April 20 and 21, 2024: Mahler's Fifth Symphony
Inside the Music: The Reno Phil Podcast
Laura Jackson, Reno Phil Music Director and Conductor, and Jennifer Tibben, director of the Reno Phil Chorus, talk with Chris Morrison about the Reno Phil's “Mahler's Fifth Symphony” concerts, the final concerts of the orchestra's 2023-24 season, on April 20 and 21, 2024. The music includes the Symphony No. 5 by Gustav Mahler as well as the Gloria by Francis Poulenc.
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March 23 and 24, 2024: Gershwin Celebration
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Laura Jackson, Reno Phil Music Director and Conductor, and Mark Clague, Professor of Music at the University of Michigan, Director of the University's Gershwin Initiative, and Editor-in-Chief of the George and Ira Gershwin Critical Edition, talk with Chris Morrison about the Reno Phil's “Gershwin Celebration” concerts on March 23 and 24, 2024. The music includes Maurice Ravel's Boléro; Spaghetti Western by Michael Daugherty, with English horn soloist Jordan Pyle; and two pieces by George Gershwin, An American in Paris and the Overture to Primrose.
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February 24 and 25, 2024: Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony
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Reno Phil music director and conductor Laura Jackson, composer Paul Novak, violin soloist Charlotte Marckx, and Tacie Moessner of the Davidson Institute for Talent Development speak with Chris Morrison about the Reno Phil's concerts "Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony" on February 24 and 25, 2024. The concerts include longing is an aviary by Paul Novak, the Violin Concerto No. 4 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and the Symphony No. 5 by Dmitri Shostakovich.
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January 27 and 28, 2024: Spanish Nights
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Guest conductor Ramón Tebar talks about his concerts "Spanish Nights" with the Reno Phil on January 27 and 28, 2024, which include the Four Dances from Estancia by Alberto Ginastera, the Fantasía para un gentilhombre by Joaquín Rodrigo, and the ballet The Three-Cornered Hat by Manuel de Falla.
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November 11 and 12, 2023: Nakamatsu Plays Brahms
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Reno Phil Music Director and Conductor Laura Jackson talks with Chris Morrison about the second concert of the 2023-24 Reno Phil season, on November 11 and 12, 2023, featuring Voices Shouting Out by Nkeiru Okoye, the Symphony No. 6 by Jean Sibelius, and the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Johannes Brahms, with piano soloist Jon Nakamatsu.
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October 14 and 15, 2023: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
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Reno Phil Music Director and Conductor Laura Jackson talks with Chris Morrison about both the 2023-24 Reno Phil season, as well as the October 14 and 15, 2023 season-opening concerts featuring Richard Strauss's Don Juan and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Also, pianist Daniela Liebman talks about her career and the Piano Concerto by Clara Schumann she'll be playing with the Reno Phil at the October concerts.
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April 15 and 16, 2023: Bizet's Carmen
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Reno Phil music director-conductor Laura Jackson and Lynne Gray, who teaches classes on opera at Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), speak with Chris Morrison about the Reno Phil's 2022-23 season-concluding performances of Georges Bizet's classic opera Carmen.
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Women in Conducting and Classical Music
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Recorded at the pre-concert talks prior to the Reno Phil's performances of March 25 and 26, 2023, "Clyne's Cello Concerto," this podcast features a discussion of women in conducting, and in the classical music world more generally, with Reno Phil music director and conductor Laura Jackson; Kristin Jurkscheit, executive director of the Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship; Inbal Segev, the cello soloist in the March performances; and Irene Delgado-Jiménez, the guest conductor in the March concerts.
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February 25 and 26, 2023: Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet
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Reno Phil music director and conductor Laura Jackson and violinist Adé Williams speak with Chris Morrison about the fourth concerts in the Reno Phil's 2022-23 Classix season. The music includes Felix Mendelssohn's atmospheric Hebrides Overture, the Scottish Fantasy for violin and orchestra by Max Bruch, and selections from Serge Prokofiev's classic ballet Romeo and Juliet.
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January 28 and 29, 2023: Grieg's Piano Concerto
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Reno Phil music director-conductor Laura Jackson and pianist Andrew von Oeyen speak with Chris Morrison about the third concerts in the Reno Phil's 2022-23 Classix season. The music includes "The Dancing Moonlight" by Dai Wei, Edvard Grieg's famous Piano Concerto in A minor, and the Symphony No. 4 by Ludwig van Beethoven.
info_outlineIn this episode of Inside the Music: The Reno Phil Podcast, Music Director Laura Jackson and Chris Morrison discuss the fifth concerts of the Reno Phil's 2019-20 season, Scheherazade, which were to have happened on March 21 and 22, 2020, but have been canceled due to the precautions being taken around the coronavirus COVID-19. They discuss both the cancellation as well as the music by Jennifer Higdon, Franz Liszt, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov that the Phil would have performed.