The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra kicks off the 2017/18 SHIFT Festival with a program spotlighting music inspired by literature, history, geography, culture, and nature. The ensemble will perform the East Coast premiere of Jimmy López’s Bel Canto: A Symphonic Canvas, based on Ann Patchett’s 2001 novel of the same name. Also on the program is Bernstein’s Serenade (after Plato’s “Symposium”), featuring violinist and Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra’s Artistic Partner Augustin Hadelich as soloist, and Anna Clyne’s RIFT, a symphonic ballet choreographed by Kitty McNamee with dancers from Texas Ballet Theater. 

NOTE: SHIFT performances are not part of the Washington Performing Arts’ Orchestra Series, so we are unable to seat Orchestra Series subscribers in their subscription seats for SHIFT events. SHIFT tickets may be applied toward Custom 3 and 5 subscriptions or may be purchased as add-ons to fixed subscriptions. No subscription discounts apply to SHIFT tickets—all seats are $25.

SHIFT is co-presented with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Generous support of the SHIFT Festival is provided through a matching grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts; by Dr. Gary Mather and Ms. Christina Co Mather; and by Michael F. and Noémi K. Neidorff and The Centene Charitable Foundation.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, Abramson Family Foundation, Betsy and Robert Feinberg, and Morton and Norma Lee Funger.

SHIFT is also made possible by the Amphion Foundation, Inc.; Mr. and Mrs. John V. Thomas; and Mr. and Mrs. Harry M. Linowes.

SHIFT is presented in partnership with the League of American Orchestras.