Tickets for the 2018-19 Season go on sale Friday, June 1st at 10 am for this and other exciting concerts coming up at Miller Symphony Hall.
Tony Kishman from Broadway’s “Beatlemania” and formerly with the Classical Mystery Tour will present “Live and Let Die: A Symphonic Tribute to the Music of Paul McCartney,” at 7:30 p.m. July 21 at Allentown’s Miller Symphony Hall
The Allentown Symphony Orchestra will pay tribute to the music of Paul McCartney in a Pops concert.
Tickets for the Pops series — which also will include a program of Broadway tenors, a tribute to Ella Fitzgerald and a program of Disney music — go on sale 10 a.m. Friday JUNE 1st at the box office at 23 N. 6th St., Allentown, at 610-432-6715 and www.millersymphonyhall.org. Tickets start at $25 plus fees.
New this season will be an afternoon chamber music series, with Sunday afternoon performances at 3 p.m. Oct. 7, Nov. 4, Feb. 24, 2019 and May 12, 2019. Single tickets are $25 advance, $30 at the door, or $90 for the series.
A Pops concert will pay tribute to the music of Ella Fitzgerald
McCartney is a two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee (solo and with The Beatles) and an 18-time Grammy Award winner. He has written or co-written 32 songs that have reached No. 1 on Billboard’s singles chart, such as “Penny Lane” and “Live and Let Die.” His Beatles song “Yesterday” has been recorded by more than 2,200 artists, making it among the most-covered songs in popular music history.
The classical series will open 7:30 p.m. Sept. 22 and 3 p.m. Sept. 23 with “2001: A Space Odyssey & Grieg,” with pianist George Li performing Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor. The program consists of works by Wagner, Grieg and Strauss. A free meet-the-artist will be noon Sept. 21.
Actor Daniel Roebuck will narrate Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait” using excerpts from the Gettysburