Canterbury: Marin Alsop conducts Scheherazade

Marin Alsop returns to Canterbury to conduct ‘Mexico’s second national anthem’ and an exciting new cello concerto by the Philharmonia’s Featured Composer Gabriela Ortiz. Gabriela Ortiz’s concerto, written for tonight’s soloist Alisa Weilerstein, is inspired by the caves and underground rivers of the Yucatán peninsula (Dzonot in Mayan, and Cenotes in Spanish). Its four movements, Vertical Light, Eye of the Jaguar, Jade, and The Toh Bird, pay h...