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For Immediate Release - ROCO’s Season 18 Unchambered Series opens on November 4 at Life HTX, followed by the Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundation In Concert Series performance “Fortune” on November 12 at the Church of St. John the Divine.
Kristin Wolfe Jensen, ROCO’s Principal Bassoonist and Professor of Bassoon at UT Austin, presents a concert in gratitude for educators across the world, featuring her entire 15-bassoon studio in Life HTX, a unique venue with full video projection walls. Included will be an interactive Q&A, as well as a ROCO premiere co-commission by Kate Pukinskis for bassoon, oboe, and voice, featuring mezzo-soprano Page Stephens and ROCO Principal Oboist, Alecia Lawyer. Also on the program is Helga Warner-Buhlmann’s “Animal Quartet,” inspired by the Brothers Grimm tale of The Bremen Town Musicians, accompanied by illustrations by Lev Kaplan.
The Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundation In Concert series continues with “Fortune” on November 12 at The Church of St. John the Divine. Conductor Delyana Lazarova makes her ROCO debut in a concert that explores themes of fantasy and fortune, leading two ROCO-commissioned world premieres: William Bolcom‘s Dedication, orchestrated by Edmund Cionek, and Judah Adashi’s the sun begins to fade, as part of ROCO’s FIFteen Project. Also featured will be Finding Rothko by Adam Schoenberg, ROCO’s Season 18 Composer-in-Residence, inspired and accompanied by the visionary abstract paintings of Mark Rothko, along with Caroline Shaw’s Entr’acte for strings. Completing the evening is Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 100, also nicknamed the “Military Symphony,” for its vivid second movement musically depicting battle and honoring Veterans Day weekend.
ROCOrooters is also back in-person, offering a concert and a night out for you with music education and childcare for kids. Providing up to 6 hours of childcare under the supervision of certified and bonded childcare professionals, the program is available during all of ROCO’s In Concert performances at The Church of St. John the Divine. Cost is $45 per child, and ages 2 months to 10 years are welcome. In addition, free, downloadable materials will also be available, featuring themed activities for families to enjoy together while watching the livestream, for all of ROCO’s In Concert and Unchambered performances.
November’s performances will also be livestreamed free at ROCO.org, Facebook, YouTube, YourClassical (on Facebook), and A440.live.
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