ROCO kicked off its 19th season with SEISMIC, an opening concert of epic proportions, featuring the full 40-piece chamber orchestra led by Artistic Partner Mei-Ann Chen in two ROCO-commissioned world premieres and an exhilarating tale of love, intrigue, and adventure! Presented at Miller Outdoor Theatre on September 29th, and at The Church of St. John the Divine on September 30th.

Anthony DiLorenzo’s ROCO world premiere commission Tectonal, featuring AI text-informed animation by composer and artist Cynthia Lee Wong and based on the acclaimed book The Telling Image by renowned documentary filmmaker Lois Stark, compels the audience to rethink, re-hear and re-visualize how they view the world. Go on a flight of fancy in ROCO’s commission The Nightingale by Kevin Lau—recently released as our first-ever children’s book, and heard in a new scoring for full chamber orchestra—then head to the exotic lands of The Arabian Nights as Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov‘s symphonic suite Scheherazade whisks audiences away through ravishing, vibrantly orchestrated scenes.

 

Program

Mei-Ann Chen, conductor

Anthony DiLorenzo, Tectonal
Based upon the book The Telling Image, by Lois Stark
with animation by Cynthia Lee Wong
ROCO World Premiere Commission

Kevin Lau, The Nightingale
Alecia Lawyer, narrator
ROCO World Premiere Commission

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherazade