‘red States, Blue States’ To Open Oakland Symphony Season

By Jesse Hamlin, San Francisco Chronicle: Entertainment
Tue, 09/27/2016 - 4:28pm

Clark Suprynowicz wasn’t thinking about “the candidates du jour” or the politics of 2008 when he composed “Red States, Blue States,” a seven-minute orchestral piece that deals with binary systems and American democracy. [...] that pulsing and romantic piece was written for the Berkeley Symphony’s Under Construction series during a presidential election that seems uncommonly civil and rational in light of the spectacle now unfolding. “I wonder what the players in the orchestra might bring to it now, what they may not have brought to it then,” says Suprynowicz, who will be at the Paramount Theatre on Oct.

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