Name: “Frankenstein!! (Mr. Superman)”
Start: 2024-05-05T15:30:00
Location: Randolph School

Huntsville Symphony Orchestra

Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn have a musical partnership like no other. Fleck, an nineteen-time GRAMMY® Award-winner, has the virtuosic, jazz-to-classical ingenuity of an iconic instrumentalist and composer with bluegrass roots. His collaborations range from his most recent release and celebrated return to bluegrass, My Bluegrass Heart, to his groundbreaking ensemble, Béla Fleck & The Flecktones, to concertos for full symphony orchestra and an exploration of the banjo’s roots across Africa. Abigail Washburn is a GRAMMY® Award-winning singer-songwriter and clawhammer banjo player who has drawn critical acclaim for her solo albums and has done fascinating work in folk musical diplomacy in China.

Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn: Dreams in Flight

Von Braun Center

Now massively updated for 2026, Video Games Live is acknowledged by Guinness as the biggest, most successful, and longest-running video game concert in the world. The brainchild of industry legend Tommy Tallarico, Video Games Live combines the energy and excitement of a rock concert with the power and emotion of a symphony orchestra and choir – in support of the art and culture of yesteryear’s arcade classics and today’s fresh console releases. It’s a thrilling experience for the whole family, gamers and grandparents alike. 

Video Games Live

Situated the summit of Madison County’s Round Top, Burritt on the Mountain has been one of Huntsville’s main attractions for over sixty years. This evening it provides the view, while the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra brings a three-course dinner and some lovely chamber music for your enjoyment and that of your dinner guests. We’ll hear two very different octets: the first by Louis Spohr, an important violinist, composer, and conductor of the early nineteenth century, and the second by the modern French composer Jean Françaix, celebrated for his sparkling wit and earthy originality.

Dinner on the Mountain

One of the most controversial of all concert pieces, Ravel’s Boléro (1928) is both an incomparable feast for the ears
– languid, modal melodies, crooning saxophones, Spanish dance rhythms – and a puzzle for the brain, as it is a work
whose marvelous variety and sensational climax are built on mechanistic repetition. The composer himself once
half-jokingly characterized it as “a crescendo without music.” This evening, the famous Boléro is matched with
Rachmaninov’s riveting, perennially popular Symphonic Dances for orchestra, and the Variaciones concertantes of
Argentinian composer Alberto Ginastera, in which a lyrical theme for cello and harp is taken on a tour of the whole
orchestra.