Beatrice Rana, Randall Goosby and Wynton Marsalis featured in the New York Times’ Fall Season Preview

This season, Beatrice Rana and Randall Goosby make appearances at Carnegie Hall and the 92nd Y respectively, and Wynton Marsalis’ Tuba Concerto is given its World Premiere with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra

FALL PREVIEW: Finally, a Lot of Classical Music and Opera to Hear This Season
By Zachary Woolfe
The New York Times
September 17, 2021

The coming classical music season has an unsettled quality, a sense of a culture trying to orient itself in the midst of crisis. You can detect in the offerings bottled-up energy from a long dormancy; wariness about the continuing health and financial effects of the pandemic; pressure, in the wake of protests against racial injustice, to demonstrate that a hidebound art form can become truly more diverse.

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BEATRICE RANA Not shying from daunting standards, this pianist plays Chopin’s four Scherzos, the first book of Debussy’s Études and Stravinsky’s dazzling arrangement of three movements from “Petrushka.” (She also makes her New York Philharmonic debut with Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto in June.) (March 9 at Carnegie Hall, Manhattan)

RANDALL GOOSBY This thoughtful young violinist, joined by the pianist Zhu Wang, plays standards by Mozart and Franck alongside recent discoveries by Florence Price at the 92nd Street Y (Dec. 9) and Merkin Concert Hall (May 24). (The cellist Seth Parker Woods and the pianist Andrew Rosenblum also play Price at the Y, alongside works by Mendelssohn, George Walker, Schumann and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, on Oct. 30.)

DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA In the wake of the broad calls for racial equity over the past year, many classical institutions are programming works by Black composers this season. But few are doing it with the depth of this ensemble — which already had a notable commitment to diversity before 2020. One October program brings the premiere of “Amer’ican,” by James Lee III (Oct. 29-31); other Black composers on the calendar include Jessie Montgomery, Jeff Scott, Florence Price, William Dawson, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, Joel Thompson, Joseph Boulogne and Wynton Marsalis (whose Tuba Concerto also premieres at the Philadelphia Orchestra in December). (Orchestra Hall, Detroit)

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