2023.11.11 | American Railroad: Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens Program

Co-presented with Philharmonic Society of Orange County

American Railroad

Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens Saturday, Nov. 11 | 8 PM

Soka Performing Arts Center at Soka University of America

Eclectic Orange Series sponsored by Jelinek Family Trust

Part of California Festival: A Celebration of New Music

AMERICAN RAILROAD: SILKROAD ENSEMBLE

FEATURED ARTISTS: Rhiannon Giddens, Artistic Director, banjo, voice Shawn Conley, bass Pura Fé Crescioni, lap-steel guitar, voice Sandeep Das, tabla Haruka Fujii, percussion Yazhi Guo, suona, Chinese percussion Wu Man, pipa Karen Ouzounian, cello, voice Mazz Swift, violin, voice Niwel Tsumbu, guitar Francesco Turrisi, frame drums, accordion Kaoru Watanabe, Japanese flutes, percussion Michi Wiancko, violin, voice Full program order, composer’s notes, and musician bios: - https://www.silkroad.org/american-railroad “The American Railroad project has been years in the making, and the program we’ve created for our first tour is only the beginning.

In it, we shed light on those who have been erased or overlooked throughout American history and merge with it Silkroad’s unique ability to amplify voices from a multitude of backgrounds and cultures. The result is a tapestry of stories, traditions, and music that have shaped our multifaceted cultural identity, and that must be heard and recognized. I hope audiences in the D.C. area and across California will leave these performances with a clearer sense of where we come from, how we got here, what it cost us— and that we collectively reflect on where we’re headed.”

- Rhiannon Giddens

ABOUT THE PROGRAM As a social-impact organization and home to a Grammy Awardwinning musical ensemble, Silkroad works to inspire collaboration in innovative ways that add more equity and justice into the world through the power of the arts. Today, under the leadership of Artistic Director Rhiannon Giddens, Silkroad reaches new heights through a commitment to new music, a resparked mission towards cultural collaboration, and a reinvigorated focus to high-quality arts education that both reflects its mission and the times in which we live.

Silkroad’s newest initiative, American Railroad, illuminates the impact of African American, Chinese, Irish, and other immigrant communities on the creation of the U.S. Transcontinental Railroad and connecting railways in North America, and the impact of those railways upon communities displaced by them, including indigenous ones. Exploring the dissemination of cultures across the United States, the railroad was to North America what the Silk Road was to Asia, Africa, and Europe.

After the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, a trip from coast to coast that used to take months was shortened to just under a week, allowing for the transport of goods and ideas across the continent in ways previously inconceivable. Profitseeking corporations and the American government financed it, but the people who actually

built it and who were most affected by it are the focus of this program—Indigenous and African Americans as well Irish, Chinese, Japanese, and other immigrant laborers whose contributions have been largely erased from history. Silkroad’s American Railroad seeks to right these past wrongs by highlighting untold stories and amplifying unheard voices from these communities, painting a more accurate picture of the global diasporic origin of the American Empire.

Led by artistic director Rhiannon Giddens, this show will contextualize — or rather re-contextualize — the railroad through music. Chinese traditional music on the suona and pipa are contrasted with the fiddle and banjo of Black musical traditions, or their Indigenous and Celtic counterparts. These cultural intersections reveal a thread of commonality despite their varied origins, and remind us of the intricately rich American story.

The program includes three newly commissioned pieces by Cécile McLorin Salvant, Suzanne Kite, and Silkroad artist Wu Man, as well as re-envisioned arrangements by Giddens and fellow Silkroad artists Haruka Fujii, Mazz Swift, and Maeve Gilchrist.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM [cont.]

Giddens’s new arrangement, broken into vignettes interspersed throughout the program, is inspired by “Swannanoa Tunnel,” a work song from the African Americans forced to labor on the railroad in Giddens’s home state of North Carolina—a tune which has long been associated with bluegrass and folk artists, its origins forgotten.

Grammy Award-winning vocalist and composer Cécile McLorin Salvant’s work is inspired by stories shared with and collected

by Silkroad artists. Oglala Lakota artist, composer, and academic Suzanne Kite has created a graphic score using the Lakota written language based on dreams from members of the Silkroad Ensemble.

