The MusicNova Orchestra helps kick off the holiday season with an evening of music leading up to the tree lighting. Local celebrities and politicians join the orchestra to entertain those gathered along the Scottsdale Waterfront with their renditions of popular holiday songs.
Take a break from the hubhub of the holidays and enjoy soothing seasonal music played by the trio of Jeanie Pierce, Lisa Tharp and Nancy Sowers in the Stage 2 theater. This concert is produced by the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts as part of the Classical Lounge series curated by MusicaNova. Purchase tickets […]
Buy tickets here. Joachim Raff: Sinfonietta for Double Wind Quintet (last three movements) (1873) Francis Poulenc: Suite Française (1935) Igor Stravinsky: Octet for Wind Instruments (1923) Terry Riley: In C (1964) Woodwinds and brass take center stage in this concert featuring ground-breaking innovations from the world’s most fascinating composers. Exploring the geniuses who created neo-classical […]
Burn City String Quartet performs music from the celebrated historical quartet repertoire alongside music created by the current generation of composers and performers. Our hearts lie here in the Sonoran Desert, and we have a special vision to highlight music with its roots in Arizona. Purchase tickets here.
MusicaNova celebrates Palm Sunday and spring with three works by Joseph Haydn and an encore of a piece written for the orchestra. The concert is free with a recommended donation of $15. Symphony no. 26 La Lamentatione contains one of Haydn's best openings, a restless flurry of strings that ushered in Haydn's interest in the "Sturm […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0pqacDjmdQ MusicaNova will play for the first time publicly the 1878 version of Anton Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony. Days before the concert where it was scheduled to premiere, Anton Bruckner abruptly called it off. Three years later, the world heard a much revised version. The 1878 edition was tossed on a musical trash heap, lost to […]
The husband-and-wife team of Cindy and Robert Leger uniquely pair cello with classical guitar or mandolin, fusing classical and folk influences into their music. Classical favorites get a fresh twist, and the duo’s original music displays a creative melding of genres. Purchase tickets here.
The MusicaNova Orchestra opens its 20th season with a program that celebrates its origins and encapsulates its mission of playing new, unjustly neglected, and familiar music. The new comes from up-and-coming African American composer Jessica Carter. The unjustly neglected includes Judith Bailey and Richard Arnell, whose Fourth Symphony, recorded by the orchestra in 2005, gets its first live MusicaNova performance. The familiar, here coming from Mahler and Mendelssohn, were part of the orchestra’s debut concert, which celebrated works that were banned by the Nazis.
Repertoire:
Felix Mendelssohn, Overture from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Jessica Carter, Shadows
Judith Bailey, Trencrom, op. 16
Gustav Mahler, Adagietto from Symphony no. 5
Richard Arnell, Symphony no. 4
This concert is supported in part by grants from Hannah Selznick, the Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture, and the Arizona Commission on the Arts.
This signature seasonal celebration serves as the kickoff to more than a month of festivities. Amble along the Scottsdale Waterfront among beautifully lit holiday décor and sing along to classic Christmas tunes led by MusicaNova Orchestra and local celebrities. Sip on a hot coffee or cocoa, nibble on light bites inspired by the season, and engage in general merriment sure to put you in the mood for a very happy holiday indeed. The night culminates with the lighting of a 40-foot Scottsdazzle tree! Join us for this free event.
Robert Schumann was tortured by mental illness for most of his life, yet he created some of the world’s most treasured masterpieces. Popular former MusicaNova Orchestra concertmaster Christiano Rodrigues is the soloist on Robert Schumann’s virtuosic Violin Concerto, which was hidden away for nearly a century after the composer’s death. Also featured: Maestro Warren Cohen conducting Konzertstück, op. 92, from the piano. In between, the orchestra performs Overture, Scherzo and Finale - essentially a symphony without a slow movement.
Repertoire:
Konzertstück, op. 92
Overture, Scherzo, and Finale, op. 52
Violin Concerto
This concert is supported in part by grants from Hannah Selznick, the Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture, and the Arizona Commission on the Arts.
An evening of discovery includes the film "Winter Journey", which depicts one man’s powerful story of love, music and resiliency in an all-Jewish orchestra amid the persecution of 1930s Germany.
MusicaNova performs the last piece the Jewish orchestra rehearsed, Carl Nielsen’s Inextinguishable Symphony, and is joined by local choirs for Jean Sibelius’ magnificent Finlandia.
Martin Goldsmith is the author of the book titled, "The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany", which outlines the story of how his parents met. The book has since been made into a film by Danish filmmaker Anders Ostergaard titled, “Winter Journey,” which stars Goldsmith. Goldsmith is director of classical music programming at SiriusXM Satellite Radio in Washington, D.C. and formerly the host of Performance Today, National Public Radio’s daily classical music program.
Presented by MusicaNova Orchestra and the ASU Center for Jewish Studies
A fascinating program takes the audience on a journey of discovery, demonstrating the versatility of the string orchestra. See how the conservative Purcell and the rules-breaker Farina take entirely different approaches. Marvel at how Barber and Andriessen start with the same mood and go in opposite directions. Hear how Telemann, Grieg and Graham Cohen bring […]
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