Artist ManagementEugene Concert Choir presents a Beethoven Birthday Bash
Hult Center for the Performing Arts, Eugene, OR
Featuring the beloved Beethoven Symphony No. 9 and the Choral Fantasy; this concert will be a joyful celebration of the profound Ludwig van Beethoven!
Pensacola Symphony presents Verdi's Requiem
Saenger Auditiorium, Pensacola, FL
With soaring moments of joy and dramatic fanfare, Verdi’s Requiem is one of the most treasured choral works of all time. In a special artistic collaboration, the orchestra will join forces with four celebrated soloists and more than 120 voices from The University of Southern Mississippi Chorus for Verdi’s Requiem Mass. A monumental masterpiece of joy, hope and passion.
University of Mississippi and Pensacola Symphony presents Verdi's Requiem
Main Street Baptist Church, Hattiesburg, MS
Guiseppe Verdi’s Requiem remains an unrivaled masterpiece and one of the most treasured choral works of all time. It is truly a work by which all other requiems are measured. The Requiem was composed in 1874 to honor the passing of Alessandro Manzoni, an Italian novelist, poet and patriot whose works helped influence Italian unification. In this epic work, operatic soloists join forces with a massive choir and orchestra to create an exhilarating emotional journey for listeners.
National Philharmonic presents Music and Prose
The Music Center at Strathmore, Bethesda, MD
Danielle Talamantes, soprano Zuill Bailey, cello
Samuel Barber: Overture to The School for Scandal
Henry Dehlinger: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock-A Rhapsody for Voice and Orchestra (orchestral premiere)
Alistair Coleman: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (world premiere)
Michael Daugherty: Tales of Hemingway
Fairfax Symphony Orchestra presents Beethoven Symphony No. 9
George Mason University Center for the Performing Arts, Fairfax, VA
PROGRAM
LESHNOFF: Symphony No. 4 “Heichalos” (Regional Premiere)
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9
Distinguished by (The New York Times) as “a leader of contemporary American lyricism,” composer Jonathan Leshnoff is renowned for his music’s striking harmonies and powerful themes. Leshnoff’s Symphony No. 4 is a powerful new work written for the Violins of Hope, a collection of restored instruments that survived the Holocaust. The composer draws inspiration from an ancient Jewish mystical text, Heichalos, to explore spiritual and ethical questions at the heart of the Jewish experience.
Beethoven crafted the Ninth Symphony in an epic struggle between despair and transcendence to reach new heights with the words “all men become brothers.” His glorious final symphony celebrates the bonds that unite humankind and has been described as his “great vision of the future.”