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Scheherazade opens a season filled with new work from American composers

May 10, 2021 By Lawrence Budmen Michael Tilson Thomas led the New World Symphony in an American program Saturday night. File photo: Brandon Patoc The musicians of the New World Symphony have played under some highly gifted conductors during this season of intimate streamed concerts but when artistic director Michael Tilson Thomas returned to the podium for an all-American program on Saturday night, the difference was palpable. There was added spark in the players’ articulations, rhythms crackled and tonal sonority gleamed. Tilson Thomas described the five compos...

© Todd Rosenberg Photography The sounds of in-person classical music are returning to Symphony Center. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association on Tuesday announced the first CSO concert performances with live audiences in attendance at Orchestra Hall (220 S. Michigan) since the pandemic shutdown of all performing arts venues in March 2020. The series of concerts, programmed in conjunction with maestro Riccardo Muti, will take place May 27-June 13 “and feature music for brass and percussion, string ensembles and orchestra,” Tuesday’s announcement said. The concerts will be presented...

| 03/28/2004 (5 out of 5 stars) "Particularly with the Seventh, I have little desire to analyze what Mahler is trying to say. I'm satisfied simply to let myself be taken along the river of the composer's musical consciousness. Currently, my preferences for this piece are Tennstedt and this first Bernstein New York Philharmonic account. Like some, I find a number of the performances in Bernstein's second set (with different orchestras) often mannered and slow. By contrast, I would place a number of his readings from the first set at or near the top of the list of individual Mahler recordings....

Joshua Kosman March 14, 2021Updated: March 15, 2021, 10:46 pm Michael Tilson Thomas, “From the Diary of Anne Frank” & “Meditations on Rilke.” Photo: SFS Media Michael Tilson Thomas, the San Francisco Symphony’s music director laureate, won a Grammy on Sunday, March 14, in the best classical compendium category for an album, produced by Jack Vad, containing two of his vocal compositions: “From the Diary of Anne Frank” and “Meditations on Rilke.” The works, released on the SFS Media label, feature vocal contributions from mezzo-sopranos Isabel Leonard and Sasha Co...