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Rancho Cordova Podcast - Carlos Fuentes, Pianist/Composer, Symphony d'Oro, Guest Host Cheryl Gleason
I was so fortunate to sit down with my good friend Cheryl Gleason for an engaging conversation about my recent orchestral suite City Portraits, commissioned to celebrate Rancho Cordova’s 20th anniversary. Inspired by local stories and landmarks, City Portraits features movements like "The Woman at Mills Station," "Pioneers of Sky and Space," inspired by the pioneers in the aerospace industry and the military members who have contributed so much to our country and the community of Rancho Cordova, and "Toccata Koreana," inspired by the people who visit the commercial innovation that is Koreana Plaza.
Carlos McMillan Fuentes on “Rob at Home” - Region Rising: The Power of Music
Monday, February 19, 2024 at 7:30pm
Airing on PBS KVIE, on the PBS app, & online at www.RobOnTheRoad.org
Upcoming events
The Stellis Trio at the MACC
58th National Mother Lode Exhibit Opening Gala
Friday, November 8, 2024 at 5pm
Lorraine Crozier, violin - Chris Allen, cello - Carlos McMillan Fuentes, piano
10191 Mills Stations Road
Admission: TBD
Symphony d’Oro Season Opening Concerts
with Symphony d’Oro Rancho Cordova (Pete Nowlen, Conductor)
Saturday, November 2, 2024 at 4pm
Cordova High Performing Arts Theatre - 2239 Chase Dr, Rancho Cordova, CA 95670
Sunday, November 3, 2024 at 4pm
Koreana Plaza - 10971 Olson Dr, Rancho Cordova, CA 95670
Admission is FREE
After over twenty years of work, my composition Concerto da Requiem received its first performance by Camerata California Chamber Choir & Orchestra on November 12, 2023. It is a cross between a piano concerto (piano & orchestra) and a Requiem mass (choir, vocal soloists, and orchestra).
The Soloists
Recorded November 12, 2023 at 3pm at First United Methodist Church, Sacramento CA
Video by Cambridge Sound, Marc & Ed Cambridge. https://cambridge-sound.com/
Audio by John Bologni, Recording and Mixing Engineer. https://www.johnbologni.com/
Thanks to the Rucker Family Foundation, the Living Heritage Foundation, VITA Academy, and Mary Wesley for sponsoring this concert.
A simultaneous translation is available in YouTube captions
View the printed program. http://tinyurl.com/yzwsn377
View a full text and translation. http://tinyurl.com/3kjkzu7m
photo by McJefferson Agloro
Lesotho Variations (Daniel Carr), performed by Carlos McMillan Fuentes (begins at 29:04)
A Winter Rhapsody (Carlos McMillan Fuentes), performed by Carlos McMillan Fuentes & Symphony d’Oro Rancho Cordova
Piano Concerto no. 23, mvmts. 2 & 3, K. 488 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart), performed by Carlos McMillan Fuentes & Symphony d’Oro Rancho Cordova.
Community Theatre of Greensboro (North Carolina) presents pianist, composer, and singer-songwriter Carlos McMillan Fuentes performing a selection of musical theatre numbers live from his home in quarantine, 2020.
Precious Lord, Take My Hand (Thomas A. Dorsey, 1932) and Lift Every Voice And Sing (James Weldon Johnson and John Rosamond Johnson, 1900). Arranged and performed by Carlos McMillan Fuentes. Performance at the annual "Celebration of Heritage" founded by Archalene Martin in honor of Black History Month at St. Andrews AME Church in Sacramento, CA on Sunday, February 28, 2016.
Fantasie in D-flat major, op. 9 (Carlos McMillan Fuentes). Recorded at BCB Recording Studio in Greensboro, North Carolina. The score in the video is the handwritten original manuscript, from when I used to create all of my scores by hand. Nowadays I exclusively use Finale for everything but the roughest of drafts.
Carlos & Brennen
Coty (Quincy Hilliard), performed by Brennen Milton, clarinetist & Carlos McMillan Fuentes, pianist
Quatuor pour la fin du temps/Quartet for the End of Time (Olivier Messiaen), performed by Reylynn Imai, violinist, Brennen Milton, clarinetist, Jiamo Chen, cellist, & Carlos McMillan Fuentes, pianist. From A Celebration of the Human Spirit on October 20, 2018
Duo Concertante Op 48 III: Rondo (Carl Maria von Weber) & Victorian Kitchen Garden Suite I: Prelude (Paul Reade), performed by Brennen Milton, clarinetist & Carlos McMillan Fuentes, pianist
News
Friday, June 30, 2023 at 7pm: World Premiere of “The Woman at Mills Station” at the 20th Anniversary Celebration of the City of Rancho Cordova, CA - with Symphony d’Oro, Rancho Cordova (Pete Nowlen, conductor)
Sunday, November 12, 2023 at 3pm: World Premiere of “Concerto da Requiem” with Camerata California - Carlos M. Fuentes, piano soloist (Pete Nowlen, conductor)
Saturday, November 18, 2023 at 4pm & Sunday, November 19, 2023 at 4pm: World Premiere of “City Portraits” for orchestra - with Symphony d’Oro, Rancho Cordova (Pete Nowlen, conductor) - Cordova High Performing Arts Theatre, Rancho Cordova - Koreana Plaza, Rancho Cordova