The Music of Gao Hong A Celebration of 50 Years of Making Music With Friends

Ordway Artist Websites: Gao Hong Dessa Gabriel Campos Zamora Erik Wheeler Nikki Melville Kenwood Symphony Orchestra Speaking in Tongoue Ye Yu Gus Holley Carleton Chinese Music Ensemble Roz Tsai Shen Pei About IFTPA The Music of Gao Hong A Celebration of 50 Years of Making Music With Friends Ordway Center for the Performing Arts Concert Hall 345 Washington Street St. Paul, MN, Saint Paul, MN, United States

This April 3, Gao Hong will be celebrating her 50th year of being a performer; her accomplishments as a composer, improviser, and educator; and the 100th anniversary of her late teacher, Lin Shicheng’s birth. The celebration will showcase her deep connections and collaborations with an array of diverse cultures and her own compositions. Special guests […]

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Event Series Bugs Bunny at the Symphony

Bugs Bunny at the Symphony

“What’s up, Doc?” An enormously fun blend of classical music and classic animation! Bugs Bunny and his Looney Tunes pals return to Heinz Hall for Bugs Bunny at the Symphony! The world’s most iconic Looney Tunes — from What’s Opera, Doc? to The Rabbit of Seville and a dozen others — will be projected on […]

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra: Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody: Jennifer Higdon, Respighi, and Rachmaninoff

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra presents their Symphonic series with Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody: Jennifer Higdon (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer), Respighi, and Rachmaninoff. Date & Time: Friday - Sunday, April 8 - 10, 2022 at 7:30 PM & 2 PM CT Learn more about how to get tickets here.

Event Series Bugs Bunny at the Symphony

Bugs Bunny at the Symphony

“What’s up, Doc?” An enormously fun blend of classical music and classic animation! Bugs Bunny and his Looney Tunes pals return to Heinz Hall for Bugs Bunny at the Symphony! The world’s most iconic Looney Tunes — from What’s Opera, Doc? to The Rabbit of Seville and a dozen others — will be projected on […]

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra: Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody: Jennifer Higdon, Respighi, and Rachmaninoff

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra presents their Symphonic series with Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody: Jennifer Higdon (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer), Respighi, and Rachmaninoff. Date & Time: Friday - Sunday, April 8 - 10, 2022 at 7:30 PM & 2 PM CT Learn more about how to get tickets here.

Event Series Bugs Bunny at the Symphony

Bugs Bunny at the Symphony

“What’s up, Doc?” An enormously fun blend of classical music and classic animation! Bugs Bunny and his Looney Tunes pals return to Heinz Hall for Bugs Bunny at the Symphony! The world’s most iconic Looney Tunes — from What’s Opera, Doc? to The Rabbit of Seville and a dozen others — will be projected on […]

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra: Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody: Jennifer Higdon, Respighi, and Rachmaninoff

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra presents their Symphonic series with Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody: Jennifer Higdon (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer), Respighi, and Rachmaninoff. Date & Time: Friday - Sunday, April 8 - 10, 2022 at 7:30 PM & 2 PM CT Learn more about how to get tickets here.

ACF Equity Study Group: Douglas Kearney on his award winning book Sho

Virtual , United States

ACF Board Member, poet, performer, and librettist; Douglas Kearney joins us for our April Equity Study Group to discuss his book, Sho, a National Book Award, Pen American, and Minnesota Book Award finalist. Join the conversation as we discuss his poetry and use of typography. "Eschewing performative typography, Douglas Kearney’s Sho aims to hit crooked […]

Innova Recordings Spring National Call Info Session

This info session for Innova Recordings National Call program is for anyone who may be curious about this program and its mission, applying to the program, Innova’s curatorial process, and even the process of recording and releasing music in general. Click the link to register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvc-CqrD0uEtduq8GeuwIzuVt_QMXI1KeN The Innova’s National Call program seeks to foster […]

Equity Study Group: Gina Williams on her musical journey and the Ukraine she knows

Virtual , United States

On Christmas Day 2019, composer/performer Gina Williams found herself on Ukrainian television performing in front of a national audience. This month for our Equity Study Group, the Jamaican Canadian-born, boundless musical creator shares the story of how she got there along with stories of her family and background growing up as an outsider in the […]

Event Series X, LIFE AND TIMES OF MALCOLM X

X, LIFE AND TIMES OF MALCOLM X

The astonishing life of one of the most misunderstood men in history unfolds in X: The Life and Times of Malcom X. This distinctly American opera by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis (Central Park Five) and directed by Tony-nominee Robert O’Hara (Slave Play, a BandQuest composer) features a jazz ensemble incorporated into the orchestra and MOT 21-22 […]

Signature Concert #5 Intense, Playful & Serene

Chen Yi’s intense, high-spirited, and hopeful composition, Ge Xu (Antiphony), is a tribute to Southern China’s Zhuang minority people and their celebratory song styles. Claude Debussy accesses playful emotions in Children’s Corner, dedicated to his young daughter and her favorite toys. He turns to an impressionistic sensuality in his tone poem Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. Finally, Robert Schumann […]