021.
Rounding out the eclectic and ambitious repertoire, the End-of-Year Concert also features The Wind Waker Movement from the Legend of Zelda Symphony by Andrés Soto, and a fantastic new Big Band arrangement by Jeremy Levy of “Mars: The Bringer of War” from The Planets (originally by Gustav Holst).
A combination of free community event and fundraiser, the End-of-Year Concert supports Awesöme Orchestra’s mission to make orchestral music accessible to players and audience members alike. Enjoy the epic sound of orchestral music in a relaxed and fun-loving environment.
WHEN: Sunday, December 8, 2019, 7pm (lobby opens at 6pm)
WHERE: Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, 2020 Addison St., Berkeley, CA 94704
COST: Tickets are $30 (click here), with a limited amount of Pay What You Can Tickets available on the day of the event. No one turned away for lack of funds (unless we hit venue capacity!)
DETAILS: All ages and ADA accessible. Call 510-644-2020 x120 with questions.
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Musicians will be required to attend three rehearsals prior to the End-of-Year Concert. Due to limited space at the venue and instrumentation needs of each piece, participation is at the discretion of each section's ambassador(s) and not through the normal open sign up form. If you wish to be considered, please contact your section's Awesöme Ambassadors.