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Toronto New Music Concerts Presents Jörg Widmann Portrait
Mar. 31, 2014On April 18, Toronto’s New Music Concerts presents a portrait concert of composer and clarinetist Jörg Widmann. The evening highlights six chamber works by Widmann, with four Canadian premieres. In …

Kamran Ince's Abandoned Premieres with Opera Memphis
Mar. 31, 2014On April 4, the second annual Opera Memphis “Midtown Opera Festival” features the premiere of Ghosts of Crosstown, a series of five short operas commissioned for the occasion and …

Andrew Norman's Suspend Debuts with Emanuel Ax and The Los Angeles Philharmonic
Mar. 31, 2014On May 1, Gustavo Dudamel leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic with soloist Emanuel Ax in the world premiere of Andrew Norman’s Suspend for solo piano and orchestra. The work was …

North American Premiere of Alexander L'Estrange's Ahoy! Sing for the Mary Rose at Medicine Hat College
Mar. 31, 2014On April 10, Bradley van Middelkoop directs the Medicine Hat College Adult, Children's and Girls’ Choirs alongside The Tartone Singers in the North American premiere of Alexander L’Estrange’s epic cantata, …

US Premiere of Richard Ayres's No. 42 "In the Alps" with Jennifer Zetlan and Alarm Will Sound
Mar. 31, 2014As part of David Lang’s collected stories concert series, Alan Pierson leads soprano Jennifer Zeltan and the ensemble Alarm Will Sound in the US premiere of Richard Ayres’s No. 42 …

Julian Anderson's The Discovery of Heaven in US Premiere with the New York Philharmonic
Mar. 31, 2014Julian Anderson’s The Discovery of Heaven receives its US premiere this month in a performance by the New York Philharmonic. The program, led by Sir Andrew Davis, takes place on …

Oliver Knussen in Residence at the Library of Congress
Mar. 31, 2014In celebration of his illustrious career as composer, conductor and advocate for contemporary music, Oliver Knussen curates a weeklong festival with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group at the Library of …

World Premiere of Olli Mustonen's Sonata for Violin and Orchestra with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Mar. 31, 2014On April 9, Finnish composer Ollie Mustonen heads “down under” as he conducts the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in the world premiere of his Sonata for Violin and Orchestra, featuring …

National Symphony Orchestra Performs US Premiere of Critical Edition of Alexander Zemlinsky's The Mermaid
Mar. 28, 2014On April 10, James Conlon leads the National Symphony Orchestra in the US premiere of the new critical edition of Alexander Zemlinsky’s fantasy for orchestra, Die Seejungfrau (The Mermaid) …

Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera at the Atlantic Theater Company
Mar. 05, 2014Sixty years after Marc Blitzstein’s epoch-making English adaptation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's Dreigroschenoper opened at the Theater de Lys (now the Lucille Lortel Theatre) in Greenwich Village, the …
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