Seeger Andante for Strings
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The Winston-Salem Symphony Presents Classics Series Concert Innovators & Legends
The Winston-Salem Symphony Presents Classics Series Concert Innovators & Legends Music Director Candidate Stilian Kirov to Conduct with Guest Pianist Terrence Wilson WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (December 12, 2022) – The Winston-Salem Symphony presents its next Classics Series concert cycle for the 2022–23 season entitled Innovators & Legends on January 7 and 8, 2023. The concerts feature
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Winston-Salem Symphony Celebrates 75th Anniversary with Gala
Winston-Salem Symphony Celebrates 75th Anniversary with Gala WHO The Winston-Salem Symphony and guests WHAT Winston-Salem Symphony 75th Anniversary Gala. For 75 years, Winston-Salem Symphony concerts and events have inspired and entertained our community while bringing industry, arts, and civic leaders together. The 75th Anniversary Gala is bringing the community together again with an evening of
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The Winston-Salem Symphony and Chorus PresentHandel’s Messiah on December 13
The Winston-Salem Symphony and Chorus PresentHandel’s Messiah on December 13 Maestro Robert Moody returns to conduct WINSTON-SALEM, NC (DECEMBER 1, 2022) – Former Winston-Salem Symphony Music Director Robert Moody returns to conduct the 16th annual performance of George Frideric Handel’s Messiah on Tuesday, December 13, at Wait Chapel on the campus of Wake Forest University.
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The Winston-Salem Symphony Youth Orchestras Take the Stage in a Free Concert
The Winston-Salem Symphony Youth Orchestras Take the Stage in a Free Concert North Carolina’s First Lady Kristen Cooper to Offer Opening Words WINSTON-SALEM, NC (November 11, 2022) – North Carolina’s First Lady, Kristen Cooper, will offer opening remarks for the Winston-Salem Symphony Youth Orchestras Fall Extravaganza at 7 p.m. Monday, November 14, 2022. The concert
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Cirque de la Symphonie Returns for the Winston-Salem Symphony’s Annual A Carolina Christmas!
Cirque de la Symphonie Returns for the Winston-Salem Symphony’s Annual A Carolina Christmas! WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (November 4, 2022) – Now in its 10th year, the Winston-Salem Symphony’s A Carolina Christmas! has established itself as a beloved holiday tradition for the entire Triad. This season, Cirque de la Symphonie returns to thrill audiences with a show
The Winston-Salem Symphony Presents Classics Series Concert Concerto (R)Evolution
The Winston-Salem Symphony Presents Classics Series Concert Concerto (R)Evolution Music Director Candidate Vladimir Kulenovic to Conduct with Guest Cellist Julian Schwarz WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (October 26, 2022) – The Winston-Salem Symphony presents its next Classics Series concert cycle for the 2022–23 season entitled Concerto (R)Evolution. The concert features guest conductor Vladimir Kulenovic, one of six candidates
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The Winston-Salem Symphony Chorus Presents Locklair’s Requiem
The Winston-Salem Symphony Chorus Presents Locklair’s Requiem WINSTON-SALEM, NC (October 18, 2022) – The Winston-Salem Symphony Chorus, under the direction of Dr. Christopher Gilliam, is presenting a concert featuring Requiem, by Wake Forest University Composer-in-Residence Dan Locklair on Sunday, October 30, 2022 at 3 p.m. The concert will take place at Wait Chapel on the campus
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Locklair Requiem
Dan Locklair, composer-in-residence at Wake Forest University, was born on August 7, 1949 in Charlotte, NC. He holds a Master of Sacred Music degree from the School of Sacred Music of Union Theological Seminary in New York City and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.
Bach Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott
Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach on March 21, 1685 and died in Leipzig on July 28, 1750. He looms as one of history’s pivotal figures whose music is venerated and admired by many composers who followed him, from Haydn to Bartók and beyond. During his own lifetime, Bach was more revered as an
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The Winston-Salem Symphony Presents Green Eggs & Ham
The Winston-Salem Symphony Presents Green Eggs & Ham Kids, parents, the entire fam, will LOVE new series, Sam I Am! WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (October 17, 2022) – SECCA’s McChesney Scott Dunn Auditorium will get Seussified on Sunday, October 23, with the Winston-Salem Symphony’s production of Green Eggs & Ham: A Musical Setting By Robert Kapilow. This
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The Winston-Salem Symphony Presents Classics Series Concert
Still Points & Turning Worlds
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
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The Winston-Salem Symphony Presents The Chevalier
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
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
Bartók Concerto for Orchestra
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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Haydn C Major Cello Concerto
[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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Florence Price Concert Overture No. 2
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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Prokofiev Symphony No. 5
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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Jessie Montgomery Rounds
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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Beethoven Coriolan Overture
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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