The world premiere of Eat the Document, by John Glover and Kelley Rourke, will be performed at New York’s Prototype Festival on Jan. 9-12. The plot, based on Dana Spiotta’s novel, explores the connection between the Vietnam era and the 1990s—in language, technology, music, and activism. Kristin Marting directs. https://prototypefestival.org/shows/eat-the-document/
The world premiere Eat the Document, by John Glover and Kelley Rourke, will be performed at New York’s Prototype Festival on Jan. 9-12. The plot, based on Dana Spiotta’s novel, explores the connection between the Vietnam era and the 1990s—in language, technology, music, and activism. Kristin Marting directs. https://prototypefestival.org/shows/eat-the-document/
The New Jersey Symphony will perform the imaginative chamber work Of Rats and Men by Korean composer Donghoon Shin. This Jan. 9-12 program continues with Jean-Yves Thibaudet playing Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G and Kevin John Edusei conducting Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2. https://www.njsymphony.org/events/detail/jean-yves-thibaudet-plays-ravel
Hanzhi Wang will be the soloist for the world premiere of Nina Shekhar’s Accordion Concerto with the St. Louis Symphony Jan. 10. Daniela Candillari conducts this program, which opens with the overture to Samuel Barber’s The School for Scandal and closes with Dvořák’s New World Symphony No. 9. https://shop.slso.org/8092
A new work by Marina López, commissioned by the League of American Orchestras, will receive its world premiere on Jan. 10-11 with the Grand Rapids Symphony under the direction of Lidiya Yankovskaya. Saxophonist Timothy McAllister will play Corigliano’s Triathlon, a work he originally premiered. Also on this all-American program are Copland’s Quiet City and Bernstein’s […]
With music by Christopher Cerrone and libretto by Stephanie Fleischmann, In a Grove is a haunting meditation on the impossibility of truth and the subjectivity of memory and perception. It is based on Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s classic story. The Prototype Festival will present the New York premiere of this chamber opera Jan. 16-19. https://prototypefestival.org/shows/in-a-grove/
John Adams’ new piano concerto, After the Fall, receives its world premiere by pianist Víkingur Ólafsson with conductor David Robertson and the San Francisco Symphony on Jan. 16-19. The program will also include Orff’s Carmina burana. https://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2024-25/carmina-burana
With music by Christopher Cerrone and libretto by Stephanie Fleischmann, In a Grove is a haunting meditation on the impossibility of truth and the subjectivity of memory and perception. It is based on Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s classic story. The Prototype Festival will present the New York premiere of this chamber opera Jan. 16-19. https://prototypefestival.org/shows/in-a-grove/
William Grant Still wrote his Symphony No. 2, Song of a New Race, for the Philadelphia Orchestra to premiere in 1937, conducted by Leopold Stokowski. On Jan. 16-18, that same orchestra will play it again, this time under the direction of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who will also conduct Margaret Bonds’ The Montgomery Variations and Tchaikovsky’s Piano […]
Vanessa Benelli Mosell, conductor and pianist, makes her Vancouver Symphony debut on Jan. 17. The program includes the North American premiere of Philppe Schoeller’s Sereno Sola for Piano and Strings, as well as Bartók’s playful Divertimento for Strings and Schubert’s exuberant Third Symphony. https://www.vancouversymphony.ca/event/ca-schuberts-third-symphony/
Washington National Opera will present its American Opera Initiative showcase on Jan. 18, featuring the world premiere of three one-act operas. This year’s creative artists include librettist Clare Fuyuko Bierman, composer Kyle Brenn, librettist Lex Brown, composer JL Marlor, librettist Christine Evans, and composer Omar Najmi. https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2024-2025/american-oera-initiative/
To celebrate the Lunar New Year—the Year of the Snake, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will play the world premiere of a new work by Vietnamese-American composer Viet Cuong. Music director Jonathon Heyward conducts this Jan. 22 program, the third such Lunar New Year program given by the orchestra, making it an anticipated annual tradition. https://my.bsomusic.org/19151/19157
At this season’s second Sonic Spectrum concert by Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, two works will be given their New York premieres: a new work for mezzo-soprano (Jamie Barton), viola, and piano by Joel Thompson and Perry Boldstein’s Birding by Ear, featuring baritone Roandall Scarlata. Also on the Jan. 23 program are two pieces […]
On Jan. 24-25 the Cincinnati Symphony will play a new CSO commission by Jimmy López Bellido. The work was inspired by guest conductor Christian Reif’s boundless love for his son Lukas and deep affection for Michael Ende’s beloved novel The Neverending Story. CSO principal cello Ilya Finkelshteyn will take the solo in Camille Saint-Saëns’ Cello Concerto No. 1 […]
The Kansas City Symphony presents the world premiere of a new work by (and featuring) pianist Conrad Tao, who will also play Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto. The Jan. 25-26 program, conducted by Matthias Pintscher, concludes with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7. https://tickets.kcsymphony.org/22168
The world premiere of Billy Childs’ Concerto for Orchestra will take place Jan. 31-Feb. 1 with the San Diego Symphony under Rafael Payare. Alexander Malofeev will play Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3, and the program ends with Beethoven’s Third Symphony, Eroica. https://www.sandiegosymphony.org/performances/orchestral-evolution-childs-premiere-and-beethovens-eroica/
