[BROADCAST] ROCO In Concert: Dance Like No One's Watching
Free (Free)
Mei-Ann Chen, conductor
Chester Englander, cimbalom
Fanny Mendelssohn – Overture in C Major
Jennifer Higdon – Dance Card (Texas premiere)
Mikhail Glinka – Kamarinskaya
Zoltan Kodály – “Song” and “Intermezzo” from Háry János Suite
Dmitri Shostakovich – Ballet Suite No. 2
Erno Dohnanyi – Wedding Waltz, Op. 18, No. 4
The Houston-based professional ensemble ROCO is excited to offer free weekly livestream rebroadcasts of our past In Concert performances, featuring the full 40-piece chamber orchestra. Each broadcast will take place at 12pm (Pacific), and can be found on both our website, YouTube, and Facebook page, where our guest artists join us each week for chat and Q&A.
Led by ROCO Artistic Partner conductor Mei-Ann Chen, Season 12's opener featured the Texas premiere of Jennifer Higdon's Dance Card, a ROCO co-commission showcasing our strings in five movements inspired by various dance steps and rhythms. Other works included Fanny Mendelssohn’s Overture in C Major, Mikhail Glinka’s Kamarinskaya, Dmitri Shostakovich’s Ballet Suite No. 2 for Orchestra, Erno Dohnanyi's Wedding Waltz, and selections from Zoltan Kodály’s Háry János Suite with Chester Englander as soloist on cimbalom. Recorded Sept. 24, 2016, at The Church of St. John the Divine, Houston, TX.
The broadcast will take place at 2pm Central / 12pm Pacific.
Watch the broadcast here:
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ROCOHouston/live
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ROCOHouston
• ROCO website: https://roco.org/live
This will be the final broadcast of our spring virtual In Concert series – look out for chamber performances, composer and artist chats, and more on the way through the summer!
With access as a core value for ROCO, our performances are regularly streamed live and recorded, to be shared in our Listening Room and via YouTube, which both house a vast library of our music to explore. Your support makes possible this vital access to the experiences we create. If music is a bright spot in your life during this time of crisis, please consider supporting what we do with a gift to ROCO.
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