Malcolm X at the Met. Jaap van Zweden’s farewell to the New York Philharmonic. Premieres by Kate Soper and Ted Hearne. It’s shaping up to be quite a season.
Founded in 2015, the Chineke! Orchestra made its Proms debut in the 2017 season and has been a regular feature of various festivals and concert series ever since; it is currently a resident orchestra at the Southbank Centre. Chineke!’s motto (“Championing change and celebrating diversity in classical music”) is reflected in both the make-up of their orchestra and the variety of compositions featured in this Prom - from Valerie Coleman all the way back to Joseph Haydn.
This weekend in the arts: The Rosin Box Project's "Debuts" production, a play about motherhood, SummerFest's final weekend and the intersection of mental health and craft.
Before the downbeat on a recent Sunday concert at the Aspen Music Festival, Patrick Summers shared some insights into what connected the pieces he was about to conduct. It amounted to a concise summary of.