Gomez & Elgar

Orchestra Santa Monica presents Gomez & Elgar, conducted by Roger Kalia. There are some shared themes between this concert and our fall concert, although there are certainly some marked contrasts. The “Danse Bacchanale” by Camille Saint-Saëns is another dance (alluding to Anna Clyne’s DANCE), but with bacchanale referring to a wild party with drunken revelry. And Potentia is a new work based upon a poem, as was DANCE. Commissioned by Orchestra Santa Monica, Potentia presents a poem of the same name written by Anne Carmack, Santa Monica’s first poet laureate. Composed by Jason Anthony Gomez and narrated/sung by the renowned baritone Jubilant Sykes, OSM is proud to perform the world premiere of this moving work depicting passages of life. Edward Elgar‘s fourteen variations on an original theme, aka the Enigma Variations, represent meaningful personal relationships in the composer’s life, with each variation being a sketch of one of his friends, and including himself.

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