Sponsored by the Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundation
ROCO’s 17th season In Concert Series closedon April 23 with “Tying Up Loose Ends” live at The Church of St. John the Divine and also livestreamed at ROCO.org, Facebook, YouTube, and A440.live.
Conducted by Rei Hotoda in her ROCO debut, the program centered around the world premiere of Plumes for large chamber orchestra by composer-in-residence Derek Bermel based on J. Henry Fair’s photography collection “Industrial Scars”—capturing the beauty and destruction of industrial and human impacts on our planet—and also included Viet Cuong’s percussion concerto Re(new)al, Darius Milhaud’s jazz-inspired 1923 work Creation of the World, and a new work by Cynthia Lee Wong, as part of ROCO’s FIFteen Project.