The Hartford Symphony Orchestra’s 75th-anniversary season in 2018-19 “is a time to appreciate where we are, but also look to the future,” says Music Director Carolyn Kuan in Christopher Arnott’s Sunday (9/30) Hartford Courant article. The orchestra’s season-opening concerts of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition feature images that “are part of a corresponding exhibit at the New Britain Museum of American Art…. In recent years, the orchestra has been mixing things up a bit, performing with a beat boxer, taking its music to local breweries…. Says Kuan, … ‘We not only welcome new works, we welcome new concert experiences. You feel a great responsibility when you lead a 75-year-old institution.’ … Kuan is … delighted that ‘our 75th season will feature many of our own musicians [as soloists], as well as special guests.” The article includes interviews with four HSO musicians: cellist Carole Olefsky (with the orchestra for 48 years); tuba player Stephen Perry (33 years); violinist Jaroslaw Lis (25 years); and violinist Yue Sun (one year). Olefsky says, “Years ago we used to mainly play the classical warhorses. Now we do a lot more modern, innovative music. It’s more varied than when I began. There are more diverse audiences now.”
Posted October 2, 2018
In photo: Music Director Carolyn Kuan conducts the Hartford Symphony Orchestra
