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Cathedrals of Sound

Start Date: February 17, 2022
End Date: February 17, 2022
Start Time: 8:00 PM

Location:
Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, 600 Town Center Dr, Costa Mesa, CA

714-556-2121

2022-02-17 2022-02-17 America/Los_Angeles Cathedrals of Sound Overview Come and hear us perform with these outstanding ensembles! James MacMillan is the pre-eminent Scottish composer of his generation. He first attracted attention with the acclaimed BBC Proms premiere of The Confession of Isobel Gowdie (1990). He read music at Edinburgh University and took Doctoral studies in composition at Durham University with John Casken.James MacMillan was awarded a Knighthood in the 2015 Queen's Birthday honors. Boosey & Hawkes exclusively publishes him. The New York Times calls Scottish composer Sir James MacMillan as “ceaselessly inventive, evocative and penetrating.” He joins Pacific Symphony on a spiritual journey with his major commission “Fiat Lux” (“Let There Be Light”); a perfect pairing to Strauss’ eternal tone poem “Death and Transfiguration.” Artists Carl St. Clair, conductor Robert Istad, conductor Elissa Johnston, soprano Mark Stone, baritone Pacific Chorale—Robert Istad, artistic director Pacific Symphony Program ALLEGRI: Miserere Mei, Deus STRAUSS: Death and Transfiguration MACMILLAN: Fiat Lux (World Premiere) Preview Talk with host Alan Chapman at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6:45 p.m. Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall

Event Description

Overview

Come and hear us perform with these outstanding ensembles!

James MacMillan is the pre-eminent Scottish composer of his generation. He first attracted attention with the acclaimed BBC Proms premiere of The Confession of Isobel Gowdie (1990). He read music at Edinburgh University and took Doctoral studies in composition at Durham University with John Casken.James MacMillan was awarded a Knighthood in the 2015 Queen's Birthday honors. Boosey & Hawkes exclusively publishes him.

The New York Times calls Scottish composer Sir James MacMillan as “ceaselessly inventive, evocative and penetrating.” He joins Pacific Symphony on a spiritual journey with his major commission “Fiat Lux” (“Let There Be Light”); a perfect pairing to Strauss’ eternal tone poem “Death and Transfiguration.”

Artists
Carl St. Clair, conductor
Robert Istad, conductor
Elissa Johnston, soprano
Mark Stone, baritone
Pacific Chorale—Robert Istad, artistic director
Pacific Symphony

Program
ALLEGRI: Miserere Mei, Deus
STRAUSS: Death and Transfiguration
MACMILLAN: Fiat Lux (World Premiere)

Preview Talk with host Alan Chapman at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6:45 p.m.