Half Price Tickets “For the Love of Music!”

HALF PRICE TICKETS IN FEBRUARY FOR THE LOVE OF MUSIC!

As a gift to the greater Richmond community during the month of February, the Richmond Symphony’s newest initiative, For the Love of Music!, will offer 50% off regularly priced adult tickets to any concert in February.  Regularly priced single tickets for an Altria Masterworks series range from $18-$73; therefore, for the following two concerts below, tickets will be priced from $9-$36.50.

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 Grand Rapids Press writes on Rachev, “There’s no denying the Bulgarian-born conductor can light a fire under an orchestra and smoke out exciting musical moments.”

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.  The Boston Globe comments that “Chi’s playing was electric, alternating between ricocheting expressionism and mechanistic intensity.”

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 PM – Carpenter Theatre, Richmond CenterStage
• Sunday, February 5                  3 PM – 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 PM – Carpenter Theatre, Richmond CenterStage
•             Sunday, February 26                3 PM – 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.