NYO’s Hope Exchange

NYO makes an explosive return to live music-making to explore music as the lifeblood of hope and an irrepressible medium of dissent. Featuring conductor Lee Reynolds and soloist Annemarie Federle, NYO’s irrepressibly-joyful teenage musicians present Shostakovich’s 1945 Symphony No. 9, a testament to one man’s refusal to let lies infect his music, Jessie Montgomery’s one-movement Soul Force, which draws on big-band jazz, funk, hip-hop, R&B and Martin Luther King Jr. to articulate the journey of an oppressed voice, Ruth Gipps’ thrilling Horn Concerto, and Stravinsky’s Firebird – an exquisite exploration of hopefulness as an enduring motif of art.