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05/24/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 05/24/2021 10:40

Classical Streaming from 21C in May, June & Beyond

May 24, 2021

21C's artists and organizations are keeping music alive in 2021 with new livestreams and favorite archived performances. Stay up to date with this rolling list, which we'll update and redistribute whenever new additions are announced. Upcoming and recent streams are up top; updates & additions to previously announced series are in red. (Updated May 24)

For press passes to any of the ticketed streams, please contact Louise at 21C

STREAMS & BROADCASTS COMING UP IN NEXT 3 DAYS
(listed chronologically; livestreams in gold)

-Now streaming: DSO+Met Orchestra play Mahler #1 (see Dallas Symphony below)
-TODAY, Mon, May 24 at 1pm ET: Choir of Trinity Wall Street sings 3 Bach cantatas (plus performances throughout the week; see Trinity below)
-TOMORROW, Tues, May 25: DSO & Angela Fuller Heyde play WP of Kareem Roustom's Violin Concerto No. 2 (see Dallas SO below)
-TOMORROW, Tues, May 25 at 7:30pm ET: last performance of Death by Life (see Jacobs/WSP below)
-Wed, May 26 at 6:30pm ET: OSL presents Coleridge-Taylor meets Chopin (see OSL below)

UPCOMING STREAMS
(LISTED ALPHABETICALLY BY ARTIST;newly announced streams in red)

JOSHUA BELL leads Pittsburgh Symphony from the violin
(June 7 at 7:30pm EST; pre-recorded stream on website; ticketed)

Superstar violinist Joshua Bell leads the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in a performance themed around Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons.' Also on the program are the 'Spring' and 'Summer' movements from Astor Piazzolla's Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, the former arranged for cello ensemble, and Chopin's Nocturne Op. 9, No. 1 arranged for eight cellos and harp. Tickets and a link to the stream are availablehere. The concert will be available on demand through June 21.

CAL PERFORMANCES AT HOME presents Jordi Savall and Alvin Ailey, and special 'Sunday Supper with the Stars'
(June 3 & 10, starting at 7pm PDT (10pm EDT); pre-recorded streams on website; ticketed)

Cal Performances at UC Berkeley continues its spring 'Cal Performances at Home' season of newly produced music and dance video streams. For each performance premiere, Cal Performances will host a digital 'watch party' accompanied by a participatory live chat, and each program will be supplemented with freeBeyond the Stagedigital content, including artist talks, interviews, lectures and panel discussions.

Thurs, June 3: (POSTPONED FROM EARLIER IN SPRING):Jordi Savall
Early-music conductor and musical polymath Savall leads his vocal ensemble La Capella Reial de Catalunya and period orchestra Le Concert des Nations in selections from Monteverdi's Madrigals of Love and War. Recorded in Barcelona, the set includes 'Lamento della Ninfa' and 'Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda.' (Subsequently available through Sep 1)

Thurs, June 10:Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
The centerpiece of this exclusive presentation is the world premiere of a newly commissioned work by the company's resident choreographer, Jamar Roberts, along with previously unscreened archival footage of performances of two landmark works from the company repertoire. (Subsequently available through Sep 8).

MARC-ANDRE DALBAVIE conducts live world premiere of his new opera, The Satin Slipper, at Paris Opera
(5 perfs May 21- June 13, starting at 2pm or 2:30pm CET / 9am ET; livestreams on website; ticketed)

Marc-André Dalbavie conducts the live world premiere production of his monumental third opera, The Satin Slipper ('Le soulier de satin'), at the Paris Opera, by which it was commissioned. Based on an epic drama by Paul Claudel, a giant of 20th-century French literature, Dalbavie's opera pits the grand passion between a Spanish conquistador and his married love interest against their Catholic faith. Starring Luca Pisaroni and Eve-Maud Hubeaux in Stanislas Nordey's premier production, which runs for a full six and a half hours, The Satin Slipper represents a major new development for 21st-century opera. Clickherefor streaming and ticketing details.

