MasterVoices opens its 2024-25 season with a concert staging of “Strike Up the Band,” with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin.

The work will be performed on Oct. 29 at Carnegie Hall. Ted Sperling leads the 120–member MasterVoices Chorus and the MasterVoices Orchestra with soloists Shereen Ahmed, Phillip Attmore, Victoria Clark, Lissa deGuzman, Claybourne Elder, Christopher Fitzgerald, Bryce Pinkham, and David Pittu.

The choreographer will be Alison Solomon and the staging will showcase costume designs by Tracy Christensen, lighting by Shelby Loera, and sound design by Marc Salzberg.

In a statement Sperling said, “Working with both the Gershwin and Kaufman estates, author Laurence Maslon and I have created a new edition of Strike Up the Band, which contains the best of the 1927 and 1930 versions of the show; I hope this may prove to be the blueprint for future performances of this work. The MasterVoices concert staging will take full advantage of the wonderful dance music that follows so many of the songs, sometimes lyrical, other times comic, or military. We look forward to bringing these moments to life with dancers as we have done with pleasure so many times in our recent history.”

This performance will be dedicated to the memory of Gershwin family member Michael Strunsky, who would have turned 90 years old the week of the concert.