The River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, based in Houston, has announced that its 2014-15 season will include four world premieres commissioned for the orchestra’s tenth-anniversary season. Victor Yampolsky will conduct the season-opening program in September with a new work by Maria Newman based on the children’s book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. Also planned during the season are Anthony DiLorenzo’s new work based on Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky”; a piece by Derek Bermel co-commissioned by the California-based New Century Chamber Orchestra and Boston-based ensemble A Far Cry; and a new composition by Pierre Jalbert, based on poetry of Walt Whitman. In addition to its programs for full orchestra, ROCO will also perform a thirteen-piece orchestration of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony; a program of music by “Degenerate” composers Schulhoff, Krenek, and Weinberg at the Holocaust Museum; and a Día de los Muertos program at the Lawndale Art Center, with music composed by Musiqa and performed by ROCO musicians. The River Oaks Chamber Orchestra is a 40-piece professional chamber orchestra founded in 2005 by oboist Alecia Lawyer.
Posted April 29, 2014
