Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 5
Michael Stern, conductor
Michael Stern led a triumphant conclusion to the 2019 NOI+F with music by Gustav Mahler. Mahler’s towering fifth symphony is an emotional journey from its exposed beginning to its triumphant finale. Departing from his earlier symphonies, which are strongly intertwined with Mahler’s vocal art song, Symphony No. 5’s style is gripping and passionate while expressing the vulnerability and intimacy of mankind’s struggle to rise in the face of adversity.
Anna Clyne's This Midnight Hour
Michael Stern, conductor
Kansas City Symphony Music Director Michael Stern leads Anna Clyne’s turbulent This Midnight Hour. This gorgeous work is based on poetry of Juan Ramón Jiménez and Charles Baudelaire and evokes a surreal nocturnal scene.
Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 8
Andrew Grams, conductor
Maryland-native Andrew Grams returned home in 2019 to lead a tour-de-force program anchored by Dvořák’s pastoral Symphony No. 8. In his eighth symphony, Dvořák invokes folk Bohemian idioms filled with earthy tones and bird-like sounds