The North Carolina Symphony has announced details of its 2012-13 season under Music Director Grant Llewellyn, including a program marking the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation with concerts plus a week of events about the Civil War. Resident Conductor William Henry Curry will lead the orchestra’s “Freedom” concerts in February 2013, which will include Roy Harris’s “When Johnny Comes Marching Home” Overture; John Adams’s The Wound-Dresser for baritone and orchestra, based on Walt Whitman’s “Drum Taps”; and Ives’s Symphony No. 2, which incorporates many American tunes and concludes with “Columbia, Gem of the Ocean.” Also featured on the program will be photochoreographer James Westwater’s “The Eternal Struggle,” a multi-image photo essay set to Copland’s Lincoln Portrait. Among other highlights of North Carolina’s 2012-13 season are a continuation of its Mahler cycle with Das Lied von Der Erde; an in-depth exploration of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7 (“Leningrad”) with pre- and post-concert discussions, chamber music performances, and symposia; and Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring in May 2013, 100 years after its stormy world premiere in Paris. The North Carolina Symphony performs 60 concerts annually throughout the state, including at Meymandi Concert Hall—its home theater in Raleigh—as well as venues in Cary, Chapel Hill, Durham, Fayetteville, New Bern, Southern Pines, and Wilmington.
Posted February 28, 2012
