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Nashville Symphony | Ruth Reinhardt, conductor | Awadagin Pratt, piano 

Program

Grażyna Bacewicz: Partita for Orchestra
J.S. Bach: Keyboard Concerto in A Major
Jessie Montgomery: Rounds for Piano and String Orchestra
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1

Ruth Reinhardt’s Nashville debut features two piano concertos composed centuries apart. At one end of the spectrum is Bach’s 1730s Keyboard Concerto in A Major, at the other is Rounds by Jesse Montgomery. Written in 2022 in close collaboration with Awadagin Pratt, The Boston Globe praised Rounds for its “narrative flair and structural clarity.” Bookending the concert are Bacewicz’s contemplative Partita for Orchestra and one of the most beloved works in the repertoire, Brahms’ First Symphony.

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Nashville Symphony | Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor | Timothy McAllister, saxophone 

Program

W.A. Mozart: Overture to The Magic Flute
John Corigliano: Triathlon | Live Recording
Ottorino Respighi: Fountains of Rome
Ottorino Respighi: Pines of Rome

Reprising a triumphant 2022 San Francisco Symphony premiere, Giancarlo Guerrero and Timothy McAllister bring us John Corigliano’s aptly named Triathlon — an athletic feat, with McAllister switching among three saxophones. The San Francisco Chronicle raved “it grabbed a listener’s attention…and lingered long in the memory...” Respighi’s Fountains of Rome and Pines of Rome — sweeping pictorials of his native Italy — round out this program that opens with a favorite Mozart overture.

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Nashville Symphony | Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor | Joseph Alessi, trombone

Program

Karol Szymanowski: Concert Overture
Chick Corea: Trombone Concerto | Live Recording
Sergei Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Suite

New York Philharmonic principal trombonist Joseph Alessi — a veritable rock star among American brass players — takes center stage with a work written for him by the late, great jazz legend Chick Corea, premiered with Giancarlo Guerrero in São Paolo. Szymanowski’s Concert Overture is an exuberant concert opener, and Giancarlo ties it all together with Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet Suite, which perfectly captures the drama and heartbreak of Shakespeare’s immortal story.

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Nashville Symphony | Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor | Nashville Symphony Chorus | Tucker Biddlecombe, chorus director | Aquiles Machado, tenor | Juan Tomás Martínez, baritone | Daniel Binelli, bandeon 

Program

Aaron Copland: El Salón México
Astor Piazzolla: Sinfonía Buenos Aires
Antonio Estévez: Cantata Criolla | Live Recording

When Aaron Copland first visited Mexico, he remarked, “Mexico has turned out even grander than I expected, and I expected pretty grand things.” El Salón Mexico draws upon that sentiment, headlining a program inspired by Latin America’s beauty and culture. Piazzolla’s Sinfonía Buenos Aires captures the tango’s provocative essence, and Giancarlo Guerrero has invited Aquiles Machado and Juan Tomás Martinez as soloists for Antonio Estévez’s Cantata Criolla, a Faustian singing contest between Florentino and the Devil.

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Nashville Symphony | Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor | Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano

Program

Maurice Ravel: Valses Nobles et Sentimentales
John Corigliano: One Sweet Morning | Live Recording
Modest Mussorgsky, orch. Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition

Giancarlo Guerrero explores the range of emotions of art borne from grief. After visiting a friend’s posthumous art exhibit, Mussorgsky exclaimed “Ideas, melodies, come to me of their own accord.” He penned Pictures at an Exhibition with a feverish intensity, and the result is a work that showcases the virtuosity found within the orchestra. Sasha Cooke joins us for One Sweet Morning, John Corigliano’s achingly beautiful song cycle written to commemorate the tenth anniversary of 9/11.

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Nashville Symphony | Nathan Aspinall, conductor | Janice Carissa, piano 

Program

Anna Clyne: The Midnight Hour
W.A. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17
Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5

Associate Conductor Nathan Aspinall conducts our annual concert shining the spotlight on an up-and-coming pianist. The phenomenally gifted Janice Carissa takes the stage for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17 — premiered in 1784 by one of Mozart’s rising star students. Anna Clyne’s This Midnight Hour, inspired by poetry, makes full use of the spectrum of colors in the orchestra. And Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5 was penned at the height of WWII as “a hymn to free and happy Man…his pure and noble spirit.”

