The Nashville Symphony and Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero at Schermerhorn Symphony Center, prior to the pandemic.
“After a year and a half of silence at the Schermerhorn, the Nashville Symphony will make its long-awaited return this September—just in time to celebrate its 75th anniversary,” writes Dave Paulson in Wednesday’s (5/19) Nashville Tennessean. The 2021-22 season “features more than 100 concerts. It will kick off September 16-18 [at] Schermerhorn Symphony Center, where they’ll perform pieces by Copland, Tower, Dvořák and Schubert during ‘Fanfare for Music City.’ Other highlights include a pop series … an Easter presentation of Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ collaborations with Nashville Ballet and live performances of … film scores…. When the musicians return to the stage with longtime music director Giancarlo Guerrero, they’ll do so as a smaller chamber orchestra…. The symphony plans to bring the full orchestra back together in January.” In addition to standard repertoire, the season will include performances of Florence Price’s Dances in the Canebrakes, C.F. Kip Winger’s Symphony No. 1, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Hiawatha Ballet Suite, and music by Brian Raphael Nabors, Augusta Read Thomas, and Brad Warnaar. Alumni from the orchestra’s Accelerando music education program will featured in November. The season will include with Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, with the Nashville Symphony Chorus.
