The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony in Manhattan has announced details of its 2019-20 season under Music Director David Bernard. The season, the orchestra’s 20th, will begin with a November 23 program at the DiMenna Center for Music performed twice using the orchestra’s InsideOut Concerts format with the audience seated among the musicians: once in the afternoon for families and again the same evening. The program will feature Barber’s Adagio for Strings, Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, Copland’s Clarinet Concerto with soloist Jon Manasse, and Copland’s Appalachian Spring, the latter accompanied by a visual montage created by WQXR presenter and stage director Elliott Forrest. Also planned is a February InsideOut program entitled “Wolfgang’s World,” featuring selections by Mozart plus movements from the Mozart Requiem with the New Amsterdam Singers. A 20th-anniversary gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater in May will feature pianist Mischa Dichter in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 on a program also including the Prelude and Liebestod from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde and Brahms’s Symphony No. 3. The orchestra will spotlight winners of Kaufman Music Center’s Special Music School competition in a June concert at the DiMenna Center.
Posted September 24, 2019
