“The Chautauqua Institution announced Friday plans for the 2021 season for the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra” in upstate New York, reads an unsigned article in Friday’s (5/21) Your Erie (PA). “The orchestra will offer 14 performances between July 10th and August 14th…. Performances will often feature a small ensemble, the musicians will be socially distanced and the non-wind and brass players will be masked. ‘We’re beyond excited to welcome … symphonic music back to the Chautauqua Amphitheater and for an in-person audience this summer [and] excited to give our audience sips of compositions that are rarely heard,’ … said Deborah Sunya Moore, interim senior vice president and chief program officer.” Programs will include standard repertoire as well as Gabriela Lena Frank’s Elegia Andina; Joseph Bologne’s Symphony No. 2; George Walker’s Lyric for Strings; Wynton Marsalis’s Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra, with soloist Carol Jantsch, principal tuba of the Philadelphia Orchestra; Félix Alexandre Guilmant’s Organ Symphony No. 2; Jessie Montgomery’s Strum; Frances Pollock’s God is Dead, Schoenberg is Dead, but Love will come; and Carlos Simon’s Elegy: A Cry from the Grave. Stuart Chafetz will conduct two pops concerts: one featuring opera and another with vocalist Capathia Jenkins in Ella Fitzgerald and other American Songbook selections.
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