Shostakovich’s vivacious Festive Overture provides an appropriately celebratory opening to Shepherd’s 50th anniversary year. Mason Bates’s Mothership fuses classical instrumentation with action-packed improvisatory solos, while Strauss’s wild and suggestive Don Juan demands dazzling virtuosity from every section. Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2 culminates in a shimmering, ecstatic crescendo, one of the most breathtaking finales in the orchestral repertoire.
Tickets required, reserved seating
Welcoming Miguel Harth-Bedoya
Our new director of orchestras is an Emmy Award-winning and GRAMMY®-nominated conductor who is the Music Director Laureate of the Fort Worth Symphony and former Chief Conductor of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra. Harth-Bedoya has led major orchestras around the world and made his conducting debut with The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra last fall.
Repertoire
Shostakovich: Festive Overture
Mason Bates: Mothership
Strauss: Don Juan
Ravel: Suite No. 2 from Daphnis et Chloé
