Concert II: Hymn for Everyone | Wenatchee Valley Symphony Orchestra

Hymn for Everyone

November 7, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Prelude 6:00 PM*
Numerica Performing Arts Center

Hymn for Everyone is a modern twist on music from the past with contemporary creations inspired by Guillaume de Machaut, Hildegard von Bingen, and François Couperin.

Journey across centuries and continents in a single evening. Experience Osvaldo Golijov’s luminous cello concerto Azul, alongside Christopher Theofanidis’s shimmering Rainbow Body, woven from a chant by the medieval mystic Hildegard von Bingen. With Kevin Puts’s Virelai and Daniel Henley, the Young Musician Competition winner, on marimba, this program offers a rare blend of ancient inspiration, global rhythms, and contemporary orchestral color that feels both timeless and brand new.

*Join us for a “Prelude!”, a pre-concert talk and Q&A with WVSO Music Director Nikolas Caoile at the Numerica PAC concert hall. Get ready for the show and dive into insights about our concert program.

Enjoy a pop-up art exhibition by the selected artists of NCW Arts Alliance before the show and during the concert intermission.

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Nik’s Notes

I discovered Osvaldo Golijov’s music back in 2008 with his piece for string orchestra called Last Round. This piece is a tribute to his Argentinian predecessor, Astor Piazzola, known for his seductive tangos. It features to quartets opposing each other like fighters (Piazzola know for getting into fistfights throughout this life). This concerto grosso approach with a programmatic twist is one of Golijov’s modus operandi.

Similarly, in Azul, Golijov creates a small group of solo instruments (cello, accordion, two world percussionists) set against an orchestra arranged in quadrants. The result is a cosmos of old and new, multi-regional, multi-genre approach of which Golijov told me over the phone, “this is like Louis Armstrong in outer space.”