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Fort Worth Weekly
By Edward Brown
Courtesy of the Conducting Institute
After 20 seasons as the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra’s music director, Miguel Harth-Bedoya has turned much of his time end effort to education. When he isn’t directing orchestra studies at the University of Nebraska, the FWSO music director laureate heads the Conducting Institute, the Fort Worth-based program that is primarily known for immersive summer classes that help young and aspiring conductors hone their skills. This year’s summer session begins Tuesday, June 1, at Orchestra Hall, the Fort Worth Youth Orchestra’s home in the South Side.
“After the year we have all been through, we are thrilled to be able to hold the 2021 institute in Fort Worth, safely and in person,” Harth-Bedoya said. “In 2020, we were proud to be able to pivot quickly and successfully to an online format, but the conductor’s instrument is the orchestra. All of the coursework and study is essential, but
Vancouver Symphony to Premiere Vivian Fung s Flute Concerto Storm Within
The live streamed performance, titled Sun and Storm, also includes Schubert s Fifth Symphony.by BWW News Desk
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, led by Tania Miller, will perform the world premiere of JUNO-winning composer Vivian Fung s Flute Concerto Storm Within, featuring VSO principal flutist Christie Reside as soloist, on Friday, June 4, 2021 at 7:30pm PT. The live streamed performance, titled Sun and Storm, also includes Schubert s Fifth Symphony and is available on the VSO s virtual venue, TheConcertHall.ca, presented by TELUS.
Fung s Flute Concerto Storm Within, co-commissioned by the Vancouver Symphony, is a work in one continuous movement written during the fall and winter of 2020, at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic was raging and California, where Fung currently resides, was in full lockdown. She says, As I sat in my studio, powerful images and stories filtered in from the daily news - pro
Fort Worth Weekly
THURSDAY May 6
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FRIDAY May 7
At 6pm Fri and 7:15pm Sun, go behind the scenes with Sesame Street artists, creators, and educators at a screening of the documentary film
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street at Texas Theatre (231 W Jefferson Blvd, Dallas, 214-948-1546). Tickets are $10 at TexasTheatre.org.
Fort Worth Symphony honors America with special Fourth of July concert
Fort Worth Symphony honors America with special Fourth of July concert The Fort Worth Symphony will present the America Strong concert at Dickies Arena on July 4.
Photo courtesy of Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra has announced that it will host a special, socially-distanced America Strong concert at Dickies Arena on July 4 as an ode to the country’s perseverance throughout the past year. The one-night-only performance will feature more than 60 minutes of music from the orchestra and world-renowned opera singers Latonia Moore and Morris Robinson, all conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya in his final season with the orchestra. The concert will be in lieu of the FWSO s annual Concerts in the Garden series, which has once again been canceled.