The BSO’s annual outdoor celebration of the July 4 holiday, with fireworks!

Program:

SMITH The Star-Spangled Banner

JAMES M STEPHENSON Fanfare for Democracy

STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Highlights from Wicked

WARD America the Beautiful

VARIOUS Armed Forces Salute

GOULD American Salute

BOND Prayer Meeting from The “Montgomery Variations”

JOHN WILLIAMS Rey's Theme from Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens

JOHN WILLIAMS Scherzo for X-Wings from Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens

TCHAIKOVSKY 1812, Overture solonelle, op. 49

SOUSA Stars and Stripes Forever

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The BSO’s annual concerts in celebration of the July 4 holiday

Program:

SMITH The Star-Spangled Banner

JAMES M STEPHENSON Fanfare for Democracy

STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Highlights from Wicked

WARD America the Beautiful

VARIOUS Armed Forces Salute

GOULD American Salute

BOND Prayer Meeting from The “Montgomery Variations”

JOHN WILLIAMS Rey's Theme from Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens

JOHN WILLIAMS Scherzo for X-Wings from Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens

TCHAIKOVSKY 1812, Overture solonelle, op. 49

SOUSA Stars and Stripes Forever

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The Finale concert for the week-long BSO Academy.

Program:

HECTOR BERLIOZ Roman Carnival Overture

OTTORINO RESPIGHI Le fontane di Roma [The Fountains of Rome]

MANUEL DE FALLA Suite No. 2 from Three-Cornered Hat (Three Dances)

Intermission

HECTOR BERLIOZ Overture to Benvenuto Cellini, op. 23

OTTORINO RESPIGHI Feste romane [Roman Festivals]

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Nicholas and the MSO conclude the season with Verdi’s transcendent Requiem Mass

PROGRAM

Verdi: Missa da Requiem

https://www.modestosymphony.org/season-calendar/may25-cl4

Nicholas and the MSO conclude the season with Verdi’s transcendent Requiem Mass

PROGRAM

Verdi: Missa da Requiem

https://www.modestosymphony.org/season-calendar/may25-cl4

Nicholas and the MSO celebrate the energy of youth featuring a side-by-side with the Modesto Symphony Youth Orchestra

PROGRAM

George Gershwin (arr. Hersh): Three Preludes

Camille Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals

Andrew Norman: Drip Blip Sparkle Spin Glint Glide Glow Float Flop Chop Pop Shatter Splash

Aaron Copland: Four Dance Episodes from RODEO (side-by-side with the MSYO)

https://www.modestosymphony.org/season-calendar/apr25-cl3

Nicholas and the MSO celebrate the energy of youth featuring a side-by-side with the Modesto Symphony Youth Orchestra

PROGRAM

George Gershwin (arr. Hersh): Three Preludes

Camille Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals

Andrew Norman: Drip Blip Sparkle Spin Glint Glide Glow Float Flop Chop Pop Shatter Splash

Aaron Copland: Four Dance Episodes from RODEO (side-by-side with the MSYO)

https://www.modestosymphony.org/season-calendar/apr25-cl3

Nicholas makes his subscription debut in Nashville featuring Beethoven’s “Choral” Symphony

PROGRAM

Carlos Simon: Fate Now Conquers

Maurice Ravel: Shéhérazade Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano

Intermission

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

https://www.nashvillesymphony.org/tickets/concert/2024-2025-season/beethovens-ninth-ode-to-joy/

Nicholas makes his subscription debut in Nashville featuring Beethoven’s “Choral” Symphony

PROGRAM

Carlos Simon: Fate Now Conquers

Maurice Ravel: Shéhérazade Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano

Intermission

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

https://www.nashvillesymphony.org/tickets/concert/2024-2025-season/beethovens-ninth-ode-to-joy/

Nicholas makes his subscription debut in Nashville featuring Beethoven’s “Choral” Symphony

PROGRAM

Carlos Simon: Fate Now Conquers

Maurice Ravel: Shéhérazade Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano

Intermission

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

https://www.nashvillesymphony.org/tickets/concert/2024-2025-season/beethovens-ninth-ode-to-joy/

Nicholas returns to the Florida Orchestra in a program of folk-inspired symphonic music

