FLORENCE-On Sunday, October 8, at 3:00pm in Norton Auditorium, Conductor Daniel Stevens will raise his baton to begin the 35th season for the Shoals Symphony! Wow! Imagine we’ve has a professional orchestra in our area that many years, right in our own back yard! And, they are outstanding! You don’t want to miss the symphony!
We may be the only place in the world able to blend the sounds of our rich musical legacy of jazz, R&B, pop, reggae, southern rock, and country. The same seven notes that produced all that great music are the same seven notes the Symphony will play performing the works ofRachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, and Beethoven his season. Good music is always classic!
Look at the exciting 2017-18 Concert Series:
Sunday, October 8. A Classical Masterworks concert, Fortune and Fate, featuring UNAs classical pianist, Dr. Yi-Min Cai, who will perform works by Russian composers Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky.
Sunday, October 29. A family Halloween Concert, Tomb it May Concern, featuring an instrument petting zoo for the kids. This performance will be repeated the following day for area school students.
Sunday, December 10. Our traditional holiday concert has become a standard fixture, a must-see event! In addition to the holiday classics, we’ll perform contemporary religious recording artist Michael W. Smith’s Agnus Dei.
Saturday, January 13. UNA Honor Orchestra. This concert is one of the nation’s premier orchestral workshops for high school string students, who will be invited to perform with a professional orchestra.
Sunday, March 4. This concert, Joyful Virtue, will feature a 200-voice choir as the Symphony performs Beethoven’s final complete composition, the 9th Symphony – WOW!
Friday, May 4. For the third consecutive year, the Symphony will perform another Disney classic film, Ratatouille, a delightful, animated comedy about a rat who wants to become a French chef! The orchestra underscores the music as the film is shown on a 40-foot wide screen. Our past two Disney Live concerts, Pirates of the Caribbean and The Jungle Book, were performed for sold-out audiences.
Tthe Symphony Board of Directors, Dr. Stevens, and Concertmaster Christina Volz-Stomackininvite you to join the community spirit of becoming a Symphony patron. To purchase your season tickets, please visit our website: https://www.una.edu/shoals-symphony/index.html
Media Release/David L. Black
President, Shoals Symphony
