Description
Immerse yourself in the unexpected as we seamlessly blend music and visuals in this innovative concert! Distinctive works represent the ongoing, cutting-edge evolution of symphony music: Mason Bate‘s Mothership (2011) features improvised solos and electronica and is accompanied by a visually stunning film followed by Mussorgsky‘s Pictures at an Exhibition (1874). Concert features a side-by-side performance with our Lake Michigan Youth Orchestra.
FEATURED GUESTS
TICKETS
Adult – $40 Zone A | $24 Zone B
Youth* – $20 Zone A | $12 Zone B
Processing fees included in price.
*Youth – ages 6-17 years
SAT. MAY 17, 2025
EVENT SCHEDULE
6:00 PM – Doors Open
6:30 PM – FREE Pre-Concert Conversation with Maestro Aubin (30 min)
7:30 PM – Concert (90 min)
Program Schedule
A free 30-minute pre-concert conversation with Maestro Matthew Aubin that delves into the concert’s featured musical works and composers. Affectionately called in-house as “Matt Chats,” these short sessions always enhance the evening’s experience for concert-goers. This special feature is available prior to each classical concert.
Musicians will already be on stage making a flurry of sound as they fine tune instruments and warm up with last minute practice of musical snippets or scales.
Signaling the start of the concert, a representative from the Symphony will come out on stage to welcome and greet our guests and thank our sponsors and supporters before turning the stage over to our Concertmaster, Musicians, and Conductor.
The mothership floats high above, an orchestra pulsing rapidly with a heart of techno. At several moments in the piece, various soloists dock with the mothership, dropping in with solos both virtuosic and lyrical. The work was commissioned by Michael Tilson Thomas and the YouTube Symphony, which premiered the work in March 2011 at the Sydney Opera House in Australia.
Pictures at an Exhibition is a musical depiction of a tour of an exhibition of works by architect and painter Viktor Hartmann put on at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, following his sudden death in the previous year. Each movement of the suite is based on an individual work, some of which are lost. The composition has become a showpiece for virtuoso pianists, and became widely known from orchestrations and arrangements produced by other composers and contemporary musicians…