Connecticut’s Hartford Symphony Orchestra has announced details of its 2015-16 season, which includes nine masterworks concerts at the Bushnell Center in Hartford. Highlights include an April concert staging of Gluck’s opera Orfeo ed Euridice, led by Music Director Carolyn Kuan; a Gershwin/Golijov/Rachmaninoff program in June featuring the HSO woodwind section and guest soloists Kayhan Kalhor (kamancheh), David Krakauer (klezmer clarinet), Cristina Pato (Galician bagpipe), and Michael Ward-Bergeman (accordion); and three January programs conducted by each of the semifinalists (names still to be announced) for the orchestra’s assistant conductor position. Works featured on other 2015-16 programs include John Adams’s Shaker Loops, Dvorák’s Symphony No. 9 (“From the New World”), and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8, the latter led by guest conductor William Eddins. A December choral program with the Hartford Chorale will feature Fauré’s Requiem, Jennifer Higdon’s Blue Cathedral, and excerpts from Handel’s Messiah.
Posted April 13, 2015
