Second Spring: A Virtual Season

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A nonprofit fundraiser supporting

Minnesota Philharmonic Orchestra
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Help our musicians record and present the MPO's first-ever virtual season.

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Dear Friends of the MPO,


We are grateful to share the unexpected gifts of this season with you – to play chamber music, to share more intimately-scored works by living composers and composers from underrepresented and marginalized populations, and to create collaborative, multi-media works that live organically and beautifully in a digital space – a space of which your home is now part.

The sound world of our 2020-21 season is positively kaleidoscopic. Rhythmic vitality and spontaneous variation electrify Anthony R. Green’s Chance for string quartet and Libby Larsen’s Jazz Variations for solo bassoon. Ryan Brown’s The Light By Which She May Have Ascended and Mary Kouyoumdjian’s Groung [Crane] use strings to evoke grief, stillness and wonder. William Grant Still’s Miniatures and Amy Beach’s Pastorale, both for wind quintet, call us back to nature, curiosity and playfulness. We are especially excited to premier a multi-media work by Sabha Aminikia, in collaboration with the “Circus Heroes” of the Sirkane Social Circus School, located near the Turkish/Syrian border. I have been drawn to Sahba’s work ever since we were students together in San Francisco, and I know that his music will capture your imagination just as it did mine.  

In the constraints of this pandemic, our worlds can feel small, lonely and disconnected. At the same time, we are all building resilience with each day, and we are finding new ways to connect. “Second Spring” is a season that celebrates the surprising ways in which music connects us. It honors our uncertainty and loss and hope, and it illustrates a vast world of playfulness and rebirth, to which we are unstoppably drawn. 


Musically yours,

Brian Dowdy

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