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
NOI+F Music Director Marin Alsop closes our 2023 festival by combining powerful works by Carlos Simon and Jennifer Higdon, two of today’s leading compositional voices with Johannes Brahms’ first symphony.
Simon: Fate Now Conquers
Higdon: Duo Duel
Brahms: Symphony No.1
See the conducting stars of tomorrow in these engaging concerts where student conductors rotate between conducting a movement of a work, or playing in the orchestra. Program Director and AMFS Music Director Robert Spano observes the work of his students at this weekly event.
CARLOS SIMON: Fate Now Conquers
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, op. 55, “Eroica”
Carlos Simon Four Black American Dances 12’
European premiere
Stravinsky Petrushka (1947 version) 34’
Interval
Gershwin Piano Concerto in F major 31’
Ravel La valse 12’
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons conductor
Broadcast on BBC TV
Carlos Simon
Four Black American Dances
Igor Strawinsky
Petrushka (1910–11, rev. 1946–47)
Burleske Szenen (Ballett) in vier Bildern für Orchester. Szenarium von Alexandre Benois und Igor Strawinsky
Pause
George Gershwin
Concerto in F
für Klavier und Orchester
Maurice Ravel
La Valse
Poème chorégraphique pour orchestre
Kedrick Armstrong, conductor
Oakland Symphony Orchestra
Oakland Symphony Chorus
JOAN TOWER: Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No. 6
CARLOS SIMON WITH LIBRETTO BY DAN HARDER: Here I Stand: Paul Robeson (World Premiere – Oakland Symphony Commission, Generously Funded by The Robeson Centennial Committee)
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 5
From the piano, Kennedy Center Composer-in-Residence Carlos Simon leads a small ensemble in Requiem for the Enslaved. The program invokes African American spirituals and the form of a Catholic liturgical mass to tell the story of 272 enslaved people sold in 1838 to pay the debts of Georgetown University.
Carlos Simon, piano
MK Zulu, trumpet
Marco Pavé, writer and spoken word artist
Hub New Music
Michael Avitabile, flute
Gleb Kanasevich, clarinet
Meg Rohrer, violin/viola
Jesse Christeson, cello
ANGÉLICA NEGRÓN
Pedazos intermitentes de un lugar ya fragmentado
JESSICA MEYER
Spirits and Sinew
TYSHAWN SOREY
New work
NICO MUHLY
New work
CARLOS SIMON
Requiem for the Enslaved