With “Shifting Ground,” a commissioning and recording project, Kenney is approaching Baroque music as the start of something contemporary.
Hear how composer Paul Moravec and librettist Mark Campbell approached the adaptation in a new recording from Lyric Opera of Kansas City.
Brett Mitchell’s inaugural season as music director is the next chapter in the orchestra’s nearly century-long history.
Montero offers a brilliant improvised encore, in addition to a Mozart concerto, on this program that also includes a new work by Nina Shekhar.
With a new director at the helm, the organization is looking ahead to a vibrant year of performances.
Thomas is set to premiere Fire and Blue Sky, a song cycle written for him by composer Joel Thompson and poet Imani Tolliver.
The composer’s adaptation of a 12th-century Persian poem involves many collaborators, including the SF Girls Chorus and The Living Earth Show.
The composer has again teamed up with librettist Gene Scheer for this latest commission from the Seattle-based Music of Remembrance.
