Anthony DiLorenzo: Tectonal (ROCO, with animation by Cynthia Lee Wong)

ROCO's 19th season Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundation Series kicked off with SEISMIC, an opening concert of epic proportions, featuring the full 40-piece chamber orchestra led by Artistic Partner Mei-Ann Chen in two ROCO-commissioned world premieres and an exhilarating tale of love, intrigue, and adventure, presented at Miller Outdoor Theatre on September 29th, and at The Church of St. John the Divine on September 30th.
Anthony DiLorenzo’s ROCO commission Tectonal, featuring AI text-informed animation by composer and artist Cynthia Lee Wong and based on the acclaimed book The Telling Image by renowned documentary filmmaker Lois Stark, compels the audience to rethink, re-hear and re-visualize how they view the world. ROCO’s commission The Nightingale by Kevin Lau-recently released as our first-ever children’s book, premiered in a new scoring for full chamber orchestra-then the evening closed with a journey to the exotic lands of The Arabian Nights in Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov‘s ravishing symphonic suite Scheherazade.
Animation and video created by Cynthia Lee Wong
Recorded live at The Church of St. John the Divine, Houston, TX, Sept. 30, 2023
Audio engineering by Andrew Bradley