“The Shreveport Symphony Orchestra is concluding its season with two mainstage concerts, plus open-air concerts in the community,” writes Tiana Kennell in Friday’s (5/21) Shreveport Times (LA). “Audiences are invited to join SSO—at a safe distance—for in-person, virtual, and drive-in presentations…. SSO, in partnership with the Shreveport Memorial Library, will continue its drive-in concert series … May 27 and June 1 in the parking lot of SML branches…. The events are free…. Another free music experience [is a] virtual … chamber concert [featuring] Yevgeny Yontov, piano; Jake Hale, clarinet; Jennifer Carsillo and Rachel Bundy, violins; Borys Smolaga, viola; and John-Henry Crawford, cello [in] Prokofiev’s Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op. 34 and Brahms’ Piano Quintet in F Minor … The 2020-21 ‘Reimagined’ Willis-Knighton Masterworks Series’ … final two concerts pay homage to … Gustav Mahler, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Joseph Haydn. This weekend, the SSO will present … Mahler Symphony No. 4 with [soprano] Janani Sridhar.… The season will close [June 12 and 13] with [pianist] Alon Goldstein [joining] the SSO. Haydn’s Symphony No. 94, ‘Surprise,’ is … followed by Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5…. Both programs will be presented in person to a socially distanced audience, as well as streamed online.”
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