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Kalamazoo, MI, 24 April \u2013 15 May<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n Tel.<\/span> +2 269 342 1166<\/span><\/p>\n Web:<\/span> www.thegilmore.org<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Biennial Gilmore sees things in black and white \u2013 the keys of the piano, that is! No one could accuse it of narrow-mindedness, though. Igor Levit<\/a><\/strong>, Daniil Trifonov and Beatrice Rana might be <\/span>soaking up Michigan\u2019s hospitality, but the <\/span>opening night goes to jazz legend Herbie Hancock. Chopin<\/a><\/strong> stalks recitals by Rana, Jan Lisiecki and Emanuel Ax; concertos <\/span>enlist four guest orchestras; and the finale <\/span>stages a 3:2:1 countdown: Bach\u2019s Triple Concerto BWV1063, Poulenc\u2019s Concerto for Two Pianos, and Chopin\u2019s Piano <\/span>Concerto No.\u00a01 performed by Ingrid Fliter.<\/span><\/p>\n Brooklyn, NYC, 29 April \u2013 1 May<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Tel. <\/span>+1 718 852 7755<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Web:<\/span> www.bangonacan.org<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n From Loud Weekend to summer\u2019s two-week festival at MASS MoCA, there\u2019s no stopping the irrepressible Bang on a Can \u2013 they introduced themselves back in 1987 with an epic day-long Marathon, after all. Long Play promises \u2018more kinds of musicians playing more kinds of music\u2019. The music straddles John Luther Adams and Stockhausen, Brian Eno, Captain Beefheart and Ornette Coleman. Performers include the Attacca Quartet, Noise Saxophone Quartet and, of course, the Bang on a Can All Stars. <\/span><\/p>\n Cincinnati, OH, 20-28 May<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Tel.<\/span> +1 513 381 3300<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Web: <\/span>www.mayfestival.com<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Next year notches up the 150th anniversary of the very first May Festival, and the Festival Chorus remains key to what is styled as the longest continuously running choral festival in the Western Hemisphere. Beethoven\u2019s Symphony No. 9 crowns a programme bestriding the Americas, Katharina Wincor makes her festival debut conducting Bernstein\u2019s Candide<\/i>, and Juanjo Mena heads south to conduct Ginastera, Villa-Lobos and Est\u00e9vez. To open, it\u2019s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas as John Adams spearheads his Nativity oratorio El Ni\u00f1o<\/i>. <\/span><\/p>\n Charleston, SC, 27 May \u2013 12 June<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Tel.<\/span> +1 843 579 3100<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Web: <\/span>www.spoletousa.org<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Composer Gian Carlo Menotti knew what he was doing when he alighted on Charleston in which to establish a US answer to his Italian festival in Spoleto. Its old-world elegance delights, especially at festival time. Menotti the opera composer would doubtless cheer on the world premiere of Omar<\/i> by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, a slave tale close to home; and, in the Gaillard Center, Puccini\u2019s La boh\u00e8me<\/i> will be re-imagined. Ligeti\u2019s Piano Concerto is framed by the US premieres of works by Edmund Thornton Jenkins and Anna Thorvaldsdottir; and the Spoleto Festival USA Chorus takes an inaugural bow with works by Bruckner, Brahms and Britten.<\/span><\/p>\n Highland Park, IL, Tel. <\/span>+1 847 266 5100<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Web: <\/span>www.ravinia.org<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Marin Alsop returns to Ravinia as chief conductor at the head of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. And she\u2019s bringing a compact \u2018Breaking Barriers\u2019 Festival this year celebrating women conductors \u2013 as well as music such as Michael Daugherty\u2019s Time Machine<\/i> for three conductors and Bernstein\u2019s \u2018Kaddish\u2019 Symphony. Elsewhere, Alsop conducts Beethoven, Richard Strauss, and, featuring soprano Yeree Suh and baritone Matthias Goerne, Brahms\u2019s German Requiem<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n Atlanta, Georgia, 2-19 June<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Tel. <\/span>+1 404 881 8801<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Web:<\/span> www.atlantaopera.org<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Whoever said opera is a museum culture hasn\u2019t told Atlanta Opera. In the run up to its Come As You Are festival, Mason Bates\u2019s The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs<\/i> lifts <\/span>the lid on the founder of Apple. And in the <\/span>Big Tent, bolstered by panel discussions and talkbacks, the musical Cabaret<\/i> is interleaved with Laura Kaminsky\u2019s transgender chamber opera As One<\/i>. Baritone Lucia Lucas is \u2018Hannah Before\u2019, and mezzo-soprano Blythe Gaissert is \u2018Hannah After\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n Ojai, CA, 9-12 June<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Tel.<\/span> +1 805 646 2094<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Web:<\/span> www.ojaifestival.org<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n John Adams oversaw last year\u2019s 75th- anniversary edition \u2013 relocated to September. And AMOC (American Modern Opera Company) is in the driving seat as June normality returns. Not that \u2018normality\u2019 is the word where the ever-dynamic, re-inventing Ojai is concerned. Newly composed works include Family Dinner<\/i> by Matthew Aucoin and the echoing of tenses<\/i>, a specially commissioned song cycle by Anthony Cheung. Soprano Julia Bullock stars in a semi-staging of Messiaen\u2019s Harawi<\/i>, and early music ensemble Ruckus reinvigorates the Baroque.