“Santa Rosa Symphony is making the exigencies of the pandemic into an opportunity to explore all-new programming in its 2021 SRS & Home spring season,” writes Paul Kotapish in Tuesday’s (1/12) San Francisco Classical Voice. “Each of the concerts features pieces that require no more than 32 musicians on stage for any time. And Music Director Francesco Lecce-Chong decided to shake things up further by inviting Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich aboard as SRS’s new artistic partner…. Every concert this spring will feature a Zwilich composition, ranging from her Concerto Grosso 1985 in homage to Handel to … her popular Peanuts Gallery, a piano concerto inspired by the characters of the comic strip Peanuts by cartoonist and Santa Rosa resident Charles M. Schulz, who was Zwilich’s friend. Prerecorded introductions to each concert will offer insight into Zwilich’s creative process…. Concerts will be available on the SRS YouTube channel and on the SRS website.” Other repertoire will include Marianna Martines’s Sinfonia in C Major, William Grant Still’s Serenade, Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll for Small Orchestra, Jessie Montgomery’s Starburst for String Orchestra, Charles Ives’s The Unanswered Question, Caroline Shaw’s Entr’acte for String Orchestra, and Haydn’s Symphony No. 45 (“Farewell”).
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