How does a Black American woman find the freedom to compose music for the concert hall in an era when doing so seemed impossible? How does a British composer avoid the incoming shells of a cruel foreign regime and write a solo concerto with a peaceful quality for the...
The Bloomington Symphony opens its 63rd concert season with the excitement you are accustomed to, starting with a solo appearance by our concertmaster, Michael Sutton, who will play the beloved and heralded Concerto for Violin in E Minor by Felix...
The season’s third concert will open with a rollicking and witty jaunt by American composer Joan Tower, her Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman. Following that, Soojung Hong, a soloist who is new to BSO audiences but familiar to Bloomington through her faculty position at...
The BSO promised we would return to Orchestra Hall after our wildly successful full-concert debut in April 2023. We are delivering on that promise in grand style, as we perform the “Resurrection” Symphony of Gustav Mahler, No. 2 in C Minor. This symphony serves to...
As the BSO continues to imagine a welcome spring after one of Minnesota’s frigid winters, we open the third concert of the season with Li Huanzhi’s Spring Festival Overture, a work that is becoming familiar to concertgoers across the world. Bright and colorful, it...
