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Mother's Day is just around the corner! This year, craft the perfect live music playlist for a gift that she'll never forget.
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London-born Anna Clyne is one of the most gifted and accomplished of the current generation of young composers who are not only reinvigorating the orchestral repertory with such works as This Midnight Hour, but also expanding the reach of classical music in communities nationwide through their dedicated involvement with underserved audiences from schools to juvenile detention centers and memory care units.
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The frivolity and tunefulness of the Parisian music hall of Jacques Offenbach is revived in Manuel Rosenthal’s arrangement of his music for the 1938 ballet Gaîté Parisienne.
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Discover the World of Music during the Symphony's 2023-2024 season! Subscribers at all price levels receive the absolute best discounts available. Lock in your favorite seats for the Masterworks Series, the Pops Series...or both! Click here to learn more.
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D’un Matin de Printemps of the short-lived Lili Boulanger, gifted younger sister of legendary composition teacher Nadia, is imbued with the aura and sonorities of French Impressionism.
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Camille Saint-Saëns’ Cello Concerto No. 1 is among his compositions that adapt the traditional Classical genres of symphony, concerto and quartet to the sensibilities of Second Empire Paris.
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Hector Berlioz was a pioneer in developing the orchestra of the late 18th century into the virtuoso ensemble of the Romantic age in such works as the glittering Roman Carnival Overture.
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducted the premiere of his “Pathétique” Symphony in St. Petersburg on October 28, 1893, just a week before he died. Despite that chronology and the tragic nature of much of the Symphony, Tchaikovsky did not anticipate his own death in this music, but meant it to mirror the residual melancholy of his later years.
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A core part of our mission is to "create outstanding educational opportunities." Each spring, we invite fourth graders from all over Central Iowa to hear the Orchestra perform at the Civic Center in four special performances over the course of two days.
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Max Bruch was among the most respected German composers, conductors and teachers of his generation, and it was the masterful G Minor Violin Concerto of 1866 that established his reputation. “It is not easy to write as beautifully as Max Bruch,” assessed English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey.
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