Name: A Constellation of Sounds & Stories
Start: 2024-04-19T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-04-19T00:00:00.000Z
Location: The Shepherd School of Music

Organization

Conductor

Giancarlo Guerrero

Instrumentalist

Najee Greenlee

Clarinet

Clarinetist

Orchestra

Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra

The Shepherd School of Music Rice University

A Constellation of Sounds & Stories

Houston

United States

The Shepherd School of Music

Alice Pratt Brown Hall

A Constellation of Sounds & Stories: The Observatory Shaw, C. (+2 More)

Public

The Observatory

Clarinet Concerto

Scheherazade Op. 35

Approved

Experience music to ignite your imagination and transport you to another place, from outer space and a 1940s jazz club to the magical land of Scheherazade and her One Thousand and One Nights. Shepherd School alumna Caroline Shaw’s The Observatory was inspired by the composer’s love of sci-fi, and by breathtaking views from Los Angeles’s Griffith Observatory. 2023 Shepherd School of Music Concerto Competition winner Najee Greenlee joins the orchestra for Copland’s Clarinet Concerto—originally written for Benny Goodman, it fuses lyrical beauty with toe-tapping jazz, ending with a Rhapsody in Blue-style glissando. Rimsky-Korsakov’s much-loved Scheherazade beckons us into a world brimming with dazzling sights, wonder, and enchantment. Giancarlo Guerrero, Grammy-winning Music Director of the Nashville Symphony, conducts.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Instrumentation

Ensemble