West Coast Premiere
Performance!

A Celtic Journey  Sunday, October 8, 2006  3 P.M.   Pre-concert lecture at 2 P.M.  Bayside Performing Arts Center 2025 Kehoe Avenue, San Mateo Mendelssohn: The Hebrides  Davies: An Orkney Wedding and Sunrise  Elvis Costello: Il Sogno Join us on a journey to Scotland via the soundscapes of Mendelssohn's evocative The Hebrides and the raucous Orkney Wedding of Peter Maxwell Davies, complete with bagpipes! Celtic faeries and "little people" are conjured by Il Sogno (based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream) by Elvis Costello -- yes, that Elvis Costello! Elvis Costello Photo Mark Seliger Deutsche Grammophon

  Program subject to change

More info on Costello's Il Sogno:

Costello treats listeners to a classical adventure ... "Il Sogno" -- literally, "The Dream" -- is a kaleidoscope of musical styles and a narrative fantasy story tour de force... Costello's sense of dramatic pace and timing reveals his maturity and wisdom as a composer..."Il Sogno" is a surprisingly stunning, diverse and lovely orchestral composition, and if listeners can't find Waldo, they can find Costello -- whose true inspiration comes not just from one musical style, but from all the world's music.
Record Review / Marshall Spence, Orlandosentinel.com / 21 September 2004


"Il Sogno" ("The Dream"), an evening-length ballet score based on Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," is ... an expansive, colorful and often striking creation, done with all the imaginative flair and restless precision of Costello's rock efforts. ... What's most striking, though, is Costello's command of the orchestra. "Il Sogno" alternates between richly idiomatic traditional sonorities and skillful grafts from elsewhere, including a jazz band and the tinkly, percussive sound of the cimbalom. If this is really just scoring by ear, Costello's untutored facility is prodigious. But then, it always has been. From the beginning of his career, Costello has been a consummate classicist, less interested in innovation than in mastering and refining an ever-wider range of musical languages -- from punk rock to country, from pop ballads to art songs. There was no reason to expect anything less from him in this new arena."
Record Review / Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle / 21 September 2004

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