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BSO New Music Festival: Works by faculty presented at Peabody

alsopDirector of Peabody’s Graduate Conducting Program Marin Alsop will direct the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s inaugural New Music Festival, opening with a chamber performance on Thursday, July 13, at 8:00 pm in Leith Symington Griswold Hall. A chamber group with faculty artist Alexander Fiterstein, clarinet, will perform two BSO premieres by Peabody faculty composers including Kevin Puts’ Quintet “The Red Snapper” and Distinguished Composer-in-Residence Christopher Rouse’s Rotae Passionis (Passion Wheels). Alsop will also lead the BSO in Puts’ The City, a BSO co-commission performed at Carnegie Hall in 2015, on Saturday, July 15, at 8:00 pm.

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