The Odes
About
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.
About Endless Season
Art in LA has long been about freedom and a rich rejection of history. With intersecting methods and intentions, it is humble yet aspirational, creating a city that appeals to the aesthete and mystic in all its citizens. Here, famous artists also double as street-side sign painters, our finest restaurants are located in strip malls, and our landmarks are more geographical than architectural or fleetingly experiential rather than permanent monuments to their lineages. Here, our religious and secular musics sound the same.
Endless Season revolves around these distinct West Coast traits. These programs mark a new chapter, focusing on sustainability and place, and investing in the artists and audiences who make our city vibrant. Together, we encourage, question, reinterpret, and challenge the past, modality, and genre. We hold a space for intersectionality and dialogue surrounding every aspect of our work.
About Wild Up at REDCAT
At REDCAT, Wild Up creates a dialogue between past and present with music that transforms tradition and makes the radical timeless. Join LA’s multi-Grammy-nominated orchestral collective for two boundary-pushing concerts that highlight the vitality of the baroque spirit alongside new ideas for the future of music.
Endless Season 2025 - 2026
This season, our programming spans centuries and scenes, bridging devotional traditions with avant-garde experimentation, ancient mysticism with radical contemporary thought. We gather music from the margins, from outsiders, visionaries, and mystics to imagine new futures. Alongside these histories, we celebrate today’s artists who are building something shared, creating music that reckons with the past and fosters new forms of presence and connection.
Our work includes a new concert series at The Nimoy exploring the textures of ecstatic freedom, from improvisation to minimalism and beyond. We return to Sierra Madre Playhouse for our LA Composer series, and REDCAT for baroque new music and a concert of spiritual activism centering the work of Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou with a new commission by M.A. Tiesinga. This year, we launch a new endeavor, The Collective Orchestra, with participatory and unexpected projects that transform the concept of orchestra into a communal social space of learning. This Spring marks our first-ever appearance at the legendary Big Ears Festival.
Join us for a year of exploring music as a spiritual inquiry and a burgeoning of collective imagination, shaping new rituals and ways of gathering together.