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| | THE SEARCH: IAN PASSMORE - "ECHOES OF RESILIENCE"
Featuring: THE SYMPHONIC CHOIR
Season Sponsor: D.A.DAVIDSON COMPANIES
Concert Sponsor: TBD
Conductor Candidate Sponsor: ANGELA COSTLEY & DEB PORCARELLI
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Program:
Omar Thomas: Of Our New Day Begun
Johannes Brahms: Schicksalslied
Nancy Hill Cobb: Shades & Illumination
Jean Sibelius: Symphony #5
Concert Description:
Join Music Director candidate Ian Passmore and the Great Falls Symphonic Choir for a stirring evening of reflection, resilience, and symphonic grandeur. The program opens with Omar Thomas’s Of Our New Day Begun, a powerful tribute to strength and unity in the face of tragedy.
The choir then joins the orchestra for Brahms’s Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny), a profound and moving meditation on the contrast between human struggle and divine serenity.
Next, we shine a spotlight on new music with Nancy Hill Cobb’s Shades & Illumination, selected as the winner of the Symphony’s Second Performance Project, showcasing a bold and evocative contemporary voice.
The evening concludes with Sibelius’s majestic Symphony No. 5, a sweeping and triumphant work that captures the awe of nature and the triumph of the human spirit.
- Saturday, April 18, 2026
- 7:30 pm
- Mansfield Theater
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| | CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES: QUARTET IN BLOOM
Featuring: THE CASCADE QUARTET
Chamber Music Series Season Sponsor: DR. BRICE ADDISON
Concert Sponsor: NANCY LONCKI
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The Cascade Quartet comes together for its season finale, featuring Dvořák’s “Slavic Quartet.” The work is full of Bohemian folk flavors and portrays a delightfully ambivalent world where grief and joy are juxtaposed. Celebrate chamber music with us as the our Quartet evolves and grows!
- Friday, May 1, 2026 - 7:00 PM @ The History Museum
- Sunday, May 3, 2026 – 2:00 PM @ First Congregational United Church of Christ
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| | THE SEARCH: DANIEL BLACK - "RENEWAL"
Featuring: DWIGHT PARRY, oboe
Season Sponsor: D.A.DAVIDSON COMPANIES
Concert Sponsor: JOHN GREENBERGER & MICHAEL KENNEDY
Conductor Candidate Sponsor: JOHN GREENBERGER & MICHAEL KENNEDY
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Program:
Schumann: Manfred
Morlock: My name is Amanda Todd
Connesson: Oboe Concerto “La Belles Heures” with Dwight Parry
Dvorak: Symphony No. 8
Concert Description:
Step into a world of drama, beauty, and hope with this powerful concert led by Music Director candidate Daniel Black. The program opens with the darkly atmospheric Manfred Overture by Schumann, inspired by Byron’s haunting tale of inner torment and mystery.
Next, the orchestra presents Jocelyn Morlock’s My Name is Amanda Todd—an emotional and poignant tribute that transforms tragedy into a message of empathy and awareness. Then, enjoy a burst of color and brilliance with Guillaume Connesson’s Oboe Concerto “Les Belles Heures”, featuring guest soloist Dwight Parry in a dazzling display of lyricism and virtuosity.
After intermission, the mood lifts with Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8, a joyful celebration of nature, melody, and the vibrant spirit of Bohemia—closing the evening with warmth and exuberance.
- Saturday, May 9, 2026
- 7:30 pm
- Mansfield Theater
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| | ELEMENTS OF LIFE - SYMPHONIC CHOIR CONCERT
Featuring: THE GREAT FALLS SYMPHONIC CHOIR & JOAN SCHMIDT, ORGAN
Concert Sponsor: First Congregational United Church of Christ
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The Great Falls Symphonic Choir presents Elements of Life—a celebration of faith, love, and the human spirit through choral works by Stroope, Bruckner, Pärt, Whitacre, Handel, Bernstein, and Ramsey. This inspiring program will be performed alongside the beautiful organ at First Congregational United Church of Christ in Great Falls in tribute to Mary Moore.
Program:
Handel - Zadok the Priest
Stroope - Os Justi
Bernstein - Psalm 23 from Chichester Psalms
Bruckner - Ave Maria
Pärt - Solfeggio
Rheinberger - Abendlied
Bermel - Kpanlongo
Uusberg - Muusika
Brahms - Der Gang zum Liebchen
Kirchner - Tu sangre en la mía
Whitacre - A Boy and a Girl
Brahms - Abschiedslied
Ramsey - That Which Remains
-And More!
- Sunday, June 7, 2026 – 3:00 PM @ First Congregational United Church of Christ
Ticket Prices:
- Adult: $20
- Senior: $18
- Student: $10
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