San Francisco Symphony to perform three of Gordon Getty’s choral works
- Dates: June 20, 7:30 PM and June 22, 2:00 PM, 2025 (PST)
- Presenter: San Francisco Symphony
- Venue: Davies Symphony Hall, 201 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA
The San Francisco Symphony, conducted by James Gaffigan, performs three of Gordon Getty’s works for chorus and orchestra—St. Christopher, the Intermezzo from the opera Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and The Old Man in the Snow. Also on the program are Mozart’s Ave verum corpus, K. 618, and Verdi’s Requiem.
Festival Napa Valley will premiere Getty choral works “Old Man Trilogy”
- Dates: Thursday, July 18, 2024 (PST)
- Presenter: Festival Napa Valley
- Venue: Festival Napa Valley Stage at Charles Krug, 2800 Main Street, St. Helena, CA
Festival Napa Valley will premiere Gordon Getty’s Old Man Trilogy at its Vocal Fantastique concert. The choral works (“The Old Man in the Night,” “The Old Man in the Morning” and “The Old Man in the Snow”) are written for chorus and orchestra and will be performed by the Volti Chorale and Festival Orchestra Napa.
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“Goodbye, Mr. Chips” is returning to the UK
- Dates: June-August, 2024
- Presenter: Multiple movie theaters in the UK
- Venue: Multiple
This summer, audiences across the UK can experience Gordon Getty’s film adaptation of his opera Goodbye, Mr. Chips. Schedule of upcoming screenings:
22 June: Corn Exchange, Wallingford, UK
28 June: Bewdley Community Cinema, Bewdley, Worcestershire, UK
29 June: Stockbridge Music Hub, Edinburgh, Scotland
12 July: Davis Hall, West Camel, Yeovil, Somerset, UK
13 July: Chew Stoke, UK
20 July: Friends Meeting House, Barnt Green, UK
15 August: Whitaker Museum & Art Gallery, Rossendale, Lancashire, UK
Photo: Arran Bee
Festival de Lanaudière to present a series of events featuring Gordon Getty’s work
- Dates: May 10-11, 2024 (EST)
- Presenter: Festival de Lanaudière
- Venue: Maison de La Musique René-Charette, Joliette, Quebec
On May 10, Alexandra Armantrading, Lisa Delan, Kevin Korth, and Bruce Rameker will perform the vocal compositions Hostess‘s Aria from the opera “Plump Jack,” The Ballad of Poor Peter from the song cycle “Poor Peter,” and Four Dickinson Songs. Following the short recital will be a screening of Peter Rosen’s documentary “There Will Be Music,” which offers a glimpse into the musical life of Mr. Getty.
On May 11, the film of the opera Goodbye, Mr. Chips will be screened, followed by a Q&A with the film’s producers, Lisa Delan and Nicolle Foland. Renaud Loranger, the festival’s artistic director, will moderate.
Berkeley Symphony will present “Play on Words” with Lisa Delan
- Dates: Sunday, April 14, 2024, 4:00PM (PST)
- Presenter: Berkeley Symphony
- Venue: Piedmont Center for the Arts, 801 Magnolia Ave, Piedmont, CA
Soprano Lisa Delan, with pianist Kevin Korth, will perform Gordon Getty’s Four Dickinson Songs as part of Berkeley Symphony’s “Play on Words” chamber series. Also on the program, the premiere of a new version of Jake Heggie’s Shed No Tear, based on a poem by John Keats. Violinist René Mandel will join Delan and Korth on Shed No Tear.
Screening of “GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS” at Austin Film Society
- Dates: Tuesday, April 2, 2024, 7:30 PM (CST)
- Presenter: Austin Film Society
- Venue: AFS Cinema, 6406 N I-35, Austin, TX
Presented by the Austin Film Society and the Butler School of Music at The University of Texas at Austin.
English debut of the filmed opera, “Goodbye, Mr. Chips”
- Dates: Saturday, March 30, 2024, 2:30 PM (GMT)
- Presenter: Regal Cinema in Fordingbridge
- Venue: 35 Shaftesbury St, Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK
Gordon Getty’s opera reimagined for film is based on James Hilton’s novella. The location, in Fordingbridge, isn’t far from where the book is set. The story takes place at Brookfield, a fictitious school in east England, and the film screening will take place in the southeast.
Fordingbridge photo: Joana Kruse / Alamy
University of San Francisco premieres “Goodbye, Mr. Chips”
- Dates: Friday, February 2, 2024, 5:30 PM
- Presenter: University of San Francisco
- Venue: USF Presentation Theater, San Francisco, CA
The University of San Francisco presents a screening of the film of Gordon Getty’s opera Goodbye, Mr. Chips at its Presentation Theater. This is the film’s first screening in Gordon Getty’s home town of San Francisco.
Photos: Tri Nguyen Photography
Kent Nagano and Rachmaninoff International Orchestra present “Plump Jack” excerpts
- Dates: Monday, October 30, 2023, 8:15 PM
- Presenter: Rachmaninoff International Orchestra
- Venue: Rosey Concert Hall, Rolle, Switzerland
The Rachmaninoff International Orchestra, conducted by Kent Nagano, performs the Overture to Plump Jack, and two of the opera’s arias: “No, My Good Lord” sung by baritone Lester Lynch, and “Hostess’s Aria” sung by soprano Alexandra Armantrading. Also on the program are Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and his Piano Concerto No. 3, both with pianist Mikhail Pletnev.
Screening of “GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS” at Cascadia Chamber Opera Festival
- Dates: Friday, August 25, 2023, 7:00 PM (PST)
- Presenter: Cascadia Chamber Opera Festival
- Venue: Liberty Theater, 1203 Commercial Street, Astoria, OR
Gordon Getty’s opera, based on James Hilton’s novella and reimagined for film, stars Nathan Granner, Marnie Breckenridge, Lester Lynch and Kevin Short. It will be screened at the Liberty Theater in Astoria Oregon.
Matt Haimovitz premieres “Ninna Nanna” at Bargemusic
- Dates: Sunday, April 23, 2023, 4 PM (EST)
- Presenter: Bargemusic
- Venue: Bargemusic, Brooklyn NY
Matt Haimovitz performs a selection of works from The Primavera Project, a series of 31 commissioned pieces for cello inspired by two visual works of art: Botticelli’s Primavera and Charline von Heyl’s Primavera 2020. Included in the program is the world premiere of Gordon Getty’s Ninna Nanna.
“The White Election” at Indiana University
- Dates: Wednesday, April 12, 2023, 8:30 PM (EST)
- Presenter: Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University
- Venue: Ford-Crawford Hall, Bloomington IN
The Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University presents The White Election, performed by sopranos Raelee Gold, Sarah Rachel Bacani, Jenna Krieder and Kathiana Dargenson, with pianist Shuichi Umeyama.
Lester Lynch & Kevin Korth in recital at Festival Napa Valley
- Dates: Thursday, July 20, 2023, 12 p.m. (PST)
- Presenter: Festival Napa Valley
- Venue: CIA at Copia Ecolab Theater, 500 1st Street, Napa, CA
Baritone Lester Lynch and pianist Kevin Korth perform beloved songs including arrangements of spirituals and folk songs by Gordon Getty.
“Seasons of Hope” concert at Festival Napa Valley
- Dates: Tuesday, July 18, 2023, 6:30 p.m. (PST)
- Presenter: Festival Napa Valley
- Venue: Fest Napa Valley Stage at Charles Krug, 2800 Main Street, St. Helena, CA
Constantine Orbelian leads Festival Orchestra Napa in a program featuring three choral works by Gordon Getty: the world premiere of Annie Laurie for men’s chorus, an arrangement of Shenandoah with soprano Lisa Delan, and the cantata Joan and the Bells (based on the life and martyrdom of Joan of Arc) with baritone Lester Lynch and soprano Melody Moore.
“GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS” special screening as part of Festival Napa Valley
- Dates: Wednesday, July 12, 2023, 7 p.m. (PST)
- Presenter: Festival Napa Valley
- Venue: Cameo Cinema, 1340 Main Street, St. Helena, CA
Gordon Getty’s opera, based on James Hilton’s novella and reimagined for film, stars Nathan Granner, Marnie Breckenridge, Lester Lynch and Kevin Short. It will be screened at the historic Cameo Cinema in St. Helena. Tickets available mid-April.
“GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS” selected for first Opera on Film series at Opera Philadelphia’s renowned Festival O
- Dates: Sunday, October 2, 2022, 4 PM (EST)
- Presenter: Opera Philadelphia
- Venue: Philadelphia Film Center
Young People’s Chorus of NYC at Festival Napa Valley
- Dates: Saturday, July 16, 2022, 6:30 p.m. (PST)
Young People’s Chorus of New York City (YPCNYC), under the direction of Artistic Director/Founder Francisco J. Núñez, will return to FNV to perform a suite from Young America. The choral works are set to poems by Gordon Getty and poet Stephen Vincent Benét.
