Jacob Schnitzer, conductor

APSU Concerto Competition Winners

Arnold Rosner is an important “lost composer” whose range of expression makes his music worthy for inclusion in the canon. Density512’s recording is the capstone of a ten-year journey by the Rosner Estate (spearheaded by the composer’s sister Irene Rosner David and musicologist/record producer Walter Simmons) to document his music for posterity on the London record label Toccata Classics. Density512 joins the London Philharmonic and the Boston Modern Orchestra as featured ensembles in this recording journey.

Dances of Initiation, Op. 98 (1993)* 8:15
1—I 2:09
2—II 3:09
3—III 2:51
4—Eclipse, Op. 100 (1994)* 12:22
5—RAGA!, Op. 104 (1995)* 210:40
6—De Profundis, Op. 91 (1991)* 1 10:06
7—Now Cometh the Redeemer, Op. 119 (2005)*** 2 9:56
Three Northern Sketches, Op. 117 (2003)** 13:23
8—Ice Sculpture 3:53
9—Pastorale 3:17
10—Aurora 6:07
11—Lovely Joan: Rhapsody on an English Folksong, Op. 88 (1990)* 8:39

APSU Opera Theater
Penny Shumate, Director
Jacob Aaron Schnitzer, Music Director

In a fascinating tale of marriage and madness, Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald are on the French Riviera in 1924. Scott, clouded by alcoholism and obsessed by finishing his painstaking work on The Great Gatsby, is jealous of Zelda’s supposed extramarital affair, while Zelda is emotionally smothered by the controlling Scott.

In a fit of pique, Scott locks Zelda in a bedroom, unleashing confrontations between visions of her younger and older selves.  Which Zelda is real?  Or is the entire scene a troubling dream about choices made, challenges unfulfilled and roads not taken?

Wilbur Lin, Music Director
Jacob Schnitzer, Associate Conductor

This new spring pops concert will close our regular season and feature the works of Joe Hisaishi. Hisaishi is recognized as one of the greatest composers of his time. With genius filmmakers such as Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahashi from Studio Ghibli, the Japanese composer has explored all music genres to demonstrate the magnificence of his orchestral sensitivity. This concert will be a wonderful exploration of this genius of Japanese music, allowing the audience to experience the great pieces from the Studio Ghibli films.

Friday, May 9, 2025 | 7:00 p.m. | Missouri Theatre

Wilbur Lin, Music Director
Jacob Schnitzer, Associate Conductor