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The American Voice

Julie Rogers Theatre

Open the season with the lyrical beauty of Barber’s Violin Concerto, followed by the explosive passion of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony.

Tchaikovsky’s Fourth

Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts

Lose yourself in Elgar’s dark yet lyrical Cello Concerto. Written in the aftermath of World War I, this melancholy piece will break your heart and leave you breathless—an “autumnal” meditation to welcome fall.

Elgar’s Cello Concerto & Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5

Salt Palace Convention Center

Attend a concert with musicians from the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, where all are welcome to listen to the music their own way. There is space here for all ages, temperaments and functional variations. Simply put: a concert with a little more freedom.

Relaxed Performance

Göteborgs Konserthus

Embark on a musical grand tour of Austria, America, and France with the WT Faculty Woodwind Quintet and pianist Dr. Sarah Rushing as they perform vibrant works by Mozart, Barber, Saint-Saëns, and Poulenc.

A Grand Tour: Music from Austria, America and France

Diverse. Devoted. Determined. In honor of America 250, the 80th anniversary of the Nashville Symphony, and the 20th anniversary of the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, our opening program of the 2026/27 season celebrates the rich sonic kaleidoscope of American composers past and present.You’ll feel it all: from the boundless optimism of Joan Tower’s Made in America, a work for which the Nashville Symphony’s recording received our first GRAMMY® Award in 2008, to the solemn strains of Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings marking the 25th anniversary of September 11, 2001. 

Opening Weekend: An American Celebration

Shermerhorn Symphony Center

For 25 years, Yuja Wang has dazzled the music world with her stupendous virtuosity, yet routine has never crept in. She is always searching for something new, eager to discover the unfamiliar and reinvent herself. The Festival theme “American Dreams” immediately resonated with her. That’s why she has added Samuel Barber’s Piano Concerto to her repertoire: a work that picks up threads from Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff, yet also shows the influence of Bartók and jazz. The result was so striking that Barber received the Pulitzer Prize for it in 1963. The real fun starts in the second half, when Yuja Wang performs the Jazz Suite by the Ukrainian composer Alexander Tsfasman — taking on the musical direction herself. She has a true feeling for jazz and, not coincidentally, received the 2024 Grammy Award for Best Classical Instrumental Solo for her album The American Project. Her longtime friend Teddy Abrams was on the podium for that recording. In Lucerne, he will conduct the first half of the concert, beginning with Aaron Copland’s refreshing Appalachian Spring, with its echoes of folk songs, hymns, square dances, and fiddle music. America at its best!

Mahler Chamber Orchestra | Yuja Wang | Teddy Abrams

KKL Luzern Concert Hall

Acclaimed as an “outstanding ensemble…cohesive yet full of temperament” (The New York Times), the Verona Quartet has firmly established itself amongst the most distinguished ensembles on the chamber music scene today. The group’s singular sense of purpose most recently earned them Chamber Music America’s coveted 2020 Cleveland Quartet Award, and a reputation for its “bold interpretive strength, robust characterization and commanding resonance” (Calgary Herald). The Quartet serves on the faculty of the Oberlin College and Conservatory as the Quartet-in-Residence. In addition to its position at Oberlin, the Quartet holds residencies at Nova Scotia’s Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance and North Carolina’s Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle. As committed advocates of diverse programming, the Verona Quartet curates the UpClose Chamber Music Series on behalf of the COT, electrifying audiences from concert halls to craft breweries with their “sensational, powerhouse performance[s]” (Classical Voice America).

VERONA QUARTET with ALEXANDER FITERSTEIN, clarinet

Maverick Concert Hall

This season's opening concert might well be heard as an echo of the Prague Philharmonia's long-awaited 2026 US tour, one that took the orchestra to three states and culminated in a phenomenally successful debut at New York's Carnegie Hall. Under the baton of music director Emmanuel Villaume, for this very special evening the orchestra welcomes another of its US touring partners, outstanding Canadian violin talent Blake Pouliot.

