Florida’s Palm Beach Symphony opened its 2019-20 season, the first under Music Director Gerard Schwarz, on December 8 at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach with an all-Beethoven program. The concert featured pianist Horacio Gutiérrez in the Piano Concerto No. 4, and the Ninth Symphony with vocal soloists and the Palm Beach Atlantic University Oratorio Chorus, Choral Society of the Palm Beaches, and Masterworks Chorus of the Palm Beaches. Repertoire on the remaining four 2019-20 masterworks concerts in January, February, March, and April will feature repertoire including Augusta Read Thomas’s A Plea for Peace, the Overture to Los esclavos felices by Juan Crisotomo Arriaga (1806-1826), Paul Creston’s Accordion Concerto with soloist Hanzhi Wang, David Diamond’s Rounds for String Orchestra, HyeKyung Lee’s Climbing Tomorrow, and music by Copland, Gershwin, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky. The orchestra also performs a chamber music series at the Norton Museum of Art on Wednesdays in January, February and March. New this season are five “lunch and learn” events with Gerard Schwarz and other guests, at Table 260 Palm Beach.
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