Selections from Sleeping Beauty by Tchaikovsky and the Firebird Suite by Stravinsky will open the Red Cedar Symphony’s fall concerts on November 9 in Cumberland and November 10 in Rice Lake. These are some of the most popular compositions ever written, and will delight children and adults alike as the melodies evoke a magical world of Russian fairy tales full of mythical creatures, princesses, and heroes. 

The second half of the concert will feature the first two movements of Mussorgsky’s Pictures At An Exhibition, a series of musical descriptions of his friend’s paintings – in this case an ugly old gnome and a ruined castle. The final piece will be Bolero by Ravel, one of the most recognizable pieces of classical music in the world, and possibly the least understood. At Bolero’s premiere in Paris in 1928, a woman in the audience was heard shouting that the composer was mad. Ravel is said to have responded that she had understood the piece.

Please join us for a performance of memorable live classical music.

• Saturday, November 9, 7pm at Augustana Lutheran Church

• Sunday, November 10, 4pm at Bethany Lutheran Church

Sunday, February 16, 2020, 4:00 pm, Bethany Lutheran, Rice Lake

Please join us for a performance of memorable live classical music.

• Saturday, March 7, 7:00 pm, Chetek Lutheran, Chetek

• Sunday, March 8, 4:00 pm, Bethany Lutheran, Rice Lake