NEC Festival: NEC Symphony + David Loebel – Schuller and Stravinsky’s Firebird

Among Gunther Schuller’s many important contributions to our musical life was his passionate advocacy of American music of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Composers of that era whom he championed include Charles Ives, Scott Joplin, John Knowles Paine, and one of his predecessors as the leader of NEC, George Whitefield Chadwick. David Loebel and Clancy Ellis ’26 GD conduct the NEC Symphony in a program featuring Chadwick’s "Jubilee" from Symphonic Sketches, Strauss’s Overture to Die Fledermaus, Stravinsky’s Suite from The Firebird, Gunther Schuller’s arrangement of Joplin’s Overture to Treemonisha, and Schuller’s best-known orchestral composition, Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee.
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This performance is part of the NEC Festival, which will celebrate the legacy of Gunther Schuller, president of NEC between 1967 and 1977 with a week-long series of concerts and discussions. In addition to reflecting on his work as a composer, conductor and scholar, the legacy of Gunther Schuller’s influence on NEC will be demonstrated through a range of collaborative presentations. Learn more about the NEC Festival here.

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