On April 11-13, the Minnesota Orchestra presents the U.S. premiere of Rise Up, O Sun! by Jamaican composer Eleanor Alberga. Concertmaster Erin Keefe is soloist for the Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1, and Thomas Søndergård leads the Minnesota Chorale in Brahms’ Schicksalslied. https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/calendar/classical/sondergard-keefe-and-brahms/
Project 19 is an initiative launched by the New York Philharmonic in 2020 to commission works by female composers. The latest creation in that series is Olga Neuwirth’s Keyframes for a Hippogriff — Musical Calligrams, which will receive its U.S. premiere on April 18-20. Neuwirth’s work uses texts by Ariosto, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Friedrich […]
At age 91, Sofia Gubaidulina is still an active composer. The Boston Symphony Orchestra will present the American premiere of her Prologue for Orchestra on April 25-27, 2024. With Andris Nelsons conducting, the program also features Thomas Rolfs as soloist in the Trumpet Concerto of another living composer, Detlev Glanert. Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 4 completes […]
