2022-23 Concert Tickets Available Now!
Tickets are available through The Grand 1894 Opera House box office.
Call The Grand box office at 409-765-1894
Upcoming Season Concerts
Sunday | May 14 | 4:00 pm
Masterworks V: Tchaikovsky’s Second
Andrew Staupe, piano
World Premiere of a new piano concerto and Tchaikovsky’s Second Symphony.
Glinka: Ruslan and Ludmila Overture
Hvoslef: Piano Concerto No.2
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Andrew Staupe, piano
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2
Sunday | June 18 | 4:00 pm
Galveston Symphony Celebrates Juneteenth
Featuring Galveston composers Izola Collins and Dr. Frederick C. Tills
Joined by the Galveston Heritage Chorale,
Gary V. Navy, Music Director / June Collins Pulliam, Executive Director
The Galveston Symphony Orchestra and the Galveston Heritage Chorale celebrate Juneteenth with a special concert featuring music exclusively by composers of African descent on Sunday, June 18, at 4:00 pm. The concert will take place in Galveston, the birthplace of Juneteenth, at the historic Grand 1894 Opera House. Tickets are available at thegrand.com and The Grand box office.
Program:
1) J. Weldon Johnson and Rosamond Johnson: Lift Every Voice and Sing; arr.: Roland Carter
Galveston Heritage Chorale and piano accompaniment.
2) Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Overture
Galveston Symphony Orchestra
3) Izola Collins: “Galveston Survives”
Galveston Symphony Orchestra
4) Rollo Dilworth / Langston Hughes: “Freedom’s Plow”
Galveston Heritage Chorale & Galveston Symphony Orchestra
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5) Samuel Coleridge Taylor: Selection from “Four Noveletten for Strings”
Galveston Symphony Orchestra strings (and one percussionist)
6) A vocal soloist from Galveston Heritage Chorale with piano accompaniment
performing a piece by Dr. Frederick C. Tillis. Specific selection TBA
7) Dr. Frederick C. Tillis: Spiritual Fantasy No.12: “Wade in the Water”
Galveston Symphony String Quartet
Current Galveston Symphony Orchestra programs are supported by corporate and individual donations and with generous grant support from:
THE TRUBE FOUNDATION


Past Concerts
Sunday | February 26 | 4:00 pm
Masterworks III: Valentine Concert
Ji-Young Jeon, soprano
Since her debut as Queen of the night in Mozart’s Magic Flute, dramatic coloratura soprano, Ji-Young Jeon has performed the role over 500 times – and has sung with opera companies worldwide, including Germany, Switzerland, France, Spain, Ireland, Slovakia, Thailand, Japan, China, United States and her native South Korea. Critics have praised her for her “stunning, sensational vocal talent, paired with supreme musicianship and an immense dramatic stage presence.” We are thrilled to be working with Miss Jeon and will complement her arias with some of opera’s most beautiful orchestra pieces, including Wagner’s gorgeous prelude to Lohengrin, Act I -ending with Respighi’s thrilling – and loud, be prepared! – Pines of Rome; with a different kind of song: live recordings of birds in Rome!
Rossini: Overture to Gazza Ladra (the Thieving Magpie)
Puccini: Quando me’en vo / Ji Young Jeon, soprano
Puccini: Crisantemi
Puccini: Vissi d’Arte / Ji Young Jeon, soprano
Wagner: Prelude to Lohengrin, Act I
Johann Strauss, Jr: Klange der Heimat / Ji Young Jeon, soprano
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Richard Strauss: Morgen / Ji Young Jeon, soprano
Respighi: Pines of Rome
Jan. 8 | 4:00 pm
Pops Concert: Happy New Year!
Nov. 13 | 4:00 pm
Masterworks II: Mahler’s Fifth
plus World Premiere by composer Braxton Blake
Oct. 9 | 4:00 pm
Masterworks I: Brinton Smith, cello
Malcolm Arnold: English Dances, set II
Joseph Haydn: Cello Concerto in D major
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- Brinton Averil Smith, cello
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Joseph Haydn: Cello Concerto in C major
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- Brinton Averil Smith, cello
Gustav Holst: “Planets:” Venus and Jupiter
Labor Day Pops Concert
September 4, 2022 – 4 pm
The Grand 1894 Opera House
2020 Post Office Street – Galveston
GSO welcomes our audience back with a festive Labor Day celebration that combines audience favorites from our standard repertoire with selections from Broadway, jazz – and some very fast marches!
PROGRAM
- Smith/Luck: The Star-Spangled Banner
- Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
- Mozart: Three Short German Dances
- Rimsky Korsakov: Dance of the Tumblers
- Mascagni: Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
- Chambrier: Espańa
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- Buck: Festival Overture on The Star Spangled Banner
- Rodgers/Bennett: Oklahoma!; Selections for Orchestra
- Bagley: National Emblem March
- King:, Barnum and Bailey’s Favorite March
- Sousa: The Stars and Stripes Forever