Jeffrey Kahane, Conductor
Todd Palmer, Clarinet

 
Argentine-born composer Osvaldo Golijov has electrified audiences world-wide and received the kind of reaction usually reserved for rock stars. The phenomenal clarinet virtuoso, Todd Palmer, premieres Golijov’s orchestral arrangement of his chamber piece, Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind. Golijov’s work, deeply influenced by Jewish tradition and klezmer music, finds a remarkable echo in the music of Gustav Mahler written a century before. Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 could be said to be the first chapter in the world’s grandest musical autobiography. 

	*	This is the third season of the Magnum Opus project, one of the largest commissioning projects of new symphonic works in the U.S. Sponsored by Kathryn Gould through Meet the Composer, Inc., it grants the Santa Rosa, Marin and Oakland East Bay symphonies to jointly commission, premiere and give repeat performances of nine new works by American composers over five years.