More to Hear: The Listening Project 2022

The Minnesota Orchestra’s new Listening Project has grown out of an ongoing initiative to spotlight the music of historically underrepresented composers and to collaborate with a broader group of composers living today. This concert, conducted by Kensho Watanabe and hosted by renowned performer, scholar and professor Dr. Louise Toppin, features performances of six works that will be recorded to aid and encourage future programming of this music by other orchestras, including Eleanor Alberga’s The Soul’s Expression and Margaret Bonds’ Spirituals, both of which feature bass-baritone Christopher Humbert Jr. as soloist. Ticketholders will receive a complimentary digital download of each piece from the performance in early November via email. The recordings will also be shared broadly in partnership with the African Diaspora Music Project.