Beats and Beethoven

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BUY TICKETS Oct 21, 7:00 pm Royce Auditorium, St. Cecilia Music Center
BUY TICKETS Oct 22, 8:00 pm Royce Auditorium, St. Cecilia Music Center

Hear ageless classical repertoire, plus a work from a rising star composer, that the classics inspired.

Rusty Air in Carolina, composed by Mason Bates, is an orchestral work that uses electronics to bring the white noise of the Southern summer into the concert hall, pairing these sounds with flourescent orchestra textures that float gently by. Mason developed the software that allows the orchestra to easily perform the piece, allowing the percussion players to trigger the electronic sections of the piece with drum pads.

The music of Mason Bates moves fluidly between the worlds of concert music and electronica, fusing innovative orchestral writing, the rhythms of electronica and techno, and cutting edge sound design. Spanning the classical concert hall to the clubs and lounges where he DJs electronica, his music has been described by the San Francisco Chronicle as "lovely to hear and ingeniously constructed."

While studying English literature and music composition in the Columbia-Julliard program, he worked primarily with John Corigliano and also studied with David Del Tredici and Samuel Adler. Now living in the Bay Area, he is currently a Guggenheim Fellow and the composer in residence for the California Symphony.

Stravinsky

Concerto in E-flat (Dumbarton Oaks)

Gershwin

Lullaby

Mason Bates

Rusty Air in Carolina

Beethoven

Symphony No. 1

David Lockington, Conductor

Mason Bates, Composer