The current holder of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra’s Sandbox Composer Residency, Brazilian-American composer and singer Clarice Assad is writing a new work that will receive its world premiere with SPCO on Jan. 12-13. The program also includes movements from autobiographical pieces by Smetana and Janáček. https://content.thespco.org/events/assad-janacek-and-smetana/
Two works by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de St-Georges, will be on the Jan. 19-20 program by the Indianapolis Symphony. In an arrangement by Derek Bermel, clarinetist Anthony McGill will play the Chevalier’s Violin Concerto, and soprano Sonya Headlam will sing an aria from L’amant anonyme. With Jeannette Sorrell conducting, the program also includes several works […]
Victoria Bond has written a new work called Anne Frank’s Tree, which will receive its world premiere on Jan. 20. The Indianapolis Chamber Music program called Silenced Voices will also include some music banned by the Nazis by Korngold and Franz Schreker. Julian Rhee is the soloist for the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto. https://www.icomusic.org/concerts/silenced-voices/
During the 20th century, jazz and classical music were blended into some exceptional creations. Several of those will be on display from the St. Louis Symphony and conductor Leonard Slatkin on Jan. 21. The program opens with Paul Turok’s tribute to a pioneer of jazz/classical crossover, A Joplin Overture. Then jazz piano master Aaron Diehl […]
