As the NRO’s first Music, Mix & Mingle evening, this concert offers a fresh take on a night out: arrive early for tastings and $10 craft cocktails by Breckenridge Distillery alongside a lively pre-concert mingle set to Bridgerton-style strings, then settle in for a dynamic, one-hour performance that is vibrant, social, and effortlessly fun.  

“American Landscapes” paints expansive sound-worlds that reflect the vastness and diversity of the nation’s terrain and spirit. Bates’ Desert Transport propels listeners across sun-baked horizons with rhythmic drive and shimmering orchestral color, conjuring the heat, motion, and beauty of the Southwest. Schoenberg’s American Symphony responds to the promise of change, crafting an emotional arc from introspective passages to vibrant celebration.  

American Landscapes

Riverwalk Center

EPSG:4326

University Orchestra – Callum Smart, guest violin/leader; Bryce Burgess, viola soloist

Auer Hall

Tribute to Benny Goodman + Mozart

University of South Alabama

Gary Levinson, violinist and CMSFW artistic director, leads an ensemble of world-class musicians to kick off the first concert of the season. Additional performers will be announced soon.

Subtle Connections Across the World - CMSFW Ensemble with Gary Levinson and Friends

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Experience the Miró Quartet’s engaging commemoration of the 1938 recording collaboration between Benny Goodman and the Budapest String Quartet, with special guest bass/baritone Joseph Parrish and clarinetist David Shifrin.

Miró Quartet with David Shifrin, clarinet and Joseph Parrish, bass/baritone

Detroit Country Day School - Upper School

Digital Concert: Miró Quartet with David Shifrin, clarinet and Joseph Parrish, bass/baritone

Winner of both the Avery Fisher Career Grant (1987) and the Avery Fisher Prize (2000), David Shifrin is in constant demand as an orchestral soloist, recitalist and chamber music collaborator.

David Shifrin and the Miró Quartet – Rendezvous with Benny Goodman

Sedona Performing Arts Center

The Miró Quartet is one of America’s most celebrated and dedicated string quartets, having been labeled by The New Yorker as “furiously committed” and noted by the Cleveland Plain Dealer for its “exceptional tonal focus and interpretive intensity.” For over twenty-five years the Quartet has performed throughout the world on the most prestigious concert stages, earning accolades from critics and audiences alike. Based in Austin, TX, and thriving on the area’s storied music scene, the Miró takes pride in finding new ways to communicate with audiences of all backgrounds while cultivating the longstanding tradition of chamber music.

Miró Quartet

Renaissance Square Event Center

Tulsa Performing Arts Center

Timothy Ridout’s Viola Day opens with the classical refinement of the Duo in F by Alessandro Rolla, best known today as Paganini’s teacher, and continues with a delightful arrangement for three violas of Beethoven’s Trio in C Op. 87 by the legendary violist Lionel Tertis, a work conceived for two oboes and cor anglais. Alan Shulman’s reflective Theme and Variations signals a change of mood as does the arrangement of Dvořák’s Czech Suite by Sancho Egnaño, described by Grove’s Dictionary of Music as the amateur viola-playing son of a Spanish ‘bull maintenance technician’.

Alan Shulman

Events

Upcoming events

Nov 14, 2026

Timothy Ridout viola; Hélène Clément viola; Ting-Ru Lai viola; Matthew Lipman viola; Eivind Ringstad viola; Georgy Kovalev viola; James Baillieu piano · Wigmore Hall

Past events

Jun 24, 2026

American Landscapes · National Repertory Orchestra

Jan 30, 2026

University Orchestra – Callum Smart, guest violin/leader; Bryce Burgess, viola soloist · Indiana University Jacobs School of Music

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