2/4 Salonen: L.A. Variations Strauss: Ein Heldenleben (Frank Huang, v; Alan Gilbert, cond)
2/11 The March to Liberation Still’s Symphony No. 2, Song of a New Race, celebrates the Black American as, in the composer’s words, “a totally new individual.” Adolphus Hailstork’s oratorio Done Made My Vow, A Ceremony, honors the countless Black Americans who have faced “the bench of injustice, and, by doing so, changed a nation.”
Courtney Bryan: Gathering Song Still: Symphony No. 2, Song of a New Race Hailstork: Done Made My Vow, A Ceremony (Ryan Speedo Green, bs-bar;Janinah Burnett, s; Rodrick Dixon, t; Simon Estes, speaker; Ebony Spicer, treble; New York Philharmonic Chorus, Malcom J. Merriweather, dir; Leslie B. Dunner, cond)
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2/18 Historic Performances Berg: Der Wein Mahler: Symphony No. 3 (Jessye Norman and Yvonne Minton, s; Pierre Boulez, cond)
2/25 Mozart’s Final Symphonies Mozart: Symphony No. 39, 40 and 41 (Alan Gilbert, cond)
