Wild Up: The Odes

GRAMMY-nominated orchestral collective Wild Up presents The Odes, an evening that traces a living lineage of experimentation—from the Baroque’s theatrical excess to modernist innovation and contemporary music’s daring invention. The program unfolds as a conversation across centuries, where the oldest music feels the most new, and the newest pieces make tradition strange again. The Odes features works by French Baroque visionary Jean-Féry Rebel, English dramatist Henry Purcell, and Soviet modern polystylist Alfred Schnittke, heard alongside living composers. Accompanied by students from The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts and special guests, these works reveal how revolution, crisis, grief, and ecstasy recur as enduring forces across time—each articulated through music that carries the friction and urgency of its era. Crafted as an homage to music itself, Wild Up’s evening contextualizes sound as a continuum, drawing new attention to how each composition both redefines what came before and creates space for what comes next.