Schedule

MVE travels to Isle of Arran, Scotland to perform their program Midnight Magic

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MVE performs Midnight Magic at The American Church in Paris.

Valerie Coleman: "Umoja, Anthem of Unity"
Florence Price: Violin Concerto No. 2

INTERMISSION

Carlos Simon: "Fate Now Conquers"
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, Op. 92, A Major

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Gianandrea Noseda, conductor
J'Nai Bridges, mezzo-soprano

Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
Luciano Berio: Folk Songs
Carlos Simon: Songs of Separation (WORLD PREMIERE, NSO COMMISSION)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet - Fantasy Overture

A Kennedy Center and Washington National Opera World Premiere Commission

Together with the Washington National OperaCafritz Young Artists, Mo Willems and Renée Fleming present famous arias as you’ve never heard them before, bursting with Mo-ified lyrics to explore the range of human emotions in a way audiences new and old can appreciate and enjoy.

And—as a special bonus for the evening—enjoy a world premiere performance of the new WNO commission, Don’t Let the Pigeon Sing Up Late!, composed by Kennedy Center Composer-in-Residence Carlos Simon and featuring The Pigeon’s dramatic operatic debut.

Carlos Simon: "Fate Now Conquers"

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

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Jader Bignamini, Kenneth Thompkins

Xavier Foley: "For Justice & Peace"
Giovanni Bottesini: "Gran Duo Concertante"
Carlos Simon:"Fate Now Conquers"
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5.
Special notes: Foley will perform with the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra as a soloist for his work

In a new work commissioned by the Minnesota Orchestra, composer Carlos Simon and librettist Marc Bamuthi Joseph embrace the aspiration of racial equity through music-centered community healing. With brea(d)th, the artists and the Orchestra lead us on a creative path of reflection, intention and organized hope.

Assad: "Confessions"
Johnson: Praise to the Mother of Jamaican Art (BASS Commission, World Premiere)
Livingston: "Penolope"
Leon: "Atwood Songs"
Moya: "Ciudades del Porvenir"
Oritz: "Canciones de Agua"
Simon: New Work (BASS Commission, World Premiere)

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WANG: "Lotus Prayer"
SIMON: "Portrait of a Queen"
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: "Scheherazade"

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A complete performance of Carlos Simon’s cycle Between Worlds, four solo string works placed in visual context by the remarkable paintings of Bill Traylor (ca. 1853-1949), chronicling nearly a century of Black American life