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 […]
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Festivals
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 […]
Aucoin Conducts ‘Figaro’ at Aspen
The Aspen Opera Theatre and VocalARTS program presents a fully-staged performance of Mozart’s comic masterpiece Le nozze di Figaro, directed by Sara Erde and conducted by Matthew Aucoin, an award-winning […]
Audiences Invited to Watch Opera Creation
To inaugurate the Project Pipeline initiative at Glimmerglass, the opera-in-progress The House on Mango Street will have its first public performance on Aug. 12. The Pipeline’s purpose is to help […]
Kalmar Bids Grant Park Adieu with Mahler
Talk about going out with a bang! The Grant Park Music Festival closes its 2024 season with Mahler’s mighty Symphony No. 8, Symphony of a Thousand, so named because of […]
Minneapolis Awash in Nordic Sounds
As part of its Nordic Soundscapes Festival, the Minnesota Orchestra will play works by Iceland’s Daníel Bjarnason and Denmark’s Bent Sørensen, alongside an overture from the last century by Sweden’s […]
‘Color Purple’ Composer Gives Premiere in D.C.
Notes & Frames: A Film and Music Festival is a three-week initiative by the National Symphony. On June 20-21, the festival culminates in a world premiere by Academy Award®–winning director, composer, […]
