Welcome to the concertFor elementary and middle School-Age students
Welcome to the Concert is a free Masterworks Concert activity for elementary and middle school-age students during intermission. It provides useful tools to enhance the concert experience.
The Harrisburg Symphony’s Education Department prepares lesson plans, informative hand-outs, and a mini-workshop for each young concert-goer who wishes to attend. The program is presented in the lobby of the Forum, outside section 309.
Recent Welcome to the Concert activities have included:
- making and decorating violins
- creating bandanas with repetitive patterns to celebrate the performance of Aaron Copland’s Billy the Kid Suite
- creating the floral tribute bouquet presented on-stage to a guest soloist
- painting a 15-foot mural with beautiful scenes (reminiscent of the majestic landscape depicted in Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 3.)
Often a highlight of the 15-20 minute Welcome to the Concert session is a visit with one of the musicians or the guest artist.
Families are also drawn to the HSO’s Masterworks concerts because the Symphony offers a deeply discounted subscription for the entire season. The Musical Chairs program offers a $42 per seat subscription for families with school-age (K-12) children.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Aug 22, 2018
2018/19 Subscription Renewal Packets are mailedSep 01, 2018
Single Tickets on SaleSingle tickets for the 2018/19 season go on sale to the general public at 10 AM
Tickets: $17 - $96
Oct 06-07, 2018
October MasterworksTo open our season Georgian pianist Natalia Kazaryan performs Rachmaninoff’s most popular piano concerto. Stuart also conducts colorful music by two of Latin America’s most prominent composers and the colorful, gypsy-flavored suite from Háry János
Sat. 8 PM, Sun. 3 PM, The Forum Tickets: $19 - $89 Presented by UPMC Pinnacle Guest Artist Sponsor: McNees Wallace & Nurick, LLC
Oct 27-28, 2018
Tango CalienteWe transform the Forum stage into a sizzling hot dance floor as the Pops season opens with a program of fiery tangos performed by award-winning dancers from Argentina, singer Camille Zamora and internationally-acclaimed bandoneón artist, Hector Del Curto
Sat. 8 PM, Sun. 3 PM, The Forum Tickets: $20 - $95 Presented by Capital BlueCross
Nov 17-18, 2018
November MasterworksOn the first half, one of Rossini’s most delightful overtures is followed by Ravel’s exquisite orchestral suite and the World Premiere of a new piano concerto by Christopher Theofanidis. After intermission, Beethoven 5!
Sat. 8 PM, Sun. 3 PM, The Forum Tickets: $19 - $89
Jan 12-13, 2019
January MasterworksThis Masterworks includes two very different takes on the waltz, one by Viennese composer, Johann Strauss, the other by the Frenchman, Maurice Ravel. After intermission, listen to the monumental 11th Symphony of Shostakovich, subtitled "The Year 1905."
Sat. 8 PM, Sun. 3 PM, The Forum Tickets: $19 - $89
Jan 26-27, 2019
Tribute to Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd WebberWe salute the two most successful Broadway composers of the past 50 yrs. Three star Broadway vocalists join the HSO to sing favorite songs from megahit shows like Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Phantom of the Opera!
Sat. 8 PM, Sun. 3 PM, The Forum Tickets: $20 - $95 Presented by Capital BlueCross
Feb 09-10, 2019
February MasterworksRichard Strauss’s last tone poem finds the composer at his most descriptive as he takes us on an ascent, and then a descent, of an imposing mountain peak. The two most popular scores by Alan Hovhaness and Aaron Copland complete the alpine-themed program.
Sat. 8 PM, Sun. 3 PM, The Forum Tickets: $19 - $89
Mar 02-03, 2019
Denzal Sinclair sings the Nat King Cole SongbookThe year 2019 marks the 100th birthday year for the immortal Nat King Cole. We celebrate by bringing vocalist Denzal Sinclaire to Harrisburg to sing the legendary singer’s biggest hits. Close your eyes and you’ll think it’s Nat himself!
Sat. 8 PM, Sun. 3 PM, The Forum Tickets: $20 - $95 Presented by Capital BlueCross
Mar 16-17, 2019
March MasterworksIn March, HSO Principal Oboe Andreas Oeste performs Strauss’s late masterpiece, the beautiful Oboe Concerto from 1945. To open the program, Stuart shows off the HSO’s virtuoso strings and then closes with one of Mozart’s greatest symphonies.
Sat. 8 PM, Sun. 3 PM, The Forum Tickets: $19 - $89
Apr 13-14, 2019
April MasterworksFrench composer Francis Poulenc’s choral masterpiece, Gloria, is performed along with music by Korngold (best known for his brilliant film scores from Hollywood’s “Golden Age”), Villa-Lobos and Prokofiev.
Sat. 8 PM, Sun. 3 PM, The Forum Tickets: $19 - $89
Apr 17, 2019
Stuart & FriendsThe annual Stuart and Friends chamber music concert returns to the ideal and intimate setting of Gamut Theatre 15 N. 4th St. in Harrisburg.
Wed. 7:30 PM, Gamut Theatre Tickets: $22 Adult, $11 Student / Youth (25 and under)
Apr 27-28, 2019
Whole Lotta Shakin': Swing to Rock with Dave BennettMulti-instrumentalist/vocalist phenom Dave Bennett brings his high-energy band to trace the “roots of pop,” beginning with the swing era and moving through Rockabilly, Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, the Beatles, and other genre-defining stars.
Sat. 8 PM, Sun. 3 PM, The Forum Tickets: $20 - $95 Presented by Capital BlueCross Guest Artist Sponsor: M&T Bank
May 18-19, 2019
May MasterworksOur season concludes with the ever-popular New World Symphony by Dvorák. On the first half, English composer Arnold Bax’s atmospheric musical portrait of the Tintagel castle on England’s Cornwall coast, plus a new violin concerto by Jonathan Leshnoff.
Sat. 8 PM, Sun. 3 PM, The Forum Tickets: $19 - $89 Presented by the Hall Foundation
