The Madison Symphony’s season opener Sept. 20-22 will include the orchestra performing Valerie Coleman’s Umoja: Anthem of Unity for the first time. John DeMain leads cellist Tommy Mesa in Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme. The program also includes Joseph Jongen’s Symphonie Concertante and de Falla’s Suite No. 2 from The Three-Cornered Hat. https://madisonsymphony.org/event/reunion/
The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra will play Mahler’s chamber-orchestra arrangement of Beethoven’s Serioso String Quartet on Sept. 20-21. The program, curated by SPCO violinist Eunae Koh, also includes Haydn’s Violin Concerto (with Koh as soloist), Mozart’s Haffner Symphony, and Mabel Daniels’ Deep Forest. https://content.thespco.org/events/mozarts-haffner-symphony-2425/
The works of New England composer Mabel Daniels are not often performed, but the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra is remedying this by programming Daniels’ Deep Forest, which was first performed at Carnegie Hall in 1939. Violinist Eunae Koh will solo in Haydn’s Violin Concerto No. 2. The Sept. 20-21 program also includes an arrangement of […]
On Sept 21, the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra presents the Midwest premiere of David Diamond’s Symphony No. 2, written in 1943 and influenced by the Second World War. Stilian Kirov conducts this all-American program, which also includes symphonies by John Vincent and William Grant Still. https://ipomusic.org/2024-25-season/
It’s been 50 years since the Minnesota Orchestra inaugurated Orchestra Hall. To mark that milestone, conductor Thomas Søndergård will lead two Ravel works played in that inaugural performance: Valse nobles et sentimentales and a movement from Miroirs. Two Thomas Adés works will also be on offer in this Sept. 26-28 season opener: The Exterminating Angel Symphony […]
The Cincinnati Symphony opens the 2024-25 season Sept. 27-28 with Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, Titan, led by guest conductor Dalia Stasevska. The program also includes Alberto Ginastera’s “Malambo” from Four Dances from Estancia and Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3, featuring Chopin Piano Competition winner Bruce Liu in his CSO debut. https://www.cincinnatisymphony.org/tickets-and-events/buy-tickets/cso/2425-cso-season/mahler-symphony-no.-1/
On Sept. 27-28 the Grand Rapids Symphony will present the world premiere of a new orchestration of Clara Schumann’s Three Romances for Violin and Piano. Music director Marcelo Lehninger conducts this program, which opens with the Brahms Violin Concerto (featuring Alexandra Soumm) and closes with Robert Schumann’s Fourth Symphony. https://www.grsymphony.org/brahms
In celebration of Bruckner’s 200th birthday, the Milwaukee Symphony will present the composer’s Fourth Symphony, the Romantic, with Ken-David Masur on the podium. The first half of this Oct. 4-5 program comprises Clarice Assad’s Nhanderú and Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer, featuring bass-baritone Dashon Burton. https://www.mso.org/concerts/bruckners-fourth-symphony/62509/
The Omaha Symphony will play Giovanni Bottesini’s rarely heard Bass Concerto on Oct. 6, with principal bass Nate Olson as soloist. The program also includes Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8, with music director Ankush Kumar Bahl conducting. https://www.omahasymphony.org/concerts/symphony-joslyn-1-beethoven-8
