Annapolis Symphony Orchestra
José-Luis Novo, conductor

Annapolis Symphony Orchestra
José-Luis Novo, conductor
Wu Man, pipa

I. Andante Molto
II. Allegro
III. Adagio
IV. Allegro Vivace

I. Largo
II. Allegro molto
III. Allegretto
IV. Largo
V. Largo

Annapolis Symphony Orchestra
José-Luis Novo, conductor
Robert DiLutis, clarinet

Clarinetist Benny Goodman, the “King of Swing”, had wide-ranging musical interests and wanted to secure a place in classical music as well. He commissioned a number of well-known composers to write for him, including...

Annapolis Symphony Orchestra
José-Luis Novo, conductor

I. Praeludium (Allegro vivace)
II. Sarabande (Andante)
III. Gavotte (Allegretto)
IV. Air (Andante religioso)
V. Rigaudon (Allegro con brio)

Our second SymphonyPlus streaming offering begins with Edvard Grieg’s lush Holberg suite featuring traditional Nordic dance forms as an homage to humanist playwright Ludvig Holberg. Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor died to young from illness but not before leaving a catalogue of char...

British-born concert pianist Dr. Rachel Franklin presents Meet the Masterworks ahead of the final concert of the 2020-21 Masterworks Series, ASO Live! Season Finale: Nature and the Soul.

Learn more about the program, including works by Tan Dun, and Brahms.

British-born concert pianist Dr. Rachel Franklin presents Meet the Masterworks ahead of the second concert of the 2020-21 Masterworks Series, ASO Live! Copland Clarinet Concerto.

Learn more about the program, including works by Edvard Grieg,
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, ...

British-born concert pianist Dr. Rachel Franklin presents Meet the Masterworks ahead of the first concert of the 2020-21 Masterworks Series, ASO Live! The Four Seasons.

Learn more about the program, including works by Astor Piazzolla, Vaughan Williams, George Walker, and Elgar.

I. Andante con moto
II. Allegro ma non troppo e grazioso
III. Adagio
IV. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo presto

British-born concert pianist Dr. Rachel Franklin presents Meet the Masterworks ahead of the fourth concert of the 2020-21 Masterworks Series, ASO Live! String Serenades.

Learn more about the program, including works by Gabriel Pierné, Florence Price, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Josef Suk.

Annapolis Symphony Orchestra
José-Luis Novo, conductor

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was an English composer, the illegitimate son of a British mother and a father who was a doctor and a native of Sierra Leone. Coleridge-Taylor had a meteoric career, cut short by pneumonia. He entered the Royal Colleg...

This concert will feature the string section of the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra performing lyrical and dynamic compositions that highlight the range of their instruments. Music can evoke places where we might like to travel. The salons of Paris in the gilded age come to mind in Gabriel Pierné’s ...

Annapolis Symphony Orchestra
José-Luis Novo, conductor

The 2020-2021 Season concludes with a performance featuring Wu Man, the world’s reigning pipa virtuoso. Together with the Annapolis Symphony, she will perform Tan Dun's Pipa Concerto. The pipa, sometimes called the Chinese lute, is a four-stringed instrument that has been around for 2,000 years. ...

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson was a versatile African-American musician – composer, conductor, pianist and drummer – familiar both in jazz, pop and classical music. He came from an artistic family and his mother named him after the African-British composer Samuel Coleridge Taylor.

Perkinson studied...

Annapolis Symphony Orchestra
José-Luis Novo, conductor
Chee-Yun, violin

I. Verano Porteño (Summer)
II. Otoño Porteño (Autumn)
III. Invierno Porteño (Winter)
IV. Primavera Porteña (Spring)

Annapolis Symphony Orchestra
José-Luis Novo, conductor

I. Allegro molto
II. Scherzo. Allegro non troppo
III. Adagio non troppo
IV. Menuetto I & II
V. Scherzo. Allegro
VI. Rondo. Allegro

(from String Quartet in G Major)

British-born concert pianist Dr. Rachel Franklin presents Meet the Masterworks ahead of the third concert of the 20-21 Virtual Series. Learn more about the program and featured composers Debussy and Bartók.