Mission Chamber Orchestra - Sunlight and Dance - with soloist Pepe Romero
Sat, Oct 24
|Hammer Theatre Center
These beautiful works share a strong focus on musical nationalism expressed through orchestral color and rhythm, even though each composer approaches it differently
Time & Location
Oct 24, 2026, 7:30 PM
Hammer Theatre Center, 101 Paseo de San Antonio, San Jose, CA 95113, USA
About The Event
Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga Los Esclavos Felices Overture
Claude Debussy / Orch. Hubert Mouton Rêverie (Daydream)
Joaquín Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez Pepe Romero, guitar
Darius Milhaud Le Boeuf sur le toit,Op. 58 (The Ox on the Roof)
Alberto Ginastera Ballet Suite La Estancia
These beautiful works share a strong focus on musical nationalism expressed through orchestral color and rhythm, even though each composer approaches it differently. Rodrigo, Milhaud, and Ginastera each draw directly on dance traditions and folk or popular idioms from Spain, Brazil influenced Parisian culture, and Argentina, transforming them into concert works with sophisticated orchestration. Debussy and Milhaud, while more cosmopolitan in outlook, both move away from heavy German Romantic structures toward lighter textures, clarity, and an emphasis on color and atmosphere as primary expressive tools. They also all reflect early to mid twentieth century shifts in musical language, where composers increasingly broke from strict Classical form and expanded what orchestral music could represent.…