The first classical performer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. Arranger of “Feed the Birds,” “The Bare Necessities,” and “Do You Want To Build A Snowman?” for Lang Lang’s chart-topping album The Disney Book. Author of The Bible As Prayer: A Handbook for Lectio Divina as well as The Retreat, a fictional diary-cum-memoir narrated by a middle-aged, sex-addicted priest. One of The Economist’s Twenty Living Polymaths (but good luck finding the list). Meet Stephen Hough—Sir Stephen since the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2022. His first piano concerto, tailored to his own talents and titled The World of Yesterday, harks back, we’re told, to the decadence of pre-war Vienna. What a coup for Utah to have booked the world premiere! Sir Donald Runnicles conducts an all-British program that opens with Elgar and concludes with Vaughn Williams. The Canadian premiere for The World of Yesterday is set for Calgary (March 23), with the European premiere to follow in Manchester (May 15, 16, 19). —Matthew Gurewitsch