Conductor

The city of Atlanta has emerged as one of the world’s most exciting musical capitals, spanning such diverse genres as gospel, hip-hop, opera, orchestral music, and more. This week, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra taps into some of the city’s exceptional local talent. We welcome the famed choirs from Morehouse and Spelman Colleges for a program featuring Atlanta-based composers. GRAMMY™ nominated composer Carlos Simon packs a powerful social conscience into many of his works. brea(d)th and Motherboxx Connection explore contemporary life in Black America.

The Orchestra also presents a stunning lineup of vocal soloists alongside the visionary poet and performance artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph. The program includes We Shall Overcome by Uzee Brown, a distinguished artist from Morehouse College.

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Carlos Simon Curates

Atlanta Symphony Hall

Jonathan Taylor Rush (MM ’19, Orchestral Conducting) joins the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra as a guest artist for its 2023-24 season, leading the LPO through William Grant Still’s Festive Overture, Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 1 “Classical,” and Florence Price’s Symphony No. 1 October 5, 2023.

Alumni Event: Jonathan Taylor Rush

Orpheum Theater

In Harlem, a couple celebrates the birth of their firstborn—a boy, Black and beautiful. As the mother worries for her son’s future in today’s America, the father wrestles with his role as a police officer, a “Black man in blue.” When the unimaginable happens years later and a white officer kills the son, their deepest fears will come true.

Following its postponement in our 2020–2021 season, WNO presents the long-awaited D.C. premiere of Blue, the “Best New Opera of 2020” (The Music Critics Association of North America). Tony Award®–winning composer Jeanine Tesori and NAACP Theatre Award–winning librettist Tazewell Thompson’s new opera is inspired by contemporary events and Black literature, including Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me and James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time. Jeanine’s signature genre-blending style captures the grief of a community, the bonds of a family, and the vulnerabilities of protecting a child. By giving voice to the joy and pain of families that are often unheard, Blue places timely issues at the forefront of modern opera and invites audiences to the emotional epicenter of their impact.

Jonathan Taylor Rush

Conductor

Events

15 - 17 Feb, 2024

Carlos Simon Curates · Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Oct 5, 2023

Alumni Event: Jonathan Taylor Rush · Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University

11 - 25 Mar, 2023

Blue · Washington National Opera

Future and recently performed repertoire

Conductor in Festive Overture by Still

Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University

Conductor in Symphony No. 1 by Rachmaninoff

Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University

Conductor in Blue by Tesori

Washington National Opera

Conductor in Motherboxx Connection by Simon

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Conductor in We Shall Overcome by Brown

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Conductor in Brea(d)th by Simon

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

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