by Taylor Hollyer | Aug 18, 2015
Our season closes with a trip to the stars. Peter Maxwell Davies, a longtime resident of the Orkney Islands off Scotland, captures their powerful weather and rustic wedding traditions in a raucous barnburner that includes a strolling bagpiper! MSO Concertmaster Jenny...
by Taylor Hollyer | Aug 18, 2015
Our season closes with a trip to the stars. Peter Maxwell Davies, a longtime resident of the Orkney Islands off Scotland, captures their powerful weather and rustic wedding traditions in a raucous barnburner that includes a strolling bagpiper! MSO Concertmaster Jenny...
by Edward Watson | Jul 28, 2015
Two of the most beloved pieces of Russian music, together on one concert. Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade portrays the alluring stories – and storyteller – of 1001 Nights. Tchaikovsky’s first piano concerto, rejected by its first pianist, found enormous success after...
by Edward Watson | Jul 28, 2015
Two of the most beloved pieces of Russian music, together on one concert. Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade portrays the alluring stories – and storyteller – of 1001 Nights. Tchaikovsky’s first piano concerto, rejected by its first pianist, found enormous success after...
by Edward Watson | Jul 28, 2015
Our American Masters series continues with the best of the best. The Mobile Symphony presents greatest hits from Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber – plus two extremely gifted living composers, Christopher Rouse and Austin Wintory. Soprano soloist...