After their crowd-pleasing Symphony SPLASH! debut in 2025, percussionist Sal Ferreras, vocalist Adonis Puentes, and the Latin Jazz Sextet return with irresistible energy, rhythm, and joy. Featuring new works from Adonis Puentes and Miguelito Valdés, plus musical gems from Lalo Schifrin (Argentina), Ernesto Lecuona (Cuba), Sergio Mendes (Brazil), and Oscar Hernández (Puerto Rico), Latin Nights is an...
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After their crowd-pleasing Symphony SPLASH! debut in 2025, percussionist Sal Ferreras, vocalist Adonis Puentes, and the Latin Jazz Sextet return with irresistible energy, rhythm, and joy. Featuring new works from Adonis Puentes and Miguelito Valdés, plus musical gems from Lalo Schifrin (Argentina), Ernesto Lecuona (Cuba), Sergio Mendes (Brazil), and Oscar Hernández (Puerto Rico), Latin Nights is an...
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Experience Wagner’s monumental Ring Cycle—Das Rheingold through Götterdämmerung—in a single, seamless symphonic journey. The Ring Without Words, arranged by Lorin Maazel, distills fifteen hours of drama into seventy-five minutes of breathtaking orchestral storytelling. Christian Kluxen leads one of the largest ensembles ever assembled by the VS in this landmark event for Wagnerians and newcomers alike.
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Canadian piano legend Marc-André Hamelin, hailed by The New York Times for his “near-superhuman technical prowess,” takes on the towering “Rach 3,” one of the most challenging concertos ever written. Christian Kluxen pairs it with Brahms’s heroic First Symphony, a work born of grief for Schumann yet resolved in radiant strength, affirming resilience through beauty. Not included...
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Eight-year-old Sarah T. Murdoch isn’t thrilled about her class trip to the Symphony—no sharks, no climbing wall, not even a frog! But with the help of a conductor and a magical book, she discovers that the orchestra is full of adventure. Through music by Mussorgsky, Barber, Bizet, Saint-Saëns, and John Williams, Sarah learns that symphonic...
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The program opens with Marcus Goddard’s Antarctica: Life Emerging, an immersive orchestral work and film tracing the fragility of life on one of the planet’s most extreme environments. The afternoon then turns inward with William Walton’s lyrical Cello Concerto, premiered by Gregor Piatigorsky and brought vividly to life by Canadian cellist Cameron Crozman. After intermission, Maurice...
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