Explore by Instrument

Incredible Violinists
Dazzling Pianists
Other Unique Instrumentalists
  • July 2: Jennifer Bird-Arvidsson, soprano 
  • July 13: Timothy McAllister, saxophone
  • July 16: Janice Chandler-Eteme, soprano 
  • July 27/28: Johannes Moser, cello

Bring the Family

Music That Paints a Picture (Family-Friendly!)
  • June 29/30: Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition
  • July 2: Prokofiev, Peter and the Wolf (Family Concert)
  • August 3: Debussy, La Mer

Music of Today

2023 Premieres
  • July 16: Adolphus Hailstork, JFK: The Last Speech (world premiere); Jordan Holloway, Flatiron Escapades (world premiere commission); Carter Pann, Dreams I Must Not Speak (world premiere commission) 
  • August 3: Elements (two-part preview performance, featuring work by composers Jake Heggie, Edgar Meyer, and Jessie Montgomery)
  • August 6: Elements (two-part preview performance, featuring work by composers Jennifer Higdon and Kevin Puts)
Music by Living Composers
  • June 29/30: Carlos Simon, “Motherboxx Connection” from Tales: A Folklore Symphony for orchestra
  • July 2: Eric Whitacre, Goodnight Moon (Family Concert) 
  • July 11: Caleb Burhans, Contritus; Philip Glass, String Quartet No. 5; Caroline Shaw, Entr’acte; John Zorn, The Remedy of Fortune for String Quartet 
  • July 13: John Corigliano, Gazebo Dances; One Sweet Morning; and Triathlon 
  • July 16: Adolphus Hailstork, JFK: The Last Speech; Jordan Holloway, Flatiron Escapades, (world premiere); Carter Pann, Dreams I Must Not Speak (world premiere)
  • July 18: James MacMillan, Memento and For Sonny 
  • July 27/28: Mason Bates, The Rhapsody of Steve Jobs 
  • August 3: Movements from Elements by Jake Heggie, Edgar Meyer, and Jessie Montgomery
  • August 6: Movements from Elements by Jennifer Higdon and Kevin Puts

Women Composers

Music by Women Composers
  • July 11: Caroline Shaw, Entr’acte
  • July 20/21: Florence Price, Piano Concerto in One Movement  
  • August 3: Movement from Elements by Jessie Montgomery 
  • August 6: Movement from Elements by Jennifer Higdon 

Composers of Color

Music by Composers of Color
  • June 29/30: Carlos Simon, “Motherboxx Connection” from Tales: A Folklore Symphony for orchestra
  • July 2: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, “Danse Nègre” from African Suite (Family Concert) 
  • July 16: Adolphus Hailstork, JFK: The Last Speech (world premiere) 
  • July 20/21: Florence Price, Piano Concerto in One Movement
  • August 3: Movement from Elements by Jessie Montgomery

Intimate Chamber Music

Robert Mann Chamber Music Series
  • July 11: JACK Quartet: New York Stories 
  • July 18: Brentano String Quartet 
  • July 25: Brahms, Britten & Poulenc
  • August 1: Beethoven, Debussy & Dvořák

Classic Masterpieces

Irresistible Symphonic Masterpieces
  • June 29/30: Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition 
  • July 6/7: Rachmaninoff, Symphony No. 3 
  • July 9: Rachmaninoff, Symphonic Dances 
  • July 16: Hailstork, JFK: The Last Speech (world premiere) 
  • July 20/21: Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 4 
  • July 23: Mozart, Symphony No. 36, “Linz” 
  • July 27/28: Brahms, Symphony No. 2 
  • July 30: Haydn, Symphony No. 96, “The Miracle” 
  • August 3: Debussy, La Mer 
  • August 6: Mahler, Symphony No. 1
Music by Rachmaninoff, in Celebration of His 150th Birthday
  • July 6/7: Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 & Symphony No. 3
  • July 9: Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 4 & Symphonic Dances
Music by Mozart
  • July 18: String Quartet No. 20
  • July 23: The Impresario Overture; Violin Concerto No. 3; Adagio and Fugue; Symphony No. 36, “Linz”
Music by Beethoven

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