DuluthNewsTribune.com: Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra announces 2022-23 season

Jessie Montgomery

(jessiemontgomery.com)

Adolphus Hailstork

Duluth News Tribune

By Jay Gabler

April 15, 2022

DULUTH — The Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2022-23 season, which includes seven classical music concerts and two pops programs presented at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center's Symphony Hall.

In a statement accompanying the announcement, executive director Brandon VanWaeyenberghe said the orchestra has embraced "three new programming goals": to "celebrate unheard voices," "highlight rising artists," and "engage new audiences."

While the orchestra's programs will feature classical mainstays like Ludwig von Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (May 6) and Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 (March 18), the orchestra will also perform work by composers who aren't yet household names.

"The focus here is on music by Black composers, from past (Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Florence Price, William Grant Still) to present (Adolphus Hailstork, Jessie Montgomery)," said music director Dirk Meyer in a statement.

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Guest artists joining the DSSO for Symphony Hall concerts next season include pianist Terrence Wilson, violinist Bella Hristova, and cellist Gabriel Martins.

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The DSSO's 2021-22 season concerts at Symphony Hall conclude on April 30, with the new season kicking off on Sept. 24. That program begins, aptly enough, with Hailstork's concert overture "An American Port of Call."