MARTÍN + BANSAL + SHOSTAKOVICH

Past and present come together in a musical conversation led by Music Director Jaime Martín. LACO marks 25 years of Sound Investment, with the premiere of Juhi Bansal’s latest orchestral work, a score that pushes at the edges of genre and tradition. Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers—“the coolest thing to happen to the violin since Stradivari” (Denver Post)—takes center stage for Eric Whitacre’s THE PACIFIC HAS NO MEMORY, a piece written for her and a meditation on nature’s vastness and transience. The mood darkens with the taut emotions of Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony for String, before lifting into the vitality of Prokofiev’s exuberant “Classical” symphony.

LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Jaime Martín, MUSIC DIRECTOR
Anne Akiko Meyers, VIOLIN

PROGRAM
Juhi Bansal, SOUND INVESTMENT COMMISSION / WORLD PREMIERE
Eric Whitacre, THE PACIFIC HAS NO MEMORY CO-COMMISSION / WEST COAST PREMIERE
Dmitri Shostakovich, Chamber Symphony for String in C minor, Op. 110a
Sergei Prokofiev, Symphony No. 1 in D major, “Classical,” Op. 5