Join us for our beloved April concert, featuring the three Young Artist Competition winners. Stay tuned for a TBE (To Be Enjoyed!) repertoire to be announced in November. The BMSO will also perform Academic Festival Overture by Johannes Brahms.

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A Winning Spirit

Bismarck Event Center

Enjoy the lively rhythms, beauty and recognizable tunes of Celtic music, from “Danny Boy” to Riverdance, with BMSO’s Ross Baumgardner on bagpipes and Dr. Maureen Murchie on solo violin.

Celtic Cadences

Hear Native American themes with Dvorak’s New World Symphony and Eric Ewazen’s Shadowcatcher — a concerto featuring our brass quintet and inspired by Edward Curtis’s photography of Native American people in the early twentieth century.

Shadowcatcher

Join the BMSO for our popular annual movie concert. Hear cinematic favorites from big screen successes like Star Wars to the beautiful strains of “Gabriel’s Oboe” from The Mission.

Bold and Beautiful

Enjoy a family-friendly concert with holiday favorites and live musical accompaniment to The Snowman film. BMSO musicians will be joined by the Central Dakota Children’s Choir as special guest.

Holiday Spirit

The signature concert of The Defiant Requiem Foundation, Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín, tells the story of the courageous Jewish prisoners in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp (Terezín) during World War II who performed Verdi’s Requiem while experiencing the depths of human degradation. With only a single smuggled score, they performed the celebrated oratorio sixteen times, including one performance before senior SS officials from Berlin and an International Red Cross delegation. Conductor Rafael Schächter told the choir, “We will sing to the Nazis what we cannot say to them.”

Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin

Defiant Requiem, a feature-length documentary film, highlights the most dramatic example of intellectual and artistic courage in the Theresienstadt (Terezín) Concentration Camp during World War II: the remarkable story of Rafael Schächter, a brilliant, young Czech conductor who was arrested and sent to Terezín in 1941. He demonstrated moral leadership under the most brutal circumstances, determined to sustain courage and hope for his fellow prisoners by enriching their souls through great music. His most extraordinary act was to recruit 150 prisoners and teach them Verdi’s Requiem by rote in a dank cellar using a single score, over multiple rehearsals, and after grueling days of forced labor. The Requiem was performed on 16 occasions for fellow prisoners. The last, most infamous performance occurred on June 23, 1944 before high-ranking SS officers from Berlin and the International Red Cross to support the charade that the prisoners were treated well and flourishing.

Defiant Requiem - The Documentary

Belle Mehus Theater

Please join the BMSO for “The Music of Terezin,” an evening of celebration and reflection. The program consists primarily of music composed by some of the prisoners who were held at the Terezin concentration camp in the Czech Republic during WWII. It is sure to entertain and to make you think.

The Music of Terezin

Experience the emotional power of Beethoven’s music, including the Eroica Symphony and Egmont Overture, with pianist Jay Hershberger joining the BMSO for Piano Concerto No. 4.

Resistance!