Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky
2017-03-04 20:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Carpenter Theatre, 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, 23219, United States
Discover the power of live music with our Altria Masterworks series. Featuring orchestral classics and contemporary composers, this series will inspire you. Join us an hour before each concert for a free pre-concert talk with the Richmond Symphony Music Director, Steven Smith. These talks often feature guest artists and conductors and provide you with insights for the concert you are about to hear.
Learn more about Steven Smith, conductor
Learn more about Jinjoo Cho, violin
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Artwork by: Chris Milk Hulburt / Inspired by: Stravinsky Petrushka

Schubert, Bruckner & Vaughan Williams
2017-04-08 20:00 | Carpenter Theatre, 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, 23219, United States
Discover the power of live music with our Altria Masterworks series. Featuring orchestral classics and contemporary composers, this series will inspire you. Join us an hour before each concert for a free pre-concert talk with the Richmond Symphony Music Director, Steven Smith. These talks often feature guest artists and conductors and provide you with insights for the concert you are about to hear.
Rennolds Memorial Concert
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Learn more about Michelle Areyzaga, soprano
Learn more about Kevin Deas, bass-baritone
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Learn more about Erin R. Freeman, chorus director
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Artwork by: Duncan Robertson / Inspired by: Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem

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Schubert, Bruckner & Vaughan Williams
2017-04-09 15:00 - 17:00 | Carpenter Theatre, 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, 23219, United States
Discover the power of live music with our Altria Masterworks series. Featuring orchestral classics and contemporary composers, this series will inspire you. Join us an hour before each concert for a free pre-concert talk with the Richmond Symphony Music Director, Steven Smith. These talks often feature guest artists and conductors and provide you with insights for the concert you are about to hear.
Rennolds Memorial Concert
Learn more about Steven Smith, conductor
Learn more about Michelle Areyzaga, soprano
Learn more about Kevin Deas, bass-baritone
Learn more about the Richmond Symphony Chorus
Learn more about Erin R. Freeman, chorus director
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Artwork by: Duncan Robertson / Inspired by: Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem

Stravinsky, Beethoven, Mozart
2017-04-30 15:00 - 17:00 | Blackwell Auditorium at Randolph-Macon College, 204 Henry Street, Ashland, VA, 23005, United States
Join us at Randolph-Macon College for intimate, chamber orchestra concerts that allow you to get up close and personal with the musicians of the Richmond Symphony. The series takes place at Blackwell Auditorium at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland and features free pre-concert talks at the Dollar Tree Room in Brock Commons one hour before the concert.
Learn more about Chia-Hsuan Lin, conductor
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Paine, Elgar, Brahms
2017-05-13 20:00 - 22:00 | Carpenter Theatre, 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, 23219, United States
Discover the power of live music with our Altria Masterworks series. Featuring orchestral classics and contemporary composers, this series will inspire you. Join us an hour before each concert for a free pre-concert talk with the Richmond Symphony Music Director, Steven Smith. These talks often feature guest artists and conductors and provide you with insights for the concert you are about to hear.
Learn more about Steven Smith, conductor
Learn more about Gary Hoffman, cello
Program Notes
Artwork by: Georgiy Kuznetsov / Inspired by: Paine Prelude to Oedipus Tyrannus

Opening Night with Joshua Bell and Yesong Sophie Lee
2017-09-14 20:00 - 22:00 | Carpenter Theatre, 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, 23219, United States
The Richmond Symphony’s opening night concert will feature the extraordinary talents of violinists Joshua Bell and 13-year-old child prodigy Yesong Sophie Lee. The concert will feature Bell and Lee performing J.S. Bach’s Double Violin Concerto and Bell performing Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole for Violin and Orchestra. Join us an hour before the concert for a free pre-concert talk with the Richmond Symphony Music Director, Steven Smith. These talks often feature guest artists and conductors and provide you with insights for the concert you are about to hear. Learn more about Steven Smith, conductor Learn more about Joshua Bell Learn more about Yesong Sophie Lee **Tickets purchased previously for Lang Lang will be redeemed for the Joshua Bell and Yesong Sophie Lee concert.

