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Toulmin Commissioning Consortium: American Composers Orchestra and League of American Orchestras have established a 30-orchestra consortium to support commissions by 6 women and nonbinary EarShot alumni. Each composer will write a 6–8 minute orchestral work and develop an educational or community-focused program presented in partnership with each orchestra.

Virginia B. Toulmin Commission by Wang Lu with Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Pops

University of Akron

Sibelius’s First Symphony arrives with the composer’s icy and expansive musical language fully formed, forged from influences by Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Berlioz and Beethoven. Violinist Benjamin Beilman joins the CSO for Saint-Saëns’ Third Concerto, a piece that oozes melodic and technical exuberance. Wang Lu’s Surge bottles the rush of hearing an orchestra for the very first time.

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Sibelius & Saint-saëns

Cincinnati Music Hall

Festival Orchestra: Hadelich, Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2

Michael Klein Music Tent

Join us for an unforgettable musical journey at the Benedict Music Tent on July 11, 2021, at 4:00 PM MT, as the Aspen Festival Orchestra presents a concert that promises to be a highlight of the Aspen Music Festival and School season. With special thanks to Lisa and Will Mesdag, this event features a trio of musical powerhouses performing Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, a piece that showcases the fun and dynamic interplay between a piano trio and orchestra. The concert will also include Hannah Kendall's "The Spark Catchers," inspired by Lemn Sissay’s poem, and Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, a piece reflecting the tumultuous times of World War II.

The concert begins with "The Spark Catchers," where Kendall draws inspiration from Sissay's vibrant and dynamic poem to create a piece full of contrasting musical characteristics. Following this, the orchestra will delve into Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, a work known for its rhythmic intensity and chromaticism, reflecting the composer's response to the era's sharp events and shifting emotions.

The highlight of the evening, Beethoven's Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano in C major, op. 56, known as the Triple Concerto, will feature the exceptional talents of Ludovic Morlot as conductor, Stefan Jackiw on violin, Alisa Weilerstein on cello, and Inon Barnatan at the piano. This concerto is a testament to Beethoven's genius, offering a richly expressive middle movement and a rousing, dance-like finale that promises to captivate the audience.

This 75-minute performance will be streamed live for free, allowing music lovers worldwide to partake in this extraordinary musical feast. Please note that there will be no intermission, and attendees are encouraged to check the Concert Protocols page before attending to stay informed on the most up-to-date safety protocols.

Don't miss this opportunity to experience the magic of the Aspen Festival Orchestra under the direction of Ludovic Morlot, with Robert Spano as Music Director and Alan Fletcher as President and CEO, in a concert that spans the centuries and celebrates the power of music to unite and inspire.

Our season closes in a riot of rhythms as the orchestra performs George Gershwin’s Concerto in F, with pianist Orion Weiss, and Ralph Vaughan Williams’ A London Symphony. Composer Wang Lu joins us from the stage to share her work, Surge, commissioned by the League of American Orchestras with the generous support of the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation.

Season Finale

Saenger Theatre Pensacola

Our season closes in a riot of rhythms as the orchestra rehearses George Gershwin’s Concerto in F, with pianist Orion Weiss, and Ralph Vaughan Williams’ A London Symphony. Composer Wang Lu joins us from the stage to share her work, Surge, commissioned by the League of American Orchestras with the generous support of the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation.

Season Finale Dress Rehearsal

Bars Spring Concert 2024

San Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts Center

Stanford University

The ensemble’s first concert of the winter quarter features the Chicago premiere of Nina Shekhar’s Turn Your Feet Around. In the composer’s words, the work “brings the nightclub to the concert hall. Using deconstructed and warped fragments of the ever fabulous Gloria Estefan’s 'Get On Your Feet' (1989), musicians have a chance to reconnect with their own physicality by dancing to wild reimagined grooves and ‘80s-style drum-beats.” Wang Lu’s Cross-Around, commissioned by the Montreal-based group Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, explores the intersections of the many types of events in the universe and the ways in which they play off each other. Also on the program are two world premieres by Bienen student composers Apsara Balamurugan and Oliver Mann. 

Contemporary Music Ensemble

Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall

Renowned conductor Keith Lockhart, known for his tenure with the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops, leads the Orchestra in Bartok’s groundbreaking Concerto for Orchestra and Barber’s gorgeous Violin Concerto, performed by prodigy Amaryn Olmeda. The Orchestra performs the Midwest Premiere of Wang Lu’s innovative Surge in collaboration with the New York Philharmonic’s World Premiere.

Dm Symphony - Discover Groundbreaking Innovation

Des Moines Civic Center

New Music New England is a new initiative of the New England Philharmonic celebrating the new music works from New England. Each concert presents music by artists based in New England that have yet to be heard by the general public. This inaugural concert makes reference to the grand musical traditions of the region with Charles Ives’s Three Places in New England, together with music by Wang Lu, David Sanford, and Kati Agócs, which have yet to be heard in Boston. The concert’s grand finale features Grammy Award-winning organist Paul Jacobs in the long-awaited Boston premiere of John Harbison’s “What Do We Make of Bach!”

New England Philharmonic Concert – New Music New England

Boston University

Contemporary chamber music performed by the ensemble of the Contemporary Performance Program at MSM.

Tactus

Manhattan School of Music

The Grammy-winning Parker Quartet (“something extraordinary,” New York Times) leads a Beethoven-based program that includes a work by Beethoven’s teacher, Haydn; three short works inspired by Beethoven’s Quartets, by Suzanne Farrin, Anthony Cheung, and Michi Wiancko (also heard at the Festival as violinist); and Beethoven’s monumental String Quartet, op. 130 (with the epic Grosse Fuge). The Parker Quartet illuminates Beethoven’s quartet with an engaging verbal introduction to the work.

Parker Quartet: Beethoven Illuminated

First Presbyterian Church

SONiC teams up with Luna Composition Lab and International Contemporary Ensemble to present a concert of brand new works by the 2022–23 Luna Lab Fellows. Founded in 2016 by composers Missy Mazzoli and Ellen Reid, Luna Composition Lab provides mentorship and performance opportunities to young composers ages 13–18 who are female, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming. Missy Mazzoli, Ellen Reid, and George Lewis curate this evening of world premieres as well as additional works by Luna Lab mentors.

Luna Lab Composer Showcase

Mannes School of Music

Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, a captivatingly melodic work, is brought to life by Lisa Batiashvili. Finnish conductor Dalia Stasevska leads the Orchestra in her countryman Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2, an expansive depiction of the Scandinavian landscape. Wang Lu’s World Premiere opens the concert.

Wang Lu

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Oct 26, 2024

Virginia B. Toulmin Commission by Wang Lu with Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Pops · American Composers Orchestra

Oct 26, 2024

Sibelius & Saint-saëns · Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

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