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MaY/June Events at The Music Center at Strathmore [S] and at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall [M]
Off the Cuff
SAT, MAY 7, 8 pm [M]
SUN, May 8, 3 pm [S]
FRI, MAY 13, 8:15pm [S]
SAT, MAY 14, 7pm [M]
Marin Alsop, conductor
Alexandra Soumm, violin
(BSO debut)
John Adams, conductor
Jeremy Denk, piano
Joan Tower: Sixth Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman (BSO Centennial
Commission, World Premiere)
Lalo: Symphonie espagnole, Op. 21
Anna Clyne: New Work (BSO
Commission, World Premiere)
Bizet: Selections from “Carmen”
Marin Alsop conducts the world
premieres of BSO commissions by
two extraordinary women. Legendary
composer Joan Tower’s Sixth Fanfare
for Uncommon Women celebrates the
BSO’s Centennial season. Anna Clyne
will use contemporary works from the
Baltimore Museum of Art as inspiration. Violinist Alexandra Soumm, in
her BSO debut, will perform Lalo’s
virtuosic Symphonie espagnole.
Beethoven’s Emperor
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5,
“Emperor”
John Adams directs renowned and
award-winning pianist Jeremy Denk in
Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto.
Written while Beethoven was riding
out the French siege of Vienna in a
friend’s cellar, the fifth piano concerto affirms heroic spirit in the midst
of what Beethoven called “Nothing
but drums, cannons, human misery
of every sort!”
The Planets
FRI, MAY 20, 8 pm [M]
SUN, MAY 22, 3 pm [M]
SAT, MAY 21, 8 pm [S]
THURS, MAY 12, 8pm [M]
SUN, MAY 15, 3pm [S]
John Storgårds, conductor
(BSO debut)
Christopher Lamb, percussion
Women of the Baltimore Choral
Arts Society, Tom Hall, director
John Adams, conductor
Jeremy Denk, piano
Tan Dun: Water Concerto
Holst: The Planets
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5,
“Emperor”
John Adams: Harmonielehre
The natural world — on this planet and
beyond — is on full musical display
with Tan Dun’s Water Concerto and
Gustav Holst’s The Planets. ChineseAmerican composer Tan Dun uses
the elemental force of water as both
subject matter and instrument in this
strikingly original concerto.
Beethoven’s Emperor
Post-minimalist conductor-composer
John Adams returns to the BSO
to conduct Beethoven’s grandiose
Emperor concerto and his own
intensely expressive symphonic essay
Harmonielehre.
Strathmore pre-concert lecture:
Sun, May 15, 1:30 pm
Yulia Van Doren
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Bach’s B Minor Mass
THURS, MAY 26, 8 pm [S]
FRI, MAY 27, 8 pm [M]
SAT, MAY 28, 8 pm [M]
Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Yulia Van Doren, soprano
Christopher Ainslie, countertenor
Thomas Cooley, tenor
Dashon Burton, bass
Baltimore Choral Arts Society
Tom Hall, director
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J.S.Bach: Mass in B Minor
Nicholas McGegan brings his
mastery and affection for early music
to Bach’s great Mass in B Minor.
These first BSO performances in
50 years are a fitting Centennial
season showcase for the BSO and
Baltimore Choral Arts Society.
Premium Concert
BSO SuperPops
Hairspray:
In Concert Featuring
John Waters
THURS, JUNE 2, 8pm [S]
FRI, JUNE 3, 8pm [M]
SAT, JUNE 4, 3pm & 8pm [M]
SUN, JUNE 5, 3pm [M]
Jack Everly, conductor
John Waters, narrator
A Full Broadway cast
“You can’t stop the beat” in this encore
performance of a semi-staged concert
production featuring Baltimore’s own
John Waters as narrator. Relive 2013’s
sold-out performances of this quirky
classic through your favorite songs
from the musical that follows a young
girl’s dream to star in a dance show as
she ends up changing the world.
Appalachian Spring
THURS, JUNE 9, 8 pm [M]
FRI, JUNE 10, 8 pm [M]
SAT, JUNE 11, 8 pm [S]
Marin Alsop, conductor
Baltimore School for the
Arts Dancers
Copland: Appalachian Spring
Thomas Adès: Polaris
(BSO Premiere)
Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe
Suite No. 2
Performed with its original Martha
Graham choreography, Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring evokes the
wide-open landscape and inherent
optimism of American possibility.
Ravel’s luxurious, flamboyant orchestral showpiece follows a work by one
of the most original and compelling
voices of our time, Thomas Adès.
Yo-Yo Ma
Premium Concert
Yo-Yo Ma
WED,