George Walker News

TWC will present or collaborate on three world premieres in the 2021-2022 season; Adolphus Hailstork's “A Knee on the Neck, a Requiem cantata for George Floyd,” written in response to the death of George Floyd, Damien Geter's “Symphony no. 1: The Justice Symphony” commemorating anthems from the Civil Rights era, and Roshanne Etezady's “Become The Sky” with texts by the 13th-Century Persian poet Rumi in a prologue for chorus, orchestral brass, and percussion.

Following a strong virtual season that attracted new audiences from across the state and around the world, California Symphony, under the leadership of Music Director Donato Cabrera, returns to live concerts at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek for its 2021-22 season. California Symphony's new season furthers its promise to present innovative programming, exciting guest artists, and music by living composers, women, and composers of color.

The 92nd Street Y has announced its fall classical music season today, its first fully in-person season since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Comprising 14 concerts performed in 92Y’s historic Kaufmann Concert Hall, the fall season includes two appearances by world-renowned pianist Richard Goode and more.

The Bard Music Festival continues its intensive exploration of “Nadia Boulanger and Her World” through the prism of her life and career. 

The New Jersey Youth Symphony announced today that trombonist and composer Dion Tucker and longtime Garden State educator Gregory Williams will be joining the Jazz faculty this Fall as Director of NJYS Jazz and Jazz Orchestra and Director of NJYS Big Band, respectively.

This weekend, on Sunday, July 25 at 3 pm, the Harlem Quartet, a Music Mountain favorite, takes the stage to perform a vibrant program of works by Black composers, from William Grant Still and George Walker to Wynton Marsalis and Billy Strayhorn.

The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra has announced a series of outdoor concerts featuring music from composers across the Americas, with José Luis Domínguez at the podium. The Orchestra performs free concerts at Ocean County College in Toms River and Branch Brook Park in Newark and it returns to the Giralda Music and Arts Festival in Madison.

The film also includes performances of music by Ruth Crawford Seeger and George Walker, the first African-American composer to have won the Pulitzer Prize for Music, and the sublime Andante Cantabile from Tchaikovsky's String Quartet No.1, featuring Principal Cello Timo-Veikko Valve as soloist.

The Bard Music Festival returns for its 31st season this August, with a rare and intensive two-week exploration of “Nadia Boulanger and Her World.” In twelve themed concert programs, performed live with limited in-person audiences, Bard examines Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979), the pioneering Parisian pedagogue, composer, conductor, pianist, organist and indomitable personality who shaped more than a generation of American musicians.

The University of Washington’s Meany Center for the Performing Arts has announced a return to live performance on October 13, 2021, with the beginning of the 2021–22 Season. Meany Center is inviting back to the stage many of the visiting artists whose performances were canceled due to the pandemic.

The biggest surprise about the surprise program at the Kennedy Center by the National Symphony Orchestra under the direction fo Gianandrea Noseda may have been that it was happening at all.

On Saturday, June 19th at 7pm, New Orchestra of Washington will present Juneteenth Celebration: Lift Every Voice! The performance will be held at the newly built, outdoor, Strathmore Patio Stage on the Trawick Terrace (10701 Rockville Pike), and will mark the first live audience performance for NOW since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The National Symphony Orchestra has announced classical programming for the 2021–2022 season, its fifth season under the artistic leadership of Gianandrea Noseda. NSO Classical subscriptions for the 2021–2022 season are now available here or by calling (202) 416-8500.

With the 104th season, which marks the 20th season of the ensemble's acclaimed partnership with Music Director Franz Welser-Möst, the Orchestra will welcome audiences back to Severance Hall as a more flexible, innovative, versatile, and empathetic institution, strengthened by the lessons of the past 14 months.

New film adaptations of Poulenc's La voix humaine starring Patricia Racette and Henze's El Cimarron starring Sir Willard White presented alongside an Academy of Music production of Verdi's Rigoletto and a Verizon Hall concert pairing Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex with George Walker's Lilacs

Today (May 12) in live streaming: a My Fair Lady reunion, Stars in the House celebrates David Katz, Vineyard Theatre continues its 2021 Spring Gala Series, and more!

The Ravinia Festival plans to reopen in July for the 2021 summer season. Now, the full lineup has been announced!

Tickets are now on sale for in-person and livestream concerts as part of Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra's Spring Inspirations concert series.

The Catalyst Quartet will return to Lot of Strings after a triumphant performance of their rendition of Bach’s Goldberg Variations and Philip Glass’s String Quartet No. 3 last Summer. On May 16th, the program will include two pieces by Florence Price, Negro Folksongs in Counterpoint and String Quartet  No. 2 in A Minor, and George Walker's Lyric for Strings.

The San Francisco Symphony returns to live performances on May 6 with a First Responders concert.