We are celebrating the beginning of our season with a program of popular favorites, poignant stories, and a world premiere. SOR joins the California Festival: A Celebration of New Music, with a world premiere work Unspoken Water by SOR’s own Principal Viola Jeff Ives. Soprano Carrie Hennessey joins us in singing two deeply moving works. First, Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo’s Cuatro Madrigales Amatorios, four intimately passionate and moving stories of love and loss. Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 next poignantly depicts a child’s happy memories of a summer evening while also reflecting on the profundity of life. Popular music of Mozart bookends this eclectic concert with the rousing Overture to “The Marriage of Figaro” and “Prague” Symphony. This is a concert with music for everyone.