PROGRAM

William Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony

Intermission

Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor Geneva Lewis, violin

Georges Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody No. 1

https://floridaorchestra.org/event/2425-mw5-mendelssohn/

Nicholas returns to the Florida Orchestra in a program of folk-inspired symphonic music

PROGRAM

William Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony

Intermission

Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor Geneva Lewis, violin

Georges Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody No. 1

https://floridaorchestra.org/event/2425-mw5-mendelssohn/

Nicholas debuts with the Omaha Symphony in an effervescent program for chamber orchestra

PROGRAM

Haydn: Symphony No. 60 “Il Distratto”

Jan Sandström: Wahlberg Variations Patrick Pfister, trombone

Intermission

Anna Clyne: Sound and Fury

Alberto Ginastera: Variaciones Concertantes

https://www.omahasymphony.org/concerts/symphony-joslyn-2-20th-century-neoclassical

Nicholas returns to the Tucson Symphony for his subscription debut, featuring the premiere of his arrangement of Clara Schumann’s Op. 5 “Four Characteristic Pieces”

PROGRAM

Bernard Herrmann: PSYCHO: A Short Suite

Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Violin Concerto Kerson Leong, violin

Intermission

Clara Schumann: 4 Pièces Caractéristiques (orch. Hersh) World Premiere

Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5, “Reformation”

https://www.tucsonsymphony.org/event/mendelssohn-and-korngold/2024-11-09/1/

Nicholas returns to the Tucson Symphony for his subscription debut, featuring the premiere of his arrangement of Clara Schumann’s Op. 5 “Four Characteristic Pieces”

PROGRAM

Bernard Herrmann: PSYCHO: A Short Suite

Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Violin Concerto Kerson Leong, violin

Intermission

Clara Schumann: 4 Pièces Caractéristiques (orch. Hersh) World Premiere

Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5, “Reformation”

https://www.tucsonsymphony.org/event/mendelssohn-and-korngold/2024-11-09/1/

Nicholas returns to the Tucson Symphony for his subscription debut, featuring the premiere of his arrangement of Clara Schumann’s Op. 5 “Four Characteristic Pieces”

PROGRAM

Bernard Herrmann: PSYCHO: A Short Suite

Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Violin Concerto Kerson Leong, violin

Intermission

Clara Schumann: 4 Pièces Caractéristiques (orch. Hersh) World Premiere

Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5, “Reformation”

https://www.tucsonsymphony.org/event/mendelssohn-and-korngold/2024-11-09/1/

Nicholas and the MSO celebrate the changing of seasons in an intermission-less program designed for newcomers to the symphony.

PROGRAM

Felix Mendelssohn: Overture from Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 21

Gabriela Ortiz: La Calaca for String Orchestra

The Four Seasons Mixtape: Audrey Wright, violin

Antonio Vivaldi: L'estate (Summer)

Max Richter: Autumn from The Four Seasons Recomposed

Eugène Ysaÿe: Chant d'hiver (Wintersong)

Astor Piazzolla: Primavera porteña (Buenos Aires Spring)

https://www.modestosymphony.org/season-calendar/nov24-cl1

Nicholas and the MSO celebrate the changing of seasons in an intermission-less program designed for newcomers to the symphony.

PROGRAM

Felix Mendelssohn: Overture from Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 21

Gabriela Ortiz: La Calaca for String Orchestra

The Four Seasons Mixtape: Audrey Wright, violin

Antonio Vivaldi: L'estate (Summer)

Max Richter: Autumn from The Four Seasons Recomposed

Eugène Ysaÿe: Chant d'hiver (Wintersong)

Astor Piazzolla: Primavera porteña (Buenos Aires Spring)

https://www.modestosymphony.org/season-calendar/nov24-cl1

Nicholas debuts with the Madison Symphony in a program inspired by the supernatural.

PROGRAM

Anna Clyne: This Midnight Hour

Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violin

Maurice Ravel: Tzigane Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violin

Intermission

Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14

https://madisonsymphony.org/event/visions/

Nicholas debuts with the Madison Symphony in a program inspired by the supernatural.

PROGRAM

Anna Clyne: This Midnight Hour

Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violin

Maurice Ravel: Tzigane Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violin

Intermission

Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14

https://madisonsymphony.org/event/visions/

Nicholas debuts with the Madison Symphony in a program inspired by the supernatural.

