The world is back up and running. Tourists are traveling the globe. Restaurants are filling their tables. Audiences are back at concerts. And here at the Springfield Symphony, we are excited to help you avoid the dreaded #FOMO—Fear Of Missing Out!
Don’t miss our thrilling concert line-up filled with you-have-to-be-there-yourself nights at the symphony. Our 2023-24 season will take concert-going to a new level. Each concert will feature something you have to experience in person — from incredible photography shows, to musicians around the hall for a surround-sound effect, to a Beatles tribute concert with eye-popping Sgt. Pepper attire. And, of course, there’s always the amazing, life-changing experience of hearing live music at a packed concert hall and the energy of an excited crowd to enjoy it with.
So get off your couch, come to the symphony, and don’t miss out on aseason full of live music and thrilling experiences at the hall. You have be there! NOMO FOMO!
#OPENNIGHT 09/16/2023
Concert Performance: 7:30 p.m.
Jump off your couch and run, don’t walk, to the symphony for a can’t miss Opening Night! We start with audience-favorite Sorcerer’s Apprentice and an exquisite new work for oboe played by former Hellam Competition winner and current principal oboe of the Cincinnati Symphony, Dwight Parry. Then we’ll blow the roof off the hall with the thrilling Pictures at an Exhibition, complete with the original artwork that inspired this masterwork. You have to be there to see and hear it all!#GetOffYourCouch #NoFilter #Photodump
#OpeningNight | Springfield Symphony (springfieldmosymphony.org)
#RIVERS 10/07/2023
Concert Performance: 7:30 p.m.
Ride the rivers of the world with our concert featuring music celebrating the mighty Mississippi River in Florence Price’s jazzy suite and the Thames in Handel’s regal Water Music. Our spectacular 2023 Hellam Competition Winner Oliver Neubauer performs Korngold’s romantic violin concerto. #MississippiRiver #Travel #JazzAndBlues #Thames
#Rivers | Springfield Symphony (springfieldmosymphony.org)
Swing for the Symphony 10/09/2023
Concert Performance: Noon
Join us for Swing for the Symphony on Monday, October 9th at Millwood Golf & Racquet Club presented by Bryan and Amber Musgrave. Since 1934, the Symphony has been working to provide the highest level of symphonic music and music education to all of Southwest Missouri. Proceeds from Swing for the Symphony will sustain the Springfield Symphony's operations, fund artistic programming, and provide free and educational performances exclusively from the SSO.
Swing for the Symphony | Springfield Symphony (springfieldmosymphony.org)
Spooky Symphony 10/26/2023
Concert Performance: 7 p.m.
The Springfield Symphony invites you to our 15th annual FREE Halloween concert! You and your kids will shriek with delight as you listen to spooky sounds and Halloween favorites! Halloween costumes are welcome! Admission is free and seating is limited. Tickets will be required as seating is assigned for the Spooky Symphony concert.
Spooky Symphony | Springfield Symphony (springfieldmosymphony.org)
#BRITISHINVASION 11/11/2023
Concert Performance: 7:30 p.m.
The Classical Mystery Tour: A Tribute to the Beatles with Springfield Symphony Orchestra. If you missed the Beatles the first time around, don’t make that mistake again! And if you have been a devoted Beatles fan for decades, you’ll relive the glory with this tribute concert complete with Sgt. Pepper attire and fab renditions of their greatest hits, backed up by the Springfield Symphony.
#BritishInvasion | Springfield Symphony (springfieldmosymphony.org)
#MOSTWONDERFULTIME 12/09/2023
Concert Performance: 7:30 p.m.
Let us put you in the holiday mood at our traditional holiday concert where you not only get to sit back and listen to all the seasonal favorites, but also join the crowd in our annual carol sing-a-long. There’s not much better than lifting your voice up with others to celebrate this most wonderful time of the year.
#MostWonderfulTime | Springfield Symphony (springfieldmosymphony.org)
#MOSTWOMDERFULTIME – Free Matinee 12/09/2023
Concert Performance: 2:30 p.m.
