“When Amy Andersson returned to New York after several years conducting concerts across Europe and North America, she founded Orchestra Moderne NYC with a very clear mission: to create an orchestra that is fully integrated into the life of New York City and fosters a collective understanding of political and social trends,” writes Joanne Sydney Lessner in Saturday’s (9/30) Huffington Post. “ ‘Thinking about the many orchestras I’d conducted, I realized there was a glaring lack of diversity among the players,’ says Andersson. ‘Now is the time and New York is the perfect place to create a new orchestra that reflects diversity and performs music that’s culturally and socially relevant.’ Orchestra Moderne NYC’s inaugural concert at Carnegie Hall on Saturday, October 7, 2017, entitled ‘The Journey to America: From Repression to Freedom (Part 1),’ celebrates the legacy of immigration and looks toward the future. The program features Peter Boyer’s Grammy-nominated ‘Ellis Island: The Dream of America,’ which showcases projections from the Ellis Island Immigration Museum as seven actors read stories selected from the Ellis Island Oral History Project.” Other works include the world premiere of Steven Lebetkin’s Violin Concerto, Lolita Ritmanis’s “Overture to Light,” and Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man.”
Posted October 2, 2017
