New World Symphony Music Director Stéphane Denève and NWS Fellows at the New World Center in Miami Beach. Photo by Alex Markow.
In Wednesday’s (2/21) South Florida Classical Review, Lawrence Budmen writes, “The 2024-2025 season of the New World Symphony, Stéphane Denève’s second as artistic director, will feature an opera bill, a major 20th century choral work, world premieres and many guest conductors and soloists making their first appearances with the orchestral academy. Performances will take place at the New World Center, the Arsht Center and West Palm Beach’s Kravis Center … Denève opens the season October 5 and 6 with artistic director laureate Michael Tilson Thomas’ Grammy award-winning composition ‘From the Diary of Anne Frank’ and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5. On October 19 and 20, Denève leads a fully staged presentation of Victor Ullman’s ‘The Kaiser of Atlantis’ and Kurt Weill’s ‘The Seven Deadly Sins’ featuring soprano Danielle DeNeise. Israeli director Yuval Sharon helms the one-act works…. Denève directs the premieres of two New World Symphony commissions: Davóne Tines’ Recital No. 1 – MASS (with Tines as baritone soloist) and Anna Clyne’s PALETTE for Augmented Orchestra…. Tilson Thomas is scheduled to lead programs on March 29 and 30 and April 5 and 6 … Guest conductors include Dalia Staveska, Xian Zhang, Paolo Bortolameolli, Jerri Lynne Johnson, Lidiya Yankovskaya, James Gaffigan, Shunske Sato and Edward Garner.”
