Santa Barbara Symphony to complete Ted Nash’s ‘Transformation’
Jazz saxophonist Ted Nash will perform in the course of the environment premiere of his new orchestration of “Transformation for Symphony Orchestra and Narrator”
Grammy-winning jazz saxophonist and composer Ted Nash understands the transformative electricity of new music and terms.
That will be crystal clear when the Santa Barbara Symphony, Mr. Nash and the Josh Nelson Trio carry out Mr. Nash’s deeply private “Transformation for Symphony Orchestra and Narrator” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday at The Granada, 1214 Condition St.
This weekend’s performance will feature the environment premiere of Mr. Nash’s new, comprehensive orchestrations in the newest model of “Transformation.”
The orchestra’s overall performance will be accompanied by a video, projected guiding the ensemble, of Mr. Nash’s son Eli looking at a “Dear Dad” letter in which he will come out as transgender.
“Transformation” began as a collaboration amongst Mr. Nash and film star and jazz fanatic Glenn Close.
Nir Kabaretti conducts the Santa Barbara Symphony, which will complete with jazz legend Ted Nash and the Los Angeles-based mostly Josh Nelson Trio this weekend.
“Several many years ago, Ms. Close and I worked collectively on my album ‘Presidential Suite,’ ” Mr. Nash advised the Information-Press, answering concerns by electronic mail.
“Working with her was this sort of a excellent practical experience, as I have usually been a enthusiast of her artistry. We decided to collaborate on a larger project and chose the topic of transformation,” explained Mr. Nash, a Los Angeles native who co-started the New York-primarily based nonprofit Composers Collective. He is also a long-standing member of the Jazz at Lincoln Heart Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis.
“For the concerts, which ended up introduced by Jazz at Lincoln Centre, Ms. Shut curated the items, and I composed the songs,” Mr. Nash said. “Many of the items were being primarily based on personalized stories, and the most deeply personal for me was ‘Dear Father,’ primarily based on my son’s letter to me coming out as transgender.
“For the live performance, which took position in late January 2020, my son Eli go through his letter are living though the band performed a supportive role, and then for the next half featured me on the ‘Response,’” Mr. Nash explained.
“This piece and my son’s courage and honesty are so significant to me, and I wanted to have one more prospect to share this with individuals, and possessing the opportunity with the symphony is the perfect environment,” Mr. Nash continued. “For these live shows, Eli’s looking at of ‘Dear Dad, which was just lately recorded on online video precisely for this undertaking, will be projected powering the orchestra as we play.
“The concept for ‘Dear Dad’ is the exact same as it was in the course of the premiere, but re-orchestrating for the symphony is allowing for me to use quite a few a lot more hues and textures to develop an even much more lush and supportive ecosystem around which Eli will study, and an even a lot more loaded and strong location for my Reaction,” Mr. Nash explained to the News-Push.
Mr. Nash added that every little thing in development can be perceived as some type of transformation.
“Being inventive is transforming our encounters, feelings and thoughts into an expression,” he said. “In tunes, we can just take a number of notes (there are 12) and rework them into symphonies. The transformations that I embraced for these concert events involve taking classical tunes themes (Scriabin, Mozart) and turning them into wholly new pieces.”
Mr. Nash extra that he just returned from Cuba on his latest job, in which he worked with large faculty students to compose songs inspired by paintings.
“It was an intense 5-day workshop that culminated in a live performance doing 15 new compositions. Many of the younger musicians experienced never ever composed songs ahead of. The entire week was recorded and will be produced as a documentary.”
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The Santa Barbara Symphony will execute at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday at The Granada, 1214 State St. Performers consist of saxophonist Ted Nash, the Josh Nelson Trio and the symphony’s principal pianist, Natasha Kislenko.
The functions are the planet premiere of Mr. Nash’s comprehensive orchestrations of “Transformation for Symphony Orchestra and Narrator,” Ravel’s “Bolero,” Richard Strauss’ “Death and Transfiguration” and Ernest Von Dohnanyi’s Variants on a Nursery Tune, Opus 25.
Sunday’s functionality will be preceded with a pre-concert conversing featuring Mr. Nash and Nir Kabaretti, the symphony’s songs and creative director, at 2 p.m.
Tickets price tag $35 to $175. To purchase, go to granadasb.org.
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