Single Ticket Pricing
Adult
Child*

Mezzanine
n/a
n/a

Front Orchestra / Front First Dress
$100.00
$75.00

Rear Orchestra
$80.00
$45.00

Side Orchestra / Rear First Dress
$55.00
$25.00

Front Second Dress
$30.00
$15.00

Joshua Bell appears by arrangement with Park Avenue Artists (www.parkavenueartists.com) and Primo Artists (www.primoartists.com)

Metro Collection 1
2017-10-01 15:00 - 17:00 | Blackwell Auditorium at Randolph-Macon College, 204 Henry Street, Ashland, VA, 23005, United States
Join us at Randolph-Macon College for intimate, chamber orchestra concerts that allow you to get up close and personal with the musicians of the Richmond Symphony. The series takes place at Blackwell Auditorium at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland and features free pre-concert talks at the Dollar Tree Room in Brock Commons one hour before the concert. This concert features soloist, Molly Sharp (viola) on Clarke’s Concerto for Viola and Orchestra. Additional works from Beethoven, Davies, and Haydn will be performed by the Richmond Symphony.
Learn more about Steven Smith, conductor
Learn more about Molly Sharp, viola
PLEASE NOTE: The date of this concert has been changed from October 8 to OCTOBER 1, 2017.

60th Anniversary with Time for Three
2017-10-28 20:00 - 22:00 | Carpenter Theatre, 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, 23219, United States
The Richmond Symphony’s 60th Anniversary Celebration features the groundbreaking, category-shattering trio Time for Three! This brilliant trio transcends traditional classification, with elements of classical, country western, gypsy and jazz idioms forming a blend all its own. The members — Nicolas (Nick) Kendall, violin; Charles Yang violin; and Ranaan Meyer, double bass — carry a passion for improvisation, composing and arranging, all prime elements of the ensemble’s playing. Join us an hour before the concert for a free pre-concert talk with the Richmond Symphony Music Director, Steven Smith. These talks often feature guest artists and conductors and provide you with insights for the concert you are about to hear.
Learn more about Steven Smith, conductor
Learn more about Time for Three, guest artist
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Mozart: Mass in C Minor
2017-11-11 20:00 - 22:00, 2017-11-12 15:00 - 17:00 | Carpenter Theatre, 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, 23219, United States
Mozart: Mass in C Minor is not to be missed! The Richmond Symphony Chorus will perform with the Richmond Symphony with special guests Laura Strickling (soprano), Arianna Zukerman (soprano), Nathan Bick (tenor), and Robert Harrelson (bass). Join us an hour before each concert for a free pre-concert talk with the Richmond Symphony Music Director, Steven Smith. These talks often feature guest artists and conductors and provide you with insights for the concert you are about to hear.
“No Western composer demonstrated a more Shakespearean range of emotion than Mozart — from the comedy of self-deception to tragic despair, from pleasure in worldly comforts to heroic defiance of convention, from supernatural terror to spiritual rhapsody. His most ravishing music looks inside the soul as deeply as art can.” – Music critic Lloyd Schwartz on National Public Radio, January 25, 2006.
Learn more about Steven Smith, conductor
Learn more about Richmond Symphony Chorus
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A New Year in Vienna
2018-01-13 20:00 - 22:00 | Carpenter Theatre, 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, 23219, United States
A Viennese New Year concert is heralded as the most important classical music concert worldwide. We are bringing this special event all the way from Vienna, Austria to Richmond, Virginia with our Altria Masterworks performances of A New Year in Vienna. Ring in 2018 with Johann Strauss, Jr., and other composers on Saturday, January 13 at 8pm and Sunday, January 14 at 3pm. Featuring stunning vocals from members of the Virginia Opera Emerging Artists and the Richmond Symphony Chorus.
Join us an hour before each concert for a free pre-concert talk with the Richmond Symphony Music Director, Steven Smith. These talks provide you with insight into the concert you are about to hear.
Learn more about Steven Smith, conductor
Learn more about Richmond Symphony Chorus
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Photo credit: Christopher Radford

