Event Date
In Shostakovich's Eleventh Symphony, we hear the tunes of Russian revolutionary anthems (“Listen,” “You Fell as Victims,” “Rage, Tyrants”) — folk songs that carry the memory of the people massacred by the Tsar in 1905 on Bloody Sunday. Grammy Award-winning composer Jessie Montgomery wove fragments of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” — itself an anthem written at the height of the Black American experience during Jim Crow — into her Hymn for Everyone, which was composed in the shadow of the pandemic. Alma Mahler's songs' existence run counter to Gustav Mahler's opposition to her artistry — which despite being written before her marriage to Gustav, is her own anthem to a voice she wasn't supposed to have.
Program
- Jessie Montgomery: Hymn for Everyone (2021)
- Alma (Schindler) Mahler: Five Songs, arr. David and Colin Matthews
with TBA, contralto - Dimitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 in G Minor (“The Year 1905”)
Tickets
- Adult $30
- Faculty and Staff $27 [ 10% off the top price ]
- Children 18 and Under / Non-UC Davis Students $17
- Students at UC Davis $13
About the Artists
Matilda Hofman is Music Director of the Diablo Symphony Orchestra, conductor-in-residence for the Empyrean Ensemble at UC Davis and Artistic Director of the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble. Matilda also serves as a cover conductor for the San Francisco Symphony. Guest engagements in California include Festival Opera, the Fremont Symphony Orchestra, Sierra Summer Festival, San Francisco Ballet, Sacramento Ballet, Earplay, and Stanford University. She has also worked at Sacramento Opera as assistant to Michael Morgan. In Europe Matilda has performed at the Salzburg Festival, Berliner Festspiele, Holland Festival, Ruhrtriennale, Luzern Festival, Paris Autumn Festival, and at the Guggenheim in Bilbao. She has worked with Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Recherche, SWR Sinfonie-orchester, Bochumer Symphoniker and Kammerakademie Potsdam and has performed alongside Maestro Ingo Metzmacher in several performances of Luigi Nono’s Prometeo. In 2018 she was on the faculty for the soundSCAPE new music festival in Italy. Matilda works with both instrumental and choral groups and prepared Chorwerk Ruhr for their tremendously successful debut with the Berlin Philharmonic in MusikFest Berlin, with George Benjamin conducting.