“For its 100th anniversary season in 2015-2016, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will celebrate its history with the help of former music director Yuri Temirkanov, other conductors once associated with the ensemble, and some the starriest musicians to appear on the guest soloist roster in the past,” writes Tim Smith in Thursday’s (3/12) Baltimore Sun. At Wednesday’s season announcement, “Music director Marin Alsop pointed out several ‘huge blockbusters of the standard repertoire’ that are part of the lineup for next season, including symphonies by Mahler and Strauss that she will conduct, and John Adams’ epic Harmonielehre, to be conducted by the composer…. The centennial season ‘is about accessibility, inclusion, celebration and fun,’ Alsop said.… The centennial season will also have a distinctly contemporary vein as well…. The orchestra will perform works by 22 living composers, nine of them women, next season.… Ten Americans on the contemporary list—equally divided by gender—are writing short, celebratory pieces for the BSO, commissioned by Alexandria-based Classical Movements, Inc…. To build social media attention for the season announcement, the BSO launched a scavenger hunt … for 100 ‘golden tickets’ hidden around the Baltimore/Washington area. Each ticket entitles the finder to bring an additional 9 people to a concert next season.”
Posted March 12, 2015
Pictured: Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra perform at halftime at the Thanksgiving Day Ravens-Steelers game at M&T Bank Stadium, 2013. Photo by TJ Root/Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
