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Better news - tomorrow Odyssey Opera Boston is playing Edward MacDowell's tone poem Lamia, Amy Beach's concert aria Jephthah's Daughter, and George W. Chadwick's The Padrone. Tonight the Montreal University Orchestra is playing Le rêve de Cléopâtre by Mel Bonis. Sunday the Montreal Conservatory Orchestra is playing Carl Maria von Weber's, Bassoon Concerto. Next month John Storgårds's first program as Music Director of the NAC Orchestra will have the rarely heard Dvorak 3rd Symphony. If they are not on strike.

I always go through upcoming performances at Bard for concerts. Now with Leon Botstein out I wonder if this will continue. They are scheduled to play James P. Johnson's Yamecraw later this month and next month the US premier of Ignatz Waghalter's Violin Concerto.

I will be at Bard for the Gernsheim tomorrow. Very exiting! way back in 2014 the Quebec Symphony played his 2nd Symphony but I missed it. I'm not missing this - it's only a 4 hour drive.

Closer to home - next month the Vermont Philharmonic is playing Carl Czerny's Concerto for Piano Four-Hands.

Nadia Boulanger's fantasy for piano and orchestra (1912) will be performed at the Proms in the afternoon on 5 August.

Glazunov's saxophone concerto  will be performed by the Augusta Symphony (Georgia, USA) on May 9th.

The Lappeenranta City Orchestra in Finland has a few interesting concerts upcoming, e.g.  May 7 one containing works by Svendsen, Gipps, Bartók and Roussel.

I just heard the Glazunov saxophone concerto in Brattleboro VT a few weeks ago. Coming up in Ottawa this weekend is Coleridge Taylor and Farrenc. I will have to pick one or the other. The Ottawa Chamber Orchestra is playing Farrenc's Symphony no. 3. At the same time a group called The Ewashko Singers is performing the Ottawa premiere of the Te Deum in F and Endymion's Dream  by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

Yannick Nezet Seguin programmed a symphony by Rita Strohl a few weeks ago. It was the North American premier of Strohl's Symphony of the Forest. Tomottow Symphony New Hampshire is doing something even more obscure - Mabel Daniel's work "Deep Forest". Looks like this is no American premiere - I see a youtube vid of the piece by the Concordia Chamber Orchestra in Rochester.

Very few people showed u for the Guilmant in Groton.

Next up at the Boston Symphony we get to hear the Violin Concerto by Thomas de Hartmann, with soloist Joshua Bell. So a lot of people should be there. I know Bell recorded it last year so it's good that he's playing it live too. I still have to get that recording.

Alexandre Guilmant's 2nd Symphony on November 15th in little Groton MA. Maestro Hangen says it's really an organ concerto, but doesn't say why he is doing it. They don't have a real organ in the hall. They have this virtual organ that sounds pretty good. And it's a lot less expensive than a real organ.

Not many people showed up for Magnard's 3rd Symphony. Botstein thanked us for showing up - he said he didn't expect anyone to show up.

Tonight in Boston a rare performance of Sibelius' opera the Maiden in the Tower. They claim it's the American Premiere.

This weekend at Bard Leon Botstein is conducting his TON orchestra in Magnard's 3rd Symphony. Also the Carl Maria von Weber Clarinet Concerto No. 2 which you don't hear much.

On May 17 the Brookline Ma Orchestra will play Zdenêk Fibich's Symphony No. 2.

Hummel's Fantasie for Viola and Orchestra, Op. 94 is being played by the Dartmouth Symphony on May 5. that's the same day that TON at Bard will play Joseph Joachim Variations for Violin and Orchestra, Eugène Ysaÿe Violin Concerto in D minor (U.S. Premiere) and the  Enescu Symphony No. 2.

I almost forgot 4-30 and 5-2 in Montreal the OSM is playing Emilie Mayer, Symphony no. 7 .

Raff's Autumn Symphony (the 10th) will be performed on a program that also features Louise Farrenc's 3rd Symphony, August 17th at Bard College.
https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/bmf24-p9/

Part of this year's Bard Music Festival devoted to Berlioz, August 9th - August 18th
https://fishercenter.bard.edu/whats-on/programs/bard-music-festival/

Nice! this weekend 4/6 and 4/7 at Bard the Conservatory Orchestra will play Egon Wellesz's early work The Dawn of Spring.

The Philadelphia Orchestra is touring Canada with the Price Symphony #4 April 17-19. And then in Ann Arbor on 4-20.

Mayer's 7th symphony is in a program on April 30th and May 2 2024 @ Maison symphonique, Montréal, conducted by Rafael Payare.

Before that the Metropolitan Orchestra under Yannick will be performing the Halvorsen violin concerto. This weekend!

The Conservatory Orchestra at Bard was supposed to be doing Ethel Smyth's Mass in D in December but it's not listed on the site anymore.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra will be performing Pejacevic's symphony this weekend! Along with ultra-rare Mussorgsky and Grieg (haha).

https://www.dso.org/events-and-tickets/events/22-23-winter/night-on-bald-mountain

Nice. When I retire I may travel around the country hearing these rare pieces. Detroit is a bit out of my range now. Bard isn't though. Gade's Hamlet Overture is on the program April 17. Unfortunately it's the Community Orchestra playing and they are not nearly as good as the TON or conservatory orchestras.

I remember the concert performance. I was a bit disappointed in the music. Not top tier Saint-Saëns imo. I will see the staged performance though. Maybe I will like it better staged.

Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine is touring and will be playing the Thomas de Hartmann Violin Concerto at UMass on Friday 2-10. the New England Philharmonic is also having a go at in on May 7.

The Piano Concerto Op. 61 and the First Symphonic Poem Op. 50 will be played on March 18 at UMass.

The Cello Concert is on the program May 13 in Springfield MA.

There is a  website of the Thomas de Hartmann Project:
https://thomasdehartmannproject.com/upcoming-events/