{"id":237785,"date":"2026-03-26T17:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/237785\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T17:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:00:11","slug":"review-minimalists-sibelius-and-a-hidden-theme-at-california-symphony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/237785\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Minimalists, Sibelius, and a Hidden Theme at California Symphony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Tuesday\u2019s (3\/24) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfcv.org\/articles\/review\/led-donato-cabrera-california-symphony-takes-minimalism-max\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">San Francisco Classical Voice<\/a>, Lisa Hirsch writes, \u201cMinimalism comes in many flavors\u2026. For the California Symphony\u2019s \u2018Northern Lights\u2019 program \u2026 on March 21, Artistic and Music Director Donato Cabrera included works by Estonian composer Arvo P\u00e4rt and Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov. P\u00e4rt is unquestionably a minimalist composer \u2026 Silvestrov\u2019s quiet, self-effacing Stille Musik (Quiet Music), written for a small string orchestra and just ten minutes long, might also qualify as minimalist. The first movement \u2026 is a strangely off-kilter waltz \u2026 Silvestrov intentionally makes [the final movement] sound exhausted, putting the brakes on any momentum through the markings in the score. Cabrera and his small band gave the work a fine performance. P\u00e4rt\u2019s Tabula Rasa, featuring two solo violins, prepared piano, and a large string orchestra, is written on a different scale \u2026 It\u2019s one of those works that suspends time for its audience. In the first movement, \u2018Ludus \u2013 Cadenza,\u2019 the solo violins, wonderfully played by concertmaster Jennifer Cho and associate concertmaster Sam Weiser, are often in opposition to each other \u2026 The program closed with a rousing performance of Sibelius\u2019s Symphony No. 2 \u2026 It\u2019s anything but minimalist \u2026 Its presence on the concert showed that the hidden theme was music from countries formerly under the thumb of Russia or the Soviet Union.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Tuesday\u2019s (3\/24) San Francisco Classical Voice, Lisa Hirsch writes, \u201cMinimalism comes in many flavors\u2026. For the California&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,33620,37665],"class_list":["post-237785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-composers","tag-conductors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}