Week of Events
ACO Plays Glover and Ko Premieres
On March 12, the American Composers Orchestra will present two world premieres: a piece for mezzo-soprano and orchestra by John Glover and a new work by Tonia Ko. Called America in Weimar: On the Margins, the program also includes the New York premiere of Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate’s Lowak Shoppala' – Clans as well as pieces by […]
Luigi Nono at 100
2024 is the centenary of the birth of composer Luigi Nono, and the Elbphilarmonie has put together a festival running March 13-15. First up is Quatuor Diotima playing Nona’s Fragmente – Stille along with Beethoven’s Op. 132. On the second night, SWR Experimentalstudio presents Nona’s Quando stanno morendo for women’s voices, flute, cello, and live […]
Langer’s ‘Luminous Nose’ Premieres In Boston
The Tanglewood Festival Chorus and cellist Blaise Déjardin join the Boston Symphony Orchestra for the American premiere of The Dong with the Luminous Nose. This work by Elena Langer was a BSO co-commission. The program, conducted by Mark Elder, also includes Ravel’s complete Mother Goose, Dvořák’s symphonic poem The Noonday Witch, and Janáček’s Sinfonietta. March […]
Mäkelä Makes Carnegie Debut
Recently named the next music director of Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw Orchestra, Klaus Mäkelä is making his Carnegie Hall debut on March 16, conducting an all-Stravinsky program with the Orchestre de Paris. On the docket are two complete ballets: The Firebird and The Rite of Spring. https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2024/03/16/orchestre-de-paris-0800pm
Fischer Premieres Kidane Violin Concerto
A program by the London Philharmonic Orchestra called The Gift of Youth on March 16 will include the world premiere of Daniel Kidane’s Violin Concerto. It will feature Julia Fischer, for whom it was written. Principal conductor Edward Gardner takes the podium for this concert, which also includes Mozart’s Mass in C Minor with sopranos […]
Dancers Grace Orchestral Premiere
Music director Stéphane Denève leads the St. Louis Symphony on March 16-17 in an evening of dance music, some of which will, in fact, be danced to. With Copland’s Appalachian Spring Suite and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet Suite as familiar bookends, the program’s focus is a new work by Adam Schoenberg, which will feature movement […]
‘Yardbird’ Opera Examines Jazz Great
Indianapolis Opera blends jazz into the genre with Charlie Parker’s Yardbird on March 16. Telling a dramatic New York scene from the life story one of the greatest saxophone players of all time, Daniel Schnyder and Bridgette A. Wimberly’s work will feature Martin Bakari as “Bird” and Angela Brown as his mother. https://www.indyopera.org/yardbird.html