Four new streams from DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, filmed before live audiences
(Various dates through June 8; recorded streams on website; ticketed)

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra streamsfour performances in late May and June,each filmed before a live audience. Presented in accordance with strict health and safety guidelines, all concerts are available for streaming in the DSO'sNext Stage Digital Concert Series.Tickets: $10 for individual concerts; full series of 20+ concerts $125 with the NEXT STAGE Digital Pass. A collaborative benefit concert with the Met Opera Orchestra streams for free through June 4. For tickets and more details about DSO's Next Stage series, visitMyDSO.com/nextstage. (Following its premiere, each stream will be available through the end of the season. See also below for select DSO streams still available on demand.)

Now streaming:
The DSO welcomed members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra to Dallas in late April and early May, when the combined orchestras, conducted by DSO Music Director Fabio Luisi, presented performances of Mahler's Symphony No. 1 in the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, marking the first time many of the non-DSO musicians had the opportunity to perform for a live audience since the COVID-19 shutdown in March 2020. The captured performance is now streaming free, on-demand through Friday, June 4, and is availablehere. The event benefitted the MET Orchestra Musicians Fund and the DFW Musicians COVID-19 Relief Fund; the DSO will also issue limited-edition NFTs of the concert with unlockable exclusive, behind-the-scenes footage to raise additional money for these two funds.

From tomorrow,May 25
Gemma New conducts DSO Principal Second Violin Angela Fuller-Heyde in the world premiere of Kareem Roustom's Violin Concerto No. 2, on a program that also includes Mendelssohn's Fingal's Cave Overture and Ravel's Mother Goose Suite.

From Tues, June 1
Bradley Hunter Welch
is the soloist in Handel's Organ Concerto, 'The Cuckoo and the Nightingale,' on a program bookended by Haydn's 'Drum Roll' Symphony and Mendelssohn's 'Italian,' led by Nicholas McGegan.

From Tues, June 8
Peter Oundjianconducts an all-Russian program of Glinka, Stravinsky and Prokofiev, in whose Second Violin Concerto the soloist is Vadim Gluzman.

CERISE JACOBS and White Snake Projects present virtual opera Death by Life; one remainingperformance
(Tomorrow:May25 at 7:30pm ET; live video streams on website; ticketed)

May 20 marks the world premiere of White Snake Projects' latest live virtual opera, Death by Life, conceived as a monument of support for the Black Lives Matter movement after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The opera explores the intersection of systemic racism and mass incarceration using texts written by incarcerated writers and their families, with a score by five Black composers-Jacinth Greywoode, Leila Adu-Gilmore, Jonathan Bailey Holland, David Sanford and Mary D. Watkins-representing a broad range of ages and styles. The sets are immersive 3D environments created in Unreal Engine by Curvin Huber, White Snake's Director of Innovation. Kimille Howard directs and Tianhui Ng music directs. Suggested ticket prices range from $0-150, and links for streaming and more information can be foundhere.

EDGAR MEYER at Telluride Bluegrass Festival
(June 19 & 20; live video streams on website; ticketed)

Double bassist and MacArthur Award-winner Edgar Meyer - 'the most remarkable virtuoso in the relatively un-chronicled history of his instrument' (New Yorker) - and his violinist son, George Meyer, perform in the 48th Annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival, live-streaming this year for the first time in its history. Following the duo performance on June 19, Meyer performs with the Festival's House Band, featuring Béla Fleck, Stuart Duncan, and more, on June 20. Tickets are available for the entire weekend or individual days, and can be foundhere.

ORCHESTRA OF ST. LUKE'S four further livestreams
(Various dates in May, starting at 6:30pm ET; live video streams on website; ticketed)

Orchestra of St. Luke's continues its OSLive Wednesday Night Series in May with two curated concerts streaming live from New York's DiMenna Center for Classical Music. Conceived for the online experience and directed by Tristan Cook, both concerts feature St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, the orchestra's artistic core. On May 19, OSL Principal Conductor Bernard Labadie hosts 'The Voice at Ease,' the final program in OSL's 'Baroque 2021' mini-series, which features baritone Tyler Duncan in a pair of contrasting Bach arias and a complete traversal of the composer's cantata Ich habe genug. A week later, to conclude OSL's 'Sounds Like a Symphony' mini-series, WQXR's Terrance McKnight hosts 'Coleridge-Taylor meets Chopin,' which pairs Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Clarinet Quintet with a chamber adaptation of Chopin's Second Piano Concerto, with Jeremy Denk as soloist.Streams are available to ticketholders for one week following the premiere stream. For tickets and more information, click here.

