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Livermore-Amador Symphony will open its 59th season this weekend with “Symphonic Sounds of the Season” at the Bankhead Theater.
“After a 20-month pandemic interruption, our talented community musicians are thrilled to be back,” said music director Lara Webber. “With the great care taken by the leadership of the Livermore-Amador Symphony and the health protocols of the Bankhead Theater, our audiences can feel comfortable reconnecting with their community and attending performances once again.”
The program will open with brass players performing the brilliant “La Péri” fanfare by Paul Dukas, Webber said, followed by the transcendent music of Morten Lauridsen’s “O Magnum Mysterium.”
The program also includes Debussy’s mystical and atmospheric “Sacred and Profane Dances,” with harpist Constance Koo as the featured soloist. Koo, who did her conservatory training at the Cleveland Institute of Music, has performed numerous times as the harpist of Livermore-Amador Symphony and with other orchestral and ensemble groups in Northern California, and also as a soloist.
The evening will be centered on Beethoven’s 7th symphony, Webber said.
“Beethoven’s joyful, resilient 7th symphony was actually written during a period of profound suffering and distress,” she noted. “Increasingly deaf, short of money, and unlucky in love, he somehow wrote music loaded with invention, brilliance and sunny radiance.”
“We hope you’ll join us for these performances,” she added.
The concert begins at 8:15 p.m. this Saturday (Dec. 4). Webber will provide brief commentary during the concert in lieu of a prelude talk.
Tickets are $12-$37; visit www.livermoreamadorsymphony.org, livermorearts.org, the Bankhead ticket office at 2400 First St. in Livermore, or call 373-6800.
Livermore-Amador Symphony is also offering a free family concert that afternoon. Tickets are required; visit www.livermoreamadorsymphony.org.
The symphony’s 59th season continues with “The Brilliance of Youth” on Feb. 12; “Vibrant Voices,” April 23; and “Building a New World,” June 4.
