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Des Moines Symphony Concerts & Events

Masterworks Series

Experience timeless masterpieces and world-renowned guest artists in our Masterworks Series, performed September through May at the Civic Center.

Saturday September 25

Masterworks 1
Season Debut: Beethoven's Fifth
7:30 PM

The most famous four notes in music open Beethoven’s gripping, powerful Fifth Symphony. Hear the raw power and dramatic triumph in a Season Debut packed with spectacle, from the stagecraft of Corigliano’s Promenade Overture to Florence Price’s lyrical, evocative Piano Concerto in One Movement performed by celebrated pianist Awadagin Pratt.
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Sunday September 26

Masterworks 1
Season Debut: Beethoven's Fifth
2:30 PM

The most famous four notes in music open Beethoven’s gripping, powerful Fifth Symphony. Hear the raw power and dramatic triumph in a Season Debut packed with spectacle, from the stagecraft of Corigliano’s Promenade Overture to Florence Price’s lyrical, evocative Piano Concerto in One Movement performed by celebrated pianist Awadagin Pratt.
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Saturday October 23

Masterworks 2
Tchaikovsky's Fourth
7:30 PM

Tchaikovsky’s blazing Fourth Symphony, composed in direct response to Beethoven’s Fifth, punctuates dreamlike, lyrical passages with cosmic joy and dramatic spectacle. Beethoven’s “Triple” Concerto features Concertmaster Jonathan Sturm, Principal Cellist Julie Sturm, and pianist Nicholas Roth. But first, George Walker’s serene Lyric for Strings.
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Sunday October 24

Masterworks 2
Tchaikovsky's Fourth
2:30 PM

Tchaikovsky’s blazing Fourth Symphony, composed in direct response to Beethoven’s Fifth, punctuates dreamlike, lyrical passages with cosmic joy and dramatic spectacle. Beethoven’s “Triple” Concerto features Concertmaster Jonathan Sturm, Principal Cellist Julie Sturm, and pianist Nicholas Roth. But first, George Walker’s serene Lyric for Strings.
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Saturday November 20

Masterworks 3
Beethoven's Violin Concerto
7:30 PM

Renowned for his intensely expressive music making, Paul Huang joins the Symphony to perform Beethoven’s transcendent Violin Concerto in a program featuring the noble grandeur and epic journey of Sibelius’s Seventh Symphony along with Anna Clyne’s rollicking Masquerade.
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Sunday November 21

Masterworks 3
Beethoven's Violin Concerto
2:30 PM

Renowned for his intensely expressive music making, Paul Huang joins the Symphony to perform Beethoven’s transcendent Violin Concerto in a program featuring the noble grandeur and epic journey of Sibelius’s Seventh Symphony along with Anna Clyne’s rollicking Masquerade.
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Saturday January 8

Symphony
Carmina Burana
7:30 PM

Spellbinding, hypnotic and heart-pounding, Carmina Burana simply must be experienced live. Hear this choral masterwork like never before as the Des Moines Symphony is joined onstage by 200 voices – but first, hear Beethoven’s ebullient Eighth Symphony and Wagner’s majestic Overture from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
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Sunday January 9

Symphony
Carmina Burana
2:30 PM

Spellbinding, hypnotic and heart-pounding, Carmina Burana simply must be experienced live. Hear this choral masterwork like never before as the Des Moines Symphony is joined onstage by 200 voices – but first, hear Beethoven’s ebullient Eighth Symphony and Wagner’s majestic Overture from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
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Saturday January 29

Masterworks 4
Immortal Beloved
7:30 PM

“Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours.” So Beethoven closed a July 1812 letter to his “immortal beloved,” a woman whose identity has remained one of the great mysteries of classical music. This passionate concert reaches its peak as Natasha Paremski plays Rachmaninoff’s thrilling, grand Third Piano Concerto.
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Sunday January 30

Masterworks 4
Immortal Beloved
2:30 PM

“Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours.” So Beethoven closed a July 1812 letter to his “immortal beloved,” a woman whose identity has remained one of the great mysteries of classical music. This passionate concert reaches its peak as Natasha Paremski plays Rachmaninoff’s thrilling, grand Third Piano Concerto.
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