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January 24-26, conductor Giancarlo Guerrero and the Nashville Symphony perform Julia Wolfe’s Flower Power, featuring the Bang on a Can All-Stars.

A concerto for the All-Stars and orchestra, with video art by Jeff Sugg, Flower Power was co-commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Danish Radio Orchestra.

From Julia Wolfe:

Flower Power is about optimism, idealism, psychedelia, breaking with convention, and a little bit of love and peace. My recent large-scale works have addressed important moments in American history. The same is true for Flower Power, though it has no text. As a post-60s child, I experienced the afterglow of the 1960s revolution. And the after-ring was still resounding in the late 1970s. There was a sense that a better world was possible. In the strange moment we are in now, ‘when all the world is a hopeless jumble,’ I think about that remarkable turning point in American history, and in American music – a time of new ideas, and hope. Flower Power draws on my memory of this political and artistic time period, harnessing the energy and power of liberation and activism.

Stay tuned for more orchestra performances from Wolfe coming up:

February 14: conductor Daniel Raiskin and the Indianapolis Symphony perform Pretty

February 27 and March 1: conductor Marin Alsop and the National Symphony, with the Lorelei Ensemble perform Her Story

February 27, 28 and March 1: conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra give the East Coast premiere of Pretty