Event Calendar
January 2022
David Hayes Conducts The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia
Adolphus Hailstork Essay for Strings Benjamin Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings Franz Schubert Death and the Maiden Hailstork’s “Essay for Strings” brings a beautiful spirit of memoriam and celebration while Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden”, his famous 14th String Quartet arranged here for string orchestra, is the composer's almost programmatic working through his own impending death. Filled with driving rhythms, lyrical beauty, and a deadly tarantella, this work stands as one of the greatest masterpieces of all nineteenth-century chamber…
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LIVESTREAM | MANNES ORCHESTRA: Debussy, Rautavaara, and Genese
Online from Tishman Auditorium The Mannes Orchestra returns to John L. Tishman Auditorium for its second live performance this semester. Music Director David Hayes leads the orchestra in a performance of Claude Debussy, Einojuhani Rautavaara, and Michael Genese, MM ‘21, who is the 2020 Martinů Award Winner. Known for their bold and adventurous programming, the Mannes Orchestra has been hailed by The New York Times as an orchestra whose quality is “a revelation”,” and for their “intensity of focus.” Program:…
Find out more »September 2021
David Hayes Conducts the Mannes String Orchestra
The Mannes Orchestra returns to John L. Tishman Auditorium for its first live performance in 19 months. Music Director David Hayes leads the string orchestra in a performance of Irving Fine, Aaron Copland, Jessie Montgomery and Adolphus Hailstork. Known for their bold and adventurous programming, the Mannes Orchestra has been hailed by The New York Times as an orchestra whose quality is “a revelation”,” and for their “intensity of focus.” Jessie Montgomery-Strum Irving Fine — Notturno for strings and harp…
Find out more »March 2020
MACE: American Composers Ensemble
Conducted by David Hayes, this special MACE presentation features a program of works by members of the Mannes Composition faculty. With a faculty that includes some of the most important voices of the 20th and 21st centuries, this special concert, showcases the creativity, originality, as well as the stylistic diversity of this remarkable cohort. Founded in 2012 by composer Lowell Liebermann and directed in the Spring 2020 season by David Hayes and David Fulmer, MACE presents works by iconic American…
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