In Friday’s (2/19) Dallas Morning News, Scott Cantrell reports on 2016-17 season plans announced by the Dallas and Fort Worth orchestras. Both seasons will include Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony, as well as guest appearances by conductor Andrew Grams and violinists James Ehnes and Karen Gomyo. At the DSO, the second Soluna International Music & Arts Festival in May and June will feature Elgar’s choral work The Dream of Gerontius led by Music Director Jaap van Zweden. Contemporary repertoire will include works by John Adams, Christopher Rouse, and Aaron Jay Kernis. In addition to baritone Matthias Goerne, the DSO’s artist-in-residence, scheduled soloists include Lang Lang, Yuja Wang, Emanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman, Garrick Ohlsson, Augustin Hadelich, Simone Lamsma, and Alisa Weilerstein. The DSO’s ReMix series will continue at Dallas City Performance Hall. The Fort Worth Symphony, “which has yet to settle a new contract with its musicians,” will perform recent works by Mason Bates, Adam Schoenberg, Thomas Adès, and Colombian composer Victor Agudelo. FWSO soloists include Danielle de Niese, Menahem Pressler, Stephen Hough, Vadym Kholodenko, Inon Barnatan, and Johannes Moser. “In what’s planned as a three-year cycle, the preseason Classical Masters Festival again will be devoted to music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.”
Posted February 22, 2016
