January 19-20
Heritage
Saturday | 1.20.24 | 8:00 PM
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 West 37th Street
TCS Artistic Director Mark Seto leads a program that celebrates the cultural heritage of the Americas. Florence Price’s groundbreaking Third Symphony synthesizes European and Black American musical traditions. Apu: Tone Poem for Orchestra by Gabriela Lena Frank is a brilliant evocation of a spirit from Andean Peru. A new concerto for two cellos by Michael Boyman rounds out the program.
Program
Apu: Tone Poem for Orchestra
Symphony No. 3
Featured Artists
Conductor
Mark Seto leads a wide-ranging musical life as a conductor, scholar, teacher, and violinist. He is Artistic Director and Conductor of The Chelsea Symphony in New York City, and Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Music at Brown University, where he directs the Brown University Orchestra and teaches courses in music history, theory, and conducting.
Since Mark’s tenure with The Chelsea Symphony began in 2011, the ensemble has strengthened its commitment to new music by programming dozens of …