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Palm Beach Symphony 2023/24 Season Calendar Listings

2023/24 50th Anniversary Ovation Awards. He holds the
Ditson Conductor’s Award
Season Overview from Columbia University,
was the first American
Palm Beach Symphony announces its Golden Anniversary named Conductor of the
season in which Maestro Gerard Schwarz will be joined by Year by Musical America
pianists Yefim Bronfman, Vladimir Feltsman, Emanuel Ax and has received numerous
and Ignat Solzhenitsyn and violinists Akiko Suwanai and honorary doctorates. His
Pinchas Zukerman in the six-concert Masterworks Series to memoir, Behind the Baton,
be performed November 2023 to April 2024 at the Kravis was released by Amadeus
Center in West Palm Beach, Fla. The Dale A. McNulty Press in March 2017.
Children’s Concert Series also returns this fall to the Eissey Concert Listings And Briefs
Campus Theater with The Carnival of “More” Animals. Dale A. McNulty Children’s
The season includes four world premieres that are among Concert Series At Eissey
the five works the symphony commissioned for its golden Campus Theater
anniversary and follow the March world premiere of Joseph • Sunday, Oct. 7 at 3
Schwantner’s Sojourn: Reflections on Thoreau. The world- p.m.; The Carnival of Palm Beach Symphony, photo by IndieHouse Films
premieres this season are composed by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, “More” Animals, conducted
the Miami native and South Florida resident who was the by Gerard Schwarz and narrated by Forrest Galante. Dale Bright Sheng: Triumph of Humanity, World Premiere
first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize in Music; Aaron Jay A. McNulty Children’s Concert Series at the Eissey Campus Richard Strauss: Suite from Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59
Kernis, another Pulitzer Prize winner and recipient of two Theater on the Palm Beach State College campus at 11051 Piano virtuoso Yefim Bronfman returns to open
Grammy Awards; Bright Sheng, who received a MacArthur Campus Drive, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410. Tickets are this Golden Anniversary Season performing Johannes
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Fellowship, unofficially known as the “genius grant;” and $20 with a $10 student ticket. Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 2, the last work that the great
Maestro Gerard Schwarz, who in addition to having his The Dale A. McNulty Children’s Concert Series returns composer added to his repertoire as a pianist and one that is
arrangements of orchestral works performed worldwide, has this fall with The Carnival of “More” Animals. With a new filled with technical challenges for the performer and rich
premiered and recorded his own works with leading orchestras. arrangement by Maestro Schwarz of Camille Saint-Saëns’ The rewards for the audience. The opulent splendor evoking
Internationally recognized for his moving performances, Carnival of the Animals, the concert features animals found Vienna’s Golden Age found in Richard Strauss’ Suite from
innovative programming and extensive catalog of recordings, in Florida and integrates music with science topics related Der Rosenkavalier gives the program a fitting start for this
Maestro Schwarz is music director of Palm Beach Symphony, to conservation, the environment and the preservation of milestone season. The program also features Black Swan
the All-Star Orchestra, Eastern Music Festival and Mozart Florida’s indigenous animals. The multimedia presentation by Bright Sheng as well as the world premiere of his new
Orchestra of New York as well as conductor laureate of the includes video and photos of animals filmed at Busch Wildlife composition, Triumph of Humanity, commissioned for the
Seattle Symphony and conductor emeritus of the Mostly Sanctuary and provided by Friends of Manatee Lagoon. Palm Beach Symphony by Professor and Mrs. Paul de
Mozart Festival. Also in South Florida, he serves as the The Masterworks Series In Dreyfoos Concert Hall At Quenoy, with support from The Common Sense Society
music director of the Frost Symphony Orchestra and the The Kravis Center and the Palm Beach Freedom Institute.
distinguished professor of music, conducting and orchestral • Sunday, Nov. 19 at 3 p.m.; Yefim Bronfman, piano, Internationally recognized as one of today’s most
studies at University of Miami’s Frost School of Music. and conducted by Gerard Schwarz. Masterworks Series at acclaimed and admired pianists, Yefim Bronfman stands
Schwarz’s extensive catalog of more than 350 recordings Dreyfoos Concert Hall, Kravis Center for the Performing among a handful of artists regularly sought by festivals,
on 11 labels has garnered 14 Grammy Award nominations Arts, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach, FL 33401. orchestras, conductors and recital series. His commanding
and includes the 30-CD box set The Gerard Schwarz Tickets are $25 to $95. technique, power and exceptional lyrical gifts are consistently
Collection. In his five decades as a respected classical Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, acknowledged by the press and audiences alike. His
musician and conductor, Schwarz has received hundreds Op. 83 performances this season include the opening week of the
of honors and accolades including nine Emmy Awards, Bright Sheng: Black Swan (inspired by Intermezzo Op.
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eight ASCAP Awards and numerous Stereo Review and 118, No. 2 by Johannes Brahms) Palm Beach Symphony on page 6

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