https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=316936REDWOOD SYMPHONY BRINGS THE HEAT WITH “LA SALSA!” NOVEMBER 21
An exhilarating evening of Caribbean rhythms, musical mischief, four outrageous bassoons, and a spectacular celebration of the orchestra!
Program
Roberto Sierra - Sinfonía No. 3, “La Salsa” (Bay Area premiere)
Raymond Scott - Powerhouse
Michael Daugherty - Hell's Angels, featuring Infernal Fagotti Bassoon Quartet (Maria Yuin, Jordan Terry, Theo Clarke, Mia Stormer on contrabassoon)
Benjamin Britten - The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Musical Discovery
Sierra is one of today’s fastest-rising composers, thanks in large part to his hugely popular third sinfonia, heard here in its Bay Area debut. The concert will take a detour to Daugherty’s fever dream of crazed motorcyclists, personified by a quartet of bassoons (Italian: fagotti), but conclude triumphantly with Britten’s popular tour of the modern orchestra.
Anyone familiar with the old Warner Brothers cartoons (Bugs, Daffy, Porky, and the Roadrunner), or Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, will recognize Raymond Scott’s madcap jazz classic! This is contemporary music — from 1930’s jazz to present-day Latino-inspired tunes —that’s fun, irreverent, brilliant, and danceable—but please stay in your seat!
On our soloists, Infernal Fagotti:
Infernal Fagotti was founded in a practice room with no windows and one working light bulb, when four bassoonists discovered they could not be stopped, mostly because nobody could figure out how to ask them to leave. They ride four abreast, double-reeded and leather-cased, and they have been banned from at least three green rooms for “excessive low register.” Their colors are a patch showing a winged bocal crossed with a reed knife, earned only after a prospect survives a full season of contrabassoon cues and a road trip in a car with four instrument cases and no legroom. They have no headquarters, but they have been seen hanging around the reed-making table at 2 a.m., scraping cane in grim silence. Legend says they once outran a brass section to the post-concert buffet, though the brass section disputes this and the shrimp platter cannot be reached for comment. They live by a simple code: never rush, never apologize for the low B-flat, and never, ever let the oboes tune them. Local conductors know to clear the podium when they roll into town, because Infernal Fagotti do not follow the baton so much as escort it.
Tonight they ride again.
Cañada College Main Theater
Saturday, November 21, 2026, 7:30 pm
4200 Farm Hill Blvd,
Redwood City, CA 94061
DETAILS
Pre-concert talk 6:45 PM
Approximately 2 hours, including intermission.
Parking: Ample and free
TICKETS
• Adults - $35 in advance
• Seniors - $30 in advance
• Students - $15
• Children under 18 FREE with a paying adult or senior!
Event venue
4200 Farm Hill Blvd, Redwood City, CA 94061-1030, United States
Tickets
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