Then on June 9, a quintet of OSL wind players will give a livestreamed account of composer Valerie Coleman's Portraits of Josephine, a musical memoir of Josephine Baker, interwoven with original biographical content about her extraordinary life and legacy. Presented in partnership with venues in all five New York City boroughs, this virtual Free Community Concert will be followed by a live Q&A with the composer herself and will subsequently be available on-demand until the end of June.

INBAL SEGEV with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and MARIN ALSOP
(June 9 at 8pm ET; prerecorded video stream on website; ticketed)

Conductor Marin Alsop, who recently concluded her 14-year tenure as Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony, co-curated two seasons of that orchestra's New Music Festival with Israeli-American cellist Inbal Segev, who she also introduced to Grammy-winning composer Anna Clyne. Segev - a driving force in the creation of new cello repertoire for the 21st century - subsequently commissioned Clyne's DANCEfor cello and orchestra. After giving the world and East Coast premieres of the work in the summer of 2019, Segev recorded it with Alsop leading the London Philharmonic in June 2020. As part of the Baltimore Symphony's Marin Festival honoring Alsop, on June 9 they broadcast their performance of the work with Segev, on a program with Christopher Rouse's Concerto for Orchestra. Tickets and stream link can be foundhere. Following the initial broadcast, the concert will be available through the end of June.

TRINITY CHURCH WALL STREET continues its Comfort at One streams
(All streams at 1pm ET on weekdays; free; Facebook, Twitter and on Trinity's website)

Trinity Church Wall Street continues its three-century role of bringing solace to New York's downtown community and the world at large, with a full program of online 'Comfort at One' concerts. Taking advantage of Trinity's extensive archives and high-quality recording and film technology, this free streaming series was launched after the suspension of in-person activities at the start of the pandemic last year. Read more about Comfort at One here. The weekday Comfort at One concerts stream on Facebook and Twitter, with full videos posted on Trinity's website. All streams start at 1pm ET. Upcoming highlights are detailed below.

TODAY, Mon May 24: 3 Bach cantatas - Es ist euch gut, daß ich hingehe; Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt; and Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ - were performed by the Choir of Trinity Wall Street with the Trinity Baroque Orchestra and soloists Melissa Attebury, Dashon Burton, Melanie Russell and Owen McIntosh. Director of Music Julian Wachner opened the concert with the organ prelude Christ, unser Herr, zum Jordan kam. (from a 2015 Bach at One)
TOMORROW, Tues May 25: Soloist Aundi Marie Moore sang with The Choir of Trinity Wall Street on the spiritual, 'Ride On King Jesus'. (from February 2020 Holy Eucharist service)
Wed, May 26: Members of the Trinity Youth Chorus performed Beautiful City, the title piece of their concert last fall. See also Fri May 28.
Thurs, May 27: A Pipes at One recital features Trinity's associate organist and chorus master, Avi Stein.
Fri May 28: The Trinity Youth Chorus presents a virtual spring concert, featuring a variety of works performed by ensembles and soloists, juxtaposed with inspired artwork by the performers.

Select highlights later in June:
Fri, June 11: Pamela Terry from the Choir of Trinity Wall Street performs the music of Mary Lou Williams with pianist Aaron Diehl.
Fri, June 18: Sandbox Percussion gives its world premiere video performance of the Trinity co-commissioned movement 'Pillar 7' from Andy Akiho's Seven Pillars, artistic directed by Michael McQuilken. Seven Pillars will be released in its entirety at Comfort at One in August.

SELECT PERFORMANCE STREAMS NOW/STILL AVAILABLE
(LISTED ALPHABETICALLY BY ARTIST; new material in red)

MARIN ALSOP leads Polish National Radio Symphony on medici.tv; plus a spotlight on Articulate with Jim Cotter
(PNRS: pre-recorded webcast on medici.tv
Articulate: prerecorded webcast on PBS website; free)

In celebration of International Women's Day, conductor Marin Alsop joined the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and English hornist Piotr Pyc for Polish composer Stanisław Skrowaczewski's Concerto for English Horn and Orchestra, British/Polish composer Roxanna Panufnik's Two Composers, Four Hands, for Double String Orchestra, and Sergei Prokofiev's 'Classical' Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25. A medici.tv subscription is needed to view this performance. More information and a link to the webcast are available here. Alsop also graced a recent episode of PBS TV's Articulate with Jim Cotter, which aired on PBS TV stations and is now available for streaming on the network's website.