Martinů. Barber. Beethoven

Rudolfinum

The scene is set for tonight’s concert by Vaughan Williams’ timeless Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, which opens with solemn chords before expanding into soaring strings. This contemplative work was inspired by a Tudor tune by 16th-century composer Thomas Tallis, and first performed in Gloucester Cathedral in 1910.

Gaia x BBC Concert Orchestra: Sounds of the Earth

Southbank Centre

This pianist fits into no mold. Bridget Yee was born in Malaysia in 2004, came to London at age eleven to study, and went on to win the Windsor International Piano Competition, among others. Yet she doesn’t shine only at the keyboard: she also trained as a cellist and double bassist, performing in orchestral concerts under Jac van Steen and Benjamin Zander. That broadened her horizons, she says — and benefits her piano playing, too.

Bridget Yee

Reformierte Lukaskirche

This ensemble is a true cult favorite. When the brass players of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra gather around trumpeter Reinhold Friedrich and trombonist Jörgen van Rijen to form a brass band, the atmosphere reaches fever pitch in no time at all. All the more so at this summer’s appearance, which is devoted to the theme of “American Dreams.” Gershwin's Strike Up the Band injects an irresistible jolt of swing and high spirits.

Lucerne Festival Orchestra 4 Soloists and Brass Ensemble of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra

For his debut as this summer’s “artiste étoile,” Augustin Hadelich brings along a work from his adopted American homeland that he especially loves: the irresistibly beautiful Violin Concerto by Samuel Barber. He finds Barber’s musical language “highly emotional” and notes that the intensely expressive slow movement can send chills up and down your spine. But the virtuoso in Hadelich is challenged here too — above all in the finale: “It’s like a perpetual-motion machine — you have to let go and still keep everything under control.” 

Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Klaus Mäkelä | Augustin Hadelich

Music from Salem brings together musicians of international reputation to prepare and perform chamber music in the peace and beauty of rural Washington County, New York, and environs. Chamber music is classical music written for a small group of performers, and includes a range of styles, from the 18th century to today. Music from Salem also leads educational workshops and conducts violin, viola, and cello seminars for emerging young artists.

Music From Salem August Summer Concert

Hubbard Hall - Center for the Arts and Education

The Edinburgh Festival Chorus joins with our Rising Stars for a programme of American music from the 20th and 21st centuries.

This Shining Night

Usher Hall

The exceptional National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America performs three vibrant 20th-century masterpieces. These talented young musicians are joined by Festival regular, American conductor Karina Canellakis, praised by Gramophone for her ‘finesse and fire’.

Gershwin & Bartók

Filled with short and spirited solo works, this recital by Orion Weiss—hailed as a “brilliant pianist” by The New York Times and praised for his “head-spinning range of colors” by the Chicago Tribune—lets listeners revel in lesser-known gems by major 19th- and 20th-century composers, from Tchaikovsky to Copland.

Orion Weiss Piano Recital

New Mexico Museum of Art

The Orchestra of St. Luke’s returns to close out the summer season led by the dynamic Xian Zhang. This program reunites the orchestra with world-renowned violinist Gil Shaham, a long-time Caramoor favorite whose numerous appearances here dates back to 1994. The afternoon features Shaham’s definitive interpretation of Barber’s Violin Concerto, a work of inherent sweetness and playfulness. Framed by the wit of Rossini’s L'italiana in Algeri Overture and the majestic architecture of Mozart’s ("Jupiter") Symphony, the concert offers a masterclass in both lyrical intimacy and orchestral grandeur.

Orchestra of St. Luke's & Gil Shaham

Venetian Theater at Caramoor

4th Festival Chamber Concert: Rheingold Quartet

Munich Residence

CMS’s summer tradition returns for its 11th year. Get the summer’s hottest ticket, featuring favorite chamber music works in the cool atmosphere of Alice Tully Hall. Stay after the performance and get to know the artists in the lobby with a complimentary glass of wine. 

