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Mahler 6 - 11/05/2023
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Gustav Mahler—who said “a symphony must be like the world—it must contain everything”—created a vast panorama of life’s deepest emotions in his Sixth Symphony. Nicknamed the “Tragic,” it unflinchingly e...
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Denève: Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet - 10/14/2023
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Romance is in the air! Artistic Director Stéphane Denève returns for an emotional concert that explores true love and poetry. Inspired by Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers, Serg...
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Respighi: Pines of Rome
Pines of Rome is a tone poem in four movements for orchestra completed in 1924 by the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi. It is the second of his three tone poems about Rome, following Fontane di Roma (1916) and preceding Feste Romane (1928). Each movement depicts a setting in the city with pine ...
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Stravinsky: Firebird
The Firebird is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1910 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company; the original choreography was by Michel Fokine, who collaborated with Alexandre Benois and others on a scenario base...
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Johnson: Victory Stride
This theme may date from the late 1910s, but its sound is notably more modern than the ragtime feel from that time. Johnson recorded it in 1944 for Blue Note records with a studio band named “James P. Johnson’s Blue Note Jazzmen.” Founded by Francis Wolf and Alfred Lion in 1939, the label was ini...
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Debussy: Prelude to Afternoon of a Faun
Michael Tilson Thomas, NWS’s Artistic Director Laureate, returns for the season finale of NWS’s 35th Anniversary Season, which features a special collaboration with Miami City Ballet (MCB). For years, MTT and Lourdes Lopez, MCB’s Artistic Director, have led these two cultural pillars of the South...
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Schumann: Symphony No. 3, “Rhenish”
The Symphony No. 3 in E♭ major, Op. 97, also known as the Rhenish, is the last symphony composed by Robert Schumann, although not the last published. It was composed from 2 November to 9 December 1850 and premiered on 6 February 1851 in Düsseldorf, conducted by Schumann himself, and was received ...