The Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra has launched California Compositions, an ambitious multi-year project to celebrate the state’s greatest achievers – in the arts and other fields – by commissioning new works of music in their honor and premiering them in the Sacramento area. 

 

The first of these commissioned works is by composer André Previn.  It honors internationally-acclaimed Sacramento painter Wayne Thiebaud and premiered on October 14, 2006 at the Sacramento Community Center Theater.  The second project, Gold Mountain, a tribute to the Chinese,  features new works by Jon Jang and Gang Situ, and premiered in January and April of 2007, respectively. 

 

Future projects will honor the accomplishments of specific ethnic groups in the state, using these new works to generate community dialogue regarding diversity, as well as common themes of humanity. 

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