Ticketing
Damien Geter’s An African American Requiem
Carpenter Theatre 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, United StatesIn composing his epic, moving Requiem, Damien Geter was inspired by those composed earlier by Mozart, Berlioz, Brahms, and especially Verdi. Within the traditional Latin text, Geter’s Requiem weaves the words of victims of lynching and of those who dared speak out. “A Requiem memorializes a person,” Geter has stated. “We need to memorialize these […]
Damien Geter’s An African American Requiem
Carpenter Theatre 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, United StatesIn composing his epic, moving Requiem, Damien Geter was inspired by those composed earlier by Mozart, Berlioz, Brahms, and especially Verdi. Within the traditional Latin text, Geter’s Requiem weaves the words of victims of lynching and of those who dared speak out. “A Requiem memorializes a person,” Geter has stated. “We need to memorialize these […]
Conrad Tao Plays Gershwin
Carpenter Theatre 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, United StatesJust 30, Conrad Tao, says the Detroit Free Press “owns a place among the world’s virtuosos. he blew the doors off in a performance hair-raising in its technical brilliance.” Experience his phenomenal artistry in music from the jazz-age: George Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F. and his mercurial homage to Gershwin, Flung Out. And rising American […]
Conrad Tao Plays Gershwin
Carpenter Theatre 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, United StatesJust 30, Conrad Tao, says the Detroit Free Press “owns a place among the world’s virtuosos. he blew the doors off in a performance hair-raising in its technical brilliance.” Experience his phenomenal artistry in music from the jazz-age: George Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F. and his mercurial homage to Gershwin, Flung Out. And rising American […]
Romeo & Juliet, Boléro & More
Carpenter Theatre 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, United StatesValentina Peleggi conducts a moving program centered on stories of love and resilience. Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet brings Shakespeare’s tale to life with sweeping emotion. Damien Geter’s world premiere Suite adapted from his Loving v. Virginia Opera reflects on a landmark civil rights case through a deeply personal sonic lens. espighi’s Roman Festivals explodes with […]
Romeo & Juliet, Boléro & More
Carpenter Theatre 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, United StatesValentina Peleggi conducts a moving program centered on stories of love and resilience. Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet brings Shakespeare’s tale to life with sweeping emotion. Damien Geter’s world premiere Suite adapted from his Loving v. Virginia Opera reflects on a landmark civil rights case through a deeply personal sonic lens. espighi’s Roman Festivals explodes with […]
Brahms & Dvořák
Carpenter Theatre 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, United StatesThe great strength and nobility of Brahms’ Fourth and final Symphony places it among his most profound achievements. Valentina Peleggi conducts, and the Richmond Symphony’s own Neal Cary plays Dvořák’s elegy for a long-lost love, the impassioned Cello Concerto, composed during the composer’s American sojourn. To begin, a colorful new work, commissioned by the Richmond […]
Brahms & Dvořák
Carpenter Theatre 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, United StatesThe great strength and nobility of Brahms’ Fourth and final Symphony places it among his most profound achievements. Valentina Peleggi conducts, and the Richmond Symphony’s own Neal Cary plays Dvořák’s elegy for a long-lost love, the impassioned Cello Concerto, composed during the composer’s American sojourn. To begin, a colorful new work, commissioned by the Richmond […]
Copland & Beethoven
Carpenter Theatre 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, United StatesValentina Peleggi conducts two American masterworks. Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man has moved many Americans, even Copland himself. The finale of his Third Symphony is based on that stirring theme. In speaking of her Hymn for Everyone, Jessie Montgomery recalled “I wrote it during the pandemic, and I was in a moment of […]
Copland & Beethoven
Carpenter Theatre 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, United StatesValentina Peleggi conducts two American masterworks. Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man has moved many Americans, even Copland himself. The finale of his Third Symphony is based on that stirring theme. In speaking of her Hymn for Everyone, Jessie Montgomery recalled “I wrote it during the pandemic, and I was in a moment of […]