Masterworks & Mimosas

Kabalevsky’s witty and sparkling Colas Breugnon Overture bursts open the season with swagger and wit. Pianist Mackenzie Melemed brings grandeur and brilliance to Amy Beach’s richly romantic Piano Concerto. Prokofiev’s searing music from Romeo and Juliet closes the night, where love, violence, and heartbreak blaze across one of the orchestra’s most vivid scores. James ...

We journey to the North with Principal Horn, Clinton Webb, as he performs Richard Strauss’s glowing Second Horn Concerto and Sibelius’s Seventh Symphony rises in one sweeping arc toward blazing Nordic affirmation. James Lowe, conductorClinton Webb, hornRobert KajanusFinnish Rhapsody No. 1 in D minor, Op.5Richard StraussHorn Concerto No. 2 in E-flat majorJean SibeliusSymphony No. 7 in ...

Before the music begins, Music Director James Lowe offers a LIVE LoweDown guide to Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, opening a window into the architecture, emotional world, and hidden connections of this monumental work. Then the symphony itself unfolds as a journey from darkness into blazing light, from a solitary trumpet call to one of the most ...