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"Revolución diamantina" with The Crossing, Giancarlo Guerrero, & Alban Gerhardt

Composer Gabriela Ortiz, conductor Giancarlo Guerrero, and cellist Alban Gerhardt
Marta Arteaga: Ortiz; Lukasz Rajchert: Guerrero; Kaupo Kikkas: Gerhardt
Composer Gabriela Ortiz, conductor Giancarlo Guerrero, and cellist Alban Gerhardt

Saturday, March 1, 2025
8:00 PM

Acclaimed Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz wrote her ballet score Revolución diamantina with Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza. The piece explores the powerful, feminist “Glitter Revolution” campaign in Mexico to highlight the epidemic of violence against women. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wonderfully depicts love’s passion and an infernal whirlwind in his tone poem Francesca da Rimini, and Alban Gerhardt is soloist in the composer’s charming Variations on a Rococo Theme.

Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Alban Gerhardt, cello
The Crossing 
 Donald Nally, Artistic Director

Gabriela ORTIZ Revolución diamantina
Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY Variations on a Rococo Theme, for cello and orchestra
TCHAIKOVSKY Francesca da Rimini