LATEST NEWS
On May 13 & 15, Paul will conduct Mahler's Symphony No. 2 in C minor, "Resurrection", with the Stanford Symphony Orchestra and Stanford Symphonic Chorus. The vocal soloists in the Mahler are soprano Esther Tonea and alto Malin Fritz Walrod. On May 1, Esther Tonea, an Adler Fellow at SF Opera, was selected as one of six winners of this year's Metropolitan Opera Annual Laffont Competition, and these will be her first performances since the competition. Malin Fritz Walrod has performed at the Metropolitan Opera in The Magic Flute (Mozart), Die Walküre (Wagner), and Moses und Aron (Schoenberg), and with numerous orchestras and opera companies throughout the US and abroad. Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed (in memoriam Martin Luther King, Jr.) by Adolphus Hailstork will open the concert.
On May 21, Paul will conduct Stanford Philharmonia's Spring Concert in a program featuring music by Cherubini, Reinecke, Schubert, and Hailstork. Flutist Kristie Park '24, a winner of the 2022 Stanford Concerto Competition, will perform Reinecke's Flute Concerto in D Major, op. 283. Soprano Joelle Lamarre will end the concert with the California premiere of Tulsa 1921: Pity These Ashes, Pity This Dust, composed by Hailstork in 2020 to commemorate the infamous Tulsa Race Massacre.
On May 25, the Stanford University Department of Music will present CARNIVAL: Festival for Black Art @ Stanford. Paul has organized this event with Akwasi Papa Abrefa and will conduct two works by Adolphus Hailstork, Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed (in memoriam Martin Luther King, Jr.) and Tulsa 1921: Pity These Ashes, Pity This Dust, on a concert taking place that evening at 7:30pm in Dinkelspiel Auditorium.
UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
STANFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA & STANFORD SYMPHONIC CHORUS with soprano Esther Tonea and mezzo-soprano Malin Fritz Walrod
Friday, 13 May 2022 at 7:30pm • Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University
Sunday, 15 May 2022 at 2:30pm • Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University
Program: ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed (in memoriam Martin Luther King, Jr.) • GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection"
STANFORD PHILHARMONIA with flute soloist Kristie Park '24, 2022 Concerto Competition Winner
Saturday, 21 May 2022 at 7:30pm • Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University
Program: LUIGI CHERUBINI Medea Overture • CARL REINECKE Flute Concerto in D major, op. 283 • ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK Tulsa 1921: Pity These Ashes, Pity This Dust • FRANZ SCHUBERT Symphony No. 4 in C minor, D. 417, “Tragic”
STANFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA & STANFORD PHILHARMONIA • CARNIVAL: Festival for Black Art @ Stanford
Wednesday, 25 March 2022 • Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University
Program to include: ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed (in memoriam Martin Luther King, Jr.) • Tulsa 1921: Pity These Ashes, Pity This Dust
STANFORD SUMMER SYMPHONY with violin soloist Lisa Saito and alto saxophone soloist David Henderson
Friday, 29 July 2022 at 7:30pm • Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University
Program: FLORENCE PRICE Dances in the Canebrakes (arr. W.G. Still) • CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS Violin Concerto No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 61 (1st mvt) • MAURICE RAVEL Pavane pour une infante défunte • CLAUDE DEBUSSY Rapsodie for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra (arr. R. Roger-Ducasse) • RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No. 5 in D Major