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Lucinda y Las Flores de la Nochebuena:Children’s Concert 2023
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The Glens Falls Symphony is very excited to be preparing for our Children's Concert which will return this fall for the first time since pandemic restrictions were put in place.
This year's concert will be Lucinda y Las Flores de la Nochebuena a Christmas opera for kids that is a coming-of-age story based on the Mexican folktale of the poinsettia. The symphony will perform under the baton of maestro Charles Peltz, in collaboration with singers from Seagle Festival telling the tale of how the poinsettia became a symbol of the holidays. Elementary students in the Adirondack Park in grades 3 and 4 are invited to follow young Lucinda as she discovers that giving from the heart is more important than the gift itself in this wonderful story of courage, hope, and transformation.
Written by Evan Mack and Joshua McGuire, and directed by Richard Kagey this bilingual and interactive piece will be presented in the Warrensburg Middle/High School auditorium on Friday, November 17, 2023, with multiple performances throughout the school day.
40th Anniversary Season of Music & Adventure 23-24
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Join us for a celebration of the magnificent voice of Metropolitan Opera star, Mezzo Soprano MaryAnn McCormick, in a performance of Edward Elgar's Sea Pictures!
Internationally acclaimed mezzo-soprano MaryAnn McCormick has been hailed in the press as “charismatic”, “spell-binding”, and “elegant”. She has performed at top theaters all over the world for more than 25 years. She has sung with the Metropolitan Opera for more than 20 seasons, as well as with La Scala in Milan; Rome Opera; Turin Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and others. The recipient of a 2012 Grammy award for her participation in Wagner’s Ring Cycle with the Metropolitan Opera, Ms. McCormick has performed many roles there in more than 118 performances most recently as Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro.
Equally at home with concert repertoire, she has performed with many of the greatest orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. She has recorded with the Emerson String Quartet; the New York Philharmonic under Kurt Masur; Orchestre National de France in the role of Tigrane in Puccini’s Edgar; and is featured singing in the Miramax film The Talented Mr. Ripley.
Ms. McCormick’s numerous awards include; the Grammy Award (2012); Best Opera Recording/ Wagner’s Ring Cycle (Metropolitan Opera/ James Levine), Richard Tucker Career Grant, George London Foundation Award, and the International Tchaikovsky Competition among others. In 2015, Ms. McCormick was honored to join the voice faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.
Regional Premiere November 13
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Jennifer Higdon is one of America’s most acclaimed and most frequently performed living composers. She is a major figure in contemporary Classical music, receiving the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her Violin Concerto, a 2010 Grammy for her Percussion Concerto, a 2018 Grammy for her Viola Concerto and a 2020 Grammy for her Harp Concerto. In 2018, Higdon received the Nemmers Prize from Northwestern University which is given to contemporary classical composers of exceptional achievement who have significantly influenced the field of composition. Most recently, the recording of Higdon's Percussion Concerto was inducted into the Library of Congress National Recording Registry. Higdon enjoys several hundred performances a year of her works, and blue cathedral is today’s most performed contemporary orchestral work, with more than 600 performances worldwide. Her works have been recorded on more than seventy CDs. Higdon’s first opera, Cold Mountain, won the prestigious International Opera Award for Best World Premiere and the opera recording was nominated for 2 Grammy awards. Her music is published exclusively by Lawdon Press.
Based on Charles Frazier’s National Book Award-wining novel, the opera, Cold Mountain, was commissioned by Santa Fe Opera, Opera Philadelphia, North Carolina Opera, and Minnesota Opera. Its performances have consistently sold out. It garnered 2 Grammy nominations and won the International Opera Award for Best New Opera Premiere. The suite was commissioned by New Music for America, and co commissioned by the Glens Falls Symphony and 36 other organizations.
