Thirty years after the defeat of the Empire, Luke Skywalker has vanished and a new threat has risen. The Resistance, and unlikely heroes brought together by fate, are the galaxy's only hope. From visionary director J.J. Abrams, the film features a new score composed by five-time Academy Award-winning composer John Williams.
Thirty years after the defeat of the Empire, Luke Skywalker has vanished and a new threat has risen. The Resistance, and unlikely heroes brought together by fate, are the galaxy's only hope. From visionary director J.J. Abrams, the film features a new score composed by five-time Academy Award-winning composer John Williams.
Strauss's powerful Death and Transfiguration explores the ultimate mystery of what lies beyond. Principal Trumpet Alex Wilborn takes the stage to perform Böhme's virtuosic Trumpet Concerto.
JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Alex Wilborn, trumpet
WAGNER Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
BÖHME Trumpet Concerto
PERRY A Short Piece for Orchestra
STRAUSS Death and Transfiguration
Strauss's powerful Death and Transfiguration explores the ultimate mystery of what lies beyond. Principal Trumpet Alex Wilborn takes the stage to perform Böhme's virtuosic Trumpet Concerto.
JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Alex Wilborn, trumpet
WAGNER Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
BÖHME Trumpet Concerto
PERRY A Short Piece for Orchestra
STRAUSS Death and Transfiguration
The Charlotte Symphony and Johnson C. Smith University join forces for a compelling musical tribute to resilience and empowerment. Highlights include "Klap Ur Handz" from Daniel Bernard Roumain's Rosa Parks String Quartet and Carlos Simon's Portrait of a Queen, narrated by Dr. Shawn-Allyce White. The JCSU Concert Choir will also perform selected repertoire including Anthem of Praise by Richard Smallwood.
Acclaimed for his stellar stage presence and joyous musicianship, cellist Sterling Elliott joins the CSO to perform Tchaikovsky's charming Variations on a Rococo Theme alongside Brahms's monumental First Symphony.
Sterling Elliott, cello
WANG Jie Symphonic Overture "America, the Beautiful"
TCHAIKOVSKY Variations on a Rococo Theme
BRAHMS Symphony No. 1
Acclaimed for his stellar stage presence and joyous musicianship, cellist Sterling Elliott joins the CSO to perform Tchaikovsky's charming Variations on a Rococo Theme alongside Brahms's monumental First Symphony.
Sterling Elliott, cello
WANG Jie Symphonic Overture "America, the Beautiful"
TCHAIKOVSKY Variations on a Rococo Theme
BRAHMS Symphony No. 1
Superstar vocalist Dee Daniels will dazzle Charlotte in this program featuring hits by Swing legends Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee, and Sarah Vaughan. Hear her and the Charlotte Symphony perform classics like "A Tisket, A Tasket," "Fever," "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man," "Makin' Whoopee," and "Mack The Knife."
Experience a wild menagerie of music! From Saint-Saëns's Carnival of the Animals to Peter Schickele's Thurber's Dogs -- which brings to life the drawings of celebrated author James Thurber -- this concert connects us with the furry creatures that inspired some of our favorite music.
Christopher James Lees, conductor
Superstar vocalist Dee Daniels will dazzle Charlotte in this program featuring hits by Swing legends Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee, and Sarah Vaughan. Hear her and the Charlotte Symphony perform classics like "A Tisket, A Tasket," "Fever," "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man," "Makin' Whoopee," and "Mack The Knife."
Chorus, orchestra, and soloists sing of ships, captains, wind, and waves with music so vivid you can almost taste the salt air in Vaughan Williams's large-scale A Sea Symphony, conducted by CSO Conductor Laureate Christopher Warren-Green.
Christopher Warren-Green, conductor
Charlotte Master Chorale
BRITTEN Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
G. WILLIAMS Sea Sketches
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No. 1, A Sea Symphony
Chorus, orchestra, and soloists sing of ships, captains, wind, and waves with music so vivid you can almost taste the salt air in Vaughan Williams's large-scale A Sea Symphony, conducted by CSO Conductor Laureate Christopher Warren-Green.
Christopher Warren-Green, conductor
Charlotte Master Chorale
BRITTEN Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
G. WILLIAMS Sea Sketches
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No. 1, A Sea Symphony
