With a premiere by Nicolás Lell Benavides and an appearance by mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor, the show touches a lot of bases.
Many prominent U.S. musicians have been drafted into the effort to improve their country’s image abroad, including the “dean of American composers.”
Conductor Ludovic Morlot leads a program that also includes new art to accompany Mussorgsky/Ravel’s Pictures at an Exhibition.
The Bay Area’s best young musicians will be playing everything from Gustav Mahler to Anna Thorvaldsdottir across five concerts this year.
