"Adventure Classics" 2008-2009 Season Begins!
The Glacier Symphony and Chorale has exciting plans for 2008-2009. Explore our concerts this season and call us if you have any questions or want to purchase Season Tickets.
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Coming Up:
Masterworks I: The Illusion
October 25, 2008
October 26, 2008
Our 08/09 musical Adventure opens with Glinka’s vibrant Ruslan and Ludmilla Overture, an opera concerning knights, witches, magic and enchanted gardens. Lalo’s darkly rapturous Concerto for Cello in d minor will be the perfect vehicle for Scott Kluksdahl’s expressive virtuosity. This 19th century romantic work features Lalo’s soaring, passionate cello lines punctuated by thunderous orchestral accents. The magical Sorcerers Apprentice, made famous in the movie Fantasia, was inspired by a popular folk legend retold by Goethe. The evocative rhythms of the skeletal Danse Macabre by Saint-Saens and the dark intensity of Mussorgsky’s Night On Bald Mountain complete this dynamic opening concert!
Masterworks II: The Remembering
November 15, 2008
November 16, 2008
Aaron Copland’s hopeful, celebratory Fanfare for the Common Man opens this program, followed by Samuel Barber’s solemnly lyrical Adagio for Strings, which sets a more reflective mood for The Remembering, a concert featuring works by American composers that explore the emotional interior landscapes of our people and culture. The wonderful soprano voice of Gina Lapka is featured in Fallen Heroes, a memorial work with contemporary resonance by James Stanard scored for soprano, chorus and orchestra and set to poetry from the American Civil War. The concert concludes with the melodically cinematic Symphony No. 2 “Romantic” by Howard Hanson, an important American work, rich in arching lyricism and sweeping orchestral colors.
Philip Aaberg’s “Montana Christmas”
December 06, 2008
Montana’s own Philip Aaberg celebrates Christmas and the Holiday Season with a wonderful solo concert full of original compositions and his intimate arrangements of our most beloved traditional pieces from his Christmas CD including Montana Sleighride, What Child Is This, I Saw Three Ships, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, and a host of others. Join Phil for this intimate musical portrait inspired by his love of the places and people of Montana. This will be rare opportunity to hear this fabulous pianist as he explores the many facets of his musical stylings.
