FUSION - a Collaboration of Dance and Live Orchestra at CPAC: November 22|23

CSULB’s Bob Cole Conservatory of Music and Department of Dance present Fusion—a Collaboration of Dance and Live Orchestra featuring five premiere works created by Guest Artist Hannah Victoria Thomas and CSULB Dance Faculty Tsiambwom Akuchu, Lorin Johnson, Rebecca Lemme, and Andrew Vaca. This exciting concert is performed in collaboration with the Bob Cole Conservatory Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Johannes Müller Stosch. Performances are November 22 and 23 in the Carpenter Performing Arts Center. Contact Concert Director Andrew Vaca with any questions at Andrew.vaca@csulb.edu.

 

The Program

Guest Artist Hannah Victoria Thomas is working with the compelling and evocative Montgomery Variations by Margaret Bonds, a piece that transports you with its rich, lyrical textures. “T” Akuchu is utilizing an exhilarating excerpt from Stravinsky’s groundbreaking Rite of Spring, a true tour de force of modernist innovation. Lorin Johnson is choreographing to Marquez’s electrifying Danzón No. 2, a piece brimming with infectious rhythms and irresistible energy. The sublime elegance of Dora Pejačević’s Andante sostenuto from her Symphony in F-sharp minor, Op. 41 is inspiring the new work by Rebecca Lemme. Lastly, Andrew Vaca will immerse you in the lush, emotive beauty of the 4th movement from Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, the “New World Symphony."