Presenter: Festival Napa Valley
Venue: CIA at Copia, Napa, CA
New York Premiere Screening “GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS” An Opera Reimagined for Film
- Dates: Wednesday, March 2, at 7 p.m. (EST)
Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center
165 W 65th Street, New York, NY 10023
World Premiere Screening “GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS” An Opera Reimagined for Film
- Dates: Sunday, November 14, 2021, 4 p.m. (PST)
Smith Rafael Film Center
1118 4th Street, San Rafael, CA
San Francisco Boys Chorus Gala
- Dates: Saturday, March 14th, 2020 at 6:00PM
- Presenter: San Francisco Boys Chorus
- Venue: The St. Regis Hotel 125 Third Street San Francisco, California 94103
POSTPONED due to COVID-19 outbreak.
The San Francisco Boys Chorus will honor Mr. Getty for the upcoming premiere of his opera Goodbye, Mr. Chips, his longstanding support of the Chorus and his generous contributions to the arts.
The Chorus will perform "All Through the Night," one of Getty's Three Welsh Songs and "Lovliest of Trees" from his Victorian Scenes.
Schubert and Strauss paired with Getty, Erickson and O’Regan
- Dates: June 27, 2021 5:00pm
- Presenter: LIEDER ALIVE!
- Venue: at the Noe Valley Ministry, 1021 Sanchez Street, San Francisco, CA
POSTPONED UNTIL 2021
LIEDER ALIVE! is presenting Gordon Gettty's Kathie trio and Gretchen to Faust aria as part of its 9th Annual Liederabend Series.
- Heidi Moss Erickson, soprano
- Dawn Harms, violin
- Emil Miland, cello
- Ronny Michael Greenberg, piano
’Twas the Night—A Festival of Carols
- Dates: Thu, Dec 19, 2019 and Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 7:30pm
- Presenter: San Francisco Symphony
- Venue: Davies Symphony Hall
Get in the Christmas Eve mood a couple of nights early with a concert of carols and singalongs, featuring the San Francisco Girls Chorus and organist Jonathan Dimmock. Included in the program will be Mr. Getty's arrangement of Silent Night.
Family Holiday Concert Mission Santa Clara
- Dates: Saturday, December 21, 2019 2:00 PM and 4:00 PM
- Presenter: iSing Silicon Valley
- Venue: Mission Santa Clara
250 girls of the iSing Girlchoir come together for the annual holiday concert at the beautiful Mission Santa Clara. Join iSing for this festive and joyful evening of music, featuring traditional carols and holiday favorites. The choir will perform Mr. Getty's Run to the Window, one of his Four Christmas Carols.
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YPCNYC Annual Gala Celebration Concert And Dinner
- Dates: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 at 7:00 p.m.
- Presenter: Young People’s Chorus of New York City
- Venue: Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall Broadway at 60th Street
Young People’s Chorus of New York City (YPCNYC), under the direction of Artistic Director/Founder Francisco J. Núñez, will fill the stage and boxes above with show-stopping production numbers and dazzling choreography, along with a line-up of special guests.
Mr. Getty will be honored and the group will perform excerpts from Young America his arrangment of the traditional Shenandoah with soprano Lisa Delan.
Gala Performance by SF Symphony Includes Getty's "Shenandoah"
- Dates: September 4, 2019
- Presenter: San Francisco Symphony
- Venue: Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco
This spectacular celebration of Michael Tilson Thomas’ 25th and final season as Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony was one for the ages. From the pre-concert Scharffenberger Cellars sparkling wine promenade, to the one-of-a-kind concert, to the exciting after-party, attendees were part of San Francisco history while toasting the arts in style.
Gordon Getty's Shenandoah was included in the program. This was the first concert performance of the arrangement for chorus and orchestra. This version was previously recorded by James Gaffigan and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and Choir on the Pentatone release Beauty Come Dancing.
Festival Napa Valley: Song to the Moon
- Dates: July 20, 5:30 p.m.
- Presenter: Festival Napa Valley
- Venue: The Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater
Gordon Getty’s choral work The Old Man in the Night will be performed as part of "Song to the Moon," a concert commemorating, to the day, the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. The Festival Orchestra NAPA will be conducted by Joel Revzen. The program will also include Gustav Holst’s The Planets, Antonin Dvorak’s aria Song to the Moon with Canadian soprano Andriana Chuchman, and the opening of Richard Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra popularized in the movie 2001 Space Odyssey.
