Resonate Festival Day 1: Blues on Bach

Music Director Eric Jacobsen leads off our Resonate Series with Bach, Gershwin, and John Lewis’ take on Johann Sebastian tunes. Then it’s the exuberant first Brandenburg Concerto that grants a star turn to critically acclaimed Patrick Flanaghan (principal English horn of London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) playing in the exquisite Adagio. Bach, like other composers of his time, liked to “borrow” from the best. So that meant borrowing from himself, of course!

What’s on at the 2024 Resonate Festival

• The outstanding musicians of your Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Music Director Eric Jacobsen
• Four nights of music, seven different concerts—February 1, 3, and 5, 2024; performances at 7 p.m. and 8:45 p.m. each evening (plus a Prelude concert on January 30)
• Artist-in-Residence Aaron Diehl, piano
• Works featuring Aaron: Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 and Harpsichord Concerto No. 1; and Mary Lou Williams’ Zodiac
• A Prelude Concert with the world premiere of Ron Ramin and Portia Kamons’ Seventeen
• Engaging orchestral works by Bach, Mozart, and Weill
• Time Out after the orchestra concerts to mix, mingle, sip, and chat with friends old and new (bar service available). Then, return back for some fantastic music of diverse “flavors”: from a symphony, a double concerto, and Irish folk music to compositions for violin, clarinet, and Aaron Diehl’s jazz trio
• Post-Late Night on February 5 you might want to say hello to Aaron and his Jazz Trio and celebrate the successful conclusion of Resonate Festival 2024