THE ATLANTA OPERA presents Orfano Mondo, Pagliacci, The Kaiser of Atlantis and more on its Spotlight Media service
(Webcasts; ticketed & available in new digital subscription service)

The Atlanta Opera has just released the first four episodes of Orfano Mondo, a world premiere film series by American bass-baritone Ryan McKinny and Emmy-winning filmmaker Felipe Barral. Addresses the fears surrounding live performance during the pandemic though exclusive behind-the-scenes footage, material filmed expressly for the series, and scenes from Atlanta's live fall productions, each Orfano Mondo episode is 10-15 minutes long. Four more episodes are scheduled for release over the next two months.

This new series expands the offerings available from The Atlanta Opera's new digital subscription service, Spotlight Media. Previous releases include full-length films of the two live opera productions. Baritone Reginald Smith, Jr., tenor Richard Trey Smagurand soprano Talise Trevigne star in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, while baritone Michael Mayes headlines General & Artistic Director Tomer Zvulun's acclaimed company premiere of The Kaiser of Atlantis, a chilling satire on Hitler by eventual Auschwitz victims Viktor Ullmann and Peter Kien. 'Mezzo Extravaganza ' celebrates the superlative voices of mezzo-sopranos Gabrielle Beteag, Daniela Mack, Megan Marino and Jamie Barton. In a series of 'Love Letters to Atlanta,' each of which includes an extended, exclusive interview, bass Morris Robinson sings 'The Impossible Dream' from Man of La Mancha, Jamie Barton sings 'Georgia on My Mind' and Kevin Burdette sings 'If Ever I Would Leave You< /a>' from Camelot.Single-performance Spotlight Media passes start at $10 and annual passes are priced at $99 per viewing household. Visit The Atlanta Opera 's website for more information and contact Louise at 21C for press passes.

JOSHUA BELL & Helsinki Philharmonic
(Archived livestream on website; free)

Joshua Bell performed Wieniawski's Violin Concerto No. 2 with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Susanna Mälkki, with Schubert's Symphony No. 8 rounding out the program. The performance is available free and on demand for 30 days following its initial broadcast on May 21, and can be accessedhere.

JULIA BULLOCK sang NPR Tiny Desk (Home) Concert, and curated and performed 'Lineage' with San Francisco Symphony; was featured in LA Opera's Signature Recital Series
(Tiny Desk: Recorded video livestream, free on NPR website; 'Lineage': pre-recorded video stream on website; ticketed)

Honored as a 2021 Artist of the Year and 'agent of change' by Musical America, classical vocalist Julia Bullock sang Schubert, Weill, Billy Taylor and more for a Tiny Desk (Home) Concert in NPR Music's special quarantine edition of the series, streaming free on demand at NPR Music. As Collaborative Partner of the San Francisco Symphony, she also curated a program in the orchestra's Digital SoundBox series. Titled 'Lineage,' this offers an audio and visual snapshot of the ways that lineage can inform, influence, impact and express itself in a musical context. Highlights include Bullock's giving her signature rendition of Nina Simone's 'Revolution' and joining members of the San Francisco Symphony and Chorus for accounts of Simone's 'Images,' Esperanza Spalding's 'Little Fly,' Aruán Ortiz's 'Mompouana,' selections from Francis Poulenc's Rapsodie nègre and Ricky Ian Gordon's Litany. 'Lineage' streamed on the SFSymphony+ platform, and is available on demand to ticket holders and SFSymphony+ members through summer 2021. Tickets at $15 are available here.

Bullock was also featured along with pianist Laura Poe in LA Opera's Signature Recital Series, with a concert filmed at Blaibach Concert Hall in Blaibach, Germany. The transatlantic program included songs by Wolf, Schumann and Weill; American composers John Adams, Margaret Bonds and William Grant Still; and beloved tunes from Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music. Tickets are $45 per household for the full five-concert series, or $30 for subscribers. All performances are available through July 1, 2021, and more details can be found here.

