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| | Join us (in non-obstructive costume if you’d like) as we celebrate Halloween! Experience the multimedia story of how a soldier trades his violin (soul) for money and fortune in Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale. Revisit the witch gathering celebration of Sabbath with Night on Bald Mountain, made famous by the movie Fantasia. Who can forget the shrieking violins in the famous shower scene in Psycho? We will perform some of the music from this pop culture film. We will feature one of our own, saxophonist Charlie Young as our soloist. We will conclude with Berlioz's Dream of a Witches' Sabbath from Symphonie Fantastique. | Buy tickets | |
| | Celebrate the holidays with our annual Holiday Pops concert. Familiar works include the charming Winter Bonfire Suite by Prokofiev, featuring the WPO Children’s Choirs. Enjoy music from the television classic: A Charlie Brown Christmas. Once again we will collaborate with the Minot Chamber Chorale and MSU Concert Choir, to bring you the magnificent Gloria by F. Poulenc, featuring the angelic voice of soprano Clara Rottsolk, who has become a household name in Minot. She will also delight us with Mozart’s Alleluja! from Exsultate Jubilate and Mater Dei by Maestro Amaya! We will also bring you cheer with clever arrangements of Christmas favorites by David Lovrien among other familiar composers.
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| | Our family concert will celebrate composers both dead and alive. Living composer Nathaniel Stookey’s piece, The Composer is Dead, will delight patrons of all ages. Dance away with Angelica by Maestro Amaya, inspired by the tales of Charlemagne. Listen to Death and Transfiguration by J. Strauss depicting an artist in his deathbed reflecting on his life when at the end he receives the longed-for transfiguration “From the infinite reaches of heaven.” We will also feature this year’s Young Concerto Competition Winner.
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| | What would movies be without music? Join us as we perform some of the most unforgettable classical scores used in films including Richard Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries, immortalized in the film Apocalypse Now, and Ravel’s Bolero, in the hit film 10. We will of course include some of the most famous film composers of our time with selections from Jurassic Park, the Titanic, Mission Impossible, The Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars. Our feature soloist will be the Minot State University Concerto Competition winner and we will also pay homage to our armed forces.
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| | Join us for our season finale when we spotlight our own Luminus Piano Trio will be the solo ensemble for Beethoven’s unique Triple Concerto.
For our second year in a row we will have a world premiere featuring our Composition Contest winner. We will explore two of the composers who belonged to the Russian Mighty Five. This group of composers, led by Rimsky-Korsakov, were seeking a true Nationalistic Russian voice. The Capriccio Espagnol based on Spanish folk melodies is one of the most popular pieces by the Russian composer. Talking about popular, Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition is without a doubt his most famous piano piece, it has seen many orchestrations from rock bands to the most performed orchestration by the French master orchestrator Maurice Ravel.
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