A New Year in Vienna
2018-01-14 15:00 - 17:00 | Carpenter Theatre, 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, 23219, United States
A Viennese New Year concert is heralded as the most important classical music concert worldwide. We are bringing this special event all the way from Vienna, Austria to Richmond, Virginia with our Masterworks concert: A New Year in Vienna. Ring in 2018 with the likes of Johann Strauss, Jr., and other Austrian composers. Tickets are on sale now, click “Buy Tickets” to purchase yours.
Join us an hour before each concert for a free pre-concert talk with the Richmond Symphony Music Director, Steven Smith. These talks provide you with insights for the concert you are about to hear.
Learn more about Steven Smith, conductor
Learn more about Richmond Symphony Chorus
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Photo credit: Christopher Radford

Metro Collection 2
2018-01-21 15:00 - 17:00 | Blackwell Auditorium at Randolph-Macon College, 204 Henry Street, Ashland, VA, 23005, United States
Join us at Randolph-Macon College for intimate, chamber orchestra concerts that allow you to get up close and personal with the musicians of the Richmond Symphony. The series takes place at Blackwell Auditorium at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland and features free pre-concert talks at the Dollar Tree Room in Brock Commons one hour before the concert.
Learn more about Steven Smith, conductor
Learn more about Zachary Guiles, trombone
Program Notes

Remembering 1968: A Tribute to MLK
2018-02-03 20:00 - 22:00 | Carpenter Theatre, 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, 23219, United States
1968 was a time of both political and civil unrest. The world was in a state of disarray and turmoil. Martin Luther King Jr. served as a source of hope and light for the masses in a time that seemed hopeless and dark. Remembering 1968: A Tribute to MLK Jr. is comprised of pieces that honor the legacy of a man who was fearless in his charge to fight the injustices of the world. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had the power to bring together individuals from diverse backgrounds to march for and believe in the common good. Join us for a concert celebrating unity and peace, and be moved by inspirational words and music!
We are thrilled to announce that this program will feature several VERY special guest narrators to guide you through each moving piece. On Saturday, February 3rd at 8pm, we will be joined by Mayor Levar Stoney, and on Sunday, February 4th at 3pm we will have Kelli Lemon (Coffee with Strangers RVA) and Gary L. Flowers (The Gary Flowers Show) with us! No matter which performance you choose to attend, this is sure to be a memorable program that will leave you feeling invigorated and inspired.
This program includes compositions by Mary Watkins, Jonathan Bailey Holland, Beethoven, and local legend Undine Smith Moore and features a combined choir with voices from Longwood University, Norfolk State University, the Richmond Symphony Chorus, Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia State University, and Virginia Union University. The combined choir includes the same line-up of university choirs as when the Richmond Symphony hosted the world premiere of the Undine Smith Moore piece in 1982. and special guests: Bahati Barton (soprano), Kendall Gladen (mezzo-soprano), Colin Eaton (tenor), and Robert Cantrell (bass-baritone), and Terrence Wilson (piano).
We offer a free pre-concert talk with the Richmond Symphony Music Director, Steven Smith an hour before each concert. These talks provide you with insight into the concert you are about to experience.
Children 18 and under receive free tickets to Altria Masterworks concert (excludes Mezzanine seating, Opening Night, and Special Concerts). Click Buy Tickets to “purchase”.
Hear the tempo so compelling,
hear the blood throb in my veins.
Yes, my drums are beating nightly,
and the rhythms never change.
Equality, and I will be free.
Equality, and I will be free.
— Maya Angelou
Learn more about Steven Smith, conductor
Learn more about Richmond Symphony Chorus
Learn more about Bahati Barton, soprano
Learn more about Colin Eaton, tenor
Learn more about Terrence Wilson, pianist
Learn more about Kendall Gladen, mezzo-soprano

