High School Open Rehearsal: Revolución diamantina with The Crossing, Giancarlo Guerrero, & Alban Gerhardt

Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Alban Gerhardt, cello

Gabriela ORTIZ Revolución diamantina
TCHAIKOVSKY Variations on a Rococo Theme, for cello and orchestra
TCHAIKOVSKY Francesca da Rimini

Acclaimed Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz, known for her vibrant instrumental colors and skill with dramatic narrative, wrote her ballet score Revolución diamantina with Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza. The recording of the piece won this year’s Grammy Awards for best classical compendium, best orchestral performance, and best contemporary classical composition. Ortiz explores the powerful Mexican feminist “Glitter Revolution” campaign to highlight an epidemic of violence against women. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wonderfully depicts love’s passion and an infernal whirlwind in his tone poem Francesca da Rimini, inspired by a historic injustice recounted in Dante’s Inferno. Murdered by her husband, Francesca suffers in the second level of hell for her lustfulness, buffeted by an eternal storm. As a contrast, Alban Gerhardt is soloist in the composer’s charming Variations on a Rococo Theme..

Pre-rehearsal Talk
The February 27 open rehearsal will include a pre-concert talk at 9:30am, featuring conductor Giancarlo Guerrero in conversation with BSO Director of Program Publications Robert Kirzinger.