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Call The Grand box office at 409-765-1894

Upcoming Season Concerts

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

——intermission——

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

——Intermission——

Richard Strauss: Morgen / Ji Young Jeon, soprano

Respighi: Pines of Rome

Jan. 8 | 4:00 pm

Pops Concert: Happy New Year!

A fun and varied pops concert modeled after the famous Vienna New Year Concerts – including another world premiere!

Program:

• Smith/Luck: The Star Spangled Banner

• Meet our new violinists!

GISD and GSO collaborate in an exciting new program, led by GSO violinist Kristina Davila. Her fourteen young students will perform a short piece – from memory!

• Sibelius: Karelia Suite; excerpts

• Mozart: Three German Dances

• J.Strauss II: Overture to The Gypsy Baron

— INTERMISSION —

• Hvoslef: Lilith and Eve: a fun, virtuoso duo for our concertmaster and principal bass.

World Premiere!

Christina LeBlanc, violin

Laura Bolsen, double bass.

• Copland: John Henry

• J.Strauss II: Artist’s Life Waltzes

• J.Strauss I: Radetzky March

• Sousa: The Stars and Stripes Forever

Nov. 13 | 4:00 pm

Masterworks II: Mahler’s Fifth

plus World Premiere by composer Braxton Blake

Experience the power and grandeur of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 5, (parts 1, 2, and 3) considered by many to be among the ten most important symphonies ever written!

Plus a very special World Premiere composed by former Galveston resident Braxton Blake, Elegies for Violin and Orchestra featuring GSO’s own concertmaster

CHRISTINA LEBLANC, violin.

Oct. 9 | 4:00 pm

Masterworks I: Brinton Smith, cello

**Malcolm Arnold: English Dances, set II**

Joseph Haydn: Cello Concerto in D major

- Brinton Averil Smith, cello

**——Intermission——**

Joseph Haydn: Cello Concerto in C major

- 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

– Intermission-

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

Classical Music on the Island

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