This Sunday, the Marine Chamber Orchestra will perform the beloved works of two masters: Darius Milhaud’s remarkable La Création du monde, Opus 81a, and Joseph Haydn’s folk-like and highly original Symphony No. 88 in G, Hob. I:88. The free concert is open to the public and will take place at 2 p.m., April 6, at the Jim Rouse Theatre and Performing Arts Center at Wilde Lake High School in Columbia, Maryland.

Program

Associate Director Capt. Darren Y. Lin will conduct the anchor works featured alongside the contemporary music of Cole Reyes, winner of the Marine Band’s Call for Scores competition, held in 2024 and supported by the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation. Reyes' Burst was selected from nearly 80 submissions and was inspired by images released from NASA’s James Webb telescope. From the composer:

After the myriad of images from the James Webb telescope, I have been contemplating many of the celestial phenomena that happen constantly in our universe – one of these being the supernova. The bursting of a star is simultaneously hot and violent, but safely from millions of light-years away, it is a stunning sight to witness. This duality is the basis for this piece – mitigating the explosivity and the beauty.

The concert will also include works by composers Florence Price and Caroline Shaw as well as Viet Cuong’s Extra(ordinarily) Fancy: Concerto for Two Oboes, featuring Master Gunnery Sgt. Leslye Barrett and Gunnery Sgt. Tessa Gross. According to Cuong, the piece “sets some music in motion and then folds in a plethora of double-reed extended techniques to make the once-normal musical ideas sound extra fancy and, more importantly, deliciously strange.”

Come to Jim Rouse Theatre and Performing Arts Center this Sunday to hear the orchestra on a program of deliciously strange music, a world première and beloved masterworks.

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