Festival Orchestra: East and West 2013

Wednesday July 24, 8:00 PM
Tent Concert Hall

Shin-Ichi Fukuda, guitar

Sheng: Fanfare from China Dreams
Takemitsu: To the Edge of Dream
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez
Debussy: La Mer

Japanese guitar virtuoso Shin-Ichi Fukuda learned the concerto To the Edge of Dream directly from the composer. He will perform this and Rodrigo’s rhythmic and spirited concerto inspired by the famed Gardens of Aranjuez in a program that opens with Sheng’s spell-binding Fanfare from China Dreams and concludes with Debussy’s beloved La Mer.