Holland Symphony to open season with ‘Classics I’

The Holland Symphony Orchestra welcomes its conductor, Johannes Müller-Stosch, back for his fourth year, for the season opener on Saturday, Oct. 1. The orchestra will perform "Classics I,' a program featuring violinist Diana Cohen, at DeWitt Auditorium at Zeeland East High School, 96th Avenue at Riley Street, at 7:30 p.m.. Müller-Stosch will give a pre-concert talk at 6:30 p.m.

Anonymous

Sep 23, 2011

Tickets are available in advance at Holland Area Arts Council, 150 E. Eighth St. in Holland; online at www.hollandsymphony.org; and at the door. Tickets are $18, $15 for senior citizens and $5 for students.

Season tickets are available until Oct. 1.

HSO will open the new season with Franz Schubert’s “Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished)” and Felix Mendelssohn’s “Violin Concerto” featuring Cohen. Following intermission, the orchestra will perform Pieter van Anrooij’s “Piet Hein Rhapsodie,” celebrating the bicentennial of the Rev. Albertus C. Van Raalte (1811-76); and then concluding with Edvard Grieg’s “Lyric Suite.”

The audience is invited to a reception following the concert to greet all the musicians.