Both the Hammond B-3 organ, beloved by jazz and blues musicians everywhere, and the Paramount Theatre’s vintage 1931 “Mighty Wurlitzer,” designed to replicate the thunderous sounds of a full orchestra, will be rolled out for the Oakland Symphony’s penultimate season concert at 8 p.m. Friday in the theater on Broadway.<\/p>\n
Brian Raphael Nabors’ Hammond Concerto, which Oakland Symphony conductor Kedrick Armstrong, himself a B-3 musician, sought out specifically for this concert, will be performed by the composer. It’s a three-movement piece which begins with “Rhapsody, ” which Nabors describes as a history of the many forms of American music; then moves on to “Threnody,” which mourns the senseless violence and racial hatred that has afflicted our country; and concludes with “Finale,” which he calls “one large gospel break between the organ and the orchestra.”<\/p>\n
Also, Jeremy Lenk, music director and organist at the Mission Dolores Basilica in San Francisco, steps up to the Wurlitzer to perform Camille Saint-Saens’ 1886 Symphony No. 3, “Organ.”<\/p>\n
The concert opens with Clarice Assad’s “Baio N’ Blues” from 2023. Find tickets, $25-$92, at oaklandsymphony.org.<\/p>\n
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