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Mozart's Great Mass
Unorchestrated - April 29, 2024 19:38 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe Akron Symphony Orchestra and Akron Symphony Chorus will present Mozart’s Great Mass on May 11 at EJ Thomas Hall. The performance will include Lili Boulanger’s On a Spring Morning and Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin. Mozart’s Great Mass stands as a monumental testament to his genius and devo...
Tchaikovsky and Bowden
Unorchestrated - March 30, 2024 14:39 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe Akron Symphony will present Tchaikovsky and Bowden with guest soloist Mary Elizabeth Bowden on April 6 at EJ Thomas Hall. The performance will include Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence, Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on “Greensleeves”, Jessie Montgomery’s Strum, Jennifer Higdon’s “Reel Time”, a...
Bruckner's Fourth - Part 2
Unorchestrated - February 25, 2024 20:35 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe Akron Symphony will present Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony, nicknamed Romantic, on March 2 at EJ Thomas Hall. Bruckner’s composition, his first to receive widespread acclaim, showcases the composer’s unique style and is filled with lyrical themes, expressive contrasts, splendid orchestration, ...
Bruckner's Fourth - Part 1
Unorchestrated - February 23, 2024 21:27 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe Akron Symphony will present Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony, nicknamed Romantic, on March 2 at EJ Thomas Hall. Bruckner’s composition, his first to receive widespread acclaim, showcases the composer’s unique style and is filled with lyrical themes, expressive contrasts, splendid orchestration, gl...
Gospel Meets Symphony 30th Anniversary Concert
Unorchestrated - February 07, 2024 01:08 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe Akron Symphony and the Gospel Meets Symphony Choir will celebrate 30 years of music and fellowship during Gospel Meets Symphony on February 10 at EJ Thomas Hall. Led by Maestro Christopher Wilkins and Gospel Meets Symphony Choirmaster Jonathon Turner, the evening will highlight the communi...
An Akron-fueled Collaboration
Unorchestrated - January 05, 2024 18:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe Akron Symphony will open the second half of the season with a performance featuring Mozart’s 29th Symphony on January 13 at EJ Thomas Hall. The evening will also fully embrace Akron as the Orchestra performs Jake Gunnar Walsh & Jon Sonnenberg’s Conflagration - featuring EarthQuaker devices -...
Dvořák’s ecstatic Cello Concerto
Unorchestrated - November 01, 2023 22:05 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe Akron Symphony will present Dvořák’s warm-hearted, ecstatic, and deeply lyrical Cello Concerto with guest soloist Khari Joyner on November 18 at EJ Thomas Hall. The performance will also include William Grant Still’s Festive Overture and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6. Like the New World Sym...
Sonic Theater on Organ
Unorchestrated - October 18, 2023 20:46 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe Akron Symphony Orchestra will present Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony on October 21 at EJ Thomas Hall. In this episode, Music Director Christopher Wilkins sits down with Robert Mollard, principal keyboardist, to talk about the performance in a conversation that was sponsored by The Friends of the...
A Cultural Expression through Music
Unorchestrated - September 20, 2023 22:28 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe Akron Symphony will open its new season with Beethoven’s 9th Symphony on September 29 at EJ Thomas Hall. The evening will also include the Akron premiere of Jerod Tate’s Clans from Lowak Shoppala’. The piece will include narration by Akron’s Dr. LaDonna Blue Eye, a citizen of the Choctaw Nat...
Beethoven's Supreme Masterpiece
Unorchestrated - September 19, 2023 22:12 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe Akron Symphony will open its new season with Beethoven’s 9th Symphony on September 29 at EJ Thomas Hall. Not only will the evening be the start of a yearlong celebration of 70 years of music, but also mark the 50th anniversary of EJ Thomas Hall, which the Akron Symphony opened in October of ...
Brahms Requiem Part 2
Unorchestrated - May 01, 2023 22:09 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAs the performance of Brahms Requiem approaches, the chorus has been hard at work preparing! Go behind the scenes with host Tom Moore and Akron Symphony chorus director Chris Albanese to learn more about how the chorus is gearing up for Brahms Requiem.
Brahms Requiem Part 1
Unorchestrated - April 27, 2023 18:39 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsValerie Coleman’s Umoja expresses the joy of community, through a single irresistibly catchy tune. Not since Bobby McFerrin’s Don’t Worry, Be Happy has a composer created such memorably euphoric music. Deep joy lies also at the heart of Brahms’ Requiem. It is his most personal work, composed as ...
Mahler's Third Part 4
Unorchestrated - April 09, 2023 23:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsMusic Director Christopher Wilkins chats with Principal Trombone John Gruber about Mahler's Third.
Mahler 3 Podcast 3
Unorchestrated - April 07, 2023 15:47 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDo you love our preconcert Preview from the Podiums? Now you can get to know our upcoming with a pre-preconcert talk! Here's another installment of our Mahler's Third series!
Mahler 3 Podcast 2
Unorchestrated - April 04, 2023 19:50 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsMaestro Christopher Wilkins speaks about Mahler's grand design for the Third Symphony. Using musical examples, he follows the course of the symphony's six movements up the Great Chain of Being: from inanimate matter, to plant and animal life, the human realm, the heavenly host, and finally to ...
