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Pianist Katherine Chi will perform Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini


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Now here’s something to love…

The Richmond Symphony is offering 50% off symphony tickets for the month of February and calling it “For the Love of Music.”

And we approve!

Regular price tickets for the Atria Masterworks series run $18 to $73. But now, during the month of February, you can snap them up for $9 to $36.50.

Cha-ching!

And thank you Richmond Symphony! 

Here are more details on the upcoming concerts and prices from the Richmond Symphony:

Altria Masterworks – Grieg & Sibelius – February 4 & 5, 2012

This Richmond Symphony concert will feature Danail Rachev as the guest conductor.  Rachev is currently the music director at the Eugene Symphony. 

The program features well-known favorites, Peer Gynt: Suite No. 1 by Grieg and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini by Rachmaninoff. 

Also joining the symphony for this concert is pianist Katherine Chi, who will perform Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

            Grieg                                        Peer Gynt: Suite No. 1

            Rachmaninoff                           Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

            Sibelius                                     Symphony No. 5 in E-Flat Major

 

Saturday, February 4               8 p.m. – Carpenter Theatre, Richmond CenterStage

Sunday, February 5                  3 p.m. – Carpenter Theatre, Richmond CenterStage

Single tickets under this special range from $9-$36.50 (cannot be combined with other discounts).  Children 18 and under receive free admission to Altria Masterworks concerts when accompanied by a paying adult.

 

Altria Masterworks – Beethoven’s Seventh – February 25 & 26, 2012

The first work on the program is John Adam’s The Chairman Dances: Foxtrot for Orchestra, which is a selection that was adapted for orchestra from his 1977 opera Nixon in China.  Guest artists Kathryn Leemhuis (mezzo-soprano), Jorge Prego (tenor), and Seth Mease Carico (bass-baritone) will join the Richmond Symphony and the Richmond Symphony Chorus for Mendelssohn’s Die erste Walpurgisnacht.  Concluding the evening will be Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A Minor, which has recently been highlighted in the Oscar-winning motion picture, The King’s Speech.

            John Adams                             The Chairman Dances: Foxtrot for Orchestra

            Mendelssohn                           Die erste Walpurgisnacht

            Beethoven                                Symphony No. 7 in A Minor

 

Saturday, February 25              8 p.m. – Carpenter Theatre, Richmond CenterStage

Sunday, February 26                3 p.m.– Carpenter Theatre, Richmond CenterStage

Single tickets under this special range from $9-$36.50 (cannot be combined with other discounts).  Children 18 and under receive free admission to Altria Masterworks concerts when accompanied by a paying adult.

Go to the Richmond Symphony's website for tickets.

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