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Remembering 1968: A Tribute to MLK
2018-02-04 15:00 - 17:00 | Carpenter Theatre, 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, 23219, United States
1968 was a time of both political and civil unrest. The world was in a state of disarray and turmoil. Martin Luther King Jr. served as a source of hope and light for the masses in a time that seemed hopeless and dark. Remembering 1968: A Tribute to MLK Jr. is comprised of pieces that honor the legacy of a man who was fearless in his charge to fight the injustices of the world. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had the power to bring together individuals from diverse backgrounds to march for and believe in the common good. Join us for a concert celebrating unity and peace, and be moved by inspirational words and music!
This program includes compositions by Mary Watkins, Jonathan Bailey Holland, Beethoven, and local legend Undine Smith Moore and features a combined choir with voices from Longwood University, Norfolk State University, the Richmond Symphony Chorus, Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia State University, and Virginia Union University. The combined choir includes the same line-up of university choirs as when the Richmond Symphony hosted the world premiere of the Undine Smith Moore piece in 1982. and special guests: Bahati Barton (soprano), Kendall Gladen (mezzo-soprano), Colin Eaton (tenor), and Robert Cantrell (bass-baritone), and Terrence Wilson (piano).
We offer a free pre-concert talk with the Richmond Symphony Music Director, Steven Smith an hour before each concert. These talks provide you with insight into the concert you are about to experience.
Children 18 and under receive free tickets to Altria Masterworks concert (excludes Mezzanine seating, Opening Night, and Special Concerts). Click Buy Tickets to “purchase”..
Hear the tempo so compelling,
hear the blood throb in my veins.
Yes, my drums are beating nightly,
and the rhythms never change.
Equality, and I will be free.
Equality, and I will be free.
— Maya Angelou
Learn more about Steven Smith, conductor
Learn more about Richmond Symphony Chorus
Learn more about Bahati Barton, soprano
Learn more about Colin Eaton, tenor
Learn more about Terrence Wilson, pianist
Learn more about Kendall Gladen, mezzo-soprano
Program Notes
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Special Concert: Schubert, Roussel, Handel & more.
2018-02-23 19:00 - 21:00 | KingsWay Community Church, 14111 Sovereign Grace Drive, Midlothian, VA, 23114, United States
Join us at KingsWay Community Church for an intimate, chamber orchestra concert that allows you to get up close and personal with the musicians of the Richmond Symphony. This concert is general admission. Tickets may be purchased online or at the door.
KingsWay Community Church
14111 Sovereign Grace Drive
Midlothian, VA 23114

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Prices:
$20 Adult
$10 Child (age 3-18)
$10 College Student (with valid student ID)