Summer Evenings V 2026

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

The wind quintet WindSync embraces the classics and the growing contemporary repertoire with a fresh sensibility. Versatile and vibrant, the group plays “many idioms authoritatively, elegantly, with adroit technique, and with great fun” (All About the Arts). In the span of one performance, they can cover vast musical ground from revitalized standards to freshly inked works to folk and songbook, the common thread telling a compelling story about music history and our human selves.

Bronze Medalist at the 2025 Van Cliburn Competition, American pianist Evren Ozel has won numerous honors and awards; most recently Evren was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2023. Other accolades include second prize and special prizes for Best Mazurka and Best Polonaise at the 2020 U.S. National Chopin Competition, first prize at the 2016 Boston Symphony Concerto Competition, second prize and the Mozart and Chopin special prizes at the 2018 Dublin International Piano Competition, second prize at the 2016 Thomas and Evon Cooper International Competition, and scholarships from the U.S Chopin Foundation and Young Arts Foundation.

WindSync with EVREN OZEL, piano

Beloved Festival Orchestra member José González Granero moves from the woodwind section to the front of the stage to perform Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, one of the great composer’s last masterpieces.

Festival Orchestra: Shostakovich & Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto

Jackson Hole High School

Enjoy a behind-the-scenes look as Sir Donald Runnicles and the orchestra rehearse for the weekend Festival Orchestra concerts. This week, beloved Festival Orchestra member José González Granero moves from the woodwind section to the front of the stage to perform Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, one of the great composer’s last masterpieces. In contrast to Mozart’s meaningful late utterance are two more youthful works by important 20th century icons – a playful literary overture by American Samuel Barber, The School for Scandal Overture, and an incredibly precocious college graduation project by Dmitri Shostakovich, his Symphony No. 1.

Open Rehearsal: Shostakovich & Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto

There’s an elusive logic that occurs only in dreams, that nocturnal state where the human mind processes the flood of impressions and information it takes in every day, sifting and sorting without interruption from the waking world. In this very special and wide-ranging program, Manchester Music Festival artistic director Philip Setzer is our guide through a vivid, varied dreamscape in sound—a journey epitomized by composer Paul Epstein’s appropriately titled Dreamsonata, which leaps from Viennese ballroom sounds to midwestern ragtime in the blink of an ear. The rest of the program blazes a similarly unlikely yet ultimately harmonious path, from the courtly String Quartet of Benjamin Franklin (yes, really) to Samuel Barber’s elegiac Adagio for Strings, by way of Scott Joplin, Amy Beach, and Carlos Simon.

Setzer and the Sound of Dreams

Southern Vermont Arts Center

The concert begins with Mozart’s Trio in E major, a graceful and lyrical work highlighting his gift for chamber music. From there, the program moves to the Sonata for Violin and Piano by Maurice Ravel, the great French composer of the early 20th century, whose music shimmers with color and atmosphere.

Saratoga Springs, NY

Skidmore College

“From Man to Myth” considers how larger-than-life personalities capture the public imagination and, over time, become legend. Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun drifts in with luminous color and sensuous calm, its opening flute line evoking a mythical creature poised between dream and reality. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, “Eroica,” was originally dedicated to Napoleon, whom the composer saw as a heroic symbol of a new era—before famously withdrawing the dedication in disillusionment. Monumental in scale and emotional sweep, the work charts struggle, mourning, and hard-won triumph, revealing both the power and fragility behind the making of a myth.

From Man to Myth

Riverwalk Center

The Grammy-nominated British a cappella octet returns to Caramoor for LEAD ME HOME, a celebration of the American choral landscape.  Showcasing a wide array of American styles, their program includes traditional hymns and folk songs alongside contemporary compositions.

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The Rosen House at Caramoor

Tito Muñoz makes a performance feel “like the center of a social triangle of concerts, parties, and going to church” (I Care If You Listen). Now, he throws more fun into the mix, turning the Hollywood Bowl into a sports arena during this soccer-themed classical program.

