Jaap van Zweden

To mark his return to the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden will conduct works by Mozart, Stravinsky and Betsy Jolas. With *The Rite of Spring* as the highlight, the concert spans music from more than two centuries.

This film speaks to the uniquely inherent traits that drummers and percussionists possess as natural explorers of music and sound, and how this particular story explores the challenge of translating foreign voices of percussive expression into the dialect of a Western classical orchestra setting. Five accomplished percussionists, Drum, and a rock star composer, Stewart Copeland, come together with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra to create a groundbreaking work.