David Alan Miller Conducts Lincoln-DeCusatis, Nielsen & Strauss | NOI Philharmonic
David Alan Miller Conducts Lincoln-DeCusatis, Nielsen & Strauss | NOI Philharmonic
About the Event
A long-time collaborator of the festival, David Alan Miller returns to conduct the NOI Philharmonic! A champion of American music, Miller has led the Philharmonic on several recordings under the Naxos Records label as part of its “American Classics” series, including their 2018 Grammy-nominated album for “Best Orchestral Performance.” This concert will feature Carl Nielsen’s dramatic Symphony No. 4, “The Inextinguishable,” which was composed in 1916 among the backdrop of the first World War. Written in four movements without pause, this unique symphony asks its listeners to sit with the discomfort of humanity’s dissonances–highlighted by two dueling timpani in the final movement–while simultaneously facing the inevitable, inspiring perseverance of life. Aptly fitted alongside this provocative work sits Richard Strauss’s Don Juan, a tone poem based on the legendary Spanish libertine, and the premiere of NOI+F Composition Faculty Nathan Lincoln-DeCusatis’s The River That Flows Both Ways, a musical journey that follows the course of the Hudson River. Beginning in icy tranquility high in the Adirondacks mountains, the river carries the listener through a series of dramatic landscapes, mountains, palisades and tidal basins as it builds in momentum and finally meets the metropolis at its end in a blur of rhythmic energy.
Program
- Lincoln-DeCusatis: The River That Flows Both Ways (World Premiere, NOI+F Commission)
- Strauss: Don Juan
- Nielsen: Symphony No. 4, “Inextinguishable”
Pre-Concert Conversation
Join us at 6:30PM in the NOI+F SPARK! Lounge for a conversation with composer and NOI+F faculty member Nathan Lincoln-DeCusatis.
SPARK! Lounge Jazz
Hang out after the performance for lively jazz by The Christopher Raymond Trio!
National Orchestral Institute + Festival
This event is part of the National Orchestral Institute + Festival. NOI+F brings together aspiring orchestral musicians from across the country for a month of dynamic music- making and professional exploration. Chosen through a rigorous, cross-country audition process, these young artists present passionate and thrilling performances of adventurous repertoire at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (The Clarice). Internationally recognized conducting luminary Marin Alsop was appointed first-ever music director of the National Orchestral Institute + Festival in 2020. As music director, Alsop leads the NOI+F Conducting Academy and conducts multiple concerts at The Clarice each June.
View the full festival lineup here.
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Support for NOI+F
The National Orchestral Institute + Festival is supported in part by the Maryland State Arts Council, The Clark-Winchcole Foundation, and The Marinus and Minna B. Koster Foundation.