The phrase “embarrassment of riches” comes to mind when you look at the wealth of orchestra concerts across Minnesota this weekend. But you can’t help feeling proud to live in a place with so much to offer.
Old friends: Osmo Vanska returns to the Minnesota Orchestra, while Richard Egarr is back and baroque with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. Additionally, the Rochester Symphony continues its season search for a new conductor and this weekend introduces Kelly Corcoran from the Nashville Symphony.
Mozart matters: Mozart’s immortal Requiem anchors a concert of musical meditations by the St. Cloud Symphony inside St. John’s Abbey Church. The Duluth-Superior Symphony’s Reflections concert takes up Mozart’s sublime Solemn Vespers, while the joyful side of Mozart occupies the Greater Grand Forks Symphony Orchestra.
Piano classics: John Kimura Parker takes up Gershwin’s Concerto in F with the Austin Symphony and Joyce Yang embraces Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in Sioux Falls.
Red carpet: The Fargo-Moorhead Symphony is getting a jump on the Academy Awards with its annual musical celebration, A Night at the Oscars.
And with all of this going on, remember that Sunday’s concert by Cantus and Canadian Brass is also available for streaming until March 3.
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