School of Music Students Collaborate with Bernstein Protégé and Pacific Symphony Conductor Carl St.Clair
In September, Cal State Fullerton’s University Symphonic Winds welcomed Pacific Symphony Artistic Director and Conductor Carl St.Clair for a two-hour collaboration centered around Leonard Bernstein’s jazz-infused composition, “SLAVA! A Political Overture.” (Slava translates to “glory” in Russian.) The piece celebrates Bernstein’s musical colleague, cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, who is often credited with changing the history of […]