<\/span><\/p>\n Santa Barbara, CA, 13 June \u2013 6 August<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Tel. <\/span>+1 805-969-4726<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Web: <\/span>www.musicacademy.org<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Otto Klemperer and Lotte Lehmann were early supporters of a summer school and festival that\u2019s in celebratory mood. For its 75th birthday, Santa Barbara parties in style with a \u2018Welcome Concert\u2019 in the Bowl, not to mention a gala featuring three-times Grammy Award winner, mezzo Isabel Leonard. Opera returns to the Festival with Tchaikovsky\u2019s Eugene Onegin<\/i>; and among those California dreamin\u2019 are conductors St\u00e9phane Den\u00e8ve and Hannu Lintu, plus composers Nico Muhly and Tom Cipullo.<\/span><\/p>\n Lenox, MA, 17 June \u2013 4 September<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Tel.<\/span> +1 617 266 1200<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Web:<\/span> www.tanglewood.org<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Tanglewood\u2019s backstory can be traced in the names of its concert halls, from the orchestral focus of the Koussevitzky Music Shed to Seiji Ozawa Hall, award-winning home to much of the summer\u2019s chamber music. Ringo Starr fires the starting pistol and, under Andris Nelsons, the Boston Symphony\u2019s opening night acknowledges a towering Tanglewood stalwart \u2013 Leonard Bernstein. Among eight world and US premieres are works by Helen Grime and Caroline Shaw, Mozart\u2019s Don Giovanni<\/i> issues a deadly dinner invitation and pianist Emanuel Ax and friends pursue \u2018Pathways from Prague\u2019 while Garrick Ohlsson readies himself for the complete piano works of Brahms.<\/span><\/p>\n Eugene, OR, 17 June \u2013 5 July<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Tel. <\/span>+1 541 346 5666<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Web:<\/span> www.oregonbachfestival.org<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n There\u2019s a gladiatorial frisson as OBF returns to live performance. Three contenders are in the frame for the artistic directorship, and each will conduct a major work and be put through their chamber music paces. The B minor Mass and the John<\/i> and Matthew Passion<\/a><\/strong>s<\/i> are the Bachian pillars anchoring the likes of The Musical Offering<\/i> directed by Monica Huggett. But Bach isn\u2019t the only composer in town. Paola Prestini\u2019s Let Me See The Sun<\/i> receives its premiere; Tyler Duncan sings Schubert\u2019s Winterreise<\/i>; and Akoka \u2018reframes\u2019 Messiaen\u2019s Quartet for the End of Time<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n Katonah, NY, 18 June \u2013 7 August<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Tel. <\/span>+1 914 232 1252<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Web:<\/span> www.caramoor.org<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n From intimate beginnings, Caramoor has grown, its ambitions consummated in the creation of an airy Venetian Theater and atmospheric Spanish Courtyard to complement the Music Room\u2019s opulence. Summer \u201922 should go with a bang as Michael Gordon\u2019s site-specific Field of Vision<\/i> for 40 percussionists is premiered. Yo-Yo Ma and The Knights signal the off; soprano Dawn Upshaw and the Brentano Quartet collaborate on Melinda Wagner\u2019s monodrama Dido Reimagined<\/i>; and Marc-Andr\u00e9 Hamelin ends the season royally with Beethoven\u2019s \u2018Emperor\u2019 Concerto. <\/span><\/p>\n Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 23 June \u2013 14 August<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Tel.<\/span> +1 845 758 7900<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Web: <\/span>www.fishercenter.bard.edu<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Sheltering beneath Summerscape\u2019s cross-disciplinary umbrella, the 32nd Bard Music Festival is devoted to \u2018Rachmaninov and his World\u2019. The \u2018Whose century?\u2019 concert provocatively sets Piano Concerto No. 4 in the context of Respighi, Grof\u00e9, Shostakovich and Messiaen; and the Vespers<\/i> should apply balm to the soul. Richard Strauss\u2019s comic opera Die schweigsame Frau<\/i>, conducted by Leon Botstein and directed by Christian R\u00e4th, lightens the mood, while Moli\u00e8re\u2019s 400th is not forgotten.<\/span><\/p>\n Vail, CO, 23 June \u2013 4 August<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nLong Play Festival<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
May Festival<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
Spoleto Festival USA<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
Ravinia Festival\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
Come As You Are<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
Ojai Festival<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
Music Academy of the West<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
Tanglewood<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
Oregon Bach Festival<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
Caramoor Festival<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
Bard Summerscape and Music Festival<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n
Bravo! Vail<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n