“I am so excited to present the Albany Symphony’s new, reimagined 2020-21 season to you. While it is designed to adapt to our current world, it is every bit as beautiful, passionate, and life-affirming as any season we have ever presented, bringing you glorious music past and present. When we developed our original 2020/2021 season, we planned a season that celebrated composers whose artistry reflected their triumph over adversity. Our newly reimagined season continues along those lines and is an affirmation of creativity. We will continue to trace heroic journeys by great composers of the past and by a very diverse group of the most exciting composers of our own time.”
David Alan Miller, conductor | William Kanengiser & Scott Tennant (L.A. Guitar Quartet)
Nina Shekhar: Above the Fray
Clarice Assad: Folk Tales, Double Guitar Concerto
Molly Joyce/Christopher Theofanidis: Songs (World Premiere)
Alexis Lamb: Serotiny
David Alan Miller, conductor
Jack Frerer: The Present Hour (world premiere)
Bobby Ge: The Gate Illumined (world premiere)
Tom Morrison: Locked and Forgot (world premiere)
Kerwin Young: You Got Your Head Up In the Clouds (world premiere)
Ted Hearne: Is It Dirty
Caroyln Yarnell: Dreamer
David Mallamud: Selections from Parlor Songs
David Alan Miller, conductor | Melissa White, violin
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 46
George Tsontakis: Violin Concerto No. 2
Tanner Porter: A Flash of Teeth Before the Bite
Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 5
David Alan Miller, conductor | Inon Barnatan, piano
Ottorino Respighi: Trittico Botticelliano
Carlos Bandera: Of Rain and Air
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 (chamber orchestra version)
David Alan Miller, conductor | Lucy Fitz Gibbon, narrator
Sir William Walton: Facade
Tyson Davis: Distances
Johannes Brahms: Serenade No. 1
David Alan Miller, conductor
Jessie Montgomery: Banner
Jean Sibelius: Andante Festivo
Caroline Shaw: Entr’acte
George Walker: Lyric for Strings
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings
David Alan Miller, conductor | Karen Hosmer, oboe | Nancy Dimock, oboe
Ludwig van Beethoven: Overture & Finale to The Creatures of Prometheus
Michael Torke: Ash
Viet Cuong: Extra(ordinarily) Fancy - Double Oboe Concerto
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 1
David Alan Miller, conductor | Chelsea Fingal DeSouza, soprano
Claude Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Andre Myers: Black & Alive
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 4 (chamber orchestra version)
David Alan Miller, conductor
Michael Daugherty: This Land Sings: Inspired by the Life and Times of Woody Guthrie