Silkroad artists Haruka Fujii and Maeve Gilchrist provide their own recontextualizations of railroad songs from immigrant communities. Fujii’s “Tamping Song” celebrates the Japanese immigrant contribution to the railroad, particularly after the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, while Gilchrist’s “Far Down Far” shines light on the tensions between Catholic and Protestant communities within Irish railroad workers. Both pieces were originally created for Silkroad’s recent Uplifted Voices—another program intended to germinate ideas for American Railroad—but have been re-orchestrated for the larger November tour.

ABOUT SILKROAD Yo-Yo Ma conceived Silkroad in 1998, recognizing the historical Silk Road as a model for radical cultural collaboration—for the exchange of ideas, tradition, and innovation across borders. In an innovative experiment, he brought together musicians from the lands of the Silk Road to co-create a musical language founded in difference, thus creating the foundation of Silkroad: both a touring ensemble comprised of world-class musicians from all over the globe and a social-impact organization working to make a positive impact across borders through the arts.

Today, under the leadership of Artistic Director Rhiannon Giddens, Silkroad leads social impact initiatives and educational programming alongside the creation of new music by the Grammy Award-winning Silkroad Ensemble. For more information, please visit Silkroad.org.

RHIANNON GIDDENS

Rhiannon Giddens has made a singular, iconic career out of stretching her brand of folk music, with its miles-deep historical roots and contemporary sensibilities, into just about every field imaginable. A two-time GRAMMY Award-winning singer and instrumentalist, MacArthur “Genius” grant recipient, Pulitzer Prize winner, and composer of opera, ballet, and film, Giddens has centered her work around the mission of lifting up people whose contributions to American musical history have previously been overlooked or erased, and

advocating for a more accurate understanding of the country’s musical origins through art.

As Pitchfork once said, “few artists are so fearless and so ravenous in their exploration”—a journey that has led to NPR naming her one of its 25 Most Influential Women Musicians of the 21st Century and to American Songwriter calling her “one of the most important musical minds currently walking the planet.”

Her third solo studio album, You’re the One, released August 18 on Nonesuch Records.

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SOKA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major, BWV 1046 BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major, BWV 1047 BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048 INTERMISSION BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major, BWV 1049 BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050 BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-flat major, BWV 1051 This concert is co-presented with the Philharmonic Society of Orange County

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ARTISTIC OPERATIONS Emily Persinko, Artistic Operations Manager Kathy Smith, Piano Technician

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE John W. Benecke, Development Sabra Bordas, Nominating and Governance Hung Fan, Laguna Beach Music Festival Douglas H. Smith, Member at Large Kathryn Wopschall, President, The Committees Sandi Wright-Cordes, Orange County Youth Symphony BOARD OF DIRECTORS Jim Brophy Gary Capata Jean Felder Margaret M. Gates Kari Kerr Barbara Roberts Steven M. Sorenson, MD PRESIDENT AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Tommy Phillips IN MEMORIAM Douglas T. Burch, Jr. Wesley Kruse LIFETIME BOARD MEMBER Jane Grier

DEVELOPMENT Mark Saville, Vice President of Development Halim Kim, Senior Director of Development Fatima Rizvi-Flores, Patron Stewardship Manager and Board Liaison Nicole Gonzales, Special Events Manager Paige Frank, Development Coordinator EDUCATION Katherine Yang, Vice President of Education and Community Engagement Courtney McKinnon, Manager of Volunteer and Education Services Jennifer Niedringhaus, Education and Engagement Operations Manager Chloe Hopper, Education Associate Penny Arroyo, Huntington Harbour Office Manager and Finance Coordinator FINANCE Roan Alombro, Vice President of Finance Fay Hu, Finance and HR Associate MARKETING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS Jean Hsu, COO / Vice President of Communications Daniel Acosta, Director of Marketing Marie Songco-Torres, Senior Marketing and PR Manager Adaora Onyebeke, Marketing and PR Associate PATRON SERVICES Jonathan Mariott, Director of Patron Services Angelica Nicolas, Marketing and Patron Services Manager Randy Polevoi, Musical Concierge ORANGE COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY AND STRING ENSEMBLE Johannes Müller Stosch, Music Director and OCYS Conductor Lucy Lu, OCYSE Conductor & OCYS Strings Coach Danielle Culhane, Operations and Personnel Manager