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Hummel's Fantasie for Viola and Orchestra, Op. 94 is being played by the Dartmouth Symphony on May 5. that's the same day that TON at Bard will play Joseph Joachim Variations for Violin and Orchestra, Eugène Ysaÿe Violin Concerto in D minor (U.S. Premiere) and the  Enescu Symphony No. 2.

I almost forgot 4-30 and 5-2 in Montreal the OSM is playing Emilie Mayer, Symphony no. 7 .

Raff's Autumn Symphony (the 10th) will be performed on a program that also features Louise Farrenc's 3rd Symphony, August 17th at Bard College.
https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/bmf24-p9/

Part of this year's Bard Music Festival devoted to Berlioz, August 9th - August 18th
https://fishercenter.bard.edu/whats-on/programs/bard-music-festival/

Nice! this weekend 4/6 and 4/7 at Bard the Conservatory Orchestra will play Egon Wellesz's early work The Dawn of Spring.

The Philadelphia Orchestra is touring Canada with the Price Symphony #4 April 17-19. And then in Ann Arbor on 4-20.

Mayer's 7th symphony is in a program on April 30th and May 2 2024 @ Maison symphonique, Montréal, conducted by Rafael Payare.

Before that the Metropolitan Orchestra under Yannick will be performing the Halvorsen violin concerto. This weekend!

The Conservatory Orchestra at Bard was supposed to be doing Ethel Smyth's Mass in D in December but it's not listed on the site anymore.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra will be performing Pejacevic's symphony this weekend! Along with ultra-rare Mussorgsky and Grieg (haha).

https://www.dso.org/events-and-tickets/events/22-23-winter/night-on-bald-mountain

Nice. When I retire I may travel around the country hearing these rare pieces. Detroit is a bit out of my range now. Bard isn't though. Gade's Hamlet Overture is on the program April 17. Unfortunately it's the Community Orchestra playing and they are not nearly as good as the TON or conservatory orchestras.

I remember the concert performance. I was a bit disappointed in the music. Not top tier Saint-Saëns imo. I will see the staged performance though. Maybe I will like it better staged.

Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine is touring and will be playing the Thomas de Hartmann Violin Concerto at UMass on Friday 2-10. the New England Philharmonic is also having a go at in on May 7.

The Piano Concerto Op. 61 and the First Symphonic Poem Op. 50 will be played on March 18 at UMass.

The Cello Concert is on the program May 13 in Springfield MA.

There is a  website of the Thomas de Hartmann Project:
https://thomasdehartmannproject.com/upcoming-events/

Adolf von Henselt's Piano Concerto is on the program this weekend at Bard.

January 14th in Springfield MA they are playing William Grant Still's 4th Symphony.

I just got to hear the Emilie Mayer Symphony # 4 at UMass. I saw the debate over her worth. I thought it was an excellent work.

Amherst or Boston?

Amherst.

This Sunday I get to hear a piece by Teresa Carreño at Sanders in Cambridge. Their website describes it :

"The Venezuelan-American composer Teresa Carreño wrote a Romantic take on the Classical suite during a stay in the Alps. Her intoxicating Serenade for strings conveys all the charm of the Austrian lakeside village where it was written."

Max Bruch's Symphony No. 3 is coming up this winter in Concord. Boston Symphony is doing the Stenhammar Serenade. I just got to hear the Emilie Mayer Symphony # 4 at UMass. I saw the debate over her worth. I thought it was an excellent work.

I just got the CD. I had amazon points to use. I will listen tonight.

just fund out that the same day Botstein is doing Kauder there is a performance of the Volkmann Symphony in Waltham. Bummer! Botstein's TON orchestra is better that Waltham's community orchestra so the decision is pretty easy.

I did some searching and found a Symphony Pro Musica that is performing Chadwick's Jubilee on 11/5 and 11/6. I don't know them. Their facebook page says they are a high-level, ambitious volunteer community orchestra. I will probably check it out. The alternative is the Verdi Requiem in Cambridge.

I loved his recordings. Even if they sounded crude they had a lot of spirit. His recording of the Lyapunov Ukrainian Rhapsody is still my favorite.

I just heard his Variations Symphoniques for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 23 on youtube. Terrible sound quality though. Too bad. It could use a good modern recording.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty-bt8hiAoQ

His best-known composition is Suite gothique, which is a staple of the organ repertoire, especially its concluding Toccata. Is is? I don't know organ except Bach and Widor though.  Does that make him sung? Looks like there is a recording of it with the Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse on the Fuga Libera label.

Botstein programmed Suk's Fantastic Scherzo last month at a TON concert at Bard. Later this month is Walter Braunfels' Sinfonia brevis and Hugo Kauder's Symphony No. 1. I never heard of Kauder. The symphony was composed between 1920 and 1921 so it's a bit too modern for this forum. The idiom is supposed to be conservative so I have hope it will be good.

Black composers are getting heard - Petite suite de concert, Op. 77 by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was played at the Crane school a couple of weeks ago. William Grant Still's 4th Symphony is on the program for the Springfield Symphony in January. Also Florence Price's Piano Concerto which I heard at SPAC in August. Black + woman = highly programmable these days. The Price 3rd Symphony was on the program last weekend in Lexington MA.

Louise Farrenc Symphony # 3 is also coming up in Springfield. The Symphony # 1 was played in Montreal by the Metropolitan Orchestra and will also be played by the bigger OSM later.

Some good old Russian music is on the program in Gatineau Quebec next month - the Arensky Symphony # 1.

Edit - I forgot to mention the Amy Beach Symphony. Nashua has it in their repertoire and I've heard them play it twice. UMass orchestra will tackle it tomorrow.  They usually play pretty well.