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The Fox Tucson Theatre in partnership with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra are proud to present City Lights. Enjoy a special evening of the orchestra’s live accompaniment to Charlie Chaplin’s masterpiece, all on the Fox stage. City Lights, is a silent tale of a lovable vagrant falling for a young blind woman who sells flowers on the street and mistakes him for a millionaire. Be transported to an era of Hollywood where silent film stars make the screen come alive with the added magic of the symphony. TSO is led by conductor, José Luis Gomez.

Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights

Fox Tucson Theatre

Join us for an inspiring showcase of young talent at the Young Composers Full Orchestra event, presented by the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. This special event is set to take place at the Leo Rich Theater on Saturday, May 4, 2024, at 2:00 pm. Admission is free, offering a unique opportunity for everyone to experience the creativity and dedication of the student participants from the Young Composers Project.

The Young Composers Festival is the highlight of the year, celebrating the hard work and achievements of these talented young musicians. It provides a platform for student composers to have their original compositions performed live by the esteemed Tucson Symphony Orchestra. This event not only allows the students to hear their works brought to life but also to receive valuable feedback from professional musicians, teachers, and the esteemed Maestro José Luis Gomez. It's a moment of pride and joy as they present their compositions to an audience for the very first time.

Students from the Advanced Class will have the privilege of hearing their pieces performed by the full orchestra. After the initial performance, the student composers will have the chance to give their input on the rendition, leading to a second performance that will be recorded for their personal portfolio.

The event is part of the Tucson Convention Center's calendar and will adhere to the clear bag policy and travel info policies of the Leo Rich Theater, consistent with those at the Linda Ronstadt Music Hall.

Don't miss this extraordinary celebration of young musical talent and creativity. Secure your free tickets now and be part of a memorable afternoon with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra and the future stars of classical music.

Young Composers Full Orchestra

Tucson Convention Center

Yo-Yo Ma returns! One of the most important artists of our time, Yo-Yo Ma’s musicianship and soulful playing are unmatched. He has performed for audiences around the world and is a true ambassador for both music and humanity.

Ma strives to foster connections that stimulate the imagination and reinforce our humanity. A UN Messenger of Peace, he has partnered with communities and institutions across the globe to develop programs advocating for a more human-centered world. He is the recipient of the Avery Fisher Prize the National Medal of the Arts, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Kennedy Center Honors, the Polar Music Prize, and the Birgit Nilsson Prize.

Come feel the joy, the magic, and the emotion, at this very special one-night-only concert.

Yo-Yo Ma

Linda Ronstadt Music Hall

The Young Composers Festival marks the culmination of a year of hard work and dedication from the student participants of the Young Composers Project. This event is an opportunity for the student composers to have their original scores performed by the musicians of The Tucson Symphony Orchestra, receive comments from musicians, teachers and Maestro José Luis Gomez, and to present their works to the concert audience for the first time.

Young Composers Strings & Winds

Young Composers Strings & Brass

As the tyrannical First Order rises to overthrow the New Republic, Rey, a desert scavenger, and Finn, an ex-stormtrooper, find themselves teaming up with Han Solo and Chewbacca to return vital information to the Resistance.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens In Concert

Relive the film that started it all. Watch the wand choose the wizard, a troll run amok and magic mirrors in high-definition while a live orchestra performs John Williams’ iconic score. Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime event as Harry, Ron, Hermione and all your favorite characters return to the screen and enchant the world all over again.

Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone™ In Concert

Centennial Hall

The 2024–2025 season opens with Tchaikovsky’s powerful and tragically final musical utterance, most likely a declaration of forbidden love—the sixth symphony, “Pathétique.” The rising French star David Fray makes his TSO debut with Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21, and the TSO introduces the highly engaging music of the recent Chicago Symphony composer-in residence, Anna Clyne’s This Midnight Hour.

Mozart And Tchaikovsky

The Masterworks season opens with the TSO’s beloved concertmaster Lauren Roth performing Beethoven’s sublime Violin Concerto, a dramatic showpiece written during one of the most creative periods in the composer’s life. Antonio Sarrier’s Symphony in D from the 18th century was long-lost until its discovery in an archive in Mexico. Schubert’s dynamic third symphony continues the TSO’s journey to survey the composer’s full symphonic output.

Lauren Roth Plays Beethoven

Catalina Foothills High School

Be ready to be moved! Elgar’s hauntingly beautiful Enigma Variations, a series of fourteen musical portraits of the composer’s friends, comes to life under the baton of guest conductor Christian Vásquez. TSO percussionists Trevor Barroero and Fred Morgan take center stage in Laura Vega’s Angel de Luz, a double percussion concerto. Like Sibelius’ evocative tribute to his homeland of Finland, Venezuelan-born Inocente Carreño’s Margariteña is also a love letter to his home island, Margarita.

