A holiday tradition for your family and friends with heartwarming and jovial timeless classics plus a sing-a-long! This concert also features SDSO Young Musician Concerto Competition winner, oboist Jacob Pagone.

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Christmas with the Symphony: 'Tis the Season

Washington Pavilion

The greatest story ever told.  The most majestic music ever composed.  Experience Handel’s “Messiah” featuring the inspiring Hallelujah Chorus in the glory of First Lutheran Church.

Handel's Messiah

First Lutheran Church

Niloufar Iravani  /Commissioned by the League of American Orchestras with the generous support of the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation, World Premiere by the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra.
Beethoven’s glorious Symphony No. 9 and the famous “Ode to Joy” is a call for the triumph of universal brotherhood over desperation.  Delta David Gier pairs this message with Reena Esmail’s “My Sister’s Voice” and a world premiere by Niloufar Iravani.

Beethoven’s 9th

Joined by the vocal power of the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Mozart’s choral masterpiece is paired with the gripping thirteenth century purity of Part’s Stabat Mater.

Mozart Requiem

Gather family and friends for the sounds of the Christmas Season with the South Dakota Symphony & Chorus.  Hear a mix of traditional and popular favorites and join in the annual holiday sing-a-long.  There is something for everyone!

Christmas with the Symphony: ‘Tis the Season

Featuring the inspiring Hallelujah Chorus, Handel’s Messiah returns to usher in the holiday season.  Join your South Dakota Symphony Orchestra and Chorus at First Lutheran Church in Sioux Falls for this divine masterpiece!

Handel’s Messiah

The South Dakota Symphony and Chorus revive Douglas Moore's Pulitzer-Prize winning opera inspired by Ole Edvart Rølvaag's epic novel about Norwegian settlers of the Dakota Territory in 1873.  Staged with imagery, costumes, and sung in English.

South Dakota Symphony Orchestra Chorus

26 - 27 Apr, 2025

Giants in the Earth: The Norwegians in the Dakota Territory

9 - 10 Dec, 2023

Christmas with the Symphony: 'Tis the Season

1 - 2 Dec, 2023

Handel's Messiah

South Dakota Symphony Orchestra Chorus