MUSIC ON
ALL LEVELS
2023–2024 SEASON
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Music can impact us in so many ways, from the deep emotional pull of a resurfacing memory to the dazzling impact of a masterwork’s beautiful design. This season, Music Director Daniel Hope and New Century Chamber Orchestra invite you to connect on many levels with music you’ll love, through concert programs designed to sweep you away into moments of deep reflection, technical brilliance, and good old-fashioned delight.
UPCOMING CONCERTS
LEONARD BERNSTEIN’S SERENADE
May 2–4, 2024
Pianist Awadagin Pratt joins Daniel Hope and New Century for this program of potent contemporary American works for strings that express the full range of orchestral color. Winner of the 2024 GRAMMY for best contemporary classical composition, Jessie Montgomery’s “Rounds” uses a delicate, interconnected musical geometry to evoke patterns found in nature. Similarly, composer David Diamond wrote his exuberant work “Rounds” to dispel the gloomy wartime mood of the 1940s by writing music to celebrate American landscapes. The program closes with Leonard Bernstein’s Serenade (after Plato’s Symposium), an epic work for solo violin, strings and percussion inspired by the ancient Greek debate over love in its many forms.
DANIEL HOPE IN RECITAL
April 30, 2024
See another side of Daniel Hope in this charming recital program with pianist and frequent collaborator Simon Crawford-Phillips. Romantic showpieces for violin and piano share the evening with the US premiere of a new work by beloved San Francisco composer Jake Heggie, inspired by Beethoven’s 1803 residency at Vienna’s Theater an der Wien.