The Classical World Cup

Hollywood Bowl

Andris Nelsons leads some of the most acclaimed stars of opera today in performances of Samuel Barber’s Vanessa, a work considered by many the greatest American opera. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1958, Vanessa premiered at the Metropolitan Opera that year. Barber wrote the opera on a libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti; they aimed for a cosmopolitan, nostalgic work on lost love and the consequences of self-delusion. Barber’s romantic lyricism is ever-present in this powerfully affecting work, a centerpiece of this season’s E Pluribus Unum: From Many, One focus.

Vanessa | E Pluribus Unum: From Many, One

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Barber & Hanson

Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center California

Kalena Bovell leads the Grant Park Orchestra in the wistful lyricism of Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto with acclaimed violinist Will Hagen. Jessie Montgomery’s Starburst opens the concert with a bang, and actors from Lookingglass Theatre Company bring to life Peter Boyer’s innovative multimedia work Ellis Island: The Dream of America.

Barber Violin Concerto

Millennium Park

The Knights celebrate America’s 250th anniversary with a bold new festival across iconic New York City parks and the historic Caramoor Center. In a three-part musical showcase, audiences will experience the multifaceted potential and power of American music—rooted in history, alive in the present, shaped by many voices, and brimming with possibility.

The Knights at Naumburg Orchestral Concerts

Central Park

The Knights

BNY Classics showcases unforgettable performances by your Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, featuring timeless masterpieces, thrilling premieres, and renowned guest artists.

Appalachian Spring

Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts

What a fabulous luxury to have 4 of the brilliant Kanneh-Mason family in one concert! As well as all pursuing stellar international careers they are also firm Perth favourites. To hear wonderful chamber music played by star musicians like this will offer seriously intoxicating music-making. Not to be missed.

Classical Stars: The Kanneh Masons

Perth Concert Hall

Enjoy a night of world-class music with Beo String Quartet in the beautiful setting of Unity Chapel in Latrobe.

Beo String Quartet – Summer Chamber Series

Unity Chapel

It’s a work full of contrasts, from soaring lyricism and radiant emotion to a turbulently charged finale. Bringing this concerto to life is Charlie Lovell-Jones, guest leader of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, John Wilson’s award-winning Sinfonia of London, and soloist with orchestras including the BBC Philharmonic and English Chamber Orchestra.

The evening opens with Mark-Anthony Turnage’s A Jolly Good Knees-Up, a spirited burst of sharp rhythms, bold colour, and mischievous energy.

Rush Hour 5: Barber Violin Concerto

St John's Waterloo

June Concert 2026

Pomona College

Musical essays are unusual, yet the connection between music and rhetoric already exists in works of earlier centuries. Barber brings the American essay genre into a one-movement orchestral form that, while not programmatic, is nevertheless rooted in a non-musical idea. Brahms's symphonic debut, which only saw the light of day in 1876 after decades of preparation and subtly represents a reaction to the national unification of Germany, appears to have a very similar structure.

Variations

Gewandhaus

Congress Centrum Suhl

Witness history at the world premiere of Kennedy Center Honoree Philip Glass’ Symphony No. 15, “Lincoln,” a new work that brings one of America’s most iconic figures to life. Led by Grammy-winning conductor Karen Kamensek, the program continues with Barber’s poetic Violin Concerto and Gershwin’s enormously popular An American in Paris.

Philip Glass’ “Lincoln” Dalene plays Barber

Kennedy Center

“When I play, my instrument becomes the extension of my soul.” So says famed Canadian artist Alexandre Da Costa, renowned for his passionate violin as well as his roles as Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Orchestre Philharmonique du Québec and Principal Guest Conductor of the Orquesta Sinfónica Sinaloa de las Artes. He performs here with Cuban-American cellist Thomas “Tommy” Mesa, whose dazzling performance style is “a masterclass in virtuosic playing” (Tucson.com). Passion and fire—the perfect complement to the thrilling performance style of pianist Olga Kern.