CAL PERFORMANCES: fall streams still available
( Recorded livestreams on website; ticketed)

Fall classical streams still available:

-Takács Quartet play HAYDN, BRITTEN and BRAHMS (available through April 28)
-Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord plays J.S. BACH: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (available through June 2
-Mitsuko Uchida, piano plays all-Schubert recital, filmed in London's Wigmore Hall, that combines the composer's first two Impromptus with his Sonata in G (available through June 16)
-Christine Goerke, soprano takes a break from opera's dramatic heroines to sing songs by composers from Handel and Brahms to Cole Porter and Carrie Jacobs-Bond, along with longtime recital partner Craig Terry (available through June 30
-Jeremy Denk, piano returns to Cal Performances with a performance of Book 1 of Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier (available through July 14)
-Bang on a Can; Julia Wolfe's Steel Hammer This new film features the acclaimed oratorio by Bang on a Can's co-founder, Pulitzer Prize-winner Julia Wolfe. A meditation on more than 200 versions of 'John Henry' that mines the sounds and stories of Appalachia, the Boston Globe called the oratorio an 'epic explosion and reconstruction of the folk ballad.' (available through Aug 4)
-yMusic The performer-composers of yMusic - 'one of the groups that has really helped to shape the future of classical music' (NPR) - along with guest composers Andrew Norman and Gabriella Smith, joined forces with filmmaker Jeremy Robins for a program that included five world premieres. All eight works on the program were presented in brand new video versions that combined live-performance footage with a creative mix of special visual content (available through Aug 18)

See above for ticket information. Available at Calperformances.org/at-home or by phone at (510) 642-9988.

Junction Trio streams live from CARAMOOR's Music Room
(May 23 at 3pm; live video stream on website; ticketed
)

Caramoor presents Junction Trio - violinist Stefan Jackiw, pianist Conrad Tao and JACK Quartet cellist Jay Campbell - in a pairing of Beethoven's 'Archduke' Trio with Shostakovich's Piano Trio in E minor, written just after the siege of Leningrad. After the concert, there will be a livestreamed Q&A with Junction Trio, moderated by Caramoor's Artistic Director, Kathy Schuman, at which audiences members will have the chance to ask their own questions. The stream will then be available for on-demand viewing for the next 48 hours. For tickets and information, clickhere.

EMILY D'ANGELO makes house & role debuts in La clemenza di Tito at London's Royal Opera House
(May 21 at 2:30pm EDT; livestream on website; ticketed)

A 2020 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist, vocalist Emily D'Angelo makes her company and role debuts as Sesto in a live new production of Mozart's La clemenza di Titoat London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conducted by Mark Wigglesworth and directed by Richard Jones, the production's opening night will stream live on May 21 atROH Stream, where tickets are available.

Fabio Luisi leads DALLAS SYMPHONY in Next Stage Digital Concert Series
(Recorded performances; videostreams; website; ticketed)

Last September, Grammy-winning conductor Fabio Luisi launched his tenure as Music Director of the Dallas Symphony, which was among the first major US orchestras to return to performing since the outbreak of COVID-19. Powerhouse pianist Yefim Bronfman joined Luisi and the DSO for an all-Beethoven program for the season-opening concerts; a free video stream of the opening program is available here, and many streams are still available in the orchestra's Next Stage Digital Concert Series, including a program of Verdi favorites featuring mezzo Jamie Barton; the world premiere of En otra noche, en otro mundo by DSO Composer-in-Residence Angélica Negrón; and Mahler's Song of the Earth with Tamara Mumford and Stuart Skelton as soloists. To see all the available Next Stage offerings, click here.

ALAN GILBERT led NDR Elbphilharmonie in works by Dvořák & Mahler; plus conductor chats on Facebook
(Archived video stream; website, plus live audio broadcast; free)

In December, Hamburg's NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and Chief Conductor Alan Gilbert was joined by cellist Gautier Capuçon and soprano Anna Prohaska for a live performance of Dvořák's Cello Concerto and Mahler's Fourth Symphony. The free concert stream is archived at NDR's website. More info here.

From his home in Stockholm, Gilbert has hosted hourlong discussions on Facebook Live with fellow conductors Karina Canellakis, Daniel Harding and Sir Simon Rattle,Marin Alsop, Sir Antonio Pappano and Esa-Pekka Salonen, Herbert Blomstedt, and most recently, Thomas Morris and Christoph von Dohnányi.

