The SFCM Orchestra welcomes back SFCM 2013 graduate Nikola Printz to perform a song cycle set to poems by Pablo Neruda.  Acequia by SFCM 2014 graduate Nicolás Lell Benavides will be a world premiere performance and was commissioned by the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music. This concert also features works by Ravel including one of his first major works for orchestra, as well as La Valse, a dazzling orchestral showpiece that has inspired intense debate about its true meaning. 

Program

Nicolás Lell Benavides: Acequia (World premiere)
Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs
Maurice Ravel: Rhapsodie Espagnole
Maurice Ravel: La Valse