Garland Symphony Orchestra Season Opening Concert October 21, 2011

The Garland Symphony Orchestra continues with its 2011-2012 Season, “The Bard and the Band” in Brownlee Auditorium at the Patty Granville Arts Center. The season opens on October 21, 2011 with "Double, Double Toil & Trouble" performance beginning at 8PM in Brownlee Auditorium at the Patty Granville Arts Center!

Each of the GSO’s eight subscription concerts will examine the great composers’ interactions with a particular work by Shakespeare. To take just one example, in February the orchestra’s Valentine to the audience will be five musical perspectives of Romeo and Juliet: the ever popular Fantasy-Overture by Tchaikovsky, excerpts from the ballet by Prokofiev, the Love Scene from the symphony by Berlioz, the overture from Bellini’s opera, and Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story.

For each program, the GSO will be joined by the talented actors of the Dallas Shakespeare Festival, who will frame the music with famous scenes and soliloquies from the evening’s play.

The opening GSO concert will feature Nicolai's Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor and Verdi's Prelude to Macbeth, just to name a few! This performance will also feature International pianist, Simone Sala, performing Camilo’s Concerto for Piano, Harp, and Orchestra!