ASO 23-24 Season Preview
Unorchestrated - March 29, 2023 19:53 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe Akron Symphony Orchestra’s new season is filled with a diverse range of music, world-class performers, exciting collaborations, and numerous milestones! The Akron Symphony will open its 70th season on September 29 with a program featuring Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. It is a fitting choic...
ASO 23-24 Season Preview
Unorchestrated - March 29, 2023 19:53 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe Akron Symphony Orchestra’s new season is filled with a diverse range of music, world-class performers, exciting collaborations, and numerous milestones! The Akron Symphony will open its 70th season on September 29 with a program featuring Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. It is a fitting choic...
Mahler 3 Podcast 1
Unorchestrated - March 18, 2023 00:59 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsMahler’s Third is his “Pastoral Symphony.” It seems propelled throughout by nature’s bold power. The opening march represents the arrival of spring in the Austrian Alps—the earth groans, giant ice sheets crack, and cataracts spill forth from mountain streams. The middle movements move in stages ...
Akron's Julia Perry: How Does a Shadow Shine?
Unorchestrated - December 22, 2022 15:27 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAkron Symphony's Julia Perry project seeks to shine a light on the talented Akron-born composer's music and legacy. Julia Perry was born in Lexington, KY in 1924, into a talented family of musicians, teachers, doctors, and horse trainers. She received an exceptional musical education in Akron,...
Christmas!
Unorchestrated - December 06, 2022 22:12 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsKick off the Holiday Season with an Akron tradition! Get in the holiday spirit with an evening of traditional carols and festivities with the Akron Symphony Orchestra, the Akron Symphony Chorus, and special guests—including a visit from the North Pole!
Ellington's Nutcracker & The Ballad of the Brown King
Unorchestrated - November 06, 2022 15:49 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsMargaret Bonds and Langston Hughes tell the Christmas story through the person of Balthazar, the Black member of the Three Kings. Akron’s Julia Perry, who began her career in Europe, sets the mystical writings of Catherine of Siena, a beloved figure in the history of Italian literature. Respighi...
Pastoral Symphony
Unorchestrated - October 13, 2022 14:59 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings“The awakening of joyful feelings upon arriving in the country” was how Beethoven described the first movement of his Sixth Symphony. The Pastoral Symphony is among the most visual of all orchestral works. In it, we “see” sun-drenched fields, a brookside idyll, a peasant dance interrupted by a v...
American Fanfare
Unorchestrated - September 23, 2022 02:26 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsMeet the 22-23 Akron Symphony Orchestra Season Opener—American Fanfare— with host Ken Heinlein and Music Director Christopher Wilkins. Six Americans compose portraits of our nation and our people. Copland’s brass and percussion fanfare salutes civilians serving our country through simple dail...
There's a Stirrin' in the Water
Unorchestrated - October 12, 2021 21:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn the final episode of our series on the Akron Symphony Chorus, we sit down with Chorus Director Chris Albanese and special guests Chuck Myricks Jr. and Jesse Ayers about There’s a Stirrin’ in the Water, which they co-composed in 2016. The episode includes selections of There’s a Stirrin’ in ...
Music of the Sacred Harp
Unorchestrated - September 17, 2021 16:59 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn the third episode of our four-part series on the Akron Symphony Chorus, we sit down with Chorus Director Chris Albanese and special guest Moira Smiley to discuss chorus music in the tradition of the Sacred Harp. The episode includes selections of William Billings’ The Creation, and Moira’s ...
The Creation
Unorchestrated - September 08, 2021 21:27 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn the second episode of our four-part series on the Akron Symphony Chorus, we sit down with Chorus Director Chris Albanese, Music Director Christopher Wilkins and special guest Betsy Burleigh to discuss Haydn’s towering masterpiece, The Creation. The episode includes selections of The Creatio...
Awakenings
Unorchestrated - August 27, 2021 13:48 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn the first episode of a four-part series on the Akron Symphony Chorus, we sit down with Chorus Director Chris Albanese and Steven Savanyu of Buford T. Hedgehog Productions to talk about a special recording project by the chorus in the parking lot of the First United Methodist Church in Akron. ...
Pass Me Not: A Visit with Jennifer Mekel Jones
Unorchestrated - August 23, 2021 14:54 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn the sixth episode of Deep River: The Legacy of the Spirituals, we speak with Jennifer Mekel Jones, who served for a decade as Choirmaster of the ASO’s Gospel Meets Symphony. She is a composer, singer, songwriter, recording artist, ordained minister, and a central figure in the musical life of...
We’re Marching to Zion: A Visit with Dr. Raymond Wise
Unorchestrated - July 28, 2021 14:32 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn the fifth episode of Deep River: The Legacy of the Spirituals, we are joined by Dr. Raymond Wise for a discussion about the development of spirituals and their influence on his own creative career. The episode, We’re Marching to Zion: A Visit with Dr. Raymond Wise, includes two performances...
Nathaniel Dett’s Legacy: The Chariot Jubilee
Unorchestrated - July 23, 2021 17:45 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn the fourth episode of Deep River: The Legacy of the Spirituals, Jonathon Turner, the ASO’s Gospel Meets Symphony Choirmaster, and Brenda Justice, Coordinator of Choral Programs, join co-hosts Christopher and Tom to discuss Nathaniel Dett, a composer, choir leader, pianist, teacher, poet, writ...
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