Peter Boyer’s Silver Fanfare opened the Hollywood Bowl’s 2017 season, for the third year in a row, as the piece chosen to begin Opening Night at the Bowl with The Moody Blues on June 17. The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, conducted by Thomas Wilkins, performed Boyer’s work while a video montage from past Bowl Opening Nights was projected. Silver Fanfare also opened the 2015 and 2016 Bowl seasons in the same fashion, at a sold-out gala concerts headlined by iconic rock bands Journey and Steely Dan.
Commissioned and premiered by the Pacific Symphony to celebrate its 25th anniversary season, Silver Fanfare has been performed by orchestras including the Cleveland Orchestra, Boston Pops, Cincinnati Pops, and Nashville Symphony; and Boyer’s recording with the London Philharmonic Orchestra on Naxos has been broadcast extensively on American classical radio stations.
Coverage of the event in the Los Angeles Times can be found here.
The press release about the concert from the LA Philharmonic/Hollywood Bowl can be found here.
