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Last summer, Lincoln Center bid farewell to the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, a fixture of the city’s cultural scene since 1973, saying it was time to reimagine the ensemble for a modern and more inclusive age. On Monday, the center offered a preview of its plans. The Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center, as the ensemble is now called, will convene in July for its first season under the rising conductor Jonathon Heyward, as part of the center’s Summer for the City festival. Heyward said in an interview that he wanted to maintain the orchestra’s innovative spirit. “We’re just continuing in a way that is very much in line with a previous legacy of the orchestra.”
Persons: Jonathon Heyward, Heyward, “ It’s, “ We’re, Organizations: Lincoln Center, Orchestra
Review: At Mostly Mozart, the Sense of an Ending
  + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Seth Colter Walls | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Change is coming for the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra and for its longtime music director, Louis Langrée — this month is the beginning of the end of his tenure with the orchestra. When the ensemble appears at Lincoln Center next year it will be with a freshly conceived name, and with the conductor Jonathon Heyward at the helm. So there is a sense of finality hovering over this summer’s offerings, which began last weekend with a free outdoor concert in Damrosch Park. On Tuesday night, Langrée and his players resumed their more typical places in the recently refurbished David Geffen Hall — renovations that kept the festival orchestra out of that theater last year. In remarks before the concert, Langrée warmly recalled his two-decade relationship with the orchestra and with New York audiences.
Persons: Louis Langrée, Jonathon Heyward, Heyward, Langrée, David, Amir ElSaffar, Mozart Organizations: Orchestra, Lincoln Center, David Geffen Hall Locations: Damrosch Park, New York
Jonathon Heyward, the rising young conductor who this fall will become the first Black music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, has been tapped to lead Lincoln Center’s summer ensemble, a reimagined version of the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, the center announced on Wednesday. Heyward, 30, will start a three-year contract with Lincoln Center next year. His appointment is part of the center’s changes to the revered Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, by giving it a new name, embracing a wider variety of genres and bringing more racial, ethnic and gender diversity to the stage. “It has everything to do with accessibility and presentation.”Heyward succeeds the orchestra’s longtime music director, Louis Langrée, whose contract expires this year. During Langrée’s 21-year tenure, he has helped rejuvenate the ensemble and cement its reputation as an acclaimed interpreter of the music of Mozart and the Classical repertoire.
Persons: Jonathon Heyward, Lincoln, Heyward, ” Heyward, Louis Langrée, Mozart Organizations: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, Lincoln Center Locations: Charleston
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