Music

Featuring the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra and singers from the acclaimed San Francisco Opera Center performing a wide range of great arias with full orchestral accompaniment.

Highlights of this program include Amelia Brey's Hubble and two works in Spanish by Santiago Veros — Glaciare and Galaxias — all together exploring the human relationship with the light of outer space and and the light of fellow humans.

This program catches three composers at the threshold of something new: Lili Boulanger's shimmering D'un matin de printemps paints the light of a season's first morning; Beethoven's Symphony No.

This program draws from a century of American composers who continue to envision what symphonic music can be and what sources it can draw from.

From J.S. Bach's motets to living composer Ola Gjeilo, choral composers have utilized the first musical instrument humans had — the human voice — to envision our innermost roots, the soul.