This
weekend the Quad City Symphony Orchestra is celebrating composers who
stood apart, in some way, from the conventions of their time.
Although the program does include Beethoven and Strauss, the emphasis
is on modern American composers, three of whom are living.
As
Music Director and Conductor Donald Schleicher explained, these are
(or were) composers "on the cutting edge" who "invented and
created and didn't just follow the patterns of their predecessors.
"So
often we play music by dead composers," Schleicher said. "Dead
composers were once living, so I think it's interesting to
investigate and perform music by living composers. Like an artist,
composers sometimes become more famous after they die."