A Welcome Return: Gimeno & Your TSO at Toronto Symphony Orchestra

Gustavo Gimenos long-anticipated in-person dbut as Music Director promises to be an emotional concert experience remembered for years to come as audiences return to Roy Thomson Hall for the first time since March 2020. Anthony Barfields Invictusa 2020 composition that reflects on this unique moment in time and delivers a stirring ode to humanitys capacity for resilienceserves as the season-opening fanfare, while Jazz Age spirit and celebratory flourish ring out in Hindemiths blazing Concert Music for Strings and Brass. And Schuberts free-flowing melodic gifts are on full display in his warmhearted and easygoing Fifth Symphonya welcome moment of clarity and beauty amid complex times.Gustavo Gimeno, conductor Anthony Barfield: Invictus (Canadian Premire)Haydn: Overture to Lisola disabitata (The Desert Island)Hindemith: Concert Music for Strings and BrassSchubert: Symphony No. 5