“Holland Symphony Orchestra’s return to indoor live music netted several standing ovations on Saturday evening,” writes Peg McNichol in Monday’s (9/27) WHTC (Holland, MI). “HSO’s music director and conductor, Johannes Müller Stosch, said the evening’s theme, New Worlds, referenced more than the famed Antonín Leopold Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World.’ The theme encompassed the early work of Beethoven and the HSO’s first performance of a work by notable Black-American composer and conductor, William Grant Still Jr., ‘Darker America.’ … Müller Stosch said during a new element of the season, a YouTube pre-concert talk … [that] Still produced a ‘masterful repertoire, and deserves a rightful place in the classical music canon.’ … The next HSO concert … Oct. 16 … will include Coleridge-Taylor’s Hiawatha Suite; Nino Rota’s Divertimento Concertante for Double Bass and Orchestra; and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6…. Jack Unzicker will be featured on bass.”
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