CARNEGIE HALL

January 15, 2025
Carnegie Hall

It’s always an event when the Philadelphia Orchestra comes to town. This month, Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts The Philadelphia Orchestra in two works of incredible power. Written collaboratively by composer Jake Heggie, called “arguably the world’s most popular 21st-century opera and art song composer” (The Wall Street Journal); Booker Prize–winning author Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid’s Tale); and JUNO Award–winning baritone Joshua Hopkins, Songs for Murdered Sisters is an arresting song cycle and urgent plea inspired by Hopkins’s own devastating loss. Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, the last the composer completed, is a transcendent piece also born in trying circumstances—but not without hope.

The extraordinarily sonorous orchestra fills the Hall with the music of the 20th century and a paragon of classical music, Gustav Mahler.

C. Ipiotis