Thursday, March 11, 2021

WashingtonPost.com: National Symphony Orchestra programs Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Sibelius and Mozart, streaming March 19-April 15

Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges with Violin, 
watercolor for AfriClassical
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Artist: Olesia Panaseiko

The Washington Post

March 11, 2021 

Maestro Noseda is back in the building. You can tell because everyone is smiling under their masks.

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[Gianandrea] Noseda is in Washington for three weeks, leading the NSO in four programs to be filmed and digitally released through the Kennedy Center’s Digital Stage Plus platform. The first of these concerts — which slips Sibelius’s “Valse Triste” between the oft-ecstatic first symphony of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges and Mozart’s penultimate 40th Symphony — premieres March 19 as a free stream available until April 15, when it moves to the Digital Stage Plus platform.

An all-strings program featuring pieces by Jessie Montgomery, Mozart, William Grant Still and Tchaikovsky will premiere April 15, as will a concert celebrating 160 years of bilateral relations between Italy and the United States. A final program pairing Haydn’s “Miracle” symphony (No. 96) with Louise Farrenc’s underheard Third will premiere May 15.

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