NYO’s Hope Exchange

NYO makes an explosive return to live music-making. Featuring conductor Jonathon Heyward and renowned violinist Nicola Benedetti. Where music is the lifeblood of hope and a place where ideals and reality wrestle and are reconciled. CHANT is an exuberant new commission from Laura Jurd that makes hope a communal reality. In Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2 a sweet folk-like lyricism confronts an anxious sense of the real. Jessie Montgomery’s Banner embraces the contradictory sentiments evoked by the US National Anthem and finds shared hopes of freedom. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 is charged with progressive motion and emotion, an expansive vision of human dignity and hope.