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The Symphony seeks a Major Gifts Officer responsible for developing a new major gifts program, planned giving and corporate sponsorship.
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The Symphony seeks a Major Gifts Officer responsible for developing a new major gifts program, planned giving and corporate sponsorship.
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The Winston-Salem Symphony Presents Classics Series ConcertStill Points & Turning Worlds Music Director Candidate Paul Hass to Conduct with Guest Pianist Awadagin Pratt WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (September 22, 2022) – The Winston-Salem Symphony presents its next Classics Series concert cycle for the 2022–23 season entitled “Still Points & Turning Worlds.” The concerts will feature guest conductor
The Winston-Salem Symphony Presents Classics Series Concert
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The Winston-Salem Symphony Presents The Chevalier WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (September 13, 2022) –Two years after premiering the staged reading, the Winston-Salem Symphony is proud to present The Chevalier, a play with music written and directed by Bill Barclay, on Sunday, October 3 at 3 p.m. at R. J. Reynolds Auditorium in Winston-Salem. Barclay’s powerful story focuses
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The Winston-Salem Symphony Opens 2022–23 Seasonwith Classics Series Concert Mendelssohn’s Muse Music Director Candidate Andrew Grams to Conduct with Guest Violinist Simone Porter WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (August 31, 2022) – The Winston-Salem Symphony is opening its 2022–23 season with a Classics Series concert cycle entitled “Mendelssohn’s Muse.” The concerts will feature guest conductor Andrew Grams, one
One of the seminal figures of twentieth-century music, Béla Bartók was born in Nagyszentmiklós, Hungary (now Sînnicolau Mare, Rumania) on March 25, 1881 and died in New York City on September 26, 1945). In addition to his brilliant career as a composer, Bartók also was an important ethnomusicologist and pianist. His music is most strongly
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[Franz] Joseph Haydn was born in Rohrau, Lower Austria on March 31, 1732 and died in Vienna on May 31, 1809. His long and productive career spanned the end of the Baroque Era to the onset of the Romantic. Famed for his incomparable contribution to the development of the symphony and string quartet, Haydn composed
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Her settings of spirituals were performed by some of the twentieth-century’s greatest singers, including Marian Anderson and Leontyne Price. She was also the first African-American woman to have a symphonic work performed by a major American orchestra, when Frederick Stock led the premiere of her Symphony No. 1 in E Minor with the Chicago Symphony
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Stalin’s repressive policies had a powerful, and often deleterious effect on the careers of Prokofiev and his colleague, Dmitri Shostakovich. Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony was composed during the summer of 1944 and received its first performance in Moscow on January 13, 1945, with the Moscow State Philharmonic Orchestra performing under the composer’s direction. The performance was
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She has been actively involved with the Detroit-based Sphinx Organization in supporting and encouraging young African American and Latinx string instrumentalists. Her works have been performed by many significant arts institutions (Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, to name but a few). She also has worked collaboratively with numerous colleagues in both music
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It received its first performance in March of that same year at a private concert held at the palace of his patron, Prince Franz Joseph von Lobkowitz. His Symphony no. 4 and Piano Concerto no. 4 were also performed at this event. The Overture to Coriolan is scored for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets,
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Among his generation of concert artists, pianist Awadagin Pratt is acclaimed for his musical insight and intensely involving performances in recital and with symphony orchestras.
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The popular orchestration of Pictures at an Exhibition by Maurice Ravel was made in 1922. Ravel was not the only individual to orchestrate this work, but his transcription has proved to be the most enduring and popular.
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One of the greatest concertos ever penned for the instrument, Mendelssohn’s masterful Violin Concerto, composed between 1838 and 1844, is the fruit of his maturity. The work owes its existence thanks to the special working relationship that the composer enjoyed with the leader (concertmaster in today’s terms) of the Gewandhaus Orchestra, Ferdinand David.
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Overshadowed by his Symphony no. 2, Rachmaninoff’s Third Symphony certainly deserves to be programmed more frequently than it normally is. While it may lack some of the Second Symphony’s memorable tunes, it certainly contains plenty of its lyricism, couched within the composer’s considerable command of color and drama.
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Single Tickets for All Winston-Salem Symphony 2022–23 Season Concerts on Sale August 1 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (August 1, 2022) – Single tickets for the Winston-Salem Symphony’s 2022-23 season go on sale today, Monday, August 1. They can be purchased online at wssymphony.org and via phone by calling 336.464.0145. Please refer to the 2022-23 Season Calendar on
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Violinist Simone Porter has been recognized as an emerging artist of impassioned energy, interpretive integrity, and vibrant communication.
In the past few years she has debuted with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic
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In addition to her growing guest conducting schedule, Ms. Merrill currently serves as the Music Director of the Coastal Symphony of Georgia, where she has ignited the growth and expansion of the orchestra’s offerings both on and off the stage. Ms. Merrill’s most recent and upcoming engagements include the National Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Opera, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra (Canada), Minnesota Orchestra, River
Internationally recognized for his energetic presence, imaginative programming, and compelling musicianship, Vinay Parameswaran is one of the most exciting and versatile young conductors on the podium today.
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First Prize Winner of the “Debut Berlin” Concert Competition, prizewinner at Denmark’s 2015 Malko Competition, as well as the 2010 Mitropoulos Competition, Stilian Kirov made his debut at the Berlin Philharmonie in 2017.
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Recognized as “a conductor with uncommon talent” and honored as “Chicagoan of the Year in Classical Music” by the Chicago Tribune, Vladimir Kulenovic has emerged as one of the finest conductors of his generation.
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Paul Haas was at the start of a promising conducting career when he devised and produced a concert project called REWIND in 2006, featuring composer and musician colleagues and violin soloist Anne Akiko Meyers.
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