The Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra presents our 2018-2019 Season Malice and Majesty: A season of program carefully crafted to free your mind from the four walls of today. Our orchestral masterworks will feature our master performers throughout the season in a series of collaborations that will leave you in awe. Join us for a majestic season of music as we celebrate some of the greatest masters of music!
into THE bEyond
MONDAY, September 17, 2018
MOODY MUSIC BUILDING CONCERT HALL, 7:00PM
Adam Flatt, Conductor
Schubert's symphony, unfinished yet perfect, inspires wonder at what is next and the unknown destination of existence. Liszt's tone poem after Lamartine starts its journey with the poet's question, "What else is our life but a series of preludes to that unknown Hymn, the first and solemn note of which is intoned by Death?"
BEETHOVEN - Egmont Overture
MOZART - Concerto for Horn no. 4
Josh Williams, soloist
SCHUBERT - “Unfinished” Symphony
LISZT - Les Préludes
Music and Wine Pairing Dinner with Evangeline's Restaurant
Monday, October 15, 2018
Evangeline's Restaurant, 6:00PM
Wine Pairing Dinner
Come enjoy delicious food, fine wine and beautiful music as musicians of the TSO perform and speak about all aspects of the art of classical music. Proceeds benefit the Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra.
Malice and majesty
HUXFORD SYMPHONY AND TSO SIDE-BY-SIDE
Monday, October 22, 2018 MOODY MUSIC BUILDING CONCERT HALL, 7:00PM
Adam Flatt, Conductor
Blake Richardson, Conductor
Salome's Dance captures the maligancy and sensual ecstasy of Salome in a thrilling orchestral showpiece. And Janacek's glowing "Sinfonietta" amazes with its magnificent fanfares and blazing orchestral power
VERDI - Overture to La Forza del Destino
VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS - Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
Blake Richardson, Conductor
STRAUSS - Salome’s Dance (“Dance of the Seven Veils”) op. 54
JANACEK - Sinfonietta
Adam Flatt, Conductor
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Monday, NOVEMBER 19, 2018
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 7:00PM
Chamber Orchestra
Adam Flatt, Conductor
In the serene sanctuary of the First Presbyterian Church, two incomparably beautiful Mozart serenades usher in the holiday season. The richness of Mozart's writing for a large wind band in the "Gran Partita" has inspired astonished devotion comparable to the Mona Lisa and other icons in culture. In the Peter Schaffer play "Amadeus," Antonio Salieri, hearing the "Gran Partita" for the first time famously cries, "Filled with such longing, such unfulfillable longing. It seemed to me that I was hearing the voice of God.”
MOZART- Serenade no. 13 K. 525 “Eine kleine Nachtmusik”
MOZART - Serenade no. 10 K. 361 “Gran Partita” for 13 wind instruments
home for the holidays
MONDAY, December 17, 2018
MOODY MUSIC BUILDING CONCERT HALL, 7:00PM
Adam Flatt, Conductor
Prentice Concert Chorale, Leslie Poss, Director
Alabama Choir School, Doff Procter, Artistic Director
Shelton Singers, Dr. J.F. Mark Brown, Director
The TSO hosts the Alabama Choir School, the Shelton State Singers, and the Prentice Concert Chorale once again for a heartwarming evening of music of the season.
Cheers 'n Chat will begin at 6:00 p.m. in the lobby of Moody Concert Hall on the UA Campus. Join us for wine and live holiday chamber music.
HOPE AND SPLENDOR
MONDAY, February 18, 2019
MOODY MUSIC BUILDING CONCERT HALL, 7:00PM
Adam Flatt, Conductor
Rachmaninoff and Hindemith composed works of heartfelt sweep and Romantic optimism in a time when all artistic currents moved in the opposite direction. Rachmaninoff's work is epic: a deeply moving journey through stirring melody, orchestral color, and full-throttle symphonic power that culminates in a radiant, exciting finale.
HINDEMITH - Symphonic Metamorphosis on themes of
Carl Maria von Weber
RACHMANINOFF - Symphony no. 2
Cheers 'n Chat will begin at 6:00 p.m. in the Choral Opera Room.
ANNUAL DISCOVERY DAY – Grand Tour
ANNUAL FAMILY DISCOVERY CONCERT
MONDAY, March 4, 2019
MOODY MUSIC BUILDING CONCERT HALL, 6:00PM
Adam Flatt, Conductor
Celebrate the joyful collaboration of theater and music as Theatre Tuscaloosa and the TSO join forces to educate and entertain.
Petting Zoo will begin in the Choral Opera Room on the UA Campus at 5:00 p.m.
RUN FOR THE ROSES Cocktail supper AND SILENT AUCTION
THURSDAY, MAY 2, 2019
DINAH WASHINGTON CULTURAL ARTS CENTER, 6:30PM
Silent Auction and Live Chamber Music Performances with Musicians of the TSO
Enjoy an evening comprised of fabulous food, amazing auction items, and live chamber music performed by members of the Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra. Stay tuned for a complete list of auction items.
DARK AND LIGHT
MONDAY, May 6, 2019
MOODY MUSIC BUILDING CONCERT HALL, 7:00PM
Adam Flatt, Conductor
Shostakovich takes us inside into the darkest regions of the heart, and then outside into the most garish light of day. Tchaikovky's magnificent and incandescent Violin Concerto will take flight as the season comes to a close.
STRAVINSKY Suite no. 1 for small orchestra
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony no. 6
TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto in D major
Jenny Gregoire, soloist
Cheers 'n Chat will begin at 6:00 p.m. in the Choral Opera Room.