[BROADCAST] ROCO In Concert: Legendary Love
Free (Free)
Mark Buller – Nursery Rhymes
Antonin Dvorák – Legends (Mvmts. VI. & IX.)
Dan Visconti – Legendary Love (in honor of Christian Kidd)
Mark Buller – Tombstone Songs
Antonin Dvorák – Mazurek
William Grant Still – Wood Notes
The Houston-based professional ensemble ROCO is excited to offer free weekly livestream rebroadcasts of our past In Concert performances, featuring the full 40-piece chamber orchestra. Each broadcast will take place at 12pm (Pacific), and can be found on both our Facebook page and website.
Concertmaster Scott St. John led from the chair during ROCO’s Season 13 conductorless concert, “Legendary Love.” This was also the title of a world-premiere commission by Dan Visconti, honoring Christian Kidd, lead singer of the Houston-based ’70s punk rock band The Hates. The performance also featured two new commissions by Houston-based composer, Mark Buller – Nursery Rhymes and Tombstone Songs, featuring bass-baritone Timothy Jones. Mazurek, by Antonin Dvorák, featured Scott St. John as soloist, and the program also included two movements of Dvorák’s Legends, rounded out by Wood Notes by William Grant Still, who was heavily influenced by Dvorák’s call to American composers to find their own unique voices. Recorded live February 11, 2018 at The Church of St. John the Divine, Houston, TX, with videography by Blueprint Film Co.
Watch the livestream here:
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ROCOHouston
• ROCO website: https://roco.org/live
With access as a core value for ROCO, our performances are regularly streamed live and recorded, to be shared in our Listening Room and via YouTube, which both house a vast library of our music to explore. Your support makes possible this vital access to the experiences we create. If music is a bright spot in your life during this time of crisis, please consider supporting what we do with a gift to ROCO.
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