Mason Bates wrote his “Ode” specifically to be played as the opening work in concerts of Beethoven’s Ninth, and it’s a dazzling reimagination of the original work in a contemporary idiom. Fortunately for the enthusiastic audience at the Granada on this solstice-weekend Saturday, strong solutions to these obstacles were well in hand on every front. The Ninth presents significant challenges for everyone involved, from the musicians and conductor charged with playing it to the person creating the evening’s program, as it is hard to pair with other works given its unconventional length. This ambitious opening concert of the Music Academy of the West’s Festival Orchestra season featured the Santa Barbara Choral Society and four vocal soloists in order to fulfill the requirements of the finale to Ludwig Van Beethoven’s monumental Symphony No.
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