Name: Reveries
Start: 2024-12-14T15:50:00
Location: George Mason University

Join the Manassas Symphony Orchestra on a journey through dreams, expressions, and fantasies with their captivating concert series. Starting with 'Reveries', experience a magical wintry landscape highlighted by a trumpet solo from Levi Pardy and a charming vocal performance by Christine Maxted. The 'Expressions' concert features violinist Leonid Sushansky in a moving rendition of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, while Maestro Villani guides the orchestra through Respighi's lush 'Pines of Rome'. Finally, let the brilliant pianist Catherine Lan transport you with Brahms' Piano Concerto and Bizet’s opulent opera suite in 'Fantasies'.

A Symphony of Dreams, Expressions, and Fantasies: MSO's Unforgettable Season

Christine Maxted

Manassas Symphony Orchestra

First appearing with the MSO in 2011, violin virtuoso Andrew Sords returns to Merchant Hall for his third performance, this time showcasing Richard Strauss’s vibrant and youthful Violin Concerto in D Minor. Composed when Strauss was only 17, the concerto may be less frequently performed than his later tone poems and operas, but it remains a captivating showcase of late-Romantic virtuosity and artistic promise.

The concert opens with Leopold Stokowski’s dramatic orchestral arrangement of J. S. Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor, made famous by Disney’s Fantasia. Inspired by a walking tour through the ruins of Holyrood Chapel in Edinburgh, Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3 in A Minor (“Scottish”) brings the program — and the MSO’s season — to an exuberant close.

German Masters

Hylton Performing Arts Center

Explore a wintry dreamscape and usher in the holiday season. Kettle Run High School senior, Levi Pardy, is featured on trumpet in Leroy Anderson’s A Trumpeter’s Lullaby. Youngest audience members will appreciate Goodnight Moon, composed by American Eric Whitacre and sung by soprano and audience favorite, Christine Maxted. The concert closes with the orchestra’s exclusive colorful Music and Light Show Spectacular!

Reveries

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