Notes & Frames: A Film & Music Festival – Upcoming Concerts

The NSO's 2024–2025 Classical season closes in June with a three-week festival exploring the overlap between film music and concert music, June 4–21, 2025. In the first, the NSO will present a program led by Teddy Abrams and two live-to-film concerts: Amadeus live with orchestra and Metropolis featuring organist Cameron Carpenter's original score to Fritz Lang's 1927 science-fiction silent film. The second week James Gaffigan will conduct film scores by Bernstein, Rota, and Shostakovich and concertos by James Newton Howard featuring violinist James Ehnes, Michael Abels with an NSO string quartet, and John Williams with NSO Principal Horn Abel Pereira as soloist. The final week of the festival culminates in a world premiere by Academy Award–winning director, composer, and pianist Kris Bowers (The Last Repair Shop, Green Book, King Richard, and The Color Purple) who will curate and perform a program of contemporary film music to be conducted by Anthony Parnther.