Date/Time
Date(s) - May 11, 2025
2:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Location
Lesher Center for the Arts
1601 Civic Dr., Walnut Creek
Featured Artist Amy Likar, piccolo
Concert Program
Florence Price – Mississippi River Suite
Martin Rokeach – Piccolo Concerto, Amy Likar
Bedřich Smetana – The Moldau
Travel down the Mississippi with Florence Price, and the Moldau with Bedřich Smetana, respectively, in a Mother’s Day concert that celebrates musical creativity and the beauty of Mother Earth. The melodic and rhythmic ebb and flow of Price’s Mississippi Suite reveals the landscapes, birds, and people in the lands of southern spirituals and New Orleans jazz, and Smetana’s “The Moldau,” capturing the composer’s love of his homeland, flows past jubilant hunters, a village wedding, a legendary gorge, and whitewater rapids before reaching Prague and its Bohemian castle, Vyšehrad. And Rokeach’s creative Piccolo Concerto takes the listener on an optimistic and celebratory journey while also showcasing the instrument’s uniquely sweet-toned low register.
Ticket Information
- $45 for adults
- $15 for youth (ages 13–17)
- Free for children (ages 12 and under, a ticket still required
- $35 for senior groups of 10 or more
Purchase your tickets online or by phone at the Lesher Center Box Office (925) 943-7469 We look forward to seeing you at the symphony!