Pops 2
Friday, November 9, 2019 | 7:30 p.m.
Huntsville Symphony Orchestra
Gregory Vajda, Music Director & Conductor
This Veterans Day weekend, the HSO brings out the Hollywood big guns to honor the real-life heroes in our community. On the program are sweeping soundtracks by Hans Zimmer, John Williams, and Michael Kamen, plus a stirring Armed Forces service medley and other patriotic favorites including selections by John Philip Sousa, America’s “March King.”
Casual Classics 1
Sunday, November 17, 2019 | 5:30 p.m.
Huntsville Symphony Orchestra
Gregory Vajda, Music Director & Conductor
Straight to Ale, Speakeasy
Classical 2
Alabama bicentennial
Friday, November 22, 2019 | 7:30 p.m.
Tiffany Bostic-Brown, soprano Abigail Nims, mezzo-soprano
Daniel Weeks, tenor Terrance Brown, baritone
Huntsville Community Chorus
Ian Loeppke, Artistic Director
Huntsville Symphony Orchestra
Gregory Vajda, Music Director & Conductor
Perhaps the most monumental, groundbreaking work of classical music at the time of its 1824 premiere, Beethoven’s “Choral” Symphony No. 9 continues to thrill audiences with its broad emotional sweep and radiant finale, a setting of Schiller’s “Ode to Joy.” It is paired with the lighthearted, mischievous Symphony No. 9 of Shostakovich.
Pops 2
Tuesday, December 31, 2019 | 7:30 p.m.
Huntsville Symphony Orchestra
Gregory Vajda, Music Director & Conductor
Praised by critics for her overwhelming range and high-voltage delivery, fast-rising Shayna Steele’s vocal power is matched only by her versatility—from Broadway productions of Rent and Jesus Christ Superstar to her stage and studio work with Bette Midler, John Legend, Rihanna, and Moby. Tonight Shayna and her world-class band hold court with their favorites and yours: Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, and many more queens of soul!
Classical 3
Saturday, January 25, 2020 | 7:30 p.m.
Sean Ritenauer,percussion
Huntsville Symphony Orchestra
Gregory Vajda, Music Director & Conductor
Pops 3
Saturday, February 1, 2020 | 7:30 p.m.
Huntsville Symphony Orchestra
Gregory Vajda, Music Director & Conductor
John Williams, the Dean of American film composers, has garnered five Academy Awards, twenty-four Grammys, four Golden Globes, and millions of moviegoing fans. His 1977 score to the original Star Wars is rated by the American Film Institute as the greatest film score of all time. Grab some popcorn and enjoy the best orchestral themes from more than thirty years of Williams classics, performed by your Huntsville Symphony Orchestra.
Casual Classics 2
Sunday, February 2, 2020 | 3:30 p.m.
Huntsville Symphony Orchestra
Gregory Vajda, Music Director
Mark C. Smith Concert Hall, VBC
Classical 4
Saturday, February 15, 2020 | 7:30 p.m.
Robert Kaip & Prentiss Hobbs, trombone
Huntsville Community Chorus
Ian Loeppke, Artistic Director
Huntsville Symphony Orchestra
Gregory Vajda, Music Director & Conductor
“Never look at the trombone section,” composer and conductor Richard Strauss once quipped, “as it will only encourage them.” Tonight the HSO and our featured soloists celebrate the instrument in grand style with the Trombone Concerto of Paul Creston and the Alabama premiere of Ricardo Mollá’s Concerto for Two Trombones. Both suites from Ravel’s ground breaking ballet Daphnis et Chloé, among the greatest twentieth-century orchestral show pieces, are all on the program.
Pops 4
Saturday, February 29, 2020 | 7:30 p.m.
Huntsville Symphony Orchestra
Gregory Vajda, Music Director & Conductor
February marks the 50th anniversary of the opening of Huntsville’s U.S. Space and Rocket Center, so the HSO is fueling up to celebrate the Rocket City’s starring role in aerospace achievement. Don’t miss stellar themes from 2001: A Space Odyssey and the and the Star Trek franchise, as well as a stunning, immersive multimedia performance of selections from Gustav Holst’s The Planets.
Classical 5
First Baptist Church
Timothy Chooi, violin
Huntsville Symphony Orchestra
Gregory Vajda, Music Director & Conductor
Mark your calendar for this rare opportunity to savor Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons in its entirety, performed by acclaimed violin virtuoso Timothy Chooi. These evocative concertos, though not much heard in the generations after their creation, are today the crown jewels in the treasury of the Baroque repertoire. The Italian theme continues in the second half with Strauss’ Aus Italien, a rich and colorful musical diary of the composer’s youthful travels through the peninsula.
Casual Classics 3
Sunday, March 22, 2020 | 3:30 p.m.
Huntsville Symphony Orchestra
Gregory Vajda, Music Director & Conductor
Lowe Mill ARTS & Entertainment
Casual Classics 4
Sunday, April 26, 2020 | 3:30 p.m.
Huntsville Symphony Orchestra
Gregory Vajda, Music Director & Conductor
HudsonAlpha, Propst Center
Classical 6
Saturday, May 2, 2020 | 7:30 p.m.
Yevgeny Kutik, violin Emilio Colón, cello
James Dick, piano
Huntsville Symphony Orchestra
Gregory Vajda, Music Director & Conductor
Though it’s uncertain for what purpose Beethoven’s Triple Concerto was written, its aristocratic pomp and refined interplay between the three soloists have cemented its reputation as the most enduring composition for violin, cello, piano, and orchestra. Prokofiev’s suite from Lieutenant Kijé (1934) was not only his first music for the silver screen, but the first-ever extraction of an orchestral soundtrack for the concert stage. The HSO closes this remarkable season with dazzling musical fireworks: Aleksandr Scriabin’s magnificent Poem of Ecstasy, a symphonic representation of pure creative spirit unleashed from all worldly confines –“eternal creation without external motivation,” in the composer’s own words.
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