Elgar’s Enigma Variations

TSO Up Close With Tommy Mesa

Kerson Leong, who dazzled TSO audiences in 2022, returns to perform Korngold’s romantic Violin Concerto, written during his Hollywood years and first performed by the great Jascha Heifetz. The Hollywood-themed first half begins with Bernard Herrmann’s iconic music for the film Psycho. Conductor Nicholas Hersh makes his Masterworks debut with Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 5, “Reformation,” written to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession, when Martin Luther established the Protestant Reformation. It includes the famous Dresden Amen. A noted arranger, Hersh introduces the first performance of his own orchestration of Clara Schumann’s piano collection “4 Pièces caractéristiques.”

Mendelssohn And Korngold

The titan of the classical music world returns! Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 3, one of four versions for his only opera Fidelio, this one including the famous offstage trumpet signal, is followed by the ta-ta-ta-da opening of the fifth symphony. There’s no better sound than the TSO filling the Music Hall with the unparalleled might of the Fifth. Bartók’s elegant and strongly folk-music influenced Concerto for Orchestra is one of his most popular works and with good reason‍—the orchestra sections become the soloists, showing off their virtuosic abilities.

Beethoven’s Fifth

Bursting with charm and charisma, The Three Mexican Tenors take you on a journey from operatic songs like “Libiamo” and “O Sole Mio” to pop hits such as “You Raise Me Up” and “Time to Say Goodbye.” The Three Mexican Tenors then pay tribute to the great singers of Mexico: Luis Miguel, Juan Gabriel, Vicente Fernandez, and more!

An Enchanted Evening With The Three Mexican Tenors

Disney’s classic Frozen comes to life with the TSO performing the iconic score live while the film is projected. ‘Let it Go’ with Anna, Elsa, Olaf, Kristoff and all of your Arendell friends in this perfect kick-off to the holiday season!

Frozen In Concert

As the TSO’s Artist in Residence, Cuban-American cellist Tommy Mesa will perform TWO concertos, juxtaposing classic Haydn with the recent Divided by Jessie Montgomery. The composer describes Divided as a response to the social and political unrest of the recent past, the sense of helplessness people feel in a world that seems in constant crisis. By contrast, Brahms’ sunny second symphony closes the program, composed in the summer of 1877 surrounded by the beauty and quiet of the Austrian countryside.

Haydn And Brahms

Messiah

French favorites meet new wonders, led by guest conductor Sunny Xia! While all three French works were written within a decade in the late 19th century, only two⁠—Debussy’s Petite Suite and Fauré’s Pélleas et Mélisande⁠—entered the repertoire. It took more than another century for the music of Augusta Holmès to be discovered, including the lush La nuit et l’amour, an interlude from her larger work inspired by the work of French painter Puvis de Chavannes. Jessie Montgomery’s Starburst, commissioned by the Sphinx Organization for its Virtuosi, sparkles like the formation of the astronomical phenomenon itself.

French Impressions

The greatest living violinist returns for a special one-night only performance of iconic violin solos from the movies. Beloved for his charm and humanity, he is treasured by audiences worldwide for his remarkable artistry and irrepressible joy for making music. Don’t miss the iconic John Williams melody from Schindler’s List and many other favorites.

An Evening At The Movies With Itzhak Perlman

One of the brightest stars on the operatic stage and a Tucson favorite, internationally recognized mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke returns to the TSO for a riveting performance of Mahler’s colossal third symphony. Organized over six movements, the work is the composer’s hymn to nature and one of his most complete musical statements.

Mahler’s Third

Mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke returns for a second Mahler turn! The Metropolitan Opera star will perform a selection from the composer’s five-song cycle based on the work of Friedrich Rückert. The brilliant young composer Chelsea Komschlies’ new work, a TSO commission through the League of American Orchestras Toulmin Commissions Program, has its world premiere. Maestro Gomez continues his Schumann cycle with the composer’s Symphony No. 3, the “Rhenish,” and Coleridge-Taylor’s beautiful, rarely-played Ballade complete the program.

Mahler And Schumann

The greatest hits of sci-fi movies and TV come to your TSO stage, with epic music from Star Wars, Star Trek, 2001: A Space Odyssey, ET, and more!

Symphonic Sci‑Fi

Paul Huang, who left TSO audiences spellbound in 2022, returns to perform Dvořák’s Violin Concerto, originally written for the composer’s friend, violinist Joseph Joachim. The concerto is accompanied by two of Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances. Written originally for piano duo while he was still relatively unknown, it was these dances that helped Dvořák achieve notoriety. Dvořák came to the U.S. later in life and wrote the New World Symphony, inspired by African-American spirituals. The concert’s second half features works by American composers with very different backgrounds: a TSO co-commissioned work by Arizona-born Raven Chacon, a 2023 MacArthur Genuis Grant awardee, and Still’s Symphony No. 1, known as the “Afro-American.” Chacon, a member of the Navajo nation, draws on relationships between the western and indigenous communities while Still drew from popular African-American music.

