BSO Encore 2024-2025 show list archive

Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances

Sunday, November 3
Jonathon Heyward, conductor
Behzod Abduraimov, piano

TANIA LEON Pasajes
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1
RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances


New World Symphony with Heyward

Sunday, November 10
Jonathon Heyward, conductor
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

JAMES LEE III Amer’ican
GERSHWIN Piano Concerto in F
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”


Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6

Sunday, December 8

Jonathon Heyward, conductor
Xavier Foley, double bass

GRACE-EVANGELINE MASON The Imagined Forest
XAVIER FOLEY Double Bass Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6, “Pathétique”


Shostakovich Symphony No. 8

Sunday, January 5

Jonathon Heyward, conductor
Andrew Balio, trumpet

WEINBERG Trumpet Concerto
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 8


Mahler Symphony No. 6

Sunday, February 2

Jonathon Heyward, conductor

MAHLER Symphony No. 6

 


Ax Plays Brahms

Sunday, March 2

Jonathon Heyward, conductor
Emanuel Ax, piano

UNSUK CHIN subito con forza
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 4
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1


Sunday, April 6


The Pines of Rome

Sunday, May 4

Jonathon Heyward, conductor
Chrisine Goerke, soprano

JESSIE MONTGOMERY Records of a Vanishing City
STRAUSS Four Last Songs
JAMES LEE III Captivating Personas (world premiere, BSO commission)
OTTORINO RESPIGHI Pines of Rome


Carmina Burana

Sunday, June 1

Jonathon Heyward, conductor
Jasmine Habersham, soprano
Jack Swanson, tenor
Elliot Madore, baritone
University of Maryland Concert Choir
Maryland State Boychoir

MENDELSSOHN Die Schöne Melusine Overture
MISSY MAZOLLI Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)
ORFF Carmina Burana

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9/18/22

Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks

MacMillan: Percussion Concerto No. 2 (Colin Currie, Percussion)

Elgar: Enigma Variations

 

9/25/22

JOSEPH SCHWANTNER New Morning for the World

RACHMANINOFF Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3, “Eroica”

 

10/02/22

LESHNOFF Dancing Blue Crabs! (Centennial Commission)

BARBER Symphony No. 1

COPLAND Lincoln Portrait

DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto

 

10/09/22

Rouse: Processional

Puts: The City

Mahler: Symphony No. 5

 

10/16/22

Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Andre Watts, piano)

Elgar: Symphony No. 1

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COMPLETE PROGRAM NOTES AND MORE

Sunday, March 7
BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major
BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G Major
BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major
BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major
BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 B-flat Major
BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major

Sunday, March 14
BATES Mothership
PUTS Moonlight Concerto
COPLAND Symphony No. 3

Sunday, March 21
SAINT-SAËNS Carnival of the Animals
GLASS Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra
DEBUSSY La mer
RAVEL La valse

Sunday, March 28
MAHLER Symphony No. 3

Sunday, April 4
ROUSE Berceuse Infinie
MOZART Requiem in D Minor

Sunday, April 11
SMITH Star-Spangled Banner
GERSHWIN Cuban Overture
BERNSTEIN Suite from West Side Story
KUSTER Moxie
BATES Mothership
RAVEL Boléro

Sunday, April 18
ROXANNA PANUFNIK Across the Line of Dreams
COPLAND Suite from Appalachian Spring
BERNSTEIN Chichester Psalms
VILLA-LOBOS Chôros  No. 10

Sunday, April 25
ANNA CLYNE Abstractions
STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring

Sunday, May 2
ROUSE Rapture
SCRIABIN Symphony No. 4, “The Poem of Ecstasy”
STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben

Sunday, May 9
LESHNOFF Dancing Blue Crabs! (Centennial Commission)
BARBER Symphony No. 1
COPLAND Lincoln Portrait
DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto

Sunday, May 16
SCHUMANN (arr. Mahler) Manfred Overture
SCHUMANN (arr. Mahler) Symphony No. 1, “Spring”
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 2

Sunday, May 23
JOSEPH SCHWANTNER New Morning for the World
RACHMANINOFF Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3, “Eroica”

Sunday, May 30
PÄRT Credo
STRAVINSKY Symphony of Psalms
RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 2

Sunday, June 6
HANDEL Music for the Royal Fireworks
MACMILLAN Percussion Concerto No. 2
ELGAR Enigma Variations

Sunday, June 13
MAHLER Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection”

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Sunday, July 19 at 1 pm
BEETHOVEN Leonore Overture No. 3
ROUSE Flute Concerto with BSO Principal Flute Emily Skala
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5

Sunday, July 26 at 1 pm
CORIGLIANO To Music
CORIGLIANO Piano Concerto with pianist William Wolfram
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3

Sunday, August 2 at 1 pm
BARBER Medea’s Dance of Vengeance
ORFF Carmina Burana

Sunday, August 9 at 1 pm
TOWER Concerto for Orchestra
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9

Sunday, August 16 at 1 pm
WAGNER Immolation Scene
DAUGHERTY UFO
HOLST The Planets

Sunday, August 23 at 1 pm
BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major
ROUSE Concerto for Orchestra
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6 in B Minor

Sunday, August 30 at 1 pm
IVES The Unanswered Question
MOZART Symphony No. 29 in A Major
SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No. 3 in C Minor with organist James Harp

Sunday, September 6 at 1 pm
BERNSTEIN Opening Prayer
MAHLER Symphony No. 9 in D Major

Sunday, September 13 at 1 pm
BRAHMS Variations on a Theme by Haydn
BRUCH Violin Concerto with BSO Concertmaster Jonathan Carney
COPLAND Symphony No. 3

September 20 at 1 pm
BEETHOVEN Egmont Overture
HIGDON Violin Concerto with violinist Hilary Hahn
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 5

Jennifer Higdon On The Creation Of Her Pulitzer Prize Winning Violin Concerto.

During the 10-week BSO Encore series there were compositions by several living composers. The last concert of the series featured Jennifer Higdon’s Pulitzer Prize winning Violin Concerto. Ms. Higdon generously gave me an interview about the creation of her concerto for violinist Hilary Hahn.  

Joan Tower on Beethoven and Her Concerto for Orchestra

Joan Tower, a composer and pioneer for women composers graciously joined me to talk about her Concerto for Orchestra which was performed by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in Marin Alsop’s first year as Music Director of the BSO. This performance is part of WBJC’s BSO Encore Powered by PNC broadcast series. Enjoy!

Composer John Corigliano Guides Us Through His Piano Concerto & To Music

Academy Award winning composer John Corigliano generously spoke with me about his early Piano Concerto and To Music. Both compositions were performed by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in Marin Alsop’s first year as Music Director of the BSO. These performances are part of WBJC’s BSO Encore Powered by PNC broadcast series. Enjoy!

 

 

 

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