NEW YORK (AP) — Carnegie Hall's 2018-19 season features a five-week festival devoted to "Migrations: The Making of America."
Running from March 9 to April 15, it focuses on three periods: the arrival of immigrants from Scotland and Ireland in the 18th and 19th centuries, the influx of Jews from Russia and Eastern Europe from 1881 to 1924, and the move of African-Americans from the South to other parts of the United States from 1917 into the 1970s.
Concerts include Scottish, Irish and bluegrass music with Chris Thile; "From Shtetl to Stage: A Celebration of Yiddish Music and Culture"; and concerts by jazz pianist Jason Moran and mezzo-soprano Alicia Hall Moran. More than three dozen cultural institutions in the New York area are participating.
Carnegie Hall executive director Clive Gillinson said Thursday the migration theme was chosen 3½ years ago and was suggested by one of its trustees, former University of Chicago President Don M. Randel.
Carnegie Hall's season opens Oct. 3 with Renee Fleming, Audra McDonald and the San Francisco Symphony led by Michael Tilson Thomas, who will conduct seven programs with four orchestras during the season.
Pianist Yuja Wang is featured in five concerts, and conductor Gianandrea Noseda leads the orchestra of the Teatro Regio Torino in a concert performance of Verdi's "I Vespri Siciliani (The Sicilian Vespers)" featuring Angela Meade. Harry Bicket conducts The English Concert in Handel's "Semele," and tenor Jonas Kaufmann sings German operetta and lieder from the 1930s.
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