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Des Moines Symphony Concerts & Events

Wednesday February 15

Academy
Youth Orchestras Winter Concert
5:30 PM

Join us for our Youth Orchestras Winter Concert featuring our Preludio Strings, Youth Sinfonia and Youth Philharmonic at 5:30pm and our Youth Symphony and Youth Wind Ensemble at 7:30pm.
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Academy
Youth Orchestras Winter Concert
7:30 PM

Join us for our Youth Orchestras Winter Concert featuring our Preludio Strings, Youth Sinfonia and Youth Philharmonic at 5:30pm and our Youth Symphony and Youth Wind Ensemble at 7:30pm.
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Wednesday March 8

Symphony
Classical Conversations: St. Clair Conducts Tchaikovsky
6:30 PM

Go inside the music! Join Dr. Eric McIntyre of Grinnell College for an online class discussing the music and composers of our March Masterworks Concert, St. Clair Conducts Tchaikovsky.
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Saturday March 11

Academy
Carl St. Clair Maestro Class
10:00 AM

Join us for an event designed for conductors and featuring celebrated Conductor Carl St. Clair, Music Director of the Pacific Symphony and National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica and Artistic Leader/Principal Conductor of Orchestras at the USC Thornton School. This event is presented in conjunction with Maestro St. Clair’s appearance as Guest Conductor with the Des Moines Symphony.
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Masterworks 5
St. Clair Conducts Tchaikovsky
7:30 PM

Renowned conductor Carl St. Clair leads the Orchestra in a dramatic program beginning with John Wineglass’s profound Alone Together. Aubree Oliverson plays Bruch’s beloved First Violin Concerto; finally, the wild euphoria and desolate despair of Tchaikovsky’s ethereal “Pathétique” Symphony.
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Sunday March 12

Masterworks 5
St. Clair Conducts Tchaikovsky
2:30 PM

Renowned conductor Carl St. Clair leads the Orchestra in a dramatic program beginning with John Wineglass’s profound Alone Together. Aubree Oliverson plays Bruch’s beloved First Violin Concerto; finally, the wild euphoria and desolate despair of Tchaikovsky’s ethereal “Pathétique” Symphony.
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Wednesday April 19

Symphony
Classical Conversations: April in Paris
6:30 PM

Go inside the music! Join Dr. Eric McIntyre of Grinnell College for an online class discussing the music and composers of our April Masterworks Concerts, April in Paris.
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Saturday April 22

Masterworks 6
April in Paris
7:30 PM

Franco-Belgian sensation Camille Thomas joins the Des Moines Symphony for an all-French program featuring Berlioz’s bright Roman Carnival Overture, Lili Boulanger’s ‘On a Spring Morning’ and the colorful can-can from Offenbach’s Gaite Parisienne. But first, experience Saint-Saëns’s passionate Cello Concerto.
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Sunday April 23

Masterworks 6
April in Paris
2:30 PM

Franco-Belgian sensation Camille Thomas joins the Des Moines Symphony for an all-French program featuring Berlioz’s bright Roman Carnival Overture, Lili Boulanger’s ‘On a Spring Morning’ and the colorful can-can from Offenbach’s Gaite Parisienne. But first, experience Saint-Saëns’s passionate Cello Concerto.
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Wednesday May 3

Academy
Youth Orchestras Spring Concert
5:00 PM

Join us for our Youth Orchestras Spring Concert fearing our Preludio Strings, Youth Sinfonia and Youth Philharmonic at 5pm and our Youth Symphony and Youth Wind Ensemble at 7:30pm.
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