With music and libretto by Grigory Frid, the monodrama The Diary of Anne Frank (for soprano and chamber orchestra) premiered in 1972. It will be presented by Opera Birmingham, with soprano Kathleen Buccleugh singing 21 excerpts from Frank's journal. Lester Seigel conducts. (April 5-6) https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=243958
Conductor Marie Jacquot will make her debut with the North Carolina Symphony on April 25-26. She will conduct Wagner’s Tannhäuser Overture, Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2 (with Marie-Ange Nguci), and Saint-Saëns’s Symphony 3, Organ. https://www.ncsymphony.org/events/633/saint-saens-organ-symphony/
Alexander Borodin’s Symphony No. 2 is a muscular and vituosic work sure to test the fortitude of the Atlanta Symphony under guest conductor Andrew Manze on April 24-26. The rousing opener will be three movements from various works by Khachaturian. Clara-Jumi Kang solos in Sibelius’ magnificent Violin Concerto. https://www.aso.org/events/detail/sibelius-violin-concerto
At the West Virginia Symphony’s season finale on May 3, music director Maurice Cohn will focus on Ravel: Suite No. 2 from Daphnis et Chloé and Bolero. In the first half of the concert, the West Virginia Youth Symphony will play onstage with the pros for Gabriela Ortiz’s Antrópolis. Then Joyce Yang will solo in […]
