Cynthia Lee Wongs co-commission by the San Francisco Symphony and New World Symphony gets its West Coast premiere next week. No idea how long it is, or anything much about it - as all the PR is about Brahms… However, searching google - heres a review from its Florida premiere: Cynthia Lee Wong’s Carnival Fever is a co-commission of the New World, San Francisco Symphony and music publisher Boosey and Hawkes. Wong is the second recipient of this collaborative program to mentor young composers in creating orchestral works. Wong’s piece is based on the Carnival at Rome episode from Alexandre Dumas’ novel The Count of Monte Cristo in which a wild carnival follows a public execution. The work is scored for large orchestra. Whistles precede lightning-fast fragments in strings and brass with a large percussion battery firing on all cylinders. Winds, harp and keyboards suggest the novel’s darker aspects. Snappy and rambunctious, this showpiece is a terrific overture with a postmodern, cynical tone.
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 00:33:08 +0000
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