2020-2021
Repertoirerevised on November 2020
Spring 2021 Cornell Orchestras will be in Hybrid Format.
We will begin the semester with combined online sessions featuring the following four speakers continuing our Speaker Series from the Fall semester.
An Informational Town Hall will be held on Monday, November 16, 2020, from 5-530 pm ET. Here is a link to the archived video.
4:55 - 6:10 pm, Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Titus Underwood
4:55 - 6:10 pm, Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Garrett McQueen
4:55 - 6:10 pm, Wednesday, February 24, 2021
TBA
4:55 - 6:10 pm, Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Edward Yim
12 - 4 pm, Sunday, March 7, 2021
Live-Streamed from Bailey Hall or B20 of Lincoln Hall
A Festival of Solo Works by Underrepresented Composers
3 pm, Sunday, May 2, 2021
Cornell Chamber Orchestra [Repertoire TBC]
GEORGE WALKER Lyric for Strings
CARLOS SIMON Portrait of a Queen
JESSIE MONTGOMERY Strum for String Orchestra and additional work TBA
FLORENCE PRICE Adoration arranged for String Orchestra by Chris Kim
@Bailey Hall, Cornell University or Arts Quad Tents Location TBC
3 pm, Sunday, May 9, 2021
Cornell Symphony Orchestra [repertoire TBC]
FRANK TICHELI Rest for String Orchestra
ADOLPHOUS HAILSTORK Sonata di Chiesa for string orchestra
DANIEL BERNARD ROUMAINE Voodoo Violin Concerto No. 1
FLORENCE PRICE Symphony No. 4 in D minor
@Bailey Hall, Cornell University or Arts Quad Tents Location TBC
2020-2021 Season Repertoire [Unfortunately there will be no safe way to be able to rehearse and perform in these times. The following is a wishlist of repertoire we would have performed together as an orchestra. This fall the Cornell orchestras will go online and explore ways to be a great orchestra. But performing in person will not be one of them]
3 pm, Sunday, October 4, 2020
Cornell Chamber Orchestra
HILDEGARD von BINGEN De Innocentibus Rex Noster arranged by Marianne Richert Pfau
TERESA CARRENO Serenade for String Orchestra
intermissionCornell Symphony Orchestra
CARLOS SIMON Amen! for Orchestra [2017 rev. 2019]
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 2
@Bailey Hall, Cornell University
3 pm, Sunday, November 15, 2020
Cornell Chamber Orchestra
LIGETI Ramifications for String Orchestra
FRANK TICHELI Rest for String Orchestra
Vítězslava Kaprálová Partita for Piano and Strings
@Bailey Hall, Cornell University
3 pm, Saturday, November 21, 2020
Cornell Symphony Orchestra
CLARA SCHUMANN Piano Concerto Op. 7
IGOR STRAVINSKY Rite of Spring
@Bailey Hall, Cornell University8 pm, Sunday, December 13, 2020
18th Annual Cornell Concerto Competition in Barnes Hall
3 pm, Saturday, March 6, 2021
6th Annual Young Person's Concert
Cornell Symphony Orchestra
with 18th Cornell Concerto competition Student winner, TBA
LOUISE FARRENC Overture No. 1
FLORENCE PRICE Symphony No. 4 in D minor
@Bailey Hall, Cornell University
March 18-20, 2021
FLORENCE PRICE Symphony No. 4 in D minor performed as part of the Florence Price conference dates and time TBA
8 pm, Saturday, March 27, 2021
Collaboration with New York State Baroque Dance Co. and Curated by Rebecca Harris-Warrick
Cornell Chamber OrchestraANTOINE DAUVERGNE (1713 – 1797)
«Les TROQUEURS»
Intermède [Opéra bouffon] en un acte et un ballet
Libretto: Jean-Joseph Vadé
Paris, 1753
@Bailey Hall, Cornell University
3 pm, Sunday, April 25, 2021
Cornell Symphony Orchestra
GALINA USTVOLSKAYA Symphony No.2 "True and Eternal Bliss"
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5@Bailey Hall, Cornell University
3 pm, Sunday, May 9, 2021
Cornell Chamber Orchestra
A.D. White House residency by Dawn Upshaw
MARIA SCHNEIDER Winter Morning Walks featuring Dawn Upshaw
JESSIE MONTGOMERY Records from a Vanishing City (2016)
@Barnes Hall, Cornell University
Also 2120 The Art of Conducting will be offered in the fall semester of 2020.
SUGGESTION BOX
Please suggest future repertoire for the Cornell Orchestras. Here is the link to the feedback form
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