Dvořák And The American Experience

Prokofiev’s classic Peter and the Wolf makes a welcome return. Originally written for a young audience, the piece has long delighted audiences of all ages. The TSO was highly impressed by Xavier Muzik’s work through the 2022 Earshot collaboration with the American Composers Orchestra, and immediately commissioned this new work having its world premiere. Mussorgsky’s stormy Night on Bald Mountain, inspired by the Russian legend of revels taking place on St. John’s Eve is followed by Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 9, often thought of as his most classical. Though small in scale and length, it is full of the composer’s characteristic irony and wit.

Prokofiev’s Peter And The Wolf

Immerse yourself in a captivating evening of classical music as the Tucson Symphony Orchestra presents "Chopin and Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet" at the Linda Ronstadt Music Hall. This enchanting concert, part of the Classic Series, will take place on Friday, March 14, 2025, at 7:30 pm, and Sunday, March 16, 2025, at 2:00 pm. 

Experience the melodious beauty of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2, brought to life by the extraordinary Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Martinez, whose prodigious talent has been captivating audiences since her orchestral debut at the tender age of 6. The evening will also explore the depths of love and tragedy through Prokofiev’s stirring ballet music for Shakespeare’s timeless tale of star-crossed lovers, Romeo & Juliet. Additionally, the concert will feature Missy Mazzoli’s "These Worlds In Us," a poignant exploration of the intense memories that reside within each of us, adding a contemporary touch to the night’s repertoire.

The concert is expected to last approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes, including an intermission, and will be enhanced by Concert Comments, a pre-concert talk that begins one hour before each performance, offering deeper insights into the evening’s program.

Tickets for this must-see event will be available for individual purchase starting August 1, 2024, but can also be acquired as part of a Classic Series or Create Your Own Subscription for those looking to experience the full breadth of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra’s offerings. 

Join us for a night of unforgettable music that bridges the classical and the contemporary, celebrating the genius of Chopin, Prokofiev, and Mazzoli under the baton of conductor Daniela Candillari, with Gabriela Martinez as the featured pianist. This concert promises to be a highlight of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra’s season, showcasing the power of music to evoke the deepest emotions and most vivid imaginations.

Chopin and Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet

Experience the timeless magic of ABBA like never before! Join us at the Linda Ronstadt Music Hall for a spectacular tribute concert, "ABBA: ARRIVAL from Sweden," presented by the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. This unforgettable event will take place on Saturday, March 22, 2025, at 7:30 pm, and a matinee performance on Sunday, March 23, 2025, at 2:00 pm.

Dive into the world of ABBA with ARRIVAL from Sweden, the world's foremost ABBA tribute group, as they join forces with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra to bring you an evening filled with the supergroup's greatest hits. Sing along to classics like "Dancing Queen," "Waterloo," "Take a Chance on Me," and many more, in a concert that promises to be a highlight of the season.

The concert is set to last approximately 2 hours, including an intermission, ensuring a night packed with entertainment and nostalgia. Please note, the Linda Ronstadt Music Hall enforces a clear bag policy for all attendees.

Tickets for this special event will be available for individual purchase starting August 1, 2024. Additionally, this concert can be included as part of a Create Your Own Subscription package, or as an add-on with any purchase of a 2024-25 Season Subscription, offering up to 20% savings.

Don't miss this chance to experience the magic of ABBA in a unique and memorable way. Mark your calendars and prepare to be transported back in time with ARRIVAL from Sweden and your Tucson Symphony Orchestra.

ABBA: ARRIVAL from Sweden

Carl Orff’s singular and powerful work, bringing to life texts from the 11th and 12th centuries, comes to the stage with soloists Ashley Fabian, Joseph Tancredi, and Octavio Moreno plus the full might of the TSO Chorus. Gabriela Ortiz’s Kauyumari, which plays tribute to the blue deer, a spiritual guide of the Huichol people of Mexico, is followed by Robert Muczynski’s Symphonic Memoir, premiered by the TSO in 1979 and the latest in the TSO’s exploration of this Tucson-based composer.

Tucson Symphony Orchestra

Apr 20, 2024

Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights

May 4, 2024

Young Composers Full Orchestra

May 9, 2024

Yo-Yo Ma

10 - 11 May, 2024

Young Composers Strings & Winds

May 11, 2024

Young Composers Strings & Brass

Tucson Symphony Orchestra

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