In photo: Music Director David Alan Miller conducts the Albany Symphony Orchestra. Photo by Gary David Gold
“The Albany Symphony unveiled its upcoming season promising a dozen new or recent works by leading voices in American concert music,” writes Michael Hallisey in Wednesday’s (1/15) Spotlight News (Albany/Capital District Region, N.Y.). “The North American premiere of John Williams’ ‘Scherzo’ for piano and orchestra [will take place] next June. The evening also reunites [Music Director David Alan] Miller with Dame Evelyn Glennie as the symphony performs and records a new percussion concerto by Turkish-American composer Kamran Ince…. It will all be a part of the American Music Festival’s ‘Drums Along the Hudson’ [program]. The centerpiece of the new season is an ambitious recreation of Beethoven’s 1808 ‘mega-concert’ … just days before his 250th birthday…. The Saturday performance will include his ‘Pastoral’ Symphony No. 6 and Fourth Piano Concerto. Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony will headline the Sunday matinee alongside his Choral Fantasy.” World premieres will include Viet Cuong’s Concerto for Orchestra, Molly Joyce/Christopher Theofanidis’s Songs, George Tsontakis’s Requiem, and untitled works by Nina Shekhar and Andre Myers. Other contemporary works in the coming season include Gabriela Lena Frank’s Apu, Vivian Fung’s A Child’s Dream of Toys, Jessie Montgomery’s Coincident Dances, and Christopher Rouse’s Bassoon Concerto.
