Louis Langrée Conducts Beethoven

To kick off its 50th anniversary season, Orchestra of St. Luke’s presents a concert filled with firsts. Louis Langreé—beloved in New York for his 21-year tenure as music director of the Mostly Mozart Festival—makes his Carnegie Hall debut conducting the esteemed orchestra in Valerie Coleman’s Fanfare for Uncommon Times, a piece commissioned and premiered by the ensemble in 2021. The composition, described as an offer of “regenerative, renewable hope” by Coleman, a Grammy-nominated artist and Performance Today’s 2020 Classical Woman of the Year, also marks its debut at Carnegie Hall. The premieres continue in the evening’s second work, Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major, which shines a welcome spotlight on Sterling Elliott. The 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient returns to OSL to debut as a soloist with the ensemble after taking the music world by storm with his “impeccable technique and musicality” (Charleston Post and Courier). The concert concludes on a high note with Beethoven’s lively Seventh Symphony.