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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