Sounds of the Season New York Performances

“Sounds of the Season” arrives at David Geffen Hall as a live, in-person program built around classical music’s winter repertory and its newer offshoots. Naomi Woo leads the ensemble with a conductor’s attention to pacing and atmosphere, while Wendell Pierce and Frank Huang lend spoken and instrumental presence that shifts the evening between concert and narration. In a city where holiday programming often leans on spectacle, this setting keeps the focus on structure, tone, and communal listening. If there is an argument here, it is that tradition survives by being reinterpreted in public.