QUO: Queer Cosmos
Queer Urban Orchestra begins A Place for Us, a season-long celebration of queer space, with an expansive vision of the queer cosmos. Astronomy and astrology unite in Holst’s The Planets, a vivid orchestral suite that plumbs the mysteries and moods of our solar system. Brooklyn Treble Choir joins the orchestra in the work’s finale as well as excerpts from The Sun’s Journey, a cantata by Holst’s daughter Imogen, a gifted but nearly forgotten composer and conductor. Pianist Isabelle O’Connell brings her “technical prowess, spirit and intelligence” (New York Concert Review) to Viet Cuong’s alluring piano concerto Stargazer.
[Program notes taken from The Queer Urban Orchestra’s webpage: https://www.queerurbanorchestra.org/tickets/]
Blue Buzz | The New Conductor's Orchestra
“Join the New Conductors Orchestra for Blue Buzz, a musical voyage through the breathtaking British and Nordic countryside. Immerse yourself in sounds both bold and ethereal, with repertoire that reflects themes of loss, transcendence, and joy.
Ralph Vaughan Williams Overture (from “The Wasps”)
Jennifer Higdon blue cathedral
Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 82”
"The Grand Duke" | The Blue Hill Troupe
“Gilbert & Sullivan’s final collaboration may be the duo’s topsy-turviest! Laced with their trademark social satire and romantic misadventures, this treasure of an operetta (in BHT’s performance edition from 2005) boasts a sumptuous score and a zany plot to overthrow the government by—who else?—a troupe of actors.”