Alexandre Da Costa, violin; Tommy Mesa, cello & Olga Kern, piano

Clay & Jay Barr Education Center

Towne University

Music Arts Center

Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Giancarlo Guerrero opens the 2026 Festival season in style with Leonard Bernstein’s jazzy, Latin-inspired Symphonic Dances from West Side Story. Joan Tower’s Made in America and Samuel Barber’s Symphony No. 1 in One Movement continue the celebration of American music in honor of the United States’ 250th.

Bernstein West Side Story

Steve Sanchez, captivating performer and virtuoso clarinetist, joins us for a season finale that packs a punch! The intensity and expression of Samuel Barber leads us into Óscar Navarro’s second clarinet concerto, which is truly cinematic in its scope and jazzy in its sensibilities. Pioneering American composer Amy Beach transports us through musical imagery and Scottish folk song to her Gaelic roots in Scotland. A dramatic finish to a beautiful season of music.

Dramatic Voices

Livermore Performing Arts Center

Jamie Barton was raised on her family’s farm in Georgia, where “pickin’ and grinnin’s” happened all the time. Friends showed up with their instruments, a potluck dish and a desire to make music. Although she began her musical journey with Bluegrass, Barton has become a musical omnivore. She’ll bring the Neruda Songs to life in her Minnesota Orchestra debut.

Søndergård, Barton and Prokofiev

Orchestra Hall Minneapolis

A concert like a tender confession. It begins with a lament and ends with a departure. In between, sound spaces unfold that offer protection while daring to be open. Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" resonates with painful beauty. Lisa Streich composed "Mantel" as a piece about coverings: about what they conceal and what shines through them. A fragile texture emerges that protects and conceals. But what lies beneath? In Caroline Shaw's "Entr'acte," we hear more than a harmless interlude: full of lightness and wit, it surprises with unexpected twists. And then: spring. Schumann's First Symphony allows hope to blossom with every note. Those who allow themselves to be carried by Schumann's momentum sense that even departure requires vulnerability. And how radically vibrant a new beginning can sound!

Spring Coat

Aula am Wilhelmsplatz

This electrifying Australian group, founded in 2007 by brothers Daniel Kowalik (violin) and Karol Kowalik (cello), and friends Thomas Chawner (viola) and David Dalseno (violin), is one of the most exciting string quartets of its generation. Known for their engaging performances, they inspire reviews like this one from the Canberra CityNews: “incredible passion, fire and intensity. The audience erupted in thunderous applause and cheers. It was an electric and enthralling evening of the finest music making.” They are joined by award-winning pianist Olga Kern in what promises to be an evening you won’t want to miss!

Orava Quartet & Olga Kern, piano

Celebrate the richness of American music with the Festival Orchestra, under the dynamic direction of Music Director Timothy Myers, in the stunning, historic St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church. This program brings to life the charm, lyricism, and storytelling that define America’s musical heritage. Featuring Aaron Copland’s beloved Appalachian Spring Suite and its powerful setting of the Shaker tune “Simple Gifts,” the program also includes Samuel Barber’s luscious Knoxville: Summer of 1915, and Jessie Montgomery’s poignant Banner.

Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra: Appalachian Spring and American Classics

St. Matthew's Lutheran Church

A conductorless chamber orchestra led from the first chair by Minnesota Orchestra concertmaster and Curtis violin faculty Erin Keefe. The program includes Mozart’s masterful Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola, and orchestra performed by Erin Keefe and Curtis President and renowned violist Roberto Díaz, as well as beloved works by Barber and Beethoven.

Curtis Chamber Orchestra in Prescott, AZ

Yavapai College

Curtis Chamber Orchestra in Phoenix, AZ

Musical Instrument Museum

Curtis Chamber Orchestra in Fayetteville, AR

Walton Arts Center

Barber’s beloved Adagio for Strings and Leonard Bernstein’s string orchestra arrangement of Beethoven’s F-Major String Quartet, Op. 135 bookend this lovely program from Curtis Chamber Orchestra.