First concert in MICHAEL HERSCH's series '… thus far and no further …'
(Recorded live performance; video stream; Facebook; free)

American composer Michael Hersch recently reunited with sculptor Christopher Cairns to launch the intimate live concert series '… thus far and no further …'. Curated by Hersch and performed by some of his most trusted musical collaborators for a socially distanced audience of just 15, each live concert is bookended by sound installations and takes place among the sculptures in Cairns's Pennsylvania studio, as previously featured in the set design for Hersch's monodrama On the Threshold of Winter. VisitHersch's Facebook page to see the first concert in the series, which presented Miranda Cuckson, Emi Ferguson and the FLUX Quartet in a program juxtaposing Hersch and Morton Feldman with early French composers Guillaume de Machaut and Josquin des Prez.

Also available for free online listening is Hersch's 10-hour world premiere of sew me into a shroud of leaves. The marathon performance comprises Hersch himself playing Part I:The Vanishing Pavilions, hornist Jamie Hersch and cellist Mariel Roberts playing Part II: Last Autumn, and pianist Jacob Rhodebeck playing Part III: one day may become menace. Hersch mastered the recording on November 9, 2019 from 5am to 8pm (with breaks) in the State Hall of the Austrian National Library, and has just made it available free of charge on YouTube.

STANFORD LIVE presents DANIEL HOPE & New Century Chamber Orchestra in Tan Dun world premiere
(May 20 at 12pm PDT (3pm EST); prerecorded video stream on website; ticketed)

As Music Director of the New Century Chamber Orchestra, British violinist Daniel Hopejoined the orchestra and pianist Alexey Botvinov for the world premiere performance of Tan Dun's Double Concerto, a New Century co-commission with Ukraine's Odessa Classics Festival. Presented by Stanford Live, 'New Century: Reunited' also saw Hope lead the ensemble from the violin in Bloch's First Concerto Grosso and the West Coast premiere of Aaron Jay Kernis's Elegy (to those we lost). The concert is available for on-demand streaming until August 31, and more information is available at NCCO's website.

Following the success of his hit TV series [email protected], British violinist Daniel Hope launched [email protected]earlier in the spring. This newest incarnation of the show celebrated Europe and its rich musical and cultural diversity. With each episode devoted to a different one of the European Union's 27 member states, Hope invited young musicians into his Berlin home to collaborate on music by composers from their respective countries, including Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto, Estonian pianist Kristjan Järvi, French-Cypriot soprano Sarah Aristidou, and many others. All the episodes are still available at Arte Concert, Hope's Facebook page and at Arte.tv.

Conceived as 'DIY TV' for our socially distanced times, the [email protected] series combine high-quality audio with the intimacy and immediacy of live, world-class home music-making. Together with its sequels, [email protected] on Tour! and [email protected] - Next Generation, the original show ran to almost 120 episodes, was streamed more than ten million times, and raised tens of thousands of Euros for artists in need.

LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA 'LOVE' livestreams still available on demand
(Archived livestreams on website; ticketed)

Music director Teddy Abrams led the Louisville Orchestra in four 'LOVE' (Louisville Orchestra Virtual Edition) livestreams in the spring, two of which are still available to stream at the orchestra's websit e: the two concerts in this year's edition of the Festival of American Music. 'Ravel and the Power of Black Music' featured Abrams as piano soloist in Ravel's Concerto in G, along with rapper and curator Jecorey Arthur, who last appeared with the orchestra when he headlined the world premiere of Abrams's grand-scale work The Greatest: Muhammad Ali (available until May 23). Abrams and Arthur discussed their collaboration and this stream with Ari Shapiro on NPR's All Things Considered. In 'Wailing Trumpets,' Louisville's Principal Pops Conductor Bob Bernhardtled a program of jazz and ragtime, featuring trumpeter and Basie Band veteran Byron Stripling (available until June 6). Info and tickets are available at Louisvilleorchestra.org/spring-love.

ORCHESTRA OF ST. LUKE'S livestream on-demand
(Archived live video streams on website; ticketed)

OSL Principal Conductor Bernard Labadie hosted 'The Voice at Ease,' the final program in OSL's 'Baroque 2021' mini-series, which featured baritone Tyler Duncan in a pair of contrasting Bach arias and a complete traversal of the composer's cantata Ich habe genug (available through Wed, May 26).