The Lawrence S. Levine Memorial Concert

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Nashville Symphony | Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor | Jennifer Koh, violin

Program

Tania León: Stride
Samuel Barber: Violin Concerto
Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations

Hailed by NPR as “one of the most brilliant artists of her generation,” Jennifer Koh joins Giancarlo Guerrero for Barber’s exquisite Violin Concerto. Tania León’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Stride, reflecting her Cuban American heritage, was part of a project celebrating the 19th Amendment. Anchoring the program is a repertoire staple, the Enigma Variations, a musical portrait gallery of the composer’s friends with an autobiographical look at himself.

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Nashville Symphony | Wayne Marshall, conductor, piano and organ

Program

Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington: Harlem
Francis Poulenc: Concerto for Organ, Strings, and Timpani
George Gershwin: Second Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

Each season, we showcase the Schermerhorn’s world-renowned pipe organ in a symphonic concert. Enter the versatile Wayne Marshall, leading from the console as soloist in the Poulenc Organ Concerto and from the piano for Gershwin’s Second Rhapsody. On the podium, he conducts Harlem and the Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, by American icons whose mixing of jazz and classical idioms captured the spirit of 1950s and 1960s New York City.

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Nashville Symphony | Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor | Zuill Bailey, cello 

Program

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 8
Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 4

Zuill Bailey, a longtime friend of the Nashville Symphony, flawlessly navigates the virtuosic pyrotechnics of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1 — specifically chosen for this concert by Giancarlo Guerrero. Two of Beethoven’s even-numbered symphonies surround the concerto, and though they are less-often performed in concert, they remain two of his most poignant and profound works.

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Nashville Symphony | Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor | Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

Program

Florence Price, arr. Still: Dances in the Canebrakes
George Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F
William Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony
George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue

Gershwin’s orchestral music defined the American sound, and Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins us for our centennial celebration of Rhapsody in Blue plus his Piano Concerto in F. Gershwin is complemented by Florence Price and William Dawson, whose compositions stemmed from the Black American Experience. At its 1934 Carnegie Hall premiere, Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony, based on spirituals and emphatically symphonic, brought audiences to their feet. And Price’s Dances in the Canebrakes is drawn from Black folk songs and dances of the 1920s and ‘30s.

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Nashville Symphony | Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor | Gil Shaham, violin

Program

Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony

Gil Shaham’s virtuosity, warmth, and audience connection make him a favorite guest in Nashville, and to hear him perform Beethoven’s Violin Concerto is a rare opportunity. Strauss’s An Alpine Symphony uses the sheer force of the orchestra, fortified by extra winds, brass, and percussion, including cowbells plus a giant wind machine that depicts a huge storm.

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Nashville Symphony | Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor

Program

Gustav Mahler, arr. Cooke: Symphony No. 10

Though the venerable composer Gustav Mahler completed only sketches of his Symphony No. 10 before his death in 1911, composers and musicologists spent much of the 20th century reconstructing it and filling in the gaps. Giancarlo Guerrero enlightens us with a fascinating exploration of this process before conducting Mahler’s final opus, considered by many to have been his greatest symphonic work.

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Nashville Symphony | Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor | Nashville Symphony Chorus | Tucker Biddlecombe, chorus director | Meechot Marrero, soprano | Randall Scotting, countertenor | Sidney Outlaw, baritone | Blair Children’s Chorus | Mary Biddlecombe, children's chorus director

Program

Alban Berg: Seven Early Songs
Gustav Mahler: Songs of the Wayfarer
Carl Orff: Carmina burana

We end our season with Orff’s Carmina burana, in all its magnificent, carnal beauty. Giancarlo Guerrero programmed it — in its original form — to showcase the powerful forces of the Nashville Symphony and Chorus. On the first half of the program, our soloists in the Orff treat us to Alban Berg’s Seven Early Songs and the autobiographical Songs of the Wayfarer of Mahler, who compared his own life to “a traveling journeyman…wandering on in solitude.”

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