The Minnesota Orchestra today unveiled plans for 2022-23, a wide-ranging season that pairs the music of Beethoven, Brahms and Mendelssohn alongside newer compositions by Alberga, Mazzoli and Montgomery; spotlights masterpieces of the piano repertoire; and features a major world premiere by composer Carlos Simon and librettist Marc Bamuthi Joseph called brea(d)th that embraces the aspiration of racial equity through music-centered community healing.

The large-scale work, created by Carlos and librettist Marc Bamuthi Joseph, will receive its world premiere May 18-20, 2023, led by Jonathan Taylor Rush and featuring vocal soloists, the Orchestra, the Minnesota Chorale and Twin Cities Choral Partners. Titling their work brea(d)th, Simon and Joseph embrace what they call "the aspiration of racial equity through music-centered community healing" and will make visits to Minneapolis over the next year to create the composition in consultation with community members, aiming to lead audiences on a path of reflection, intention and organized hope. Simon, whose compositions range from concert music for large and small ensembles to film scores with jazz, gospel and neo-romantic influences, was named a Sundance Composer Fellow in 2018 and currently serves as composer-in-residence at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The Orchestra will also perform his An Elegy: A Cry from the Grave in three October 2022 concerts led by Donald Runnicles. Marc Bamuthi Joseph is a 2017 TED Global Fellow, librettist for the works We Shall Not Be Moved and The Just and the Blind, and serves as vice president and artistic director of social impact at the Kennedy Center.

The Minnesota Orchestra today unveiled plans for 2022-23, a wide-ranging season that pairs the music of Beethoven, Brahms and Mendelssohn alongside newer compositions by Alberga, Mazzoli and Montgomery; spotlights masterpieces of the piano repertoire; and features a major world premiere by composer Carlos Simon and librettist Marc Bamuthi Joseph called brea(d)th that embraces the aspiration of racial equity through music-centered community healing.

The large-scale work, created by Carlos and librettist Marc Bamuthi Joseph, will receive its world premiere May 18-20, 2023, led by Jonathan Taylor Rush and featuring vocal soloists, the Orchestra, the Minnesota Chorale and Twin Cities Choral Partners. Titling their work brea(d)th, Simon and Joseph embrace what they call "the aspiration of racial equity through music-centered community healing" and will make visits to Minneapolis over the next year to create the composition in consultation with community members, aiming to lead audiences on a path of reflection, intention and organized hope. Simon, whose compositions range from concert music for large and small ensembles to film scores with jazz, gospel and neo-romantic influences, was named a Sundance Composer Fellow in 2018 and currently serves as composer-in-residence at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The Orchestra will also perform his An Elegy: A Cry from the Grave in three October 2022 concerts led by Donald Runnicles. Marc Bamuthi Joseph is a 2017 TED Global Fellow, librettist for the works We Shall Not Be Moved and The Just and the Blind, and serves as vice president and artistic director of social impact at the Kennedy Center.

The Minnesota Orchestra today unveiled plans for 2022-23, a wide-ranging season that pairs the music of Beethoven, Brahms and Mendelssohn alongside newer compositions by Alberga, Mazzoli and Montgomery; spotlights masterpieces of the piano repertoire; and features a major world premiere by composer Carlos Simon and librettist Marc Bamuthi Joseph called brea(d)th that embraces the aspiration of racial equity through music-centered community healing.

The large-scale work, created by Carlos and librettist Marc Bamuthi Joseph, will receive its world premiere May 18-20, 2023, led by Jonathan Taylor Rush and featuring vocal soloists, the Orchestra, the Minnesota Chorale and Twin Cities Choral Partners. Titling their work brea(d)th, Simon and Joseph embrace what they call "the aspiration of racial equity through music-centered community healing" and will make visits to Minneapolis over the next year to create the composition in consultation with community members, aiming to lead audiences on a path of reflection, intention and organized hope. Simon, whose compositions range from concert music for large and small ensembles to film scores with jazz, gospel and neo-romantic influences, was named a Sundance Composer Fellow in 2018 and currently serves as composer-in-residence at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The Orchestra will also perform his An Elegy: A Cry from the Grave in three October 2022 concerts led by Donald Runnicles. Marc Bamuthi Joseph is a 2017 TED Global Fellow, librettist for the works We Shall Not Be Moved and The Just and the Blind, and serves as vice president and artistic director of social impact at the Kennedy Center.

The Minnesota Orchestra today unveiled plans for 2022-23, a wide-ranging season that pairs the music of Beethoven, Brahms and Mendelssohn alongside newer compositions by Alberga, Mazzoli and Montgomery; spotlights masterpieces of the piano repertoire; and features a major world premiere by composer Carlos Simon and librettist Marc Bamuthi Joseph called brea(d)th that embraces the aspiration of racial equity through music-centered community healing.

The large-scale work, created by Carlos and librettist Marc Bamuthi Joseph, will receive its world premiere May 18-20, 2023, led by Jonathan Taylor Rush and featuring vocal soloists, the Orchestra, the Minnesota Chorale and Twin Cities Choral Partners. Titling their work brea(d)th, Simon and Joseph embrace what they call "the aspiration of racial equity through music-centered community healing" and will make visits to Minneapolis over the next year to create the composition in consultation with community members, aiming to lead audiences on a path of reflection, intention and organized hope. Simon, whose compositions range from concert music for large and small ensembles to film scores with jazz, gospel and neo-romantic influences, was named a Sundance Composer Fellow in 2018 and currently serves as composer-in-residence at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The Orchestra will also perform his An Elegy: A Cry from the Grave in three October 2022 concerts led by Donald Runnicles. Marc Bamuthi Joseph is a 2017 TED Global Fellow, librettist for the works We Shall Not Be Moved and The Just and the Blind, and serves as vice president and artistic director of social impact at the Kennedy Center.

The Minnesota Orchestra today unveiled plans for 2022-23, a wide-ranging season that pairs the music of Beethoven, Brahms and Mendelssohn alongside newer compositions by Alberga, Mazzoli and Montgomery; spotlights masterpieces of the piano repertoire; and features a major world premiere by composer Carlos Simon and librettist Marc Bamuthi Joseph called brea(d)th that embraces the aspiration of racial equity through music-centered community healing.

The large-scale work, created by Carlos and librettist Marc Bamuthi Joseph, will receive its world premiere May 18-20, 2023, led by Jonathan Taylor Rush and featuring vocal soloists, the Orchestra, the Minnesota Chorale and Twin Cities Choral Partners. Titling their work brea(d)th, Simon and Joseph embrace what they call "the aspiration of racial equity through music-centered community healing" and will make visits to Minneapolis over the next year to create the composition in consultation with community members, aiming to lead audiences on a path of reflection, intention and organized hope. Simon, whose compositions range from concert music for large and small ensembles to film scores with jazz, gospel and neo-romantic influences, was named a Sundance Composer Fellow in 2018 and currently serves as composer-in-residence at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The Orchestra will also perform his An Elegy: A Cry from the Grave in three October 2022 concerts led by Donald Runnicles. Marc Bamuthi Joseph is a 2017 TED Global Fellow, librettist for the works We Shall Not Be Moved and The Just and the Blind, and serves as vice president and artistic director of social impact at the Kennedy Center.