
May 2022
Colorado Symphony May 14 2022
Your Colorado Symphony welcomes acclaimed conductor Asher Fisch to the podium, leading Mahler’s riveting Fifth Symphony. Known for his use of colossal orchestras, Mahler offers a musical landscape that is transfixing and varied — proceeding from tragedy to triumph over five daunting movements in a work Marin Alsop once dubbed the “orchestral equivalent of climbing Mount Everest". The first half features a pair of female composers with Joan Tower’s Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman and Jessie Montgomery’s Piano Concerto. The…
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Your Colorado Symphony welcomes acclaimed conductor Asher Fisch to the podium, leading Mahler’s riveting Fifth Symphony. Known for his use of colossal orchestras, Mahler offers a musical landscape that is transfixing and varied — proceeding from tragedy to triumph over five daunting movements in a work Marin Alsop once dubbed the “orchestral equivalent of climbing Mount Everest". The first half features a pair of female composers with Joan Tower’s Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman and Jessie Montgomery’s Piano Concerto. The…
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Acclaimed African-American composer Jessie Montgomery brings us a piano concerto co-commissioned by the ISO along with several orchestras throughout the United States, and the popular “New World Symphony” by Dvořák helped to validate American music and lore as a source of musical inspiration in the late 1890s when it debuted. Artistic Leadership Jaime Martín Artists Ivy Ringel - ISO Principal Bassoon Awadagin Pratt -Piano Program to Include Work for Piano and Orchestra (ISO Co-Commission) Jessie Montgomery Symphony No. 9 in…
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The musical roots of North America are explored in this concert, as the ISO performs music by Jerod Tate, a classical composer and citizen of the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma. Based on Native American Indian lore, Tate’s Ghost of the White Deer describes the quest of a lovesick man searching for a white deer, which is sacred to the Chickasaw people. Acclaimed African-American composer Jessie Montgomery brings us a piano concerto co-commissioned by the ISO along with several orchestras throughout…
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The musical roots of North America are explored in this concert, as the ISO performs music by Jerod Tate, a classical composer and citizen of the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma. Based on Native American Indian lore, Tate’s Ghost of the White Deer describes the quest of a lovesick man searching for a white deer, which is sacred to the Chickasaw people. Acclaimed African-American composer Jessie Montgomery brings us a piano concerto co-commissioned by the ISO along with several orchestras throughout…
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Milwaukee Symphony
This heavily German program brings together Schumann’s restless and innovative Fourth Symphony; Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen, a deeply personal work of inner transformation; and an orchestral arrangement of Mendelssohn’s tale of mistaken identity. Distinguished pianist Awadagin Pratt is the first to perform a new piano concerto by rising star composer Jessie Montgomery; this premiere music has been co-commissioned by the Art of Piano Foundation, the MSO, and a coalition* of North American orchestras. The MSO Steinway piano was made possible through…
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This heavily German program brings together Schumann’s restless and innovative Fourth Symphony; Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen, a deeply personal work of inner transformation; and an orchestral arrangement of Mendelssohn’s tale of mistaken identity. Distinguished pianist Awadagin Pratt is the first to perform a new piano concerto by rising star composer Jessie Montgomery; this premiere music has been co-commissioned by the Art of Piano Foundation, the MSO, and a coalition* of North American orchestras. The MSO Steinway piano was made possible through…
Find out more »Kansas City Symphony – Masterworks and Ovation Series
Masterworks and Ovation Series Classical Series Season Finale! ODE TO JOY: BEETHOVEN’S NINTH Friday and Saturday, June 24-25, 2022 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, June 26, 2022 at 2 p.m. GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL “Zadok the Priest,” Coronation Anthem No. 1 JESSIE MONTGOMERY Piano Concerto (Kansas City Symphony co-commission) LUDVIG VAN BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9, “Choral” Michael Stern, conductor Awadagin Pratt, piano Kansas City Symphony Chorus, Charles Bruffy, chorus director Caitlin Lynch, soprano Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano Derrek Stark, tenor Peixin Chen,…
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Masterworks and Ovation Series Classical Series Season Finale! ODE TO JOY: BEETHOVEN’S NINTH Friday and Saturday, June 24-25, 2022 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, June 26, 2022 at 2 p.m. GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL “Zadok the Priest,” Coronation Anthem No. 1 JESSIE MONTGOMERY Piano Concerto (Kansas City Symphony co-commission) LUDVIG VAN BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9, “Choral” Michael Stern, conductor Awadagin Pratt, piano Kansas City Symphony Chorus, Charles Bruffy, chorus director Caitlin Lynch, soprano Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano Derrek Stark, tenor Peixin Chen,…
Find out more »Kansas City Symphony – Masterworks and Ovation Series
Masterworks and Ovation Series Classical Series Season Finale! ODE TO JOY: BEETHOVEN’S NINTH Friday and Saturday, June 24-25, 2022 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, June 26, 2022 at 2 p.m. GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL “Zadok the Priest,” Coronation Anthem No. 1 JESSIE MONTGOMERY Piano Concerto (Kansas City Symphony co-commission) LUDVIG VAN BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9, “Choral” Michael Stern, conductor Awadagin Pratt, piano Kansas City Symphony Chorus, Charles Bruffy, chorus director Caitlin Lynch, soprano Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano Derrek Stark, tenor Peixin Chen,…
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