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| | Higdon - Blue Cathedral
Barber - Violin Concerto
with Rachel Lee Priday, Violin
Brahms - Symphony No. 4
White Concert Hall, Washburn University
Saturday, November 12, 2022
7:30 PM
This concert explores nostalgia and grief over lost loved ones in Jennifer Higdon’s beautiful elegy to her late brother, and the melancholy memory of being in love, always present in the music of Johannes Brahms. We also welcome back superstar violinist Rachel Lee Priday for Barber’s romantic Violin Concerto. | Buy Tickets |
| | Holiday Favorites
with UMKC Conservatory Choirs
White Concert Hall, Washburn University
Saturday, December 3, 2022
7:30 PM
Whether it’s being with your loved ones at home for the holidays, or taking your special someone for a walk in a winter wonderland, the Christmas season is brimming with love. We’ll be playing everyone’s favorite holiday tunes that capture the spirit of love and romance of Christmastime. | Buy Tickets |
| | Chen Yi - Romance and dance
Young Artist Competition Winner
Sibelius - Symphony No. 2
White Concert Hall, Washburn University
Saturday, January 21, 2023
7:30 PM
The Topeka Symphony is delighted to offer Chen Yi’s beautiful Romance and Dance, featuring our Concertmaster Zsolt Eder and Assistant Concertmaster Kenya Patzer. We will also present our Young Artist Audition winner, and we’ll play Sibelius’s Second Symphony, which Sibelius described as “a confession of the soul.” The symphony is grandiose, profound, and ecstatic, and its love themes range from love of country to a meditation on Don Juan, the notorious Italian lover. | Buy Tickets |
| | Barber - School for Scandal Overture
Wagner - Wotand's Farewell and Magic Fire Music
with Ben Wager, Bass-Baritone
Puccini - Manon Lescaut: Intermezzo from Act III
Strauss - Rosenkavalier Suite
White Concert Hall, Washburn University
Saturday, February 18, 2023
7:30 PM
Sometimes love is complicated. There is the kind of love that only a Norse God could fathom—a love so deep (and possibly misguided) that it drives a father to put his Walkyrie daughter in a time-out circle made of fire until a hero comes to rescue her with his love, which we’ll hear in Wotan’s Farewell from Die Walkyrie. And there is the love that strikes when a young messenger, tasked with delivering a silver rose as a signal of intended courtship from the local baron to a beautiful young lady, instead falls in love with her himself, but first he has to disentangle himself from the older woman he’s been having an affair with, as in Der Rosenkavalier. And the affairs and intrigues are almost too complicated to recount in The School for Scandal, but the local gossips certainly try to keep up with it all. | Buy Tickets |
| | Excerpts from:
Schumann - Symphony No. 2
Clara Schumann - Piano Concerto - Mvt. 1
Schumann - Violin Concerto
Brahms - Symphony No. 1
Schumann - Carnival (Piano)
Brahms - Piano Trio, Op. 8 - Mvt. 1
Schumann - Piano Quartet - Mvt. 3 - 7
White Concert Hall, Washburn University
Saturday, April 1, 2023
7:30 PM
The marriage of composer Robert Schumann and pianist Clara Schumann was filled with musical innovation and intellectual engagement, but it was also marked by tragedy. The arrival of young rising star Johannes Brahms brought joy to their household, and the deep bond that developed between Clara and Johannes has long been the subject of question and conjecture. The Topeka Symphony will present a unique evening of symphonic, chamber, and solo works by both Schumanns and Brahms, while actors illuminate the human story behind these towering figures of western music. | Buy Tickets |
| | Rogers and Hammerstein - Oklahoma! in Concert
Collaboration with Topeka Civic Theatre
Topeka Performing Arts Center
Saturday, May 6, 2023
7:30 PM
We are thrilled to present Rogers and Hammerstein’s classic American musical Oklahoma! in conjunction with Topeka Civic Theatre. In this inventive concert performance of the full show, the music and story take center stage as the Topeka Symphony performs the rich orchestral score while actors and singers bring to life the words, songs, and history of one of Broadway’s most beloved musicals about love and romance on the Great Plains. | Buy Tickets |