Let us put you in the holiday mood at our traditional holiday concert where you not only get to sit back and listen to all the seasonal favorites, but also join the crowd in our annual carol sing-a-long. There’s not much better than lifting your voice up with others to celebrate this most wonderful time of the year.
#MostWonderfulTime- Free Matinee | Springfield Symphony (springfieldmosymphony.org)
#MOSTWOMDERFULTIME – Branson 12/10/2023
Let us put you in the holiday mood at our traditional holiday concert where you not only get to sit back and listen to all the seasonal favorites, but also join the crowd in our annual carol sing-a-long. There’s not much better than lifting your voice up with others to celebrate this most wonderful time of the year.
#MostWonderfulTime- Branson | Springfield Symphony (springfieldmosymphony.org)
#ROMANTICVIBE 01/13/2024
Concert Performance: 7:30 p.m.
Van Cliburn Gold Medalist Jon Nakamatsu is one of the most popular pianists performing today, and we are thrilled to bring him to Springfield to perform Rachmaninoff’s bold and beloved Second Piano Concerto. And don’t miss Beethoven’s Pastorale Symphony, a sublime musical portrait of nature, from its tempestuous storms to its bucolic beauty. #Nature #WeatherAlert #VanCliburnGold
#RomanticVibes | Springfield Symphony (springfieldmosymphony.org)
#SPACEEXPLORER 02/10/2024
Concert Performance: 7:30 p.m.
Explore the heavens with us and the combined choirs of Missouri State, Evangel, and Drury Universities for a night of ethereal otherworldliness and majestic vistas in music that takes us to the unknown beyond. We will accompany our performance of The Planets with astrophotos taken by our own Conductor Kyle Wiley Pickett.
#SpaceExplorer | Springfield Symphony (springfieldmosymphony.org)
#ITALYTRAVEL 03/02/2024
Concert Performance: 7:30 p.m.
Italy is home to some of the most picturesque landscapes in the world, and you won’t want to miss this trip to the heart of it on our tour of Italy. From Puccini’s ultra-romantic Intermezzo to the Verdi’s stormy Force of Destiny Overture, we’ll hear the best of Italian opera’s instrumental music, and then, since all roads lead to Rome, we head to the Eternal City to bask in the glory of its majestic Pines and glorious Fountains.
#Rome #BeautifulItaly #ItalianLoveStories #TravelItaly
#ItalyTravel | Springfield Symphony (springfieldmosymphony.org)
#UNFINISHEDBUSINESS 04/06/2024
Concert Performance: 7:30 p.m.
Buckle up and get ready for a concert unlike anything you’ve ever heard. We are thrilled to welcome to our stage Metropolitan Opera Orchestra trombonist Denson Paul Pollard for not just one, but two spectacular bass trombone solos with the orchestra. We will also bring the Springfield Youth Symphony to join us for Ives’s charming Postlude in F, and we get down to some unfinished business with Schubert’s famous Unfinished Symphony. #YouWon’tBelieveYourEars #SuperRare #BassTrombone
#UnfinishedBusiness | Springfield Symphony (springfieldmosymphony.org)
#THESLEEPINGBEAUTY 05/11/2024
Concert Performance: 7:30 p.m.
Back by popular demand. After last year’s sold out performance, we celebrate Tchaikovsky’s rich and recognizable score with another collaboration between the Springfield Symphony Orchestra and Saint Louis Ballet. The Sleeping Beauty is a tale that never grows old. In a dreamland of enchantment, the princess and her kingdom wait a century for the magic of a kiss. #TheSleepingBeauty #SaintLouisBallet
#TheSleepingBeauty | Springfield Symphony (springfieldmosymphony.org)
14TH ANNUAL GALA 05/18/2024
Join us for dinner, live and silent auction, and dancing to music through the years.
Since 1934, the Symphony has been working to provide the highest level of symphonic music and music education to all of Southwest Missouri. Proceeds from the 13th Annual Gala will fund artistic programming, free performances, and educational concerts provided exclusively by the SSO.
14th Annual Gala | Springfield Symphony (springfieldmosymphony.org)
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