Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Leaves National Symphony And San Francisco Symphony Miles Behind By Programming Eleven Major Works By Living Composers
"Marin Alsop, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's incoming music director, announced an exciting and unusual inaugural season Tuesday that will feature all nine of Beethoven's symphonies as well as major works by 11 living composers.
It will be the first time that the BSO has played the entire Beethoven cycle in one season. The 2007-08 programming also includes works by leading composers Aaron Jay Kernis, Steven Mackey and Joan Tower. Five composers -- John Adams, Tan Dun, James MacMillan, Thomas Ades and HK Gruber -- will conduct their own music.
It is an infinitely more thought-provoking season than the one the National Symphony Orchestra offered for 2006-07, which has been much criticized for its timidity and reiteration of standard repertory. The NSO will announce its 2007-08 season, the last under the direction of Leonard Slatkin, next Tuesday.
"Conceptualizing this season and weaving it together was a wonderful challenge and tremendous fun," Alsop, the first woman in history to take on the leadership for a full-time, full-size and top-ranking American orchestra, said in a statement. "This inaugural season with the Baltimore Symphony offered me an opportunity to capitalize on the strengths and history of a terrific orchestra and set out my vision for an orchestra in the 21st century." ...
Tim Page "BSO Unveils Lineup for Marin Alsop's First Season" Washington Post February 28, 2007 via Topix.net
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Aerial View of Fort McHenry [right of photo], Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
Fort McHenry, as many Americans once upon a time knew, was the birthplace of the American National Anthem.
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It will be the first time that the BSO has played the entire Beethoven cycle in one season. The 2007-08 programming also includes works by leading composers Aaron Jay Kernis, Steven Mackey and Joan Tower. Five composers -- John Adams, Tan Dun, James MacMillan, Thomas Ades and HK Gruber -- will conduct their own music.
It is an infinitely more thought-provoking season than the one the National Symphony Orchestra offered for 2006-07, which has been much criticized for its timidity and reiteration of standard repertory. The NSO will announce its 2007-08 season, the last under the direction of Leonard Slatkin, next Tuesday.
"Conceptualizing this season and weaving it together was a wonderful challenge and tremendous fun," Alsop, the first woman in history to take on the leadership for a full-time, full-size and top-ranking American orchestra, said in a statement. "This inaugural season with the Baltimore Symphony offered me an opportunity to capitalize on the strengths and history of a terrific orchestra and set out my vision for an orchestra in the 21st century." ...
Tim Page "BSO Unveils Lineup for Marin Alsop's First Season" Washington Post February 28, 2007 via Topix.net
http://www.topix.net/content/wapo/
3626207798030853917910989354281387152963
All Subscription Seats Just $25!!
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Aerial View of Fort McHenry [right of photo], Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
Fort McHenry, as many Americans once upon a time knew, was the birthplace of the American National Anthem.
Photo credit: NOAA Magazine [U.S. Department of Commerce]. MARINE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM AND WETLAND RESTORATION MEET AT FORT MCHENRY. With thanks.
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