The title of Gabriela Ortiz’s Kauyumari refers to a magical blue deer, sacred to the Huichol people of Mexico, which she invokes to reflect on our grateful return to post-pandemic live performance. In the one-movement concerto Odisea, commissioned by Gustavo Dudamel for Jorge Glem, Venezuelan composer Gonzalo Grau highlights his country's national instrument, the versatile, four-stringed cuatro. On the surface Johannes Brahms’s Second Symphony seems like a sunny summer idyll, but shadows abound.
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Gabriela Ortiz
Kauyumari
Gonzalo Grau
Odisea: Concerto for Venezuelan Cuatro and Orchestra [First San Francisco Symphony Performances]
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 2
Performers
Gustavo Dudamel
Conductor
Jorge Glem
Cuatro
San Francisco Symphony