Abstract
The final Esa-Pekka Salonen concerts begin with a Green Umbrella series performance on Tuesday, April 7, at 8 p.m. In an appropriate lead-in to close his tenure, the champion of new music conducts a program of four Philharmonic-commissioned new works from some of today’s most innovative young composers – Enrico Chapela’s Li Po, Anna Clyne’s Within Her Arms, Erin Gee’s Mouthpiece XI, and Fang Man’s Deluge. The program concludes with Salonen’s rhythmic and energetic 1982 score, Floof, featuring Grammy-winning soprano Hila Plitmann.