The Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra with William Schrickel, Music Director, is on the move all around the Twin Cities to bring you outstanding, free concerts.

The Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra’s 29th season, its eleventh under Music Director William Schrickel, encompasses an enormous range of masterpieces including a piccolo concerto from the early 1700s, a Brahms overture from 1880 and a work for string orchestra written just nine years ago by jazz icon Dave Brubeck. The MSO will celebrate Brubeck’s 90th birthday with a performance of his Elementals. Sarah Kwak, the Minnesota Orchestra’s acting concertmaster, will perform Glazunov’s brilliant violin concerto, and MSO principal players will be showcased in music of Vivaldi and Ravel. Oscar-winning John Corigliano’s Fantasia on an Ostinato is folded into Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, the work that inspired its creation. The MSO’s family concerts showcase dances by Dvořák, Bartók, Offenbach and Copland that frame Saint-Saëns’ playful Carnival of the Animals, with a new narration by Pamela Hill Nettleton. The orchestra’s brass section performs the work that Grieg composed in memory of a friend and later insisted be played at his own funeral, and the orchestra unleashes its power in large-scale musical canvases of Stravinsky and Mussorgsky. Don’t miss a note of this spectacular season!

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