Ravinia Marks Fauré Centenary
2024 is the 100th anniversary of Gabriel Fauré’s death, and the Ravinia Festival will mark the occasion with a chamber-music tribute on July 13. This program matches Fauré’s timelessly serene […]
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Beethoven Between Two Americans at Tanglewood
Carlos Simon’s Warmth from Other Sons and two works by Duke Ellington will book-end Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 at Tanglewood on July 13. Yuja Wang is the piano soloist, […]
McDermott and Friends Focus on Schubert’s Last Year
As part of the Immersive Experience series at Bravo! Vail, pianist Anne-Marie McDermott and the Dalí Quartet are joined by soprano Susanna Phillips and others to celebrate compositions from the […]
Connolly Sings Wallen Premiere in Toronto
Mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly and pianist Joseph Middleton will give the Canadian premiere of Night Thoughts by Errolyn Wallen on July 16 at Toronto Summer Music. The recital also includes songs […]
A New Take on Purcell’s ‘Fairy Queen’
Renowned for his fusion of classical influence and contemporary innovation, French-Algerian director and choreographer Mourad Merzouki has staged a new production of Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, with William Christie’s Les […]
From Buxtehude to Bach: Music@Menlo
The 2024 season opener on July 20 at Music@Menlo is titled Baroque Tableau. Festival chamber players will perform music of the late Baroque, from Buxtehude and F. Couperin to Rameau […]
A Breath of Music from Around the Globe
Constantinople, an ensemble whose slogan is “Itinerant music, myriad encounters,” will perform on July 22 at Toronto Summer Music. The program is entitled Breathings, and it’s described as a concert […]
Rouvali Leads Prokovief in Vail Debut
Finnish guest conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali makes his Bravo! Vail debut, leading the Philharmonic in Rossini’s Semiramide Overture, Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5, and Shostakovich’s virtuosic Violin Concerto No. 1, performed by Augustin Hadelich. […]
Coleman and León Headline Contemporary Music Festival
July 25 is opening night of Tanglewood’s Festival of Contemporary Music. The program includes Leila Adu-Gilmore’s United Underdog, Valerie Coleman’s Portraits of Josephine, and Tania León’s Indigena, along with works […]
Ottawa: (String) Quartet of New Commissions
The July 26 program at Ottawa ChamberFest will feature four new commissions written for avant-garde string quartet Brooklyn Rider and soprano Ariadne Greif. Those five musicians will perform those new […]
NASA Lands at Ravinia
A space-themed concert complete with visuals and interviews with NASA specialists and world-leading experts continues the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's 2024 season at Ravinia. On July 26, chief conductor Marin Alsop […]
40th Season for Idaho Festival
To open the 40th season of Sun Valley Music Festival, Timothy Higgins has composed Fanfare, which will receive its world premiere on July 29. Then soprano Meechot Marrero returns to […]
Adès Schubert Tribute in Ottawa
The Danish String Quartet returns to Ottawa ChamberFest Aug. 2 for the fourth and final installment of their innovative Doppelgänger project, in which they pair one of Schubert’s string compositions with a newly […]
Cello Concerto to Premiere at Sun Valley
The Sun Valley Music Festival commissioned a new cello concerto from Andy Akiho, which will be given its world premiere on Aug. 2. The soloist will be Jeffrey Zeigler, the […]
Pondering War via Chamber Music
Two 20th-century anti-war works anchor the Aug. 8-10 program at Music@Menlo: George Crumb’s Black Angels and Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time. The chamber concert opens with two […]
Dance and Music Tell Matthew Sheppard’s Tragic Story
Premiered in 2020, Echo Chamber Ensemble’s A World Transformed tells the story of Matthew Sheppard, a young gay university student who was beaten, tortured, and left to die in 1998, […]
Conlon and Chicago Symphony Offer ‘Idomeneo’
Mozart’s thrilling Idomeneo will get a lavish concert treatment on Aug. 9 at Ravinia as the Chicago Symphony joins forces with conductor James Conlon. Matthew Polenzani takes the title role, […]
Neale Conducts ‘Tragic’ Symphony
The Sun Valley Festival Orchestra will take on Mahler’s Symphony No. 6, which the composer himself nicknamed Tragic, saying it contained passages of “shadowy memories.” Music director Alasdair Neale conducts […]
New Song Cycle Uses Margaret Atwood Poems
Stratford Summer Music 2024 comes to an exciting conclusion on Aug. 11 when soprano Measha Brueggergosman-Lee performs Zombie Blizzard. In this new song cycle, poems by Margaret Atwood have been set […]
Denk Presents Work by ‘Blind Tom’ Wiggins
Jeremy Denk, in an Aug. 11 solo piano recital at Tanglewood, will perform The Battle of Manassas by Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins (1849-1908), a pianist and composer born into slavery […]
