We open our 109th Season with Samuel Barber’s vivid and witty The School for Scandal Overture, capturing the madcap spirit of Richard Sheridan’s comedic play. Cellist Tommy Mesa returns to the Quad Cities to perform Andrea Casarrubios’s Seven, a hauntingly beautiful tribute to the pandemic’s essential workers and those who lost their lives, followed by Jessie Montgomery’s Divided, which finds beauty amid conflict and chaos. The concert comes to a triumphant close with Dmitri Shostakovich’s breathtaking artistic statement emerging from a period of Soviet artist suppression, his Fifth Symphony.PROGRAM
SAMUEL BARBER The School for Scandal, Overture, Op. 5 [8’]
ANDREA CASARRUBIOS Seven [9’]
JESSIE MONTGOMERY Divided for solo cello and orchestra [12’]
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5, Op. 47, D minor [44’]
TICKETS
Start at $12 for Adults & $7 for Students/Children
FEATURING
Mark Russell Smith, conductor
Tommy Mesa, cello