Concert with Mesabi Symphony Orchestra
Concert Series 1
Brahms & Schumann
Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra concertmaster, University of Wisconsin Superior professor, and virtuoso violinist Erin Aldridge joins us as we open our ‘26-27 season! A phenomenal artist and always an audience favorite, she’ll be performing Johannes Brahms’ iconic Violin Concerto. Famously written for, and premiered by, the renowned Joseph Joachim, it is a beloved work that seamlessly integrates the Romantic orchestra with the solo violin.
For the second half of the program, we turn to Brahms’ friend and colleague Robert Schumann. His Fourth Symphony (later found to actually be the first symphony he wrote) perfectly encapsulates the Romantic era: A melodramatic journey that brings the listener through an array of emotions. It’s a symphony full of excitement, beauty, darkness, and joy!
More Info & tickets here
PROGRAM
Rossini: Overture to La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie)
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77
—INTERMISSION—
Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120
Concert with Mesabi Symphony Orchestra
Concert Series 1
Brahms & Schumann
Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra concertmaster, University of Wisconsin Superior professor, and virtuoso violinist Erin Aldridge joins us as we open our ‘26-27 season! A phenomenal artist and always an audience favorite, she’ll be performing Johannes Brahms’ iconic Violin Concerto. Famously written for, and premiered by, the renowned Joseph Joachim, it is a beloved work that seamlessly integrates the Romantic orchestra with the solo violin.
For the second half of the program, we turn to Brahms’ friend and colleague Robert Schumann. His Fourth Symphony (later found to actually be the first symphony he wrote) perfectly encapsulates the Romantic era: A melodramatic journey that brings the listener through an array of emotions. It’s a symphony full of excitement, beauty, darkness, and joy!
More info and tickets here
PROGRAM
Rossini: Overture to La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie)
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77
—INTERMISSION—
Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120
Concert with Mesabi Symphony Orchestra
Concert Series 2
MSO Christmas Spectacular
Our annual Christmas Spectacular will be sure to lift your spirits this holiday season! It’s an evening full of great music and fun festivities. The program is always jam-packed with music that is a spectacle, cinematic, nostalgic, heartwarming, and just plain fun! This year The Polar Express will take center stage: In addition to playing the suite from the movie, there will be a multimedia presentation during the performance, and we’ll have The Big Guy (ho ho ho..!) reading the story to kids on stage. For the second half of the program, the MSO will join with The Range of Voices chorus, which will only add to the grandeur and splendor of the evening!
More exciting news is yet to come as we get closer to the holiday season!
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The Messiah
Special Performance
Handel’s Messiah
Led by Benjamin Nilles, musicians of the Mesabi Symphony Orchestra will join with the Range of Voices to present a special performance of Handel’s iconic Messiah. Soloists TBA
Concert with Mesabi Symphony Orchestra
Concert Series 3
An Evening with Mahler
Gustav Mahler famously opined that “his time would come.” During his lifetime, his works were not overwhelming critical successes and often faced harsh criticism; decades later, his music has become more popular and successful than he could have ever imagined. Orchestras around the world routinely fill concert halls when Mahler’s name is on the program!
We’re excited to welcome back tenor Brian Wallin to sing with the MSO! A gifted and versatile artist, he will be singing selected songs from Mahler’s different song cycles written for voice and orchestra. Mahler is usually known as the ultimate symphonist, but he was also an expert at setting poetry to his unique orchestral palette.
The program will conclude with the first movement from his First Symphony. Mahler once told fellow composer, Jean Sibelius, that “A symphony must be like the world; it must embrace everything.” Mahler’s First certainly embodies that ethos! It opens softly with 7 octaves of the note A, which Mahler called the “tuning of the universe.” From there, we get treated to orchestral colors, melodies, and excitement that only Mahler can give us. This is not to be missed!
More program details TBA. More info and tickets here
Concert with Mesabi Symphony Orchestra
Concert Series 3
An Evening with Mahler
Gustav Mahler famously opined that “his time would come.” During his lifetime, his works were not overwhelming critical successes and often faced harsh criticism; decades later, his music has become more popular and successful than he could have ever imagined. Orchestras around the world routinely fill concert halls when Mahler’s name is on the program!
We’re excited to welcome back tenor Brian Wallin to sing with the MSO! A gifted and versatile artist, he will be singing selected songs from Mahler’s different song cycles written for voice and orchestra. Mahler is usually known as the ultimate symphonist, but he was also an expert at setting poetry to his unique orchestral palette.
The program will conclude with the first movement from his First Symphony. Mahler once told fellow composer, Jean Sibelius, that “A symphony must be like the world; it must embrace everything.” Mahler’s First certainly embodies that ethos! It opens softly with 7 octaves of the note A, which Mahler called the “tuning of the universe.” From there, we get treated to orchestral colors, melodies, and excitement that only Mahler can give us. This is not to be missed!
More program details TBA. More info and tickets here
Concert with Mesabi Symphony Orchestra
Concert Series 4
Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique
We close our season with Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s final symphony, his Symphony No. 6. He subtitled it “a passionate symphony,” which was then translated to French and labelled the Pathétique Symphony. And passionate it is! When we think about music and symphonies written during the Romantic era in the 19th Century, we expect music that is dramatic, beautiful, emotional, sorrowful, jubilant, full of storytelling, and much more. Tchaikovsky’s Sixth has all of this, and more, but think about all of that but on overdrive! It is one of the most intense and gorgeous pieces of music ever written.
His final symphony tragically ended up being his final completed composition as Tchaikovsky would die only 9 days after the premiere. Tchaikovsky wrote, “Without exaggeration, I have put my entire soul into this work,” and his masterpiece brings us along on a gripping musical journey from the opening notes to the closing pages.
More info and tickets here
PROGRAM
(Presented without intermission)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 Pathétique
Concert with Mesabi Symphony Orchestra
Concert Series 4
Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique
We close our season with Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s final symphony, his Symphony No. 6. He subtitled it “a passionate symphony,” which was then translated to French and labelled the Pathétique Symphony. And passionate it is! When we think about music and symphonies written during the Romantic era in the 19th Century, we expect music that is dramatic, beautiful, emotional, sorrowful, jubilant, full of storytelling, and much more. Tchaikovsky’s Sixth has all of this, and more, but think about all of that but on overdrive! It is one of the most intense and gorgeous pieces of music ever written.
His final symphony tragically ended up being his final completed composition as Tchaikovsky would die only 9 days after the premiere. Tchaikovsky wrote, “Without exaggeration, I have put my entire soul into this work,” and his masterpiece brings us along on a gripping musical journey from the opening notes to the closing pages.
More info and tickets here
PROGRAM
(Presented without intermission)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 Pathétique