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But if I hate it I will regret not going to listen to the performance of the Puccini Messa di Gloria that's playing in the east end of town. You promise I will like it? I love Russian romantic music.

This work is going to performed in Montreal by the Chœur classique de Montréal next week on June 8th. I have never heard of the composer before. This is going to be cool. Should I listen to it first or have the performance be my first experience with the piece?

I see that the Laval Symphony in Quebec is performing the Smyth Mass next year in May. But they are saying it is the North American premiere. Oops.
http://www.osl.qc.ca/site-web-de-losl/concerts/hors-serie/memoires-feminines.html

Also on the program the rarely performed Hiob Cantata by Fanny Mendelssohn.

I got to hear his  Série Brasileira at Bard over the summer. Kind of repetitive, but enjoyable melodic romantic music. I enjoyed it. Critics consecrated Alberto Nepomuceno as a champion of Brazilian musical nationalism. I'm finally getting to listen to some of the works of his on youtube like the G minor Symphony.  According to this  "Renowned composers and critics consider the most important symphony written by an American musician in the nineteenth century. "
http://www.filarmonica.art.br/educacional/obras-e-compositores/obra/sinfonia-em-sol-menor/

I want to the August 2nd performance. Quite a grand opera. Check out that set.

I traveled over to Tanglewood after that for some opera highlights. Got to hear some Mozart Idomineo - don't hear that much. But it was all pretty anticlimactic after The Wreckers.

Jāzeps Medinš: Symphony No 3 in E flat Major. Reasons for me are easy - anything written after 1900 that is tonal and tuneful is great in my book.

Witold Maliszewski's Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 14 is enjoyable.

Kalervo Tuukkanen's 3rd Symphony. Maybe not great, but I like it.

I am getting the chance to hear a live performance of his Symphony No.1 in D-major this summer. Leon Bostein again. What a cool guy he is to give us these fine rarities in live performances. Apparently Carrillo's famous for developing a theory of microtonal music which he dubbed "The Thirteenth Sound". I've never heard of him though. From what I see he wrote six symphonies and  three are microtonal.

It's a nifty concerto! A great concert all around - and only $15. I was surprised at how good the orchestra was. Maybe the reverberant church acoustics covered some problems. About 35 musicians - about the same number of people were in the audience. A shame! They finished with the Wagner Symphony - a sung composer's unsung symphony. Too repetitive but tuneful.

 He wrote five violin concertos. I see that his 4th and 5th violin concertos were recorded by Hyperion a few years back. I have not gotten that CD yet. But I was looking at Montreal area concerts and see Les Concerts de la Métropole is doing his 5th Concerto Friday. A treat! I will be there. But I see Wiki says he composed two symphonies and an opera. I see no other references to those works. Is that a mistake? Does anyone know the works of Ferdinand David?

I thought about starting a Ryelandt thread a few months ago. I got his 4th Symphony years ago and liked it. Then I saw his Agnus Dei on sale in a shop and really liked that too. I wonder if Naxos might get into him.

There are going to be two live performances of the Goetz Symphony in F Op.9 this weekend at Bard College by the American Symphony conducted by Leon Botstein.

Our community orchestra the Vermont Philharmonic is going to play the Moór Double Cello Concerto this weekend. I really should not drive that far because I am having foot surgery a few days before. But it sounds way to tempting.

I got to hear it last week at the Crane School of Music in upstate NY played by the student orchestra with a student who won their 2013 Crane Concerto Competition playing. I had never even heard of it before. It's very lyrical.