Texas Medical Center Orchestra hosts US premiere of female composer's symphony

Charlotte Sohy is hardly a household name, but she’s a great story. If Texas Medical Center Orchestra conductor and artistic director Libi Lebel has anything to say about it, the days of the early 20th-century French composer’s obscurity are numbered.

At the Hobby Center on March 3, which is International Women’s Day, Lebel’s ensemble will present the U.S. premiere — and only third performance ever — of Sohy’s Symphony in C-sharp minor, written in the thick of World War I but never realized until more than a century later. It forms the centerpiece of Lebel’s all-French International Women’s Day program alongside the "Fetes" movement of Debussy’s "Nocturne"; and Berlioz’s “Les nuits d’ete,” featuring mezzo-soprano (and Houston native) Audrey Welsh.

Read more at the Houston Chronicle: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/classical/article/international-womens-day-charlotte-sohy-18689267.php.

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