Scandal, Love & Seduction: The Story of Puccini’s Tosca
ACT I Castel Sant’Angelo Cesare Angelotti, a political fugitive, has just escaped from the Castel Sant’Angelo and enters the church of Sant’Andrea della Valle in Rome. He is trying to find the Attavanti chapel, where his sister, the Marchesa Attavanti,…
A World Premiere for Kalamazoo
The Marsalis Residency:In the summer of 2021, Branford Marsalis performed in Kalamazoo for a Symphony summer performance at the Gilmore Car Museum. So began a multi-year residency project that would include the creation of a brand-new Musical Storybook, “Jammin’ in…
From Canvas to Composition
The idea for Thea Musgrave’s compelling composition The Seasons was sparked during a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. As Musgrave toured the various artwork, she saw the images as related to the four seasons or…
A Concerto of Resilience
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (1929-31) by Maurice Ravel (Cibouew, France, 1875 – Paris, 1937) On Saturday, March 23, pianist Yekwon Sunwoo joins the Kalamazoo Symphony for a performance of Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. Fun…
A Symphony of Defiance
Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47 (1937) by Dmitri Shostakovich (St. Petersburg, 1906 – Moscow, 1975) What to Know: Shostakovich wrote his Fifth Symphony at a very difficult period in his lifeHis Fifth Symphony was written as a…
Kalamazoo Symphony Honors the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Features local music students from the Kalamazoo Junior Symphony Orchestra and choruses from Kalamazoo Central and Loy Norrix High Schools KALAMAZOO, Mich.– On Sunday, Jan. 21, the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra (KSO) shares the stage with members of the Kalamazoo arts…
