by Taylor Hollyer | May 22, 2018 | News
18-19 Season Sneak Peek Enjoy! More details to come soon! MSO 2018-19 Season Brochure An Evening with Renée Fleming September 12, 2018 at 7:30 pm Scott Speck, conductor featuring critically acclaimed soprano Renée Fleming is one of the most acclaimed singers of...
by Taylor Hollyer | May 7, 2018
By the time Brahms began work on this marvelous violin concerto in 1878, he and Joseph Joachim had been friends for 25 years. One of the most outstanding musicians of the era, Joachim won fame as violinist, chamber musician, conductor, and composer. Like Brahms, he...
by Taylor Hollyer | May 7, 2018
Beethoven’s friends have left ample evidence of his deep love of nature. Hardly a day passed when he didn’t take a long walk through the woods and fields surrounding Vienna, drinking in the sights and sounds of the countryside. His sketchbook for his sixth symphony’s...
by Taylor Hollyer | May 7, 2018
Respighi celebrated the past and present beauties of his beloved adopted city in three tone poems or suites: Fountains of Rome (1916), Pines of Rome (1924), and Roman Festivals (1928). He attached a preface to the score of Roman Festivals, setting out the scenes he...
by Taylor Hollyer | May 7, 2018
Renée Fleming is one of the most acclaimed singers of our time. In 2013, President Obama awarded her America’s highest honor for an artist, the National Medal of Arts. In 2014, she became the first classical artist ever to sing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl....
by Taylor Hollyer | Mar 28, 2018 | News
Born in Magdeburg, Germany in 1923, Pressler fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and emigrated to Israel. Pressler’s world renowned career was launched after he was awarded first prize at the Debussy International Piano Competition in San Francisco in 1946. This was followed by...
by Taylor Hollyer | Mar 28, 2018 | News
Shostakovich was only 26 when he completed Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District(1934). The opera featured a racy plot set to avant-garde music and premiered to critical and popular acclaim. Two years later, three different productions were running in Moscow. Then...
by Taylor Hollyer | Feb 26, 2018 | News
We’re packing the stage with three choirs, two soloists and more than 100 outstanding musicians for our biggest and boldest concert ever – Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2. “Our 20th anniversary is a huge cause for celebration,” Scott...
by Taylor Hollyer | Feb 26, 2018 | News
Within its span of an hour and a half, Mahler’s Second Symphony conveys pretty much everything that is essential to understanding his brave conception of the symphony as a genre. Here we have the immense scale Mahler was intent on harnessing, represented by not only...
by Taylor Hollyer | Jan 29, 2018 | News
2017 Grammy Award-Winning Zuill Bailey grew up in Northern Virginia, where he was influenced and inspired by Rostropovich, who was then Director of the National Symphony. His parents are musicians; his mother is a pianist and his father has a Doctorate in both music...
