Mason’s Garages of the Valley, will be performed this weekend by the Kansas City Symphony under the baton of Francesco Lecce-Chong at the Kauffman Center.
“Mason has carved out a reputation as an innovator and he delivers on that promise with Garages of the Valley, a trek through the imagined music of Silicon Valley’s tech geniuses in their garage development days.” – Kansas City Symphony
Mason says: “Much of the Digital Age was dreamed up in the most low-tech of spaces. The garages that dot the landscape of Silicon Valley housed the visionaries behind Apple, Hewlett Packard, Intel, and Google. The imagined music of these tech workshops begins hyper-kinetically yet sporadically, filled with false starts. It soon flashes into a quicksilver world of exotic textures and tunings that is informed by the music of Frenchman Gérard Grisey (whose imaginative orchestrations sound electronic but are completely unplugged). The exhilarating finale reflects the infectious optimism of the great inventors of our time, who conjured new worlds within the bright Valley’s dark garages.”
Performances:
Friday January 13, 8pm
Saturday January 14, 8pm
Sunday January 15, 2pm
For more information and tickets visit Kansas City Symphony’s website.