Week of Events
Cartoon Music Meets Skilled Musicianship in SD
The Queen’s Cartoonists will appear on the Brookings Chamber Music Society season on Nov. 19. Perfectly synchronizing their performances with the films projected on stage, the band matches the energy of the cartoons, leading the audience through a world of virtuosic musicianship, multi-instrumental mayhem and comedy. https://www.sdstate.edu/music-sdsu/brookings-chamber-music-society
Telemann Meets Quixote at Boston Early Music
The Boston Early Music Chamber Opera Series will present two masterworks by Telemann, interwoven into one theatrical fabric, on Nov. 20-Dec. 1. Enjoy a rare staged performance of Telemann’s lovely serenata, Don Quichotte auf der Hochzeit des Comacho, interspersed with movements from Telemann’s delightful orchestral suite Burlesque de Don Quichotte. Paul O'Dette and Stephen Stubbs will serve […]
Kaminsky’s ‘Lucidity’ Comes to Seattle Opera
The West Coast premiere of Laura Kaminsky and David Cote’s Lucidity will take place at Seattle Opera on Nov. 21-24. This intimate chamber opera sheds light on the tragedy of dementia and all those it touches. Geoffrey McDonald conducts and Sarah Meyers directs. https://www.seattleopera.org/performances-events/lucidity/
Meditations on Life and Death: Minneapolis
Thomas Søndergård leads the Minnesota Orchestra in a contemplative program on Nov. 22-23. Oliver Messiaen’s Les Offrandes Oubliées will be followed by Mozart’s stirring Requiem, featuring soprano Andrea Carroll, tenor Jack Swanson, and baritone Dashon Burton. https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/calendar/classical/sondergard-conducts-mozarts-requiem/
Mäkelä Brings Ellen Reid Premiere to Carnegie
Under the baton of its incoming chief conductor, Klaus Mäkelä, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra performs the U.S. premiere of a new work by Ellen Reid at Carnegie Hall on Nov. 22. Lisa Batiashvili will play Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2, and the evening ends with Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2024/11/22/Royal-Concertgebouw-Orchestra-0800PM
Realities of Immigration Explored in Chamber Opera
On Nov. 22 members of the San Diego Symphony will give the city’s premiere of the chamber opera Tres Minutos. The opera, by composer Nicolás Lell Benavides and librettist Marella Martin Koch, imagines the story of a brother and sister who share DNA but not citizenship. When one is deported, questions of identity, duty, and […]
Connesson Cello Concerto Premieres in Philly
French composer Guillaume Connesson has written a new Cello Concerto, which will receive its U.S. premiere on Nov. 22-23 at the hands of Gautier Capuçon, as guest soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Stéphane Denève conducts this thoroughly French program, which also includes Augusta Holmès’ “La Nuit et l’amour” from her Ludus pro patria and Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique. https://www.philorch.org/performances/our-season/events-and-tickets/2024-2025-season/verizon-hall/symphonie-fantastique/
Iranian Female Composers Celebrated in Seattle
On Nov. 22, members of the Seattle Symphony will collaborate with the Iranian Female Composers Association, established in 2017 to support Iranian female and non-binary identifying musicians. Composer Deniz Tafaghodi’s new work receives its world premiere alongside fellow Iranian composer Golnaz Shariatzadeh’s Fabric of Sorrow. Part of Octave 9 series. https://www.seattlesymphony.org/en/concerttickets/calendar/2024-2025/24octave3
Alabama Symphony Takes On Bartók
For the first time in its history, the Alabama Symphony will play Bartók’s seminal Concerto for Orchestra on Nov. 22-23 under music director Carlos Izcaray. The first half of the program will be Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8. https://alabamasymphony.org/events/beethoven-bartok/
Phoenix Celebrates ‘Rhapsody’ Centenary
The Phoenix Symphony will celebrate with 100th anniversary of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue on Nov. 22-24. Pianist Conor Hanick is the soloist, and Christian Reif will conduct. Also on the program are Honegger’s Pacific 231, Sibelius’ Symphony No. 7, and Respighi’s Pines of Rome. There will also be a “Mystery Piece,” something that Phoenix offers […]
Fort Worth Opera Opens With ‘Little Women’
Little Women, an opera by Mark Adamo using his own libretto based on the Louisa May Alcott novel, opens this season at Fort Worth Opera. The production runs Nov. 22-24. https://fwopera.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0SVo0000009Wa9MAE
CSO, As Curated by Roumain
Musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra will present the world premiere of a new work by Daniel Bernard Roumain, who also curates and performs in this Nov. 24 program featuring three of his pieces. Allison Loggins-Hull’s Homeland, inspired by the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, as well as Brittany J. Green’s shift.unravel.BREAK are also scheduled in […]
Hough Premieres His Piano Quintet in NYC
Pianist and composer Stephen Hough makes his debut with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center on Nov. 24. The program combines Liszt’s virtuosic sonata with works by Chopin and Cécile Chaminade. Hough is joined by the enthralling Viano Quartet for the world premiere of his Piano Quintet. https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/our-concerts/at-lincoln-center/events/24-25/an-evening-with-sir-stephen-hough/
