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For much of his life, Johannes Brahms felt the omnipresent weight of Beethoven’s shadow looming over him but by the time he reached this, his third and perhaps most stirring symphony, he had emphatically found his own unique voice and flourished into an icon in his own right. The Third is richly Romantic, featuring sweeping, lyrical string lines and beautifully autumnal woodwind passages that make this symphony a delight from start to finish.

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Brahms Symphony No. 3

Denver Performing Arts Complex

ISO Artistic Advisor Jun Märkl invites you to join us as we explore music of the sea featuring Debussy’s La Mer. American mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges stars in Elgar’s song cycle Sea Pictures. 

The Sea: Elgar, Mendelssohn & Debussy

Hilbert Circle Theatre

Lust. Love. Longing. Consequence.
Don’t miss the West Coast Premier on this opera’s centennial anniversary!

Ethel Smyth's Fête Galante

Chance Theatre

Grammy-winning violinist Gil Shaham, proclaimed “the outstanding American violinist of his generation” by Time Magazine, bring flawless technique and spirited warmth to every note of Dvořák’s Violin Concerto—from its powerhouse opening and lyrical slow movement to the lively finale infused with Slavic cheer. Noseda closes the program with Schubert’s final Symphony No. 9, “The Great.”

Gil Shaham plays Dvořák’s Violin Concerto Noseda conducts Schubert’s Ninth Symphony

Kennedy Center

Waves upon waves of lyrical music, will wash over everyone as we venture to “la Mer,” and celebrate sounds of the sea that features two local university choirs, a chamber-style piece by Claude Debussy, Handel’s “Water Music” and captivating music from a Pulitzer Prize winning Chinese-American composer.

Music of LA MER

St Kenneth Catholic Church

Appalachian Spring & Les Préludes

Hatch Memorial Shell

Laquita Mitchell is the soprano soloist in Barber's poignant evocation of American life as seen by a young child. Ethel Smyth takes the listener on a journey from nostalgia to mirth to triumph. Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson employs an eclectic mix of musical styles; his Sinfonietta No. 1 is by turns searching and pensive, then rushes to a dramatic finale. A brooding piece for strings by Julia Perry begins the concert.

Conductor James Blachly serves as Associate Editor and Orchestral Liaison for the Metro Detroit-based African Diaspora Music Project (ADMP), directed by University of Michigan professor Dr. Louise Toppin. The ADMP database has thus far compiled more than 1,300 published works for orchestra by African diaspora composers, including those by Perkinson and Perry. The DSO is proud to highlight the work of the ADMP with these performances.

Summer Serenade

Kirk in the Hills

Our Lady Star of the Sea

North Ridge Church

The Berman Center for the Performing Arts

Operatic singers auditioned from around the globe to participate in the IC Opera Studio where they were staged in scenes guided by directors earning a professional certificate from the IC Opera Direction Program. The participating directors have been working since January with stage director Chuck Hudson, while the singers have been working with musical director Christopher Zemliauskas, along with conductors and acting coaches.

Opera Showcase Performance

Ithaca College

Neave Trio

Tulsa Performing Arts Center

Packed full of musical imagery, Ethel Smyth’s “The Wreckers Overture” is a perfect opening for this concert. Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů’s richly imaginative “Rhapsody-Concerto for viola and orchestra features the virtuoso soloist Ivo Bokulic. The evening concludes with “Pines of Rome” by Ottorino Respighi the orchestral painter who commanded a palette of spectacular range. The Roman landscape is evoked by his transformative visions and memories.

Dramatic Fantasies

Arkley Center for the Performing Arts

Join us for season two of the Catalyst Quartet’s Uncovered series with guest artists bringing to broader recognition the music of historic composers whose works have rarely been heard. The San Francisco Chronicle’s Joshua Kosman put it best when he wrote, “You and I could go to chamber concerts for years and never hear a program as full of surprises and discovery as this one. And we’ve been missing out.”

Catalyst Quartet

War Memorial and Performing Arts Center

32nd Season Premiere

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Founded in Leipzig in 1992 by five singers from the famous Thomanerchor, amarcord – a name that means “I remember” in the Emilia-Romagna dialect – is part of this new generation of a cappella choirs that has no qualms about breaking down barriers between genres and eras. Together with Daniel Hope's violin and Simon Crawford-Phillips' piano, they plan to take the audience on a journey through half a millennium of creation, from Thomas Tallis to Benjamin Britten.

Daniel Hope & Friends II – Menuhin in London II

Saanen Church

Ethel Smyth's Serenade in D invites us to a sunny day by the sea. The romantic lightness of her composition leads us to John Pickard's The Flight of Icarus, where the sea witnesses Icarus' dramatic flight and fall. The Flight of Icarus is not only a mythological story but also an ecological warning. Through Pickard's work, the sea becomes not only a scene but also a voice that speaks for the vulnerability of nature and the need to protect our planet.  

Brabbins & Britten

Malmö Concert Hall

We explore the diversity of the sea during this Saturday concert through two masterful works. Ethel Smyth's Serenade in D invites us to a sunny day by the sea, filled with joy and harmony. The romantic lightness of her composition leads us on to Benjamin Britten and Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes .

Brabbins & Britten - Saturday

Present and mature in his playing, a critic wrote after a concert at a German festival about Guido Sant'Anna, born in 2005 in Säo Paulo in Brazil. Sant'Anna won a chamber music prize at the Menuhin Competition at the age of 12, where he was the first Brazilian ever to enter. The youngster said in a small homemade video that he was looking forward to meeting violinists from all over the world, making friends and having fun. In 2022, at the age of 17, he won 1st prize in the Fritz Kreisler Competition – both competitions founded on the shoulders of great violin virtuosos who were aware of young violinists and the opportunities they should be given.

Ethel Smyth

Composer

Events

Upcoming events

Nov 28, 2024

Brabbins & Britten · Malmö Symphony Orchestra

Nov 30, 2024

Brabbins & Britten - Saturday · Malmö Symphony Orchestra

Jan 23, 2025

Scandinavian debut · Sønderjyllands Symfoniorkester

Past events

10 - 12 May, 2024

Brahms Symphony No. 3 · Colorado Symphony

26 - 27 Apr, 2024

The Sea: Elgar, Mendelssohn & Debussy · Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra

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