The New West Symphony’s music director chats about his programming ethos and working with composer Mason Bates.
Superb singing from the chorus and vocal soloists can’t entirely carry this performance of the symphony under Music Director Eun Sun Kim.
Guest conductor Thomas Wilkins leads an appealing program that also includes music by William Grant Still and Leonard Bernstein.
David T. Little’s composition is a challenging experiment in form and genre, part film screening and part live performance.
Dancing plays a prominent role in this production, whose revival marks McNamee’s directorial debut with the company.
The welcome news that Eun Sun Kim is now set to lead the company through 2031 comes at an otherwise tense time for the organization.
Richard Wagner’s epic of love and death comes to glorious life in a dramatically sung production led by Music Director Eun Sun Kim.
