Carnegie Hall

The increasingly world-renowned National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America (NYO-USA) returns to Carnegie Hall’s biggest stage, led by esteemed conductor Gianandrea Noseda. The program opens with Carlos Simon’s Festive Fanfare and Overture, a celebratory Carnegie Hall co-commission that echoes Shostakovich in its brass fanfare and builds across the orchestra sections toward a triumphant, full-ensemble conclusion. The enormously popular violin virtuoso Ray Chen then takes the stage as soloist in Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto. His previous performance of the piece at Carnegie Hall—with the Bamberg Symphony—was called “riveting” (Bachtrack). The concert concludes with Rachmaninoff’s passionate Second Symphony, one of the composer’s grandest achievements and favorite works.