Original charlotte hornets roster5/4/2023 ![]() You may wonder who assembled this lineup, with Warren-Green back in Britain. A January concert matches Aaron Copland’s suite from the ballet “Billy the Kid” with Samuel Barber’s Second Essay for Orchestra, Jennifer Higdon’s “Cold Mountain Suite” - co-commissioned by the CSO - and the season’s biggest surprise: Mizzy Mazzoli’s violin concerto, “Procession,” with in-demand soloist Jennifer Koh. The English sea pieces above comprise one of those. Programmers dared to curate evenings without a single cornerstone of the repertoire. 1 - known as the “Afro-American Symphony,” the first symphony by a Black composer played by a major orchestra - anchors a program after Dvořák’s tone poem “The Noonday Witch,” Chopin’s Second Piano Concerto and a “Faust” overture by long-dead German composer Emilie Mayer. Most daringly, William Grant Still’s Symphony No. John Adams’ “Doctor Atomic Symphony,“ adapted from his Manhattan Project opera “Doctor Atomic,” will get an airing before Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto.įlorence Price’s Piano Concerto in One Movement will go well with “Rhapsody in Blue” by her contemporary, George Gershwin. Now we’ll hear many substantial pieces new to our ears. ![]() 1 but more frequently with a short curtain-raiser unlikely to drive off timid listeners. The CSO has put a toe or two into contemporary hot water, occasionally with a big work such as John Corigliano’s Symphony No. Yet his freewheeling KnightSounds program stopped in 2016 after six years, and the replacement altsounds series died even faster. 1 to texts by Walt Whitman, and Grace Williams’ “Sea Sketches.”) (He’ll return to lead an all-English program: Benjamin Britten’s “Four Sea Interludes” from the opera “Peter Grimes,” Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Symphony No. The CSO increased its commitment to contemporary and lesser-known music during Christopher Warren-Green’s 12-year tenure as music director, which ended last May. 9 and 10, 2024, for a program featuring David Schiff's Four Sisters, a concerto that pays homage to Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan. Jazz violinist Regina Carter will join the Charlotte Symphony Feb. Bach.”) Instead of a typical “Mozart/Beethoven/Brahms Lives Upstairs” morning, “Saint-Georges’ Sword and Bow” will introduce us to the Afro-European contemporary of Mozart who was a gifted fencer, violinist and composer. (Schickele is the musical satirist famous for creating the fictional composer “P.D.Q. Saint-Saens’ “Carnival of the Animals” pairs off with “Thurber’s Dogs,” a suite inspired by James Thurber’s drawings and composed by Peter Schickele. Two of the four Pops concerts offer tributes by Black artists to Black singers: Carter will play David Schiff's “Four Sisters,” a concerto honoring Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan, and vocalist Dee Daniels will pay homage to them and others in an evening titled “Great Ladies of Swing.”Įven the Family Series goes farther afield. The upcoming Classical Series contains eight works by composers who are still with us, nine by women, four by African-Americans, two by living Asian-born composers. She or he will inherit an attitude that has suddenly invigorated Charlotte’s oldest professional arts organization. Officially, that will happen by the end of the year according to informed rumor, we’ll get a decision by September. ![]() The CSO has yet to name a permanent music director. I’ll let a great composer of the mid-20th century sum up the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra’s 2023-24 season : “Roll over Beethoven, and tell Tchaikovsky the news.”Ĭhuck Berry may not be featured in these concerts, though you can never tell what crossover violinist Regina Carter might play, and Beethoven and Tchaikovsky are still on the roster.īut for the first time in memory, members of the Great Classical Canon will be less important than the startling array of Black, female and living composers who’ll populate the programs, not only in the Classical Series but the Pops Series and even the Family Series aimed at kids. (Photo courtesy of Charlotte Symphony/Michael Harding) Big names in music including opera great Renée Fleming, TikTok sensation Cody Fry and jazz violinist Regina Carter will perform during the new Charlotte Symphony season.
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