PROGRAM

Anna Clyne: This Midnight Hour

Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violin

Maurice Ravel: Tzigane Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violin

Intermission

Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14

https://madisonsymphony.org/event/visions/

Nicholas returns to Denver to conduct an eclectic program featuring Chris Thile and his mandolin concerto, Attention!

PROGRAM

Beethoven: Creatures of Prometheus Overture

Caroline Shaw: And So

Copland: Appalachian Spring Suite

Chris Thile Attention!

https://tickets.coloradosymphony.org/7077

Nicholas and the MSO open their 94th Season with an invigorating dance-inspired program

PROGRAM

Alexander Borodin: Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor

Darius Milhaud: Scaramouche Branford Marsalis, saxophone

John Williams: Escapades from Catch Me If You Can Branford Marsalis, saxophone

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances

https://www.modestosymphony.org/season-calendar/oct24-marsalis

Nicholas debuts with the Apollo Orchestra in Washington, DC

PROGRAM

Felix Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture

Samuel Barber: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 14 Maria Loudenitch, violin

Intermission

Ludwig Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92

https://www.apolloorchestra.com/events/september29/

Nicholas travels with the Budapest Festival Orchestra to Brussels to assist Iván Fischer in a program featuring the premiere of Fischer’s Dance Suite, which Nicholas co-orchestrated.

PROGRAM

Manuel de Falla: Spanish Dance No. 1 from the opera La vida breve (Life Is Short), G. 35/39

Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 4 in D minor (arr. Doppler), S. 359/4 Jenő Lisztes, cimbalom

Iván Fischer: Dance Suite for Violin and Orchestra, in memoriam J. S. Bach Diana Tishchenko, violin

INTERVAL

Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70

https://bfz.hu/en/program-management-site/2024-25/tour-bridging-europe-de-falla-liszt-fischer-dvorak/202409232000/?modal=/en/location/66

Nicholas travels to Budapest to assist Iván Fischer and the BFO in a program featuring the premiere of Fischer’s Dance Suite, which Nicholas co-orchestrated.

PROGRAM

Manuel de Falla: Spanish Dance No. 1 from the opera La vida breve (Life Is Short), G. 35/39

Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 4 in D minor (arr. Doppler), S. 359/4 Jenő Lisztes, cimbalom

Iván Fischer: Dance Suite for Violin and Orchestra, in memoriam J. S. Bach Diana Tishchenko, violin

INTERVAL

Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70

https://bfz.hu/en/program-management-site/2024-25/bridging-europe-de-falla-liszt-fischer-dvorak/202409201945/

Nicholas travels to Budapest to assist Iván Fischer and the BFO in a program featuring the premiere of Fischer’s Dance Suite, which Nicholas co-orchestrated.

PROGRAM

Manuel de Falla: Spanish Dance No. 1 from the opera La vida breve (Life Is Short), G. 35/39

Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 4 in D minor (arr. Doppler), S. 359/4 Jenő Lisztes, cimbalom

Iván Fischer: Dance Suite for Violin and Orchestra, in memoriam J. S. Bach Diana Tishchenko, violin

INTERVAL

Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70

https://bfz.hu/en/program-management-site/2024-25/bridging-europe-de-falla-liszt-fischer-dvorak/202409201945/

Nicholas travels to Budapest to assist Iván Fischer and the BFO in a program featuring the premiere of Fischer’s Dance Suite, which Nicholas co-orchestrated.

PROGRAM

Manuel de Falla: Spanish Dance No. 1 from the opera La vida breve (Life Is Short), G. 35/39

Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 4 in D minor (arr. Doppler), S. 359/4 Jenő Lisztes, cimbalom

Iván Fischer: Dance Suite for Violin and Orchestra, in memoriam J. S. Bach Diana Tishchenko, violin

INTERVAL

Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70

https://bfz.hu/en/program-management-site/2024-25/bridging-europe-de-falla-liszt-fischer-dvorak/202409201945/

Nicholas and the NJ Symphony perform Nino Rota’s sweeping score live to projection of the F.F. Coppola classic.

https://www.njsymphony.org/events/detail/the-godfather-live-in-concert

Nicholas and the NJ Symphony perform Nino Rota’s sweeping score live to projection of the F.F. Coppola classic.

https://www.njsymphony.org/events/detail/the-godfather-live-in-concert