The Eureka Symphony returns to the Arkley Center for the Performing Arts for the first of a two-night springtime celebration titled “Music of the Spheres.” The program starts out with some heavies from the classical era, with a piece by Hadyn featuring some very talented local high schoolers in the instrumental mix, and Mozart’s hybrid concerto symphony Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in Eb Major, featuring acclaimed violin and viola guest soloists Liana Bérubé and Ivo Bokulić.
The whole thing ends on a much more modern note, with Gustav Holst’s The Planets, a work that is essentially ground zero for many famous film scores and soundtracks. There will be a free pre-concert talk at 6:30 p.m. called Musical Notes, helmed by pianist John Chernoff and concertmaster Terrie Baune, and the main program begins an hour later, with tickets going from $10-$54. Once again, all hail the Eureka Symphony, especially artistic director and conductor Carol Jacobson, a woman who has run on a seemingly inexhaustible love of music since long before I first met her nearly thirty years ago as a surly kid. She certainly had more delight in the wonder of sound than myself back then, and seems to have only accelerated on her path. We should all be so lucky to catch up, or at least enjoy the gleaming wake of her stellar talent and charisma.
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