![]() A piano (crisply played by Nancy Rude) introduces the nostalgic sounds of a ragtime song. ![]() The first movement, "City of Gold," employs bustling woodwinds and mellow brass to suggest the thriving, prosperous city by day. The symphony's first and second movements are portraits of San Francisco the day and evening before the earthquake. ![]() Like all good musical dramatists, he takes his time establishing a sense of place, era and atmosphere before getting to the Big Jolt. But he seems to be on intimate terms with the city - at least as it existed in 1906. Reineke, the Cincinnati-based composer and conductor who works with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra (he's a protege of the great Erich Kunzel), may not spend much time in San Francisco. 1, "New Day Rising," which depicts the city, the earthquake and its aftermath in four bracingly evocative movements.Ĭommissioned by the Wind Symphony, the new work was introduced by James Dalessandro (author of the novel "1906") and conducted by Reineke in an engaging first performance. ![]() The centerpiece of the orchestra's concert Tuesday evening at the Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek was the world premiere of Steven Reineke's Symphony No. But the Contra Costa Wind Symphony may have offered the newest - and most colorful - musical tribute of all. This week's 100th anniversary of the 1906 earthquake inspired an array of events commemorating San Francisco's biggest disaster. Wind Symphony's performance of world-premiere work explores 1906 S.F. ![]()
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