Fanfare for The Common Man
Fanfare for The Common Man
A fanfare - a celebration!
April 17, 2021
Saturday, 7 PM
Streaming LIVE from
The Granada Theatre!
Brass, winds, percussion, oh my! Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man, an American standard, and it’s updated response, Joan Tower’s Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman is the perfect way to spotlight our talented symphony brass section. In this All-American program, members of the Symphony will also perform another Copland’s setting of Old American Songs, as well as a brand new work by young composer George Gianopoulos, featuring Award-winning, bass-baritone Cedric Berry! Our strings will come together for Robin Frost’s Serenade for Strings, and George Walker’s Lyric for Strings, and our wind section will perform Samuel Barber’s Summer Music for Wind Quintet. Also included in the program is The Unanswered Question by Charles Ives.
“[Fanfare for the Common Man] is a piece that feels like it was written by God…Whenever I hear it, it stops me in my tracks and makes me reflect on the goodness of man. And I know that sounds corny for some, but it really makes me think about [how], at the end of the day, most people in this country are good, God-fearing people. Honestly, that could have been our national anthem.”
– Jazz Trumpeter and Composer Terence Blanchard
Repertoire
- Copland: “Fanfare for the Common Man”
Listen on Spotify - Copland: “Old American Songs” – selections
- Long Time Ago
- The Boatmen’s Dance
- Simple Gifts
- I Bought Me a Cat
- The Little Horses
- At The river
- Zion’s Wall
- George N. Gianopoulos: ‘Polarity’ from the song cycle ‘America’ for Baritone and Chamber Orchestra, Op. 43 (2021)*
- George Walker: Lyric for Strings
- Samuel Barber: Summer Music for Wind Quintet
- Robin Frost: Serenade for Strings
- Charles Ives: The unanswered question
- Assistant Conductor Daniel Gee
- Joan Tower: Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No. 1
*World Premiere
The Artists
Conducted by Nir Kabaretti
Performances by
- Cedric Berry, baritone
*Program content and concert dates may be subject to change: check our website for regular updates.
A very warm and special thank you
to our 2020/21 season donors and the sponsors making this event possible!
Season Sponsor
Sarah & Roger Chrisman
Sponsor
Season Sponsor
Sarah & Roger Chrisman
Sponsors
-- Samuel M. & Alene S. Hedgpeth --
Principal Concert Sponsor
-- Patricia A. Gregory for the Baker Foundation --
Artist Sponsor
-- Joan E. Jacobs --
Selection Sponsor
TBA
Cedric Berry, Baritone
Award-winning, bass-baritone Cedric Berry’s experience spans opera, Broadway, American Song Book, jazz and gospel. He has performed with LA Opera, The Industry Opera, Long Beach Opera, Savonlinna Opera Festival of Finland, Banlieurs Bleues Festival of France and the Ravinia Music Festival, to name a few. He has appeared with Pacific Symphony, Arizona Symphony, Santa Fe Symphony, Luckman Jazz orchestra, Pasadena Pops Orchestra, California Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Telemann Chamber Orchestra of Japan. He has also been the recipient of several awards including first place in the Metropolitan Opera Western Region Competition. Notable recent engagements include the role of Yusef in the world premier of the Central Park Five opera.
Conducted by The Santa Barbara’s Symphony’s
World Renowned Conductor
Nir Kabaretti
Nir Kabaretti has worked with some of the world’s most sought-after musicians. Some of his most well-known collaborators include Lang Lang, Placido Domingo, Joyce Di Donato, Angel Joy Blue, Vadim Repin, Gilles Apap, Hélène Grimaud, and André Watts.
Enjoy the Repertoire before the performance
Summer Music for a Wind Quintet
by Samuel Barber
Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman
by Joan Tower
Lyric for Strings
by Geore Walker
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