for winning this year’s Fantasy Program Contest. This is Peter’s second win. He is a cellist who has performed all over the United States, Europe and Asia. He has played for the original Broadway productions of Fiddler on the Roof, The Light in the Piazza, High Fidelity, Legally Blonde, and South Pacific. He has also played in the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and toured Europe and the U.S. with Pink Martini. As a part of his concert series, The Cello Project, Mr Sachon has premiered more than thirty new works for cello; all written for him by Broadway composers.www.petersachon.com
His Program:
Wagner: Das Rheingold – Prelude (5:00)
Herrmann: Psycho – A narrative for String Orchestra (16:00)
Glass: The Hours – Concerto for piano and string orchestra (24:00)
- Intermission
Glass: Symphony No. 9 (50:00)
The case for my program: Film music is a largely untapped source of really great programming options for orchestras. And at the moment, film music is kept separate (mostly) from classical music. Thus we have Classical concerts, and Pops concerts, and even separate Contemporary Music concerts.
We ought to program all their music together, routinely.
This program shows what it might look like to mix all three. It’s a compelling example of what can happen if we agree to regard all American symphonic art on the same terms. This would be good for programming and for the larger art form, and perhaps even for the bottom line.