Metro Collection 3
2018-02-25 15:00 - 17:00 | Blackwell Auditorium at Randolph-Macon College, 204 Henry Street, Ashland, VA, 23005, United States
Join us at Randolph-Macon College for intimate, chamber orchestra concerts that allow you to get up close and personal with the musicians of the Richmond Symphony. The series takes place at Blackwell Auditorium at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland and features free pre-concert talks at the Dollar Tree Room in Brock Commons one hour before the concert.
Learn more about Steven Smith, conductor
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Pictures at an Exhibition
2018-03-10 20:00 - 22:00 | Carpenter Theatre, 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, 23219, United States
“Pictures from an Exhibition – A Remembrance of Viktor Hartmann”; is a suite of ten pieces (plus a recurring, varied Promenade) composed for the piano by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874. In 1874 an exhibition of Hartmann’s pictures was organized in the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg. Mussorgsky went to the exhibition and was inspired to compose his piano piece. The suite is Mussorgsky’s most famous piano composition and has become a showpiece for virtuoso pianists. It has become further known through various orchestrations and arrangements produced by other musicians and composers.
Join us an hour before each concert for a free pre-concert talk with the Richmond Symphony Music Director, Steven Smith. These talks often feature guest artists and conductors and provide you with insights for the concert you are about to hear.
Children 18 and under receive free tickets to Altria Masterworks concert (excludes Mezzanine seating, Opening Night, and Special Concerts). Click Buy Tickets to “purchase”.
Learn more about Danail Rachev, guest conductor
Learn more about Ian Parker, piano
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New World Symphony
2018-04-21 20:00 - 22:00 | Carpenter Theatre, 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, 23219, United States
New World Symphony is the seventh installment in our 2017/18 Altria Masterworks series. This program celebrates the string instruments through popular melodies and infectious rhythms.
This concert is a celebration of friendship, mutual respect, and exploring new lands. The compositions featured from Kapralova, Brahms, and Dvorak are upbeat, dramatic, and exciting. Be transported across the world to the Czech Republic, explore Romani melodies, and experience turn of the century America through the ears of a foreigner.
Join us an hour before each concert for a free pre-concert talk with Richmond Symphony Music Director, Steven Smith. This talk will provide insight into the conductor’s unique connection to the pieces featured, including a story of him seeing Dvorak’s handwritten composition in person.
Children 18 and under receive free tickets to Altria Masterworks concert (excludes Mezzanine seating, Opening Night, and Special Concerts). Click Buy Tickets to “purchase”.
Learn more about Steven Smith, conductor
Learn more about Daisuke Yamamoto, concertmaster, violin
Learn more about Neal Cary, principal cello
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New World Symphony
2018-04-22 15:00 - 17:00 | Carpenter Theatre, 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, 23219, United States
New World Symphony is the seventh installment in our 2017/18 Altria Masterworks series. This program celebrates the string instruments through popular melodies and infectious rhythms.
This concert is a celebration of friendship, mutual respect, and exploring new lands. The compositions featured from Kapralova, Brahms, and Dvorak are upbeat, dramatic, and exciting. Be transported across the world to the Czech Republic, explore gypsy melodies, and experience turn of the century America through the ears of a foreigner.
Join us an hour before each concert for a free pre-concert talk with Richmond Symphony Music Director, Steven Smith. This talk will provide insight into the conductor’s unique connection to the pieces featured, including a story of him seeing Dvorak’s handwritten composition in person.
Children 18 and under receive free tickets to Altria Masterworks concert (excludes Mezzanine seating, Opening Night, and Special Concerts). Click Buy Tickets to “purchase”.
Learn more about Steven Smith, conductor
Learn more about Daisuke Yamamoto, concertmaster, violin
Learn more about Neal Cary, principal cello
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Metro Collection 4
2018-05-06 15:00 - 17:00 | Blackwell Auditorium at Randolph-Macon College, 204 Henry Street, Ashland, VA, 23005, United States

Mason Bates: World Première
2018-05-12 20:00 - 22:00 | Carpenter Theatre, 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, 23219, United States
Featuring orchestral classics and contemporary composers, this series will inspire you. Recently named the most-performed composer of his generation, Mason Bates serves as the first composer-in-residence of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. His music enlivens imaginative narrative forms with novel orchestral writing, the harmonies of jazz and the rhythms of techno, and it has been the first symphonic music to receive widespread acceptance for its unique integration of electronic sounds.
Join us an hour before each concert for a free pre-concert talk with the Richmond Symphony Music Director, Steven Smith. These talks often feature guest artists and conductors and provide you with insight into the concert you are about to hear.
This performance is in partnership with the 2019 Commemoration, AMERICAN EVOLUTION™.

Children 18 and under receive free tickets to Altria Masterworks concert (excludes Mezzanine seating, Opening Night, and Special Concerts). Click Buy Tickets to “purchase”.
Learn more about Steven Smith, conductor
Learn more about Richmond Symphony Chorus
Learn more about Mason Bates, composer
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Lang Lang & Symphonie Fantastique
2018-09-21 20:00 - 22:00 | Carpenter Theatre, 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, 23219, United States
The Richmond Symphony’s Opening Night Altria Masterworks concert will feature the incredible talent of Chinese piano virtuoso, Lang Lang. Heralded by the New York Times as “the hottest artist on the classical music planet”, Lang Lang plays sold out concerts covering all continents of the globe.
The concert will be held on Friday, September 21st at 8:00pm in the Dominion Energy Center of the Performing Arts, and will feature Lang Lang and the Richmond Symphony performing Mozart’s Concerto No. 24 in C Minor for Piano and Orchestra; one of the most powerful and well-known works in classical music. The evening’s program will also include the Richmond Symphony performing Julia Perry’s Study for Orchestra and Hector Berlioz’ Symphonie fantastique, Opus 14. Learn more about Steven Smith, conductor. Learn more about Lang Lang, pianist.
Join us an hour before this concert for a free pre-concert talk with the Richmond Symphony Music Director, Steven Smith. These talks often feature guest artists and conductors and provide you with insight into the concert you are about to hear.
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Single Ticket Pricing
Adult
Child*

