The Hartford Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Carolyn Kuan, in a pre-pandemic photo.
“Hartford Symphony Orchestra will be playing indoors again, as a full orchestra, starting Oct. 1,” writes Christopher Arnott in Wednesday’s (5/26) Hartford Courant. “The main ‘Masterworks’ concerts for 2021-2022 were announced Wednesday. The nine-concert series will once again take place in The Bushnell’s Belding Theater. Each concert will have three performances…. The HSO canceled its 2020-21 MasterWorks season due to the coronavirus crisis. Every concert in the 2021-22 season was originally scheduled as part of either the 2019-20 or 2020-21 season. The season is bookended by Beethoven symphonies. The composer’s seventh symphony … will open the season Oct. 1-3 in a program that also includes Rossini’s William Tell Overture and Clarice Assad’s ‘É Gol!’ (a tribute to soccer star Marta Vieira da Silva), with Assad herself performing. The guest conductor is Joseph Young. A pairing of the American composers Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland … will take place Nov. 5-7,” with additional works by Wynton Marsalis and Laura Karpman. Music Director Carolyn Kuan, whose contract was recently extended through May 2024, will conduct many concerts; guest conductors include Jeri Lynne Johnson and Adam Boyles. Composers include Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Dvořák, Florence Price, William Grant Still, Stravinsky, Bizet, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff, Rimsky-Korsakov, Ravi Shankar, and Philip Glass.
