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Palm Beach Symphony 2023/24 Season Calendar Listings

2023/24 50th Anniversary Season Overview

Palm Beach Symphony announces its Golden Anniversary by return visits to the New York Philharmonic, Pittsburgh,
season in which Maestro Gerard Schwarz will be joined by Houston, Philadelphia, New World, Pacific, Madison, New
pianists Yefim Bronfman, Vladimir Feltsman, Emanuel Ax and Jersey, Toronto and Montreal symphonies. In Europe he will
Ignat Solzhenitsyn and violinists Akiko Suwanai and Pinchas tour with Rotterdam Philharmonic and can also be heard with
Zukerman in the six-concert Masterworks Series to be performed Berlin Philharmonic, Bayerischer Rundfunk (Munich), Bamberg,
November 2023 to April 2024 at the Kravis Center in West Palm Dresden Staatskapelle, Maggio Fiorentino and Zurich Opera
Beach, Fla. The Dale A. McNulty Children’s Concert Series also orchestras. Reviewing a performance, The Washington Post
returns this fall to the Eissey Campus Theater with The Carnival reported, “His energy emanates from his fingers and swirls out
of “More” Animals. of the piano with such perfection that every note grabs the ear
The season includes four world premieres that are among with an expressive, singing quality. When his hands swept the
the five works the symphony commissioned for its golden Palm Beach Symphony, photo by Indie House Films full length of the keyboard in arpeggios and scales, Bronfman
anniversary and follow the March world premiere of Joseph made it all look effortless.”
Schwantner’s Sojourn: Reflections on Thoreau. The world- Palm Beach Symphony by Professor and Mrs. Paul de Quenoy, Proclaimed by the MacArthur Foundation as “an innovative
premieres this season are composed by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, with support from The Common Sense Society and the Palm composer who merges diverse musical customs in works that
the Miami native and South Florida resident who was the first Beach Freedom Institute. transcend conventional aesthetic boundaries,” Bright Sheng is
woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize in Music; Aaron Jay Kernis, Internationally recognized as one of today’s most acclaimed respected as one of the foremost composers of our time. Sheng’s
another Pulitzer Prize winner and recipient of two Grammy and admired pianists, Yefim Bronfman stands among a handful music has been widely commissioned and performed by many
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Awards; Bright Sheng, who received a MacArthur Fellowship, of artists regularly sought by festivals, orchestras, conductors of the world’s most prestigious institutions including, among
unofficially known as the “genius grant;” and Maestro Gerard and recital series. His commanding technique, power and others: in North America by the San Francisco Opera, the Lyric
Schwarz, who in addition to having his arrangements of orchestral exceptional lyrical gifts are consistently acknowledged by Opera of Chicago, New York City Opera, New York City Ballet,
works performed worldwide, has premiered and recorded his the press and audiences alike. His performances this season
own works with leading orchestras. include the opening week of the Chicago Symphony followed Symphony News on page 19
Internationally recognized for his moving performances,
innovative programming and extensive catalog of recordings,
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Maestro Schwarz is music director of Palm Beach Symphony,

Orchestra of New York as well as conductor laureate of the
Seattle Symphony and conductor emeritus of the Mostly Mozart
Festival. Also in South Florida, he serves as the music director of Cosmetic & Comprehensive Restorative Dentistry
the Frost Symphony Orchestra and the distinguished professor
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Miami’s Frost School of Music. Schwarz’s extensive catalog of
more than 350 recordings on 11 labels has garnered 14 Grammy Nitrous Oxide/Oxygen Sedation Available
Award nominations and includes the 30-CD box set The Gerard
Schwarz Collection. In his five decades as a respected classical
musician and conductor, Schwarz has received hundreds of Joanne Green, D.D.S.
honors and accolades including nine Emmy Awards, eight
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Awards. He holds the Ditson Conductor’s Award from Columbia Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410
University, was the first American named Conductor of the
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doctorates. His memoir, Behind the Baton, was released by
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• Sunday, Oct. 7 at 3 p.m.; The Carnival of “More” Animals,
conducted by Gerard Schwarz and narrated by Forrest Galante.
Dale A. McNulty Children’s Concert Series at the Eissey Campus
Theater on the Palm Beach State College campus at 11051
Campus Drive, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410. Tickets are $20
with a $10 student ticket.
The Dale A. McNulty Children’s Concert Series returns
this fall with The Carnival of “More” Animals. With a new
arrangement by Maestro Schwarz of Camille Saint-Saëns’ The
Carnival of the Animals, the concert features animals found
in Florida and integrates music with science topics related to
conservation, the environment and the preservation of Florida’s
indigenous animals. The multimedia presentation includes video
and photos of animals filmed at Busch Wildlife Sanctuary and
provided by Friends of Manatee Lagoon.
The Masterworks Series In Dreyfoos Concert Hall At The
Kravis Center
• Sunday, Nov. 19 at 3 p.m.; Yefim Bronfman, piano, and
conducted by Gerard Schwarz. Masterworks Series at Dreyfoos
Concert Hall, Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, 701
Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach, FL 33401. Tickets are
$25 to $95.
Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major,
Op. 83
Bright Sheng: Black Swan (inspired by Intermezzo Op. 118,
No. 2 by Johannes Brahms)
Bright Sheng: Triumph of Humanity, World Premiere
Richard Strauss: Suite from Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59
Piano virtuoso Yefim Bronfman returns to open this Golden
Anniversary Season performing Johannes Brahms’ Piano
Concerto No. 2, the last work that the great composer added
to his repertoire as a pianist and one that is filled with technical
challenges for the performer and rich rewards for the audience.
The opulent splendor evoking Vienna’s Golden Age found in
Richard Strauss’ Suite from Der Rosenkavalier gives the program
a fitting start for this milestone season. The program also features
Black Swan by Bright Sheng as well as the world premiere of his
new composition, Triumph of Humanity, commissioned for the