Orchestras must now catch the eye

The Philharmonia unfurled its new season today:

The season also includes a collaboration with visual artists Gilbert & George, a genre-crossing heavy metal project, and an opera about the ‘Battle of the Sexes’ tennis match. (Principal Guest Conductor Marin Alsop conducts a World Premiere orchestral version of Laura Karpman’s opera ‘Balls’, telling the story of the Battle of the Sexes tennis match of 1973.)

Meanwhile, at the London Philharmonic:
This season explores the profound capacity of classical music to inspire environmental consciousness under the theme Harmony with Nature; a reminder that protecting the natural world is not only a moral imperative but also a cultural one, echoed and elevated through music’s enduring voice. Exploring the different elements of nature – water, forests, mountains, wildlife and more – reflected in music, the season includes Beethoven’s ‘Pastoral’ Symphony and works by Sibelius, Mendelssohn, Elgar and Dvořák; masterpieces of an era that saw nature as a mirror of human emotion. Closer to our own time, voices as diverse as Duke Ellington, John Luther Adams, Anna Thorvaldsdottir and Terence Blanchard have all found an unquenchable source of creative energy in the processes of nature.

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