DMSO Remix Podcast: Classical Conversations

Dive into the historical and cultural context behind the music you'll hear at the Des Moines Symphony's 2023-24 Season Debut: Discover Fandango. The concert will feature world-renowned violinist Anne Akiko Meyers performing Fandango, written specifically for her by Arturo Márquez.

Intro/outro music: Moonrise by Steve Heitzeg, Performed by The Des Moines Symphony

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Dive into the historical and cultural context behind the music of Discover Scheherazade, presented by the Des Moines Symphony. The concert features the second annual Fred & Charlotte Hubbell Visiting Artists In Residence, Sandbox Percussion, with a performance of Viet Cuong’s enthralling and magical Re(new)al, inspired by the power of nature. Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade evokes the tales of the legendary heroine and One Thousand and One Nights, bringing the concert to a dazzling close.

Intro/outro music: Moonrise by Steve Heitzeg, Performed by The Des Moines Symphony

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Professor and Musician Dr. Eric McIntyre dives deep into the historical and cultural context behind the music you'll hear at Discover Freedom, presented by the Des Moines Symphony. Grammy-nominated pianist Joyce Yang returns to Des Moines in a brilliant showcase of Grieg’s famous and distinctly Norwegian Piano Concerto.

The program begins with Glinka’s heroic and exuberant Ruslan & Lyudmila Overture, followed by Florence Price’s heartfelt Andante moderato. Shostakovich’s tragicomic Symphony No. 9, a cynical critique of the political and artistic oppression he experienced in Stalinist Soviet Russia, closes the concert.

Intro/outro music: Moonrise by Steve Heitzeg, Performed by The Des Moines Symphony

Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, or anywhere you listen to podcasts.