Take The Reins: Barber's 'Knoxville: Summer of 1915'
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Reena Esmail — Teen Murti
Samuel Barber — Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24
Georges Bizet — Symphony No. 1 in C major "Symphony in C"
In this special performance, NOI+F fellows take the reins in a program that combines chamber music playing with large ensemble performance. The 2022 NOI Philharmonic will perform without a conductor and lead each other in chamber orchestra repertoire by Aaron Copland, Reena Esmail, and Georges Bizet. This unique collaboration features powerhouse soprano Tiffany Townsend, 2022 Wolf Trap Opera resident artist, in Samuel Barber's ethereal setting of James Agee's idyllic and nostalgic poem, Knoxville: Summer of 1915.
This event is part of the National Orchestral Institute + Festival (NOI+F), a program of The Clarice at the University of Maryland. NOI+F trains aspiring orchestral musicians, composers, conductors and arts administrators from across the country in a month of dynamic music-making and professional exploration. Trailblazing conductor Marin Alsop was appointed as the first-ever Music Director of the National Orchestral Institute + Festival in 2020. In addition to conducting innovative programs onstage at The Clarice and at Wolf Trap, Maestra Alsop launched the NOI+F Conducting Academy for rising young conductors in 2021. In 2015, NOI+F began a partnership with Naxos to record one concert of all-American music each year—Naxos' first partnership with a summer festival of its kind. The 2019 recording Ruggles, Stucky, Harbison received a Grammy nomination in the "Best Orchestral Performance" category.
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