Schedule

CARLOS SIMON: Fate Now Conquers

BRAHMS: Violin Concerto

MAHLER: Symphony No. 5

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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

Concert programme includes Carlos Simon - Amen!

CARLOS SIMON AMEN!

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 3  

IGOR STRAVINSKY Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)

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Carlos Simon, “Motherboxx Connection” from Tales: A Folklore Symphony for orchestra (2021

Max Bruch, Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor

Modest Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)

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

National Seminario Ravinia Orchestra‍

‍Chicago Philharmonic‍

‍Jonathan Rush, Lead Seminario Conductor

‍Marin Alsop, conductor

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Programme includes Carlos Simon's Motherboxx Connection

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”

Peter Shin Relapse

Carlos Simon Tales: A Folklore Symphony

Andrea Reinkemeyer Water Sings Fire

Tan Dun The Tears of Nature

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SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concerto No. 5, Egyptian
‍Carlos SIMON Four Black American Dances (BSO commission)
GERSHWIN Piano Concerto in F

Andris Nelsons, conductor

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

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Carlos Simon (*1986)
Four Black American Dances
Swiss Premiere

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, Op. 103 Egyptian Concert

Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Petrushka

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

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Carlos Simon »Four black American dances«

George Gershwin Konzert für Klavier und Orchester F-Dur

Sergej Prokofiew Sinfonie Nr. 5 B-Dur op. 100

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Carlos Simon

Four Black American Dances

(French premiere)

George Gershwin

Concerto en fa

INTERMISSION

Sergueï Prokofiev

Symphonie n° 5

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Carlos Simon: Fate Now Conquers

Edward Elgar: Introduction and Allegro

Modest Mussorgsky/Maurice Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition

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Carlos Simon Fate Now Conquers

Beethoven Violin Concerto

Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3, Organ

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Stéphane Denève, conductor

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CARLOS SIMON: Concerto for Orchestra (SDS Commission)

MAHLER: Symhpony No. 2 in C Minor

‍This performance is part of the California Festival.

Carlos Simon: Concerto for Orchestra** (NSO CO-COMMISSION)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4

Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5

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C. SIMON: Concerto for orchestra

‍E. W. KORNGOLD: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 35

‍D. XOSTAKÓVITX: Symphony No. 5 in D minor, op. 47

Kedrick Armstrong, conductor
Oakland Symphony Orchestra
Oakland Symphony Chorus
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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

Carlos Simon Motherboxx Connection

Various Composers TBD

Uzee Brown We Shall Overcome

Carlos Simon brea(d)th

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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

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