Houston Symphony to tackle 'Everests' of classical repertoire in new season
The Houston Symphony’s 2023-24 season -- announced Tuesday -- finds the orchestra tackling several “Everests” of the symphonic repertoire, according to executive director and CEO John Mangum. Mangum credits Juraj Valçuha, entering his second season as the orchestra’s music director, with meticulously preparing the orchestra to scale such great heights.
The next weekend, recent International Chopin Piano Competition winner Seong-Jin Cho — who appears in recital April 14 at Galveston’s The Grand 1894 Opera House — makes his Houston Symphony debut with Ravel’s Concerto For the Left Hand, on a concert also featuring Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique and contemporary French-American composer Betsy Jolas’ A Little Summer Suite.
Similar to the orchestra’s Songs of the Earth mini-festival last month, Mangum says to expect several peripheral events peering into the life of a composer he argues was as important as Mahler and Stravinsky in influencing the direction of 20th-century music. Orozco-Estrada, who ended his tenure in April 2022 with a soul-stirring performance of Mahler’s “Resurrection” symphony, will return twice, first in December to conduct Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11 and in April to lead the orchestra and chorus through Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. The Shostakovich is Valçuha’s deliberate nod to the orchestra’s history, notes Mangum: former music director Leopold Stokowski conducted the U.S.
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