Musicians of the Greenville Symphony Orchestra in South Carolina.
In Saturday’s (3/1) Greenville Journal (South Carolina), Paul Hyde writes, “The Greenville Symphony’s 2025-26 season may be its most America-centered season in its 78 years, with music from Broadway and Hollywood and works by John Williams, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, and George Gershwin, and three world premieres by other American composers. Music Director Lee Mills said the season will spotlight America’s cultural richness as a part of the national celebrations in 2026 of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence…. The opening program, Oct. 4-5, sets the innovative tone with a ‘Hollywood Retrospective’ of film music instead of the usual array of classical standards…. Music Director Emeritus Edvard Tchivzhel returns to the podium on Nov. 22-23 to conduct works by Bernstein, Gershwin and Rachmaninoff. Among the new works next season is a piece by South Carolina composer Peter B. Kay—with words by New York-based writer Mark Waldrop—about Dicey Langston, a South Carolina heroine of the Revolutionary War…. Other contemporary composers with new works next season include Columbia-native Andy Akiho and Puerto Rican composer Ivan Enrique Rodriguez…. The season concludes on May 16-17, 2026 with … songs from Gershwin’s ‘Porgy and Bess.’ ”
