2024-2025 Season

2024 - 2025 Season

Timeless Discoveries — Bold New Voices

 

Please join us for Riverside Symphony’s 43rd season of adventurous music-making: two deeply rewarding concerts at the beautifully renovated W83 Ministry Center! The new Sanctuary Hall features superb acoustics and excellent sight lines from every vantage point in a setting uncannily intimate given its 750-seat capacity.

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june 5th, 2025 - W83 mINISTRY CENTER, 7:30pm

HAYDN Symphony No. 2 in C major

SAINT-SAËNS Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso in A minor, Op. 28 (arr. Yoomi Paick)

AUGUST Variations on a Theme by Pérotin

HAYDN Symphony No. 80 in D minor

Marvelous Haydn symphonies of early and late vintage frame a Romantic virtuoso showpiece and a gorgeous recent work based on a French Medieval theme by New York composer, Gregg August.


january 25th, 2025 - W83 mINISTRY CENTER, 7:30pm

MOZART Divertimento in D major, KV 136

WAGNER/FLEISCHMANN Dido Redux World Premiere

BRITTEN Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Op. 10

Our season begins with an ethereally beautiful Mozart gem, followed by the unveiling of Pulitzer Prize-winner Melinda Wagner’s modern response to the Dido tragedy of broken love, with libretto by Stephanie Fleischmann. Benjamin Britten’s stunning, richly inventive early opus concludes this varied program for string orchestra.