BSO Fusion : Brahms X Radiohead
THE MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE
Friday , February 7 , 2025 at 8 pm
JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL
Saturday , February 8 , 2025 at 8 pm
Steve Hackman , conductor India Carney , vocalist Andrew Lipke , vocalist Khalil Overton , vocalist
VARIOUS Created and arranged by Steve Hackman
Brahms X Radiohead Symphony No . 1 X OK Computer
This performance will last approximately 1 hour , 30 minutes and includes a 20-minute intermission .
Steve Hackman
Steve Hackman
A multi-hyphenate music powerhouse and creative visionary , Steve Hackman is a daring voice intent on redefining art music in the 21st century , “ with an innovative brilliance and style reminiscent of the late , great maestro Leonard Bernstein ” ( Tom Alvarez , On the Aisle ). Trained at the elite level classically but equally adept in popular styles , his breadth of musical fluency and technique is uncanny — he is at once a composer , conductor , producer , DJ , arranger , songwriter , singer , and pianist . He uses these polymathic abilities to create original music of incisive modernism yet rooted in elevated classicism .
Hackman ’ s groundbreaking orchestral fusions known as SYMPHONYFUSE , such as Brahms X Radiohead and The Resurrection Mixtape ( Mahler X Notorious BIG X Tupac Shakur ), are introducing the symphony orchestra to its future audience ; he has conducted these pieces to sellout houses across the country with the orchestras of Philadelphia , San Francisco , Dallas , Seattle , Pittsburgh , San Diego , Colorado , Phoenix , Nashville , Oregon , Indianapolis , Grand Rapids , Columbus , Charlotte , Southwest Florida , Alabama , Colorado Music Festival , and the Boston Pops .
Hackman has teamed up with some of the biggest pop superstars of today to add a signature virtuosic and classical dimension to their work , including Steve Lacy , Doja Cat , and Andrew Bird . He was trained at the Curtis Institute of
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