The Odes
Wild Up
- Price
- $25*
- Genre
- Music
- Season
- Winter/Spring 2026
- DATE
- MAR 7
- TIME
- SAT, 8 PM
- RUNTIME
- Approx. 90 minutes, with intermission
- COUNTRY
- USA
- PROGRAM
- Not yet available
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About
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.
Wild Up at REDCAT is supported in part by the Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, The Amphion Foundation, Inc., New Music USA’s Organization Fund in 2025-26, the Performance Program of The Aaron Copland Fund, and the Alice M. Ditson Fund at Columbia University.
about the artists
Wild Up is an LA-based orchestra collective that uplifts people and projects leading the way for music-making today. Called “a raucous, grungy, irresistibly exuberant … fun-loving, exceptionally virtuosic family” (The New York Times), Wild Up has been lauded as one of music’s most exciting groups by virtually every significant institution and critic within earshot. Artistic Director Christopher Rountree started the group in 2010 to eschew outdated ensemble and concert traditions by experimenting with different methodologies, approaches, and contexts. After a decade and a half of rampant creativity and curiosity, Wild Up is the ambassador of West Coast music. The group has collaborated with a wide range of composers, performers, and cultural institutions, premiering and creating hundreds of new works. They partnered with the LA Phil and REDCAT to present a two-month-long festival and gallery exhibition To The Fullest: The Music of Arthur Russell and Julius Eastman, accompanied Björk at Goldenvoice’s FYF Fest, sung into a Picasso with Pamela Z at LACMA, and created Democracy Sessions—playing against growing autocracy with Raven Chacon, Ted Hearne, Chana Porter, Ursula K. LeGuin, Harmony Holiday, Saul Williams, and Karlheinz Stockhausen at MOCA. They premiered David Lang and Mark Dion’s Anatomy Theater at LA Opera, often collaborated with the Martha Graham Dance Company, and performed scores for Under the Skin by Mica Levi and Punch-Drunk Love by Jon Brion at the Regent Theater and Ace Hotel. The group has been lavished with praise by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, NPR, Pitchfork, and many more publications and critics.