Mezzanine
$125.00
n/a

Front Orchestra / Front First Dress
$100.00
$75.00

Rear Orchestra
$80.00
$45.00

Side Orchestra / Rear First Dress
$55.00
$25.00

Front Second Dress
$30.00
$15.00

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Metro Collection 1
2018-10-07 15:00 - 17:00 | Blackwell Auditorium at Randolph-Macon College, 204 Henry Street, Ashland, VA, 23005, United States
Enjoy classical music in an intimate setting. Metro concerts feature smaller scale works from the classical repertoire and newer pieces by contemporary composers. Richmond Symphony musicians are often featured soloists. The opening Metro Collection performance will feature classics from Mozart and Haydn. Mozart’s Overture to The Abduction from Seraglio, features Turkish instrumental themes in the dynamic opening to the most successful opera of his lifetime.
The classical works are complimented by modernist pieces from American composer Charles Ives and contemporary Turkish pianist Fazil Say. Say’s Symphonic Dances are strongly influenced by his Turkish roots. In the spirit of Liszt, Rachmaninoff and Bartók, Say has often incorporated the dance music of his homeland into his chamber music.
Learn more about Steven Smith, conductor
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Beethoven & Bernstein's 100th Celebration
2018-10-20 20:00 - 22:00 | Carpenter Theatre, 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, 23219, United States
The second Altria Masterworks concert of the season features the Richmond Symphony with violinist Joan Kwuon under the baton of Music Director Steven Smith, celebrating the centennial anniversary of American composer Leonard Bernstein. The New York Times has described Kwuon as a “fiery, intensely musical and impassioned” performer. The program will include Bernstein’s Serenade, after Plato’s “Symposium,” complemented by Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 in E flat Major, Op. 55, “Eroica” and Dances of Galánta by Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly.
Join us an hour before this concert for a free pre-concert talk with the Richmond Symphony Music Director, Steven Smith. These talks often feature guest artists and conductors and provide you with insight into the concert you are about to hear.

Program Notes
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Learn more about Joan Kwuon, violinist.

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Special Concert at Mount Vernon Baptist Church
2018-10-21 15:00 - 17:00 | Mount Vernon Baptist Church, 11220 Nuckols Road, Glen Allen, VA 23059
Join the Richmond Symphony for a special concert at Mt. Vernon Baptist Church in Glen Allen on Sunday, October 21 at 3pm as they perform Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major Opus 55 “Eroica” and Bernstein’s Serenade (After Plato’s “Symposium”). The concert will feature Joan Kwuon on violin.

Mount Vernon Baptist Church
11220 Nuckols Road
Glen Allen, VA 23059
www.mvbcnow.org
Program Notes
This concert is general admission.
Learn more about Steven Smith, conductor.
Learn more about Joan Kwuon, violinist.

Brahms Requiem, Barber Adagio
2018-11-10 20:00 - 22:00 | Carpenter Theatre, 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, 23219, United States
Join the Richmond Symphony and Richmond Symphony Chorus, with Music Director Steven Smith, in commemorating the 100th year anniversary of Armistice 1918. This memorable Altria Masterworks program features Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45, Barber’s Adagio for Strings and Butterworth’s The Banks of Green Willow.
The dark, unusually low registers lend an air of reverence and contemplation to Brahm’s Requiem. In the words of Clara Schumann, “It is a truly tremendous piece of art which moves the entire being in a way little else does.”
Barber’s Adagio for Strings is a serious piece of music that is firmly embedded in the consciousness of nearly every American. Composer William Schumann gives a wonderfully concise listening guide: “[Adagio for Strings] is so precise emotionally. It begins, it reaches its climax, it makes its point, and it goes away.”
George Butterworth wrote his The Banks of Green Willow before World War I even started, but it is seen as emblematic of the “lost generation” from that war, and is often played to commemorate it.
Program Notes
Learn more about Steven Smith, conductor.
Learn more about Darren K. Stokes, bass-baritone.
Learn more about Martha Guth, soprano.
Rennolds Memorial Concert
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Brahms Requiem, Barber Adagio
2018-11-11 15:00 - 17:00 | Carpenter Theatre, 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, 23219, United States
Join the Richmond Symphony and Richmond Symphony Chorus, with Music Director Steven Smith, in commemorating the 100th year anniversary of Armistice 1918. This memorable Altria Masterworks program features Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45, Barber’s Adagio for Strings and Butterworth’s The Banks of Green Willow.
The dark, unusually low registers lend an air of reverence and contemplation to Brahm’s Requiem. In the words of Clara Schumann, “It is a truly tremendous piece of art which moves the entire being in a way little else does.”
Barber’s Adagio for Strings is a serious piece of music that is firmly embedded in the consciousness of nearly every American. Composer William Schumann gives a wonderfully concise listening guide: “[Adagio for Strings] is so precise emotionally. It begins, it reaches its climax, it makes its point, and it goes away.”
George Butterworth wrote his The Banks of Green Willow before World War I even started, but it is seen as emblematic of the “lost generation” from that war, and is often played to commemorate it.
Program Notes
Learn more about Steven Smith, conductor.
Learn more about Darren K. Strokes, bass-baritone.
Learn more about Martha Guth, soprano.
Rennolds Memorial Concert

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Handel's Messiah
2018-12-08 19:30 | Carpenter Theatre, 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, 23219, United States
Don’t miss the Richmond Symphony and Richmond Symphony Chorus performing Handel’s masterwork, a holiday classic that has delighted Richmonders for generations.
Chia-Hsuan Lin, conductor and Jack & Mary Ann Frable Associate Conductor Chair
Erin R. Freeman, Director of the Richmond Symphony Chorus and James Erb Choral Chair
Clara Rottsolk, soprano
Jessica Renfro, mezzo-soprano
Cameo Humes, tenor
Calvin Griffin, bass-baritone
Jonathan Moyer, harpsichord

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Beethoven's Emperor & Mahler 5
2019-01-12 20:00 - 22:00 | Carpenter Theatre, 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, 23219, United States
Join the Richmond Symphony and guest artist Orion Weiss on piano, for a breathtaking evening of musical excellence. This Altria Masterworks concert features Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 Opus 73 “Emperor,” as well as the epic masterpiece that is Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor.
Beethoven wrote this concerto while Vienna was under siege by Napoleon’s armies. “What a disturbing, wild life all around me,” Beethoven wrote to his publisher, “nothing but drums, cannons, men, misery of all sorts.” The piece has a wide dynamic range that opens with a striking first movement, settles into a serene hymn-like adagio, and moves through to a triumphant rondo finale.
When Gustav Mahler conducted the first performance of his Fifth Symphony in 1904, it was described as “the giant symphony,” due to the immense demands placed on the orchestra. The first movement is a sort of funeral march. It begins with a single trumpet announcing the main theme. The entire orchestra eventually takes up this theme, building to a powerful climax before yielding to a more lyrical, plaintive melody. Eventually, the lighthearted waltz crashes its way back in and struggles with the darker theme, prevailing triumphantly at the end. The piece moves from sorrow to joy through epic swells of orchestral participation.
Orion Weiss is one of the most sought-after soloists in his generation of young American musicians.His deeply felt and exceptionally crafted performances go far beyond his technical mastery and have won him worldwide acclaim.
Learn more about Orion Weiss, Piano.
Learn more about Steven Smith, Conductor.
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