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...

Symphonie fantastique: Épisode de la vie d'un artiste … en cinq parties (Fantastical Symphony: Episode in the Life of an Artist … in Five Sections) Op. 14, is a program symphony written by the French composer Hector Berlioz in 1830. It is an important piece of the early Romantic period. The first...

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...

Johnson’s most extensive and fully formed extant work was completed in 1932. It was performed, in whole or in part, at least six times between 1937 and 1945. The piece is constructed as a programmatic travel log through Harlem in four short movements. The score, in Johnson’s hand, includes brief ...

Roméo et Juliette is a symphonie dramatique, a large-scale choral symphony by French composer Hector Berlioz, which was first performed on 24 November 1839. The libretto was written by Émile Deschamps, and the completed work was assigned the catalogue numbers Op. 17 and H. 79. It is based on Shak...

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 ...

The Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, commissioned by the Basel chapter of the International Society for Contemporary Music, was composed in 1937.

Composed in 1889 at Vysoká u Příbramě, Bohemia, on the occasion of the composer's election to the Bohemian Academy of Science, Literature and Arts. Dvořák conducted the premiere in Prague on 2 February 1890. In contrast to other symphonies of both the composer and the period, the music is cheerfu...

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...

The French composer Étienne Perruchon will be remembered as the mouthpiece of a different country, Dogora—an imaginary nation in central Europe that he first conceived for a collaborative theater work in 1996. He went on to write a whole landscape of music in a range of formats to communicate the...

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...

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 ...