SoNA Imagine Big 2022-23 Program Notes

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SoNA

Symphony of Northwest Arkansas

Imagine Big October 29, 2022 Walton Arts Center Paul Haas, conductor

“Connecting Go BIG or Go HOME, the Shostakovich Concerto No. 1, and Pictures at an Exhibition is a spirit of ambition, imagination, and contagious energy that speaks to SoNA’s biggest season yet and our vibrant future.” – Paul Haas

Go BIG or Go HOME (2019)

Jessica Meyer has been making waves. A

Jessica Meyer

violist, a teacher, and a composer, she brings

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a sheaf of sensibilities to her wide-ranging and always fresh compositions. Electronics. Period instruments. Latin. Hip-Hop. Bluegrass. Funk. And, yes, Brahms.

They’re not musical directives you would encounter in the score of a Brahms

Go BIG or Go HOME dates from early 2019.

symphony. But there they are in the score

Meyer tells us that it began as the last

to Go BIG or Go HOME: Swervy Heavy Funk,

movement of a string quartet that she had

Slammin’, like a Burlesque solo, think Miami

written for Miami’s Nu Deco Ensemble.

Afro-Cuban... ALWAYS FUN!

“When the opportunity came up for me


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