Reflecting on the Beethoven, classical music critic David Patrick Stearns wrote, “the sound of massed strings gives the music a grandeur always implied but never realized by conventional string quartet performances.” Acclaimed violinist and Minnesota Orchestra concertmaster Erin Keefe and viola royalty Roberto Díaz join the ensemble for Mozart’s sunlit Sinfonia Concertante – an ideal showcase for these two outstanding soloists.

Curtis at 92NY: Curtis Chamber Orchestra with Erin Keefe & Roberto Díaz

The 92nd Street Y

Experience the extraordinary sounds of chamber music in the beautiful and vibrant setting of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, under the artistic direction of HSO Concertmaster Leonid Sigal and featuring Hartford Symphony Orchestra musicians. Concerts are presented in collaboration with the Wadsworth Atheneum’s special exhibitions and permanent collections.

America 250

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Escher String Quartet has received acclaim for its profound musical insight and rare tonal beauty. A former BBC New Generation Artist and recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, the quartet has performed at the BBC Proms at Cadogan Hall and is a regular guest at Wigmore Hall. In its home town of New York, the ensemble serves as season artists of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Brandon Patrick George, hailed as a “knockout musician with a gorgeous sound” by The Philadelphia Inquirer, is a GRAMMY-winning flutist whose repertoire extends from the Baroque era to today. He is the flutist of Imani Winds and has appeared as a soloist with the Atlanta, Baltimore, and Albany symphonies, American Composers Orchestra, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, among others.

Escher Quartet w. Brandon Patrick George

Presidio Theatre Performing Arts Center

Selections from Margaret Bond’s fervent Montgomery Variations plus Samuel Barber’s lyrical Violin Concerto, featuring virtuoso soloist Nathan Meltzer, make up the first half of our final concert, commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Aaron Copland’s magnificent Third Symphony, written in 1946 on commission from Serge Koussevitsky, boasts a heroic finale based on Copland’s earlier Fanfare for the Common Man. The piece was immediately hailed as “the greatest American symphony – it goes from the heart to the heart.”

Radiant Reflections: "American Reflections"

North Central College

Celebrate America’s 250th birthday with works exclusively by American composers—Bernstein’s West Side Story Dances, Price’s Symphony No. 1, Barber’s Adagio for Strings, and Gershwin’s An American in Paris.

250 Years of America

North Canyon High School

Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony

Janse Barkley, tenor

Northwestern Bienen School of Music

Samuel Barber is one of the most celebrated American composers of the twentieth century, and VANESSA was a hit upon arrival at the Metropolitan Opera in 1958, subsequently winning the Pulitzer Prize in Music. It could have remained in the canon as one of the great American operas, but its unique brand of gothic creep and fiercely emotional music clashed with the overly-academic tastes of the time. Over the following decades, the piece receded into near-obscurity. Together with director R.B. Schlather, Heartbeat Opera strips away the gewgaws and doilies of its original imaginings, allowing the riveting extremes of these palpable characters to break through. This reinvention, adapted by Jacob Ashworth with a new arrangement by Dan Schlosberg, pares the work down to five singers, hopelessly trapped inside their own circumstances.

Vanessa

Baruch College

This program brings together extraordinary forces of pianists and singers in repertoire that explores love, longing and lyricism across styles and eras. Playful, virtuosic and at times deeply intimate, this concert places collaborative music-making at centre stage.

UQ Pianists and UQ Singers: Too Many Pianists, Just Enough Singers and a Few Strings

Zelman Cowen Building (51)

Isabel Yang, mezzo-soprano

Solve the hidden melody of this captivating musical cryptogram that has stumped audiences for over 125 years. “Commenced in a spirit of humour & continued in deep seriousness” by composer Edward Elgar, Enigma Variations showcases the true inspiration that friendship can bring. Concertmaster Grace Park brings the most popular American violin concerto to life in this program of treasured favorites conducted by Principal Guest Conductor Thomas Wilkins.

