Capital Chat
Juneau Symphony Executive Director Charlotte Truitt and Music Director & Conductor Brad Horgarth join Capital Chat to discuss this weekend's concert.
This spring program dances between elegance and vitality. Joseph Bologne's sparkling overture opens with Classical poise and charm, followed by Haydn's brilliant Trumpet Concerto—a work of wit and virtuosity. After intermission, we are thrilled to premiere composer Ed Littlefield's Overture to Kutulagaaw: The Tlingit Russian Battles and Copland's beloved Appalachian Spring, a radiant portrait of hope, humility, and openhearted joy. Music that lifts and lingers with both refinement and spirit.
The Juneau Symphony is deeply grateful to the Tlingit artists, composer Ed Littlefield, orchestrator Rory Stitt, and librettist Vera Starbard, and to Sealaska Heritage Institute for bringing forward the first full opera in the Tlingit language, Kutulagaaw: The Tlingit - Russian Battles, produced in partnership with Perseverance Theatre this fall.