Oscar-nominated filmmakers Sam Green and Joe Bini have teamed up with Grammy-winning Kronos Quartet for a wildly creative multimedia performance piece that blends live music and narration with archival footage and filmed interviews with such prominent artists as Philip Glass, Tanya Tagaq, Steve Reich, Wu Man and Terry Riley.
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Be the first to hear a new orchestral work by Jessie Montgomery, Leonard Bernstein Award-winning composer, violinist and educator.
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American composer and Pulitzer Prize winner Aaron Jay Kernis’s note in the score of Musica Celestis (Music of the Heavens) states that the ethereal work “is inspired by the medieval conception of that phrase, which refers to the singing of the angels in heaven in praise of God without end…”
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Bruce Adolphe is a composer, educator, performer and author whose “original compositions convey a compelling voice, high craft, authenticity, communicative immediacy and substance” (Gramophone).
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At only 23 years old, Mozart composed his warm and witty Sinfonia Concertante, a clever combination of symphony and concerto, to display the exceptional skills of the string players in the Mannheim Orchestra.
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Chinese composer, conductor and pianist Xi Wang has won just about every major award for composition, combining Asian and Western instruments and techniques with theatrical and choreographic elements to captivate audiences worldwide. Be the first to hear her new concerto with Norwegian trumpet sensation Tine Thing Helseth and Japanese violinist Karen Gomyo.
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Partake in Fabio Luisi’s mastery of opera and a stellar cast of handpicked soloists in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, a Russian lyric opera filled with celebratory tunes, an infectious waltz, passion-soaked arias, plush orchestration and even a dramatic pistol duel.
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Widely regarded as one of the leading interpreters of Mozart, Canadian conductor Bernard Labadie leads an All-Mozart program, starting with the final coronation dance (Chaconne) from the composer’s breakthrough opera Idomeneo.
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Former DSO Music Director Andrew Litton and pianist Stephen Hough, who recorded the entire series of the Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos with the DSO, reunite at the Meyerson this season.
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In 1905, the famed Austrian violinist Fritz Kreisler told the Hereford Times “If you want to know whom I consider to be the greatest living composer, I say without hesitation, Elgar. I wish Elgar would write something for the violin. He could do so, and it would certainly be something effective.” Five years later Elgar delivered Kreisler a concerto by turns grand, brooding and heroic.
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