Dreamers

https://calperformances.org/performances/2018-19/chamber-orchestra/esa-pekka-salonen-and-the-philharmonia-orchestra-london.php

https://calperformances.org/performances/2018-19/chamber-orchestra/esa-pekka-salonen-and-the-philharmonia-orchestra-london.php

Engaging with an issue that speaks uniquely to our times, acclaimed Peruvian composer Jimmy López, who earned his doctorate at UC Berkeley, has composed Dreamers, a new oratorio informed by interactions with Bay Area and campus immigrant communities, telling deeply personal stories through music and opening his creative process to audiences through a series of public programs. A rising star on the international scene, López has been called "one of the most interesting young composers anywhere today" (Chicago Sun Times). For Dreamers, he teams up with a favorite collaborator as librettist—the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Cuban–American playwright Nilo Cruz.