Festival Napa Valley: Grand Cru Concertos
- Dates: July 17, 6:30 p.m.,
- Presenter: Festival Napa Valley
- Venue: Castello di Amorosa courtyard, Napa, California
A trio of rising classical music stars take the stage in the lovely courtyard of Castello di Amorosa. This showcase concert brings together three gifted young instrumentalists making a splash internationally, each performing a concerto with the Festival’s Blackburn Academy Orchestra, under Maestro Joel Revzen’s masterly baton.
British violinist Charlie Siem will perform Gordon Getty's The Fiddler of Ballykeel, the first of Getty’s "Four Traditional Pieces."
Festival Napa Valley: Festival Live! Chamber Series
- Dates: July 11, 2019, 5:00pm
- Presenter: Festival Napa Valley
- Venue: Jarvis Conservatory
“Kathy,” a trio based on themes from Gordon Getty’s new opera, Goodbye Mr. Chips, will receive it's U.S. premiere as part of the Festival Live! chamber music series. Kathy is a short, three-movement piece written in a classical style for piano, violin and cello, named for a character in the opera who plays the cello.
Chamber Orchestra of Havana
- Dates: 03/12/2019
- Venue: Fabrica de Arte Cubano, Calle 26, Esquina 11, Vedado. La Habana, Cuba
This concert was part of a cultural exchange with the Chamber Orchestra of Havana, composed of recent graduates from Cuba’s Superior Institute of Art, conducted by Daiana Garcia. The program included the premiere of Kathy and Homework Suite. The performance took at Havana’s Fábrica de Arte Cubano, a laboratory of interdisciplinary creation that exposes the best of Cuban contemporary art, with a marked social and community focus.
An Evening of Russian Music and Ballet
- Dates: 03/08/2019
- Presenter: Festival of the Arts BOCA
- Venue: Mizner Park Amphitheater, 590 Plaza Real, Boca Raton, FL 33432
Festival of the Arts BOCA promotes the cultural arts and seeks to enrich the quality of life of the residents of Boca Raton, Palm Beach County and South Florida.
Featuring stars from the Russian National Orchestra and the Bolshoi Ballet, this exhilarating evening of Russian ballet, included Ancestor Suite, music from Swan Lake and other favorites.
Scare Pair: Usher House & Canterville Ghost LA Opera
- Dates: June 22 and 24, 2018
- Presenter: LA Opera
- Venue: The Broad Stage (1310 11th Street, Santa Monica CA 90401)
For those ready for a spooky night out, the Broad Stage transformed into two different haunted houses in a double bill of operas by Gordon Getty. Writer Edgar Allan Poe takes the stage himself as the main character of Usher House, an unsettling chiller that has all the classic elements of Gothic horror: a high-strung recluse, a beautiful madwoman and a sinister doctor, all hidden away in a crumbling manor house full of secrets. The Canterville Ghost puts a deft comic spin on Oscar Wilde's witty tale, in which the 300-year-old ghost of an English nobleman fails to impress his newest audience, a family of Americans who simply refuse to be frightened.
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10th Annual Independence Eve Celebration
- Dates: July 3, 2018
- Presenter: Oakland Symphony & City of Richmond
- Venue: Craneway Pavilion
The Oakland Symphony joins forces with the City of Richmond to present a free Independence Eve Celebration at the Craneway Pavilion, located inside the historic Ford Point Building on the waterfront in Richmond. The centerpiece of the evening is a free concert by the Oakland Symphony conducted by Michael Morgan, starting at 8pm.
Piano Pieces Dublin
- Dates: February 13, 2018
- Presenter: Dublin International Piano Competition
- Venue: Main Stage, National Concert Hall (Dublin, Ireland)
First Adventure
Raise the Colors
Andantino
Scherzo Pensieroso
Joan and the Bells
- Dates: February 1 & 2, 2018
- Presenter: Berkeley Symphony
- Venue: Zellerbach Hall (February 1) and SFCM (February 2)
Scare Pair: Usher House & The Canterville Ghost
- Dates: October 19 and 21, 2017
- Presenter: The Center for Contemporary Opera
- Venue: Kaye Playhouse
Piano Works
- Dates: October 8, 2017
- Presenter: Green Music Center
- Venue: Schroeder Hall
"The Music World is taking note of Nikolay Khozyainov’s stunning virtuosity and prodigious technique." - The New York Times
Nikolay Khozyainov gives a solo piano recital featuring works by Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, and Getty.
