“If the new season of the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra looks—and sounds—a bit more normal than it has in recent years, that’s pretty much the idea,” writes Peter Tonguette in Sunday’s (5/22) Columbus Dispatch (OH). “ ‘We will have some tried-and-true favorites, like the full “Messiah,” and then we’re continuing to promote a new work by a living composer pretty much on every concert,’ said [CEO Janet Chen]…. [At] the opening weekend concerts … in addition to works by … Beethoven and … Haydn, Music Director David Danzmayr will lead the orchestra in a performance of the Ohio premiere of contemporary composer Reza Vali’s ‘The Girl from Shiraz.’ … Two concerts will feature contemporary musicians performing their own compositions: On March 4-5, Berlin Philharmonic concertmaster Noah Bendix-Balgley will perform his own work ‘Fidl-Fantazye: A Klezmer Concerto,’ and for the season finale on May 13-14, Pulitzer Prize-winning vocalist-composer Caroline Shaw will be featured in her own pieces, ‘Blueprint for String Quartet,’ ‘Is A Rose’ and ‘Entr’acte for String Orchestra.’ … Also coming back is ‘Naked Classics,’ an educational-style concert in which presenter and host Paul Rissmann does a deep-dive into classical masterpieces and the orchestra will play those same masterpieces.”
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