Santa Cruz Symphony: Ode to Joy

Beethoven's 9th Symphony, which includes the Choral 'Ode to Joy', contains no less than one of Mankind's supreme epiphanies of love and goodwill, yet it remains the journey towards this utopian summit that makes this Symphony arguably the greatest of all. Contemporary composer-conductor Esa-Peka Salonen's NYX spins an intoxicating web of associative colors and textures while describing a proto-god of Greek Mythology. Featuring vocal soloists from the Metropolitan Opera and the Cabrillo Symphonic Chorus.