Guest conductor Marek Janowski will help the Cincinnati Symphony bid Anton Bruckner a happy 200th birthday when he leads the orchestra in Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony. The Nov. 8-9 program also features Mozart’s Symphony No. 39 in E flat. https://www.cincinnatisymphony.org/tickets-and-events/buy-tickets/cso/2425-cso-season/mozart--bruckner/
On Nov. 10, JACK Quartet celebrates its 20th anniversary with a program at the 92nd St. Y with the world premiere of a new work by Anthony Cheung. The bill includes works by Eduardo Aguilar, Seare Farhat, and Juri Seo. This concert will also be livestreamed. https://www.92ny.org/event/jack-quartet
To mark its 50th anniversary season, Indianapolis Opera will present The Barber of Seville Nov. 15-17. Jessica Burton directs this production, which will be conducted by Casey Robards, an IO Young Artists mentee. https://www.indyopera.org/barberofseville.html
For the first time in its history, the Alabama Symphony will play Bartók’s seminal Concerto for Orchestra on Nov. 22-23 under music director Carlos Izcaray. The first half of the program will be Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8. https://alabamasymphony.org/events/beethoven-bartok/
The Phoenix Symphony will celebrate with 100th anniversary of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue on Nov. 22-24. Pianist Conor Hanick is the soloist, and Christian Reif will conduct. Also on the program are Honegger’s Pacific 231, Sibelius’ Symphony No. 7, and Respighi’s Pines of Rome. There will also be a “Mystery Piece,” something that Phoenix offers […]
On its North American tour, the Berlin Philharmonic will stop at Chicago’s Symphony Center on Nov. 26 to mark the 200th anniversary of Anton Bruckner’s birth. Kirill Petrenko will conduct one of the composer’s grandest works, his Fifth Symphony. https://cso.org/performances/24-25/scp-featured-concerts/berliner-philharmoniker/
