Guest conductor Jeri Lynne Johnson will lead the Orchestra on November 10 in the program “Truth To Power.”
The new season will continue the organization’s evolution by featuring a select group of six invited guest conductors of the new generation who will lead the Orchestra at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, CA.
Johnson's program features guest clarinetist Anthony McGill and the Oakland Symphony Chorus in performances of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Fidelio Overture, Anthony Davis’s You Have The Right To Remain Silent, selections from Margaret Bonds’s Montgomery Variations, and Igor Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms. Anthony Davis's You Have The Right To Remain Silent is for clarinet and chamber orchestra and based on the composer's experience with American law enforcement in the 1970s. Jeri Lynne Johnson is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra and she is an internationally recognized leader and innovator in social justice and racial equity in classical music. In 2005, she made history as the first Black woman to win an international conducting prize when she was awarded the Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship.
Program:
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Fidelio Overture
ANTHONY DAVIS: You Have The Right To Remain Silent
MARGARET BONDS: Montgomery Variations (selections)
IGOR STRAVINSKY: Symphony of Psalms
Pre-concert talk from stage by John Kendall Bailey begins at 7:05 pm