Scare Pair: Usher House & The Canterville Ghost
- Dates: June 22 and 24, 2018
- Presenter: Los Angeles Opera
- Venue: Broad Stage
American Masters: Watts, Bernstein & Getty
- Dates: July 19, 2017
- Presenter: Festival Napa Valley
- Venue: Lincoln Theater
Usher House / Canterville Ghost
- Dates: June 22, 24, 2017
- Presenter: LA Opera
- Venue: The Broad Stage
Gordon Getty: There Will Be Music
- Dates: November 10, 2016
- Presenter: Napa Valley Film Festival
- Venue: Cameo Cinema, St. Helena, California
Gordon Getty: There Will Be Music
- Dates: November 13, 2016
- Presenter: Napa Valley Film Festival
- Venue: Lincoln Theater, Yountville, California
Gordon Getty: There Will Be Music
- Dates: November 11, 2016
- Presenter: Napa Valley Film Festival
- Venue: Charles Krug, St. Helena, California
Piano Pieces
- Dates: October 24, 2013
- Presenter: Carnegie Hall
- Venue: Weill Recital Hall, New York, NY
Conrad Tao, piano
Joan and the Bells
- Dates: November 15, 2013
- Presenter: Munich Radio Orchestra
- Venue: Herz-Jesu-Kirche, Munich, Germany
Ulf Schirmer, conductor
Melody Moore, soprano
Lester Lynch, baritone
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Münchner Rundfunkorhester
Usher House
- Dates: June 13, 15, 20, 2014
- Presenter: Welsh National Opera
- Venue: Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, Wales
Four Dickinson Songs
- Dates: February 11, 2015
- Presenter: San Francisco Conservatory of Music
- Venue: San Francisco, CA
Lisa Delan, soprano
with guest artists Matt Haimovitz and Jake Heggie
The Canterville Ghost
- Dates: May 14; June 14, 25, 2015
- Presenter: Oper Leipzig
- Venue: Opernhaus, Leipzig, Germany
World Premiere
Matthias Foremny, conductor
Anthony Pilavachi, director
Virginia: Jennifer Porto
Mrs. Otis: Jean Broekhuizen
Hiram Otis: Jonathan Michie
Cecil Cheshire: Timothy Oliver
Canterville: Anooshah Golesorkhi
Ghost: Matthew Trevino
Four Traditional Pieces
- Dates: July 20, 2015
- Presenter: Napa Valley Festival del Sole
- Venue: Mont La Salle Chapel, Napa Valley, CA
Members of the Russian National Orchestra
Joan and the Bells
- Dates: April 12, 2015
- Presenter: Auditorium Orchestre National de Lyon
- Venue: Lyon, France
Russian National Orchestra
Lisa Delan, soprano
Lester Lynch, baritone
Mikhail Pletnev, conductor
Usher House
- Dates: December 8-13, 2015
- Presenter: San Francisco Opera
- Venue: War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, California USA
*U.S. Premiere
Lawrence Foster, conductor
David Poutney, production
Roderick Usher: Brian Mulligan
Edgar Allan Poe: Jason Bridges
Madeline Usher / Lady Madeline: Jacqueline Piccolino
Madeline Usher (dancer) Jamielyn Duggan
Doctor Primus: Anthony Reed
Le Médecin: Joel Sorensen
L'Ami: Edward Nelson
Angel Heart
- Dates: July 26, 2015
- Presenter: Napa Valley Festival del Sole
- Venue: Lincoln Theater, Yountville, CA
Featured works Gordon Getty, Jake Heggie, Engelbert Humperdinck, Irving Berlin, and others Starring Frederica von Stade, Lisa Delan, Matt Haimovitz, and Uccello
Usher House - Radio Broadcast
- Dates: September 24, 2016
- Presenter: WFMT
San Francisco Opera presents a radio broadcast of Gordon Getty's Usher House.
Roderick Usher: Brian Mulligan
Edgar Allan Poe: Jason Bridges
Madeline Usher / Lady Madeline: Jacqueline Piccolino
Madeline Usher (dancer) Jamielyn Duggan
Doctor Primus: Anthony Reed
Le Médecin: Joel Sorensen
L'Ami: Edward Nelson