Riverside Symphony will open its 43rd season with a widely varied program of works for string orchestra on Saturday evening, January 25th at W83 Ministry Center. Under the baton of founding Music Director, George Rothman, the orchestra will unveil the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winner composer Melinda Wagner’s Dido Redux, a Riverside Symphony commission. In collaboration with librettist Stephanie Fleischmann, this modern reimagining of Dido, a strong woman nonetheless broken by love, recasts an earlier work by Ms. Wagner premiered by Dawn Upshaw and the Brentano String Quartet (hence “Redux”). Soprano Jamie Jordan (“...dispatched the part brilliantly -THE NEW YORK TIMES") a virtuoso new music interpreter in wide demand from coast to coast, will be the featured soloist.
PROGRAM:
MOZART Divertimento in D Major, KV 136
WAGNER/FLEISCHMANN Dido Redux (World Premiere)
BRITTEN Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Op. 10
CONTACT: riverside@riversidesymphony.org