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Go for Baroque. Be romantic. Get contemporary.<\/p>\n
The Vallejo Center for the Arts will usher in a special performance Friday night by hosting the internationally acclaimed New Century Chamber Orchestra in its 2025-26 season-opening concert, featuring a program that spans three centuries of classical music.<\/p>\n
Led by Music Director and celebrated violinist Daniel Hope, the ensemble will offer Antonio Vivaldi\u2019s \u201cThe Four Seasons,\u201d with Hope as the soloist; Antonin Dvorak\u2019s Serenade for Strings in E major; and Dobrinka Tabakova\u2019s \u201cDawn\u201d for violin, cello and strings.<\/p>\n
Music begins at 7:30 p.m. in the historic Empress Theatre, 330 Virginia St. Tickets are available at the theater\u2019s box office or online at https:\/\/empresstheatre.org\/event\/new-century-3\/.<\/p>\n
Written in 1723, \u201cThe Four Seasons,\u201d an audience favorite on the classical music circuit, is a group of four violin pieces, each expressing a season of the year and accompanied by sonnets, likely written by Vivaldi. His music illuminates events described in the poems, such as bird song and a fountain in spring, a thunderstorm in summer, a celebration of harvest in the fall, and the harsh chill of winter.<\/p>\n
Dvorak\u2019s Serenade for Strings, which premiered in Prague in 1878, is among the Czech composer\u2019s most popular orchestral pieces. It works its magic in five movements. The first includes a dance-like theme; the second, a waltz; the third, a lively group of sounds in different tempos; the fourth, a slow, tranquil flow of melodies; and the fifth, a finale that reflects the spirit of a Bohemian village dance.<\/p>\n
Written in 2007, Tabakova\u2019s \u201cDawn\u201d is a work for solo violin, solo cello and string orchestra. She wrote it as part of a three-piece composition called \u201cDawn-Day-Dusk.\u201d The Bulgarian-British composer\u2019s music, by all accounts luminous and lush, symbolizes the sunrise. The music has been featured in films (Jean-Luc Godard\u2019s \u201cAdieu au language\u201d), dance (including for San Francisco Ballet), and has been commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society, BBC Radio 3, and the European Broadcasting Union.<\/p>\n
Founded in 1992 and based in San Francisco, the New Century Chamber Orchestra brings together 19 string players in a reimagining of the concert experience. Performing without a conductor, except when led by a music director, the ensemble has become known for its aural and visual calling cards are precision, passion, and adventurous programming.<\/p>\n
With Hope at the helm, the ensemble has a reputation for infusing new life into the classics while casting a spotlight on contemporary composers, such as Tabakova.<\/p>\n
In a press statement, Hope said the orchestra\u2019s \u201cexamination of music through the ages\u201d is what inspires New Century to give some of its best performances.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom the most famous works of the repertoire, like \u2018The Four Seasons\u2019 to this fresh, adventurous, contemporary work by the phenomenal Dobrinka Tabakova, this program will really highlight the remarkable energy and dynamic music-making of the orchestra,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Of the Vivaldi, Hope said, \u201cIt\u2019s still as fresh as the day it was written. He was one of the most modern and courageous
composers of all time, and there\u2019s nothing to beat it. I\u2019m so happy to be doing it for the first time with New Century. It changes every time you play it and that has so much to do with your musical partners.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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