Musicians of the Toledo Symphony Orchestra perform in a previous event in a gallery at the Toledo Museum of Art.
“In response to the ongoing pandemic, the Toledo Symphony announced on Monday that its September, 2020, through June, 2021, performance season will … allow for orchestra members to socially distance onstage, while some of the spring concerts that were canceled because of the coronavirus have been rescheduled,” reads an unsigned article in Monday’s (8/3) Toledo Blade (OH). “Alain Trudel, Toledo Symphony’s music director, said in a press release, ‘We’ve reimagined our concert schedule to accommodate the health and safety guidelines set forth by the state of Ohio.’ … The new season kicks off Sept.12 and 13 with performances of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 and Symphony No. 5, respectively, which are part of the Toledo Symphony’s celebration of the composer’s 250th birthday…. All performances through February 2021 are scheduled at the Toledo Museum of Art’s Peristyle Theater…. Highlights to the 2020-2021 season include: A tribute to Louis Armstrong, featuring trumpeter Byron Stripling; Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Recomposed by Max Richter; the Toledo Ballet’s 80th-anniversary presentation of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker; … the rescheduled Toledo debut of … Bernadette Peters; the Toledo Symphony live performance of John Williams’ entire score to Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back alongside the iconic film; Jon Nakamatsu performing Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto.”
