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Experience new sounds and rediscover familiar favorites on this musical journey around the globe traversing Italy, Spain, Norway, Germany and more. An all-orchestral program celebrates your talented WMS musicians—front and center.

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WMS Around the World, Part II

Frauenthal Center

Our Pines of Rome concert will be really exciting. Music of pulsating living nature vs the miracles of human engineering.  Do you remember feeling utterly peaceful standing in the middle of a thick green forest? Brimming with life. A miracle. Or the sense of majestic flow sitting at the banks of a broad river? And then compare it with your daily wonder of technology, from the intricate workings of your computer to simply using “google search.

Pines of Rome

Civic Center Music Hall

The season concludes with Anna Geniushene, 2022 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Silver Medalist, performing Rachmaninoff ’s last work for piano and orchestra, featuring both astonishing virtuoso passages and Rachmaninoff ’s best-known melody. Brahms’ Fourth and last symphony has been called “one of the supreme creative acts of the Romantic era” and is fraught with tension between lyrical beauty, intense drama, and subdued melancholy.

RSO-Season Final Concert

Charles W. Eisemann Center for Performing Arts

The season concludes with Anna Geniushene, 2022 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Silver Medalist, performing Rachmaninoff’s last work for piano and orchestra, featuring both astonishing virtuoso passages and Rachmaninoff ’s best-known melody. Brahms’ Fourth and last symphony has been called “one of the supreme creative acts of the Romantic era” and is fraught with tension between lyrical beauty, intense drama, and subdued melancholy.

RSO 2024 Season Finale Concert

The recent passing of Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho ended a brilliant career in the highest echelons of the music world. Aure, a work for violin and viola, demonstrates her mastery and originality. Danny Elfman, prolific film composer (Spider-Man, Good Will Hunting), singer, and percussionist, turns his protean talents to the Piano Quartet, with amazing results. The ravishing renegade Rebecca Clarke explores both modern concepts and ancient styles with her duo-concertante Dumka. Lastly, the autobiographical String Quartet No. 1 (“From My Life”) of Bedřich Smetana, father of Czech nationalist music, closes our season with one of the most beloved works in the chamber repertoire. 

Banquet

St Peter's Episcopal Church

St Gabriel's Church

A memorable evening is certain when the "power couple of chamber music," Han and Finckel, team with Setzer, of Emerson renown!

Han-Setzer-Finckel Trio

Alice Pratt Brown Hall

The Viano String Quartet was the First Prize Winner of the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition and is the String Quartet-in-Residence at the Curtis Institute of Music. Formed in 2015 at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles, the quartet has performed all over the world in venues such as Wigmore Hall, Place Flagey, Izumi Hall, Konzerthaus Berlin, and Segerstrom Center for the Arts.

Viano String Quartet

War Memorial and Performing Arts Center

Join guest conductor Tania Miller and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for a concert that dives into the wonder and symbolism of water. Flow through majestic rivers, stormy seas and galactic ice as the musicians use sound to convey the source of life. Perfect for ages 5-12.

Sound Waves

Symphony Center

Orchestra Hall

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Artistic Directors Wu Han and David Finckel return to end the season with guest violinist Chad Hoopes.

Wu Han, David Finckel, and Chad Hoopes

Spa Little Theatre

Delight in every turn of phrase as SF Symphony musicians perform together within the intimate realm of chamber music.


Chamber Music at Legion of Honor

Legion of Honor

Music inspired by particular locales and times are featured in this concert:  Sibelius – Finlanda, Barber – Knoxville: Summer 1915 with soprano Molly Fillmore, Smetana – the Moldau, and Rimsky Korsakov – Capriccio Español are on the itinerary.

Bedřich Smetana

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Events

Apr 19, 2024

WMS Around the World, Part II · West Michigan Symphony Orchestra

Apr 20, 2024

Pines of Rome · Oklahoma City Philharmonic

Apr 20, 2024

RSO-Season Final Concert · Charles W. Eisemann Center for Performing Arts

Apr 20, 2024

RSO 2024 Season Finale Concert · Richardson Symphony Orchestra

27 - 28 Apr, 2024

Banquet · New Bedford Symphony Orchestra

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