Simon’s ‘Black American Dances’ Opens NSO Season

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. […]

Stutzmann Conducts All-Mozart Program in Atlanta

On Nov. 7-10  music director Nathalie Stutzmann leads the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Mozart’s mysterious and otherworldly Mass in C minor. Ukrainian soprano Olga Kulchynska, Mezzo-soprano Julia Lezhneva, […]

West Virginia Goes All-American

The West Virginia Symphony’s Nov. 9 program is All-American, with Bernstein’s Candide Overture, Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia, and Copland’s Clarinet Concerto, featuring Robert Turizziani. Music director Maurice Cohn also leads the […]

Atlanta Concertmaster Conducts and Solos in Vivaldi

Atlanta Symphony concertmaster David Coucheron gets the solo spotlight on Jan. 12 when the orchestra performs Vivaldi’s effervescent masterpiece, The Four Seasons, which Coucheron will both play and conduct. The […]

Hazel Scott Featured in New World Symphony Cabaret

New World Symphony’s 2024-25 season marks the fourth year of its “I Dream a World” festival, centering on the transition between the Harlem Renaissance and the Civil Rights Movement. On […]

Giddens Meets Beethoven in N.C.

An excerpt of Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels’ Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Omar will open the North Carolina Symphony’s Feb. 21-22 program, conducted by Carlos Miguel Prieto. After Brahms’ Alto Rhapsody, […]

Multi-Composers’ Tribute to Bach in Mobile

Arcis Saxophon Quartett closes the Mobile Chamber Music season with a kaleidoscopic tribute to J.S. Bach. Works on the March 16 concert include excerpts from Nikolai Kapustin’s 24 Preludes and […]

Jacquot Makes First Appearance With N.C. Symphony

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 […]

Ravel Closes WV Season

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 […]

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