“Officials of the Kennedy Center and Washington Performing Arts have chosen the orchestras that will participate in the 2020 iteration of their biennial ‘SHIFT: A Festival of American Orchestras’ ” from March 23-29, 2020, writes Susan Elliott in Wednesday’s (6/13) MusicalAmerica.com (subscription required). “The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Knoxville (TN) Symphony Orchestra, Jacksonville (FL) Symphony Orchestra, and New York’s Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (NY) … each will offer $25-a-ticket performances in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall … as well as educational and community events.… Jacksonville will offer the premiere of African American composer-in-residence Courtney Bryan’s Bridges, as well as Copland’s Clarinet Concerto with Anthony McGill as soloist. Baltimore brings African American composer Florence Price’s The Oak, Golijov’s Rose of the Winds … and … versions of its famed ‘OrchKids’ and ‘Rusty Musicians.’ Knoxville brings ‘Music & Wellness’ to the community and titles its concerts ‘Knoxville: Artists at Home.’ The latter employs the UT Symphony Brass and local poet laureate R. B. Morris…. Orpheus has enlisted the services of the Classical Theater of Harlem to round out a program it calls ‘A Meditation on Harlem Midsummer’ featuring works by Mendelssohn and Shakespeare.” SHIFT is presented in cooperation with the League of American Orchestras.
Posted June 14, 2018
Pictured: The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., one of the locations where the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, Jacksonville Orchestra, and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra will perform in 2020 at the SHIFT Festival of American Orchestras
