The first of four finalists for the position of music director of the Delaware Symphony will lead the orchestra on Sept. 20. Mélisse Brunet will conduct Anna Clyne’s This Midnight Hour, Florence Price’s Violin Concerto No. 1 (featuring Melissa White), and Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony. https://www.delawaresymphony.org/dso_events/brunet-conducts-tchaikovsky/
The Virginia Symphony’s music director, Eric Jacobsen, will conduct his own brother, Colin Jacobsen, in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto on Sept. 20. The all-Beethoven program also includes the Coriolan Overture and the Fourth Symphony. https://virginiasymphony.org/concert/beethovens-violin-concerto-with-eric-colin-jacobsen-2/
The U.S. premiere of The Listeners, by Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek, will be presented by Opera Philadelphia Sept. 25-29. The Listeners examines the lengths to which we, as Americans, are willing to go to find a sense of place and purpose. Lileana Blain-Cruz directs this production. https://www.operaphila.org/whats-on/in-theaters-2024-2025/the-listeners/
Music director Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony in an all-American program opening with a world premiere by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Tania León and closing with Wake Up: A Concerto for Orchestra by BSO Composer Chair Carlos Simon. BSO principal clarinet William R. Hudgins is the soloist in Aaron Copland’s delightful Clarinet Concerto, contrasting with […]
The National Symphony Orchestra’s composer-in-residence for the 2024-25 season is Carlos Simon. Appropriately, the orchestra, under Gianandrea Noseda, will present Simon’s Four Black American Dances in their opening program Sept. 28. Cliburn Competition winner Yunchan Lim makes his NSO debut as soloist for Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto, and the evening concludes with Ravel’s La Valse. […]
Arkansas Symphony opens its season Sept. 28-29 by featuring two Gershwin works and two from the 21st century. The recent compositions are Anna Clyne’s Masquerade and Carlos Simon’s Graffiti. Gershwin is represented by his Piano Concerto in F, featuring Aaron Diehl, and the Cuban Overture. Geoffrey Robson conducts. https://www.arkansassymphony.org/events/aaron-diehl-gershwin/
A new work by jazz/classical composer Billy Childs will open the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra’s Carnegie Hall program on Sept. 28. Garrick Ohlsson will solo on Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat, and Michael Stephen Brown’s orchestration of Brahms’ Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel closes the program. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2024/09/28/Orpheus-Chamber-Orchestra-Garrick-Ohlsson-Piano-0800PM
