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Battle Creek Symphony Concert Schedule
(Billings Symphony Schedule coming soon)
Saturday, October 23, 7:30 pm
W.K. Kellogg Auditorium
Anne Harrigan,
conductor
Derek Stults,
Robert Burrows, Matthew Decker, percussion
with images from the Hubble Space Telescope
Planet Thunder
Peck: The Glory and the Grandeur
Holst: The Planets
"a stunning tour-de-force" Miami Herald
Russell Peck's exhuberant and jazzy concerto for three percussionists playing a stage full of instruments is as much fun to watch as it is to hear. Inspired by the mythological gods, Holst wrote The Planets to bring to life the personalities of the ancient heroes for whom they are named. The heart-pounding rhythms and evocative scoring of the Planets is enhanced by the riveting images from the Hubble Space Telescope in a brand-new photochoreography designed by Anne Harrigan.
Review of The Glory and the Grandeur
Battle Creek Symphony
Saturday, December 19, 7:30 pm
W.K. Kellogg Auditorium
Anne Harrigan,
conductor
Ballet Arts Ensemble of Kalamazoo
The Nutcracker Ballet
Capture the spirit of the holiday season with the timeless story of Clara and her heroic adventures with the Nutcracker Prince and the Mouse King. Audiences of all ages will marvel at the magic and wonderment of this beautiful ballet.
An annual event for years, Battle Creek Symphony audiences have been clamoring for the return of the Nutcracker. We are thrilled to be collaborating with one of the finest ballet companies in the region, the Ballet Arts Ensemble of Kalamazoo.
Battle Creek Symphony
Saturday, February 6, 7:30 pm
W.K. Kellogg Auditorium
Anne Harrigan,
conductor
Sierra Noble, fiddle and vocalist
Celtic Spirit
Selected Celtic works with Sierra Noble
Harty: Fair Day from An Irish Symphony
Grainger: Irish Tune from County Derry
The phenomenally talented fiddler Sierra Noble is a heroine championing the Celtic tradition and the traditions of her culture, the "Metis" or wissakodeminmi people. Experience the high energy haunting beauty of Celtic music, one of the hottest tickets in today's Symphony concerts.
Battle Creek Symphony
Saturday, March 26, 7:30 pm
W.K. Kellogg Auditorium
Anne Harrigan,
conductor
Fallen Heroes
Williams: Hymn to the Fallen from Saving Private Ryan
Ravel: Tombeau de Couperin
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, "Eroica"
(Heroic)
Deeply affected by his experience during World War I, Ravel composed the Tombeau as an homage to the golden era of French music and dedicated each of the movements to a comrade who had fallen in battle.
Beethoven's Eroica Symphony was a manifesto in a world of powdered wigs and convention. His revolutionarysounds shook the world then and remains to this day one of the greatest symphonic achievements of all time.
Battle Creek Symphony
Saturday, May 1, 7:30 pm
W.K. Kellogg Auditorium
Anne Harrigan,
conductor
Gilmore Young Artist Ivan Moschuk, piano
Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries
Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2
Unlike the heroes of our earlier concerts, Till Eulenspiegel is a peasant folk hero of the medieval period - he was an impudent trickster figure who played practical jokes on his contemporaries and exposed greed, hypocrisy and foolishness at every turn. Strauss's brilliant orchestration chronicles his misadventures and pranks with virtuosity and panache.
As is tradition, the Battle Creek Symphony will collaborate with the Gilmore Keyboard Festival, the largest gathering of keyboard artists in North America. This year we will feature one of the Gilmore Young Artists. Stay tuned for further developments as we present one of the rising stars of the piano world.
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