The Fall River Symphony Orchestra is opening its 2018-2019 season with a concert that promises to send a few chills up the spine. And this season, like last year, will be another blockbuster, said music director Douglas McRay Daniels.
The Fall River Symphony Orchestra’s upcoming concert on March 4 is an ambitious undertaking honoring the legacy of the late Faust Fiore, conductor of the FRSO from 1962 to 2002. Under the direction of conductor Douglas McRay Daniels, the program will consist of the Richard Wagner Overture to the opera Tannhäuser and the complete Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 1, known as “The Titan.
Join the Fall River Symphony Orchestra and the SouthCoast Community Chorus for the annual Holiday Pops Concert on Sunday, Dec. 10 at 3 p.m.
The concert will open with the Waltz of the Flowers from Tschaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite. They will also play the Rimsky-Korsakov Christmas Eve Suite, a set of pieces from an opera written in the 1890s, including fantastic beasts, Russian Christmas music and a ride on the devil’s back to the palace of the Tsar.
Enigma, the upcoming concert on Oct. 29, features an original guitar piece by composer Rusty Banks.
The Fall River Symphony Orchestra is rolling out an ambitious season that includes a composition for electric guitar created for the FRSO; a Holiday Pops concert; Wagner and Mahler for its winter concert, and in the spring, Gustav Holst’s The Planets with several area choruses.
With the South Coast Community Chorale as their guests, the FRSO’s concert will highlight generations of movie soundtracks and television themes.
The Fall River Symphony Orchestra’s final concert of the season on May 7 will be a blockbuster of movie themes and more, said Douglas McRay Daniels.
Brahms’ Academic Overture, Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and William Grant Still’s Afro-American Symphony to be performed.
The Fall River Symphony Orchestra’s concert this Sunday will feature Brahms’ Academic Overture, Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and William Grant Still’s Afro-American Symphony.