Troubled by the onslaught of killings of unarmed Black men, Emmy Award-winning composer Joel Thompson wrote his Seven Last Words of the Unarmed in 2015, after finding Brooklyn-based journalist and artist Shirin Barghi’s #lastwords project on the same subject. The piece that resulted has resounded strongly in the choral world, and Musica Viva NY and the Aeolus Quartet are honored […]
The program includes the rescheduled and highly anticipated world premiere of Jocelyn Hagen’s (a McKnight fellow) work celebrating women’s voices and written in commemoration of the centenary of women’s suffrage. Featuring illuminated portraits and the words of 47 different women from around the world and across time, this work tells the story of the importance of finding—and using—your […]
The program includes the rescheduled and highly anticipated world premiere of Jocelyn Hagen’s (a McKnight fellow) work celebrating women’s voices and written in commemoration of the centenary of women’s suffrage. Featuring illuminated portraits and the words of 47 different women from around the world and across time, this work tells the story of the importance of finding—and using—your […]
Marin Symphony's favorite Joyce Yang returns for Tchaikovsky’s beloved 1st Piano Concerto, along with colorful masterpieces by Jennifer Higdon (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer) and Igor Stravinsky. Date & Time: Saturday, January, 29, 2022 at 10 PM CT | 8 PM PT Sunday, January, 30, 2022 at 5 PM CT | 3 PM PT PROGRAM: […]
Conducted by Tito Muñoz and Eugene Rogers (ACF's ChoralQuest series editor), the concert will feature 2015 Sphinx Medal of Excellence recipient soprano Janai Brugger in a program including works by Carlos Simon and Joel Thompson, among others. Date & Time: Sunday, January 30, 2022 at 3 PM CT | 4 PM ET Learn more and […]
The program includes the rescheduled and highly anticipated world premiere of Jocelyn Hagen’s (a McKnight fellow) work celebrating women’s voices and written in commemoration of the centenary of women’s suffrage. Featuring illuminated portraits and the words of 47 different women from around the world and across time, this work tells the story of the importance of finding—and using—your […]
Marin Symphony's favorite Joyce Yang returns for Tchaikovsky’s beloved 1st Piano Concerto, along with colorful masterpieces by Jennifer Higdon (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer) and Igor Stravinsky. Date & Time: Saturday, January, 29, 2022 at 10 PM CT | 8 PM PT Sunday, January, 30, 2022 at 5 PM CT | 3 PM PT PROGRAM: […]
Symphony of the Mountains’ Woodwind Quintet will play works by Gunther Schuller (a BandQuest composer) and Appalachian music by regional composer Greg Danner followed by the delightfully intriguing “Suite for Cello and Jazz Piano Trio” by Claude Bolling featuring SOTM’s principal cellists Mathew Wilkinson. Date & Time: Saturday, February 5, 2022 at 7:30 PM CT […]
The “eloquent, enthralling” Horszowski Trio (Boston Globe) is one of the most widely admired American ensembles, with an expanding reputation abroad; they gave a sold-out performance at London’s Wigmore Hall in 2019. The Trio is joined by violist and Harlem Symphony Orchestra director, Amadi Akizawe, for Dvořák’s luminous Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, heard alongside […]
Billie Holiday is one of jazz’s most important figures, many are familiar with her music and the infamous story of Strange Fruit but not many know the context of the story and what makes Holiday one of the US’s artist-activists and civil rights champions. In this month's Equity Study Group, we will discuss Lee Daniel's […]
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra announced a 2021-22 season replete with new collaborations and a healthy balance of contemporary curiosities and cherished chestnuts from the orchestral repertoire. Manfred Honeck conducts The Firebird on Friday February 11, 2022 - Sunday, February 13, 2022, along with Kian Soltani, cello. Erwin Schulhof: Five Pieces, Schumann: Concerto in A minor […]
Join The Symphony for a musical encounter featuring the ethereal blue cathedral by acclaimed female composer Jennifer Higdon (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer) and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Christopher Rouse’s explosive and passionate Flute Concerto, featuring The Symphony’s very own Principal Flutist Jesse Tatum. Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony rounds out the program. Date & Time: Sunday, February 13, 2022 […]