Recently named the next music director of Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw Orchestra, Klaus Mäkelä is making his Carnegie Hall debut on March 16, conducting an all-Stravinsky program with the Orchestre de Paris. On the docket are two complete ballets: The Firebird and The Rite of Spring. https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2024/03/16/orchestre-de-paris-0800pm
Music director Stéphane Denève leads the St. Louis Symphony on March 16-17 in an evening of dance music, some of which will, in fact, be danced to. With Copland’s Appalachian Spring Suite and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet Suite as familiar bookends, the program’s focus is a new work by Adam Schoenberg, which will feature movement […]
Indianapolis Opera blends jazz into the genre with Charlie Parker’s Yardbird on March 16. Telling a dramatic New York scene from the life story one of the greatest saxophone players of all time, Daniel Schnyder and Bridgette A. Wimberly’s work will feature Martin Bakari as “Bird” and Angela Brown as his mother. https://www.indyopera.org/yardbird.html
In a special program called The Wonders We Carry Inside, Iranian-American composer Gity Razaz will curate a collection of music for the spring equinox, honoring the mystical beauty of Persian culture and the power of women to shape history both past and present. Razaz will be joined by members of the San Diego Symphony for […]
The 2023-24 season marks the inaugural year of Jonathon Heyward as music director of the Baltimore Symphony. One of the promising highlights of his debut season is the programming of Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 on March 21-24. There are few works that so thoroughly test what a conductor is made of. https://my.bsomusic.org/overview/18298
The New York Philharmonic has commissioned a new work by Atlanta-based composer Joel Thompson. The world premiere, conducted by music director Jaap van Zweden, will take place March 21-24. Tan Dun’s Trombone Concerto, subtitled Three Muses in Video Game and inspired by three ancient Chinese instruments, will receive its New York premiere with soloist Joseph […]
French composer Guillaum Connesson has named his new organ concerto Concerto da Requiem, and it will receive its American premiere on March 21-23. Organist Christian Schmitt will present the work with the Philadelphia Orchestra under the baton on Paavo Järvi. The program opens with Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and concludes with […]
Quatuor Van Kuijk, from France, makes their Carnegie Hall debut on March 21 with the U.S. premiere of the jazz-inspired Ces messieurs by fellow Frenchman Baptiste Trotignon. The concert opens intensely, with Beethoven’s late quartet, Op. 131 in C-sharp minor. Several works by Fauré and Satie are also on the program. https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2024/03/21/quatuor-van-kuijk-0730pm
On March 22, Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the world premiere of Arnold Schoenberg’s Gurre-Lieder by performing the cantata at Carnegie Hall. The ASO has a special connection to this work because its founder, Leopold Stokowski, conducted the American premiere with the Philadelphia Orchestra. https://americansymphony.org/concerts/schoenberg-gurre-lieder/
When Federico García Lorca wrote the play Don Perlimplín's Love for Belisa in His Garden, he composed the incidental music for the 1933 premiere himself. Many composers since then have attempted to turn the play into an opera; Oper Frankfurt is presenting Wolfgang Fortner’s version from 1962. The new production—the first time the work has […]
The St. Louis Symphony co-commissioned Julia Wolfe’s Pretty, a work that has been described as “raucous and raw,” making the listener consider what the word “pretty” really means. On March 22-23, SLSO will have its chance to play the piece under music director Stéphane Denève. The program opens with Berlioz’s Overture to Beatrice and Benedict. […]
As part of its Bach Fest, the Milwaukee Symphony welcomes two renowned Baroque artists: Mahan Esfahani will play the Harpsichord Concerto in A major, and Rachell Ellen Wong will play the Violin Concerto in A minor. Ken-David Masur conducts this March 23-24 program that also includes the Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 and the Magnificat, featuring […]
In an unusual collaboration of live music and visual art on March 24, musicians of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal will premiere a new instrumentation of Holst’s The Planets for organ, brass, and percussion under the baton of Thomas Le Duc-Moreau. Taking inspiration from the music being played, five cartoonists will draw extemporaneously, marking the […]
Anna Clyne’s new Piano Concerto will receive its world premiere with the Dallas Symphony and soloist Jeremy Denk on March 28-30. The concert, conducted by music director Fabio Luisi, offers a powerful pairing for the Clyne: Mahler’s Symphony No. 5. https://www.dallassymphony.org/productions/mahler-symphony-no-5/
On March 28-30, 2024, Domingo Hindoyan conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a BSO co-commission, the American premiere of Symphony No. 6 by Grammy-winning composer Roberto Sierra. Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto is also scheduled, with Pablo Ferrández as soloist. The program is rounded out with Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7. https://www.bso.org/events/sierra-elgar-dvorak
Pianist Yuja Wang debuts with the Minnesota Orchestra on March 29-30, playing Bartók’s Second Piano Concerto. The program, conducted by Hannu Lintu opens with Saariaho’s Ciel d’hiver and closes with Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/calendar/classical/yuja-wang-plays-bartok/
