Event Name:
?A Tribute to the WPA at 75?
Description
Strauss’ Die Fledermaus Overture Copland’s Quiet City and John Henry Bacon’s Remembering Ansel Adams Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 In collaboration with the Bedford Gallery’s “The American Scene: New Deal Art, 1935-1943,” the California Symphony will recognize the profound influence that the WPA’s Composers' Forum-Laboratory and Federal Music Project had on the development of American music – though both were existence only five years (1935-1940). The Music Project employed an astounding 15,000 musicians for some 225,000 performances, while the Composers' Forum-Laboratory spawned an extraordinary 6000 new works by 200 composers. On the local front, composer Ernst Bacon, who died in Orinda in 1990, served as the supervisor of the WPA project in San Francisco and conducted its orchestra from 1935 to 1937. Friends since the 1920s, Bacon and Ansel Adams shared a lifelong friendship, which included a mutual passion for the environment as well as music. (Few know that Adams was as adept at the keyboard as he was behind a lens.)
Event Date:
10-03-10
Event Time:
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM PST
Location:
Lesher Center for the Arts, Hofmann Theatre
1601 Civic Drive
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
Contact Person:
Deborah Bandy
(phone: 925-280-2490)
Details:
Ticket prices: $64, $54, $44, $20 student

Tickets
Lesher Center for the Arts
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