Gomez & Elgar

Feb 16, 2025 (SUN) @ 3:00pm

Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center*
Eli and Edythe Broad Stage
1310 11th St, Santa Monica

Roger Kalia, conductor
Jubilant Sykes, baritone/narrator

Program

Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
Saint-Saëns:  “Danse Bacchanale” from Samson et Dalila
Jason Anthony Gomez: Potentia (*WORLD PREMIERE* commission by OSM)
   – Jubilant Sykes, baritone/narrator
   – Anne Carmack , writer of poem Potentia
Elgar: Enigma Variations

About this performance: JAN 15 – OSM dedicates this concert to those affected by the recent L.A. fires, our fire-fighters, first responders, service organizations, volunteers, and all who are helping our local communities recover. 

There are some shared themes between this concert and our fall concert, although there are certainly some marked contrasts.  The “Danse Bacchanale” by Camille Saint-Saëns is another dance (alluding to Anna Clyne’s DANCE), but with bacchanale referring to a wild party with drunken revelry. And Potentia is a new work based upon a poem, as was DANCE. Commissioned by Orchestra Santa Monica, Potentia presents a poem of the same name written by Anne Carmack, Santa Monica’s first poet laureate. Composed by Jason Anthony Gomez and narrated/sung by the renowned baritone Jubilant Sykes, OSM is proud to perform the world premiere of this moving work depicting passages of life. Edward Elgar‘s fourteen variations on an original theme, aka the Enigma Variations, represent meaningful personal relationships in the composer’s life, with each variation being a sketch of one of his friends, and including himself.

Free tickets available starting Jan 5 at noon.  Reserve your tickets

Printed tickets, digital tickets, or your Eventbrite email ticket confirmation will all be accepted at the door. 

Lobby doors open one hour before the concert. Tickets are for open seating, so you may want to arrive early to save your seat(s). Late seating is not guaranteed.