Elgar’s Enigma Variations & Barber’s Violin Concerto

Ferguson Center for the Arts

Sandler Center for the Performing Arts

2025/26 CSO Artist-in-Residence Joyce DiDonato is “a supreme artist, as much through sheer triumph of spirit as through musicianship” (Financial Times). The esteemed mezzo-soprano sings the Neruda Songs, Peter Lieberson’s heartbreakingly sensuous song cycle set to the poetry of Pablo Neruda. Edward Gardner concludes the program with Walton’s tumultuous and alluring First Symphony.

DiDonato Performs Neruda Songs

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

An American Celebration

St. Andrew's Episcopal Cathedral

Heart of a New World

Alys Robinson Stephens Performing Arts Center

Overture to a New World

Osmo Vänskä & Renaud Capuçon

Gasteig HP8

Norah Bernstein, soprano

A concert full of beauty, optimism, and the American spirit! William Grant Still’s Wood Notes paints a musical picture of the natural world, followed by Barber’s gorgeous and expressive Violin Concerto. We end with Copland’s Appalachian Spring, a heartwarming and hopeful tribute to new beginnings, capturing the promise of a young pioneer couple starting their life together.

Promise of America

Texas Lutheran University

As the nation marks 250 years since its founding, the Canton Symphony Orchestra closes its 2025–2026 MasterWorks season with a program that reflects the evolving American story through voices both historic and contemporary. We the People is an orchestral reckoning with identity, heritage, and the complexities of shared national memory.

MasterWorks VII: We The People - An American Celebration

Zimmermann Symphony Center

Juana Derdoy, Senior Capstone Recital, voice

560 Music Center

Isabella De La Torre, soprano

From distant shores to dazzling stages, this program tells the story of artists who left their homelands in search of new opportunities, bringing with them rich musical traditions that would flourish in America. Their works—filled with passion, movement, and innovation—embody the spirit of reinvention and triumph. Dai Wei’s Dancing Moonlight shimmers with vibrant energy, blending Eastern and Western influences in a mesmerizing musical dialogue. Acclaimed violinist Vijay Gupta takes center stage for Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto, a work of lyrical beauty and virtuosic brilliance that stands as a testament to Neo-Romanticism. Finally, Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances bursts with rhythmic fire and nostalgia, a dazzling reflection on past and future. This season finale is one of wonder, resilience, and breathtaking music.

American Dreams

Converse University

Pictures at an Exhibition

Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts

Ax & Alexander

Artis–Naples

Erik DeMario, tenor and Jeremy Lee, piano

‘Tremendous’ declared one critic when Nadine Benjamin made her Glyndebourne debut, and this dazzling British soprano has a voice that has to be heard to be believed. Today she joins the London Philharmonic Orchestra to bring all her radiance, her insight and her effortless dramatic flair to Eastbourne. How to follow that? Rising star (and LPO Fellow Conductor) Nefeli Chadouli explores the epic vistas and northern forests of Sibelius’s First Symphony: a young genius in a new nation, pouring all his imagination into music as wild as a winter storm and as wonderful as the Northern Lights.

Sibelius’s First

Congress Theatre

The Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia presents the final concerts of the season

Composer

Samuel Barber

Events

Upcoming events

Sep 26, 2026

Barber Violin Concerto + Dvořák Symphony No. 9 · Wilmington Symphony Orchestra

Sep 27, 2026

Looking Back, Looking Forward · Idaho State-Civic Symphony

Sep 28, 2026

Liverpool String Quartet · Royal Liverpool Philharmonic

Oct 4, 2026

Classic FM Hall of Fame · Royal Liverpool Philharmonic

Oct 5, 2026

Monday Lunchtimes · Royal Northern College of Music

Past events

Sep 19, 2026

The American Voice · Symphony of Southeast Texas

18 - 19 Sep, 2026

Tchaikovsky’s Fourth · The Amarillo Symphony

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