The Detroit Symphony Orchestra has announced its programming schedule for the 2014-2015 Orchestra Hall Classical, Pops, and Young People’s Family Subscription Series – with a zero percent increase for ticket prices.
Conductor and DSO Music Director Maestro Leonard Slatkin will lead in celebrating American concertos with a season focused on concerti written by American composers and those which received world premieres in the United States.
Inspired by 2013’s acclaimed February Beethoven Festival, the 2015 season will host the first annual Winter Music Festival, honoring Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Just as Beethoven’s symphonies were released for purchase in 2013, the Winter Music Festival will ultimately result in a digital box-set recording of the Tchaikovsky symphonies, produced by the DSO’s in-house label.
“For the first time since I began as Music Director, there will be an underlying theme that goes throughout the season,” said Slatkin. “This year it is ‘The Concerto in America.’ Although the form is standard, we do not usually think about all the great music for soloists and orchestra that have received first performances in this country. The survey includes works from three different centuries and is intended to showcase the rich variety of pieces given premieres in the United States.”
See the DSO’s full 2014-2015 schedule via digital brochure below: