2019-2020 Concert Season

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• Event
• Description

• • Date
    October 5, 2019
    7:30 pm
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    The Organ Symphony
    $32-35
  • Description
    Music, movies and motion. Join us for a concert that features something for everyone -- from Brahms, Roumanian Rhapsody with Neos Dance Theatre to the 1929 silent comedy film "Big Business" with Laurel and Hardy, featuring organist, Todd Wilson and concluding the evening is Charles-Camille Saint-Saen's "Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 78", popularly known as The Organ Symphony.
    
    
• • Date
    November 17, 2019
    4:00 pm
  • Event
    Heroes of the Ages
    $37-40
  • Description
    Saxton’s Cornet Band will recreate an historically accurate concert experience from the mid-19th century, complete with dramatic readings, period humor, authentic uniforms and entertaining music! You will hear the sounds and see the appearance of brass bands that existed during the antebellum and Civil War eras. The FSO Chorale will be included in the concert, performing Peter Willhousky’s dramatic arrangement of “Battle Hymn of the Republic”, and Howard Hanson’s energetic “Song of Democracy”, based on a text by American poet Walt Whitman.
    
    
• • Date
    November 24, 2019
    4:00 pm
  • Event
    Songs of Thanksgiving
    $15
  • Description
    Join us for "Songs of Thanksgiving", a performance celebrating unity, faith and the gifts of the human spirit. This concert features reflections for thanksgiving as we begin the holidays. This is a chorale concert with piano/organ accompaniment.
    
    Note: *This concert is not part of the 6 concert subscription series.
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    December 15, 2019
    4:00 pm
  • Event
    Holidays Around The World
    $37-40
  • Description
    The Holidays are one of the greatest celebrations for people in many countries around the world. From the distant bells of the Ukraine countryside to the powerful drums of the African plains, to the carols sung from the British hillside or the tender tunes that warm the heart of an American home, we celebrate this time of year through the traditions in various parts of the globe. Join us as we present the musical sounds of caroling, feasting, gift-giving, and the greetings of the season around the world.
    
    
• • Date
    February 22, 2020
    7:30 pm
  • Event
    Mozart to Queen… and Everything in Between!
    $32-35
  • Description
    An evening of the elegance and beauty of operatic and musical theatre, a Night of Opera will take us on a musical journey through the centuries. We begin in 1786 with Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, an opera buffa (opera comedy) with an Italian libretto written by Da Ponte. Then we’re on to the next century with a French opera by Donizetti; La Fille du Regiment (1840), popular at the time for its spectacular aria, “Ah! mes amis”, and made famous by Luciano Pavarotti, the King of the High C’s. Guest artists, Laura Pedersen and Christopher Bozeka will enchant us with their captivating performance. We will fast-forward into the 20th century as the FSO and Chorale perform “Bohemian Rhapsody”, a song made famous by British rock band Queen for their 1975 album, A Night at the Opera. We will, we will, rock you!
    
    
• • Date
    March 28, 2020
    7:30 pm
  • Event
    Havana Nights
    $32-35
  • Description
    From the sultry melancholy of Astor Piazzola and the burning Afro Cuban jazz of Tito Puente, to the rhythmic playfulness of jazz great Dave Brubeck and the pop strains of The Beatles, the Mambo Kings and star soprano, Camille Zamora will be your guide on a Latin jazz tour of the Pan American experience. The concert will feature original arrangements and compositions of music from the U.S., Perú, Argentina, Cuba and Puerto Rico.
    
    
• • Date
    April 18, 2020
    7:30 pm
  • Event
    Sax in the City
    $32-35
  • Description
    The Donald Sinta Quartet has been hailed as “a tight-knit ensemble exploding with power, virtuosity, and the unconcealable ambition to connect with its newly found listeners” (Boston Musical Intelligencer). The Quartet will be performing University of Michigan faculty member William Bolcom’s Concerto Grosso for Saxophone Quartet. Bolcom is an American composer of chamber, operatic, vocal, choral, cabaret, ragtime, and symphonic music, and is a National Medal of Arts, Pulitzer Prize, and Grammy Award-winner.