Our series goes out with a bang, as we take you back to the Grand Rapids Symphony's season finale concert from May 8 and 9. "Orchestral Fireworks." The program will open as Music Director Marcelo Lehninger takes us to his native Brazil for the Overture to Il Guarany by Brazilian composer Carlos Gomes—and then it's "all roads lead to Rome" including works of Rota and Respighi, as first the Symphony's principal double bass, Jonathan Reed, is featured in the Divertimento Concertante by Nino Rota; The concerto, and season, will then conclude with two of the three masterful tone poems that make up the "Roman Trilogy" by Ottorino Respighi, his Fountains of Rome and Pines of Rome, the latter widely considered one of the greatest orchestral showpieces in the repertoire—and the very work that Marcel Lehninger first conducted with the orchestra in the perfmance that lead to his being name the 14th Music Director of the Grand Rapids Symphon ten years ago, on June 2, 2016.
"Orchestral Fireworks": The Grand Rapids Symphony Broadcast Season Finale!
