Date/Time
Date(s) - Oct 20, 2024
2:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Location
Lesher Center for the Arts
1601 Civic Dr., Walnut Creek
Tickets, including processing fees, are $45 for adults and $15 for youth 13-17; children 12 and under are free (but need a ticket). A senior group discount of $35 each is also available for groups of 10 or more. Call the Lesher Center Box Office (925-943-7469) or click the “Buy Now” button here to reserve your seats — we look forward to seeing you at the symphony!
To learn more about the pieces being played, the composers, narrator Cindy Silva, and guest soloists Cayden Bloomer and Justin Griffin, click here for the concert program.
Our traditional family concert opens the season! Experience how four different composers explore the colors of the orchestra and use them to paint pictures and tell stories. Different instruments turn into animals and characters in Sergei Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf”; an ogre and rescued princesses are conjured up in Igor Stravinsky’s “Lullaby” and “Finale” from The Firebird; and spaces of beauty, tranquility, and energy are painted in Richard Strauss’s “Sunrise” from Also Sprach Zarathustra and Astor Piazzolla’s flowing tango “Oblivion” (arranged by the DSO’s own Dean Boysen). Also, both the first and second place winners of the DSO’s 2024–2025 Yen Liang Young Artist Competition will perform on their respective instruments, the oboe and the marimba!
Sergei Prokofiev – Peter and the Wolf, with narrator Cindy Silva
Astor Piazzolla (arr. Dean Boysen) – Oblivion
Richard Strauss – “Sunrise” from Also Sprach Zarathustra
Ralph Vaughan Williams – First movement, Rondo Pastorale (Allegro Moderato) of Concerto in A Minor for Oboe and Strings, Cayden Bloomer, first place, Yen Liang Young Artist Competition
Sergei Golovko – Third movement, Allegramente de Bravura of Concerto for Marimba, Justin Griffin, second place, Yen Liang Young Artist Competition