The New Westminster Symphony Orchestra is launching its 2018/19 season with a pops concert on Sunday, Nov. 4.
The concert is set for 2 p.m. at Massey Theatre. It will begin with a rousing rendition of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s triumphant Procession of the Nobles, from the opera-ballet Mlada, before moving into Modest Mussorgsky’s sinister Night on Bald Mountain. Also featured will be Maurice Ravel’s melancholic Pavane Pour Une Infante Défunte and Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No. 1.
The concert will include with Alexander Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances, from the opera Prince Igor – which, along with other Borodin compositions, became the basis for the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical hit Kismet in 1954. That musical resulted in such pop standards as Stranger in Paradise, This is My Beloved, and Baubles, Bangles and Beads.
Symphony audiences haven’t seen the last of Kismet this season. To celebrate its 75th consecutive season, the orchestra will feature a bonus concert in early June, in which it will join forces with Royal City Musical Theatre to present Kismet in concert.
All concerts are by donation at the door.
Massey Theatre is at 735 Eighth Ave. For more details, see www.newwestsymphony.net.
