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Join conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya and best-selling historian James Holland for a commemorative concert honoring veterans and the global sounds of resilience. Fro...

Franz Liszt, the greatest virtuoso pianist of his generation, retired from the concert stage at the age of 35 to focus on conducting, teaching and, above all, composing. He developed an adventurous and groundbreaking approach to harmony, and he left an indelible mark on the art of program music—i...

Fall head first into the impassioned romance and wondrous opium-fueled dreams of Hector Berlioz’s legendary Symphonie fantastique. From its whirlwind waltzes to demonic hallucinations, hear why MTT calls this unabashed melodrama an “epic orchestral sonic spectacular!”

Berlioz’ own program note d...

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Persecuted by the Nazi regime Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht wrote defiantly satirical works that endure to this day. Directors Bill Barclay and Stéphane Den...

Jacques Ibert studied at the Paris Conservatory in the years before World War I, in a cohort that also included Honegger and Milhaud, two future members of the group of young French upstarts that a critic dubbed “les Six.” Ibert was away from Paris in 1920 when “les Six” were anointed, having won...

Michael Tilson Thomas celebrates one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, his mentor Igor Stravinsky. Step right up for the carnivalesque Petrushka as it delves into a tale of puppets, ballerinas and more with Stravinsky’s signature flair and jaunting rhythms.

After the smash success o...

NWS Alum Chad Goodman leads the Fellows in an explosive performance of Beethoven's ode to revolution, the Overture to Egmont. Enjoy this memorable moment from the opening concert of our 2019-2020 season!

Beethoven longed to be an opera composer, and yet it proved to be the most frustrating aspec...

Enjoy this exceptional performance of Britten's masterwork from the opening concert of our 2018 season. MTT breathes new life into this seminal work with the help of the New World Symphony Fellows.

Benjamin Britten had a precocious start in music, studying piano and viola and composing hundreds ...

In his early 50s, Gabriel Fauré finally began to enjoy the recognition at home in France and abroad that had eluded him during his long decades working in obscurity as an organist, choirmaster and piano teacher. He began to teach composition at the Paris Conservatory, and he cultivated patrons in...