• Ticket Price
    $20-80
    Students Half Price
  • Duration
    2hrs 10min
    One intermission
Season Finale: Pines of Rome

Season Finale: Pines of Rome

Be transported to the Eternal City at the Symphony’s Season Finale! Mendelssohn-Hensel’s effervescent Overture in C Major opens the concert, followed by Mendelssohn’s exuberant Italian Symphony, evoking the bustling streets of Italy. George Li dazzles with Saint-Saëns’ Second Piano Concerto. Respighi’s evocative Pines of Rome closes the concert with blazing brass raising the roof of the Civic Center.

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Program

  • MENDELSSOHN-HENSEL Overture in C Major
  • MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 4 “Italian” Listen
  • SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concerto No. 2 Listen
  • RESPIGHI Pines of Rome Listen

Performers

  • Joseph Giunta Conductor Bio
  • George Li Piano Bio

Tickets

Single tickets are $20-$80 and are available through Des Moines Performing Arts. Ticket prices are subject to a $5 increase on the day of the concert, excluding student rush tickets.

Student tickets are $7.50-$35 and are available through the Civic Center Ticket Office. Student rush tickets, subject to availability, are $5 for junior high and high school students and $10 for all other students the day of the concert through the Civic Center Ticket Office. One ticket sold per valid Student ID.

Learn More

Join us 45 minutes before the concert in the Prairie Meadows (East) Lobby for a free Concert Prelude Talk. Led by Dr. Eric McIntyre of Grinnell College, these discussions are complimentary to ticket holders and offer engaging and topical commentary on the featured program. 

Digital Program Books

In an effort to reduce our environmental impact and preserve natural resources, we now offer a Digital Program Book. Click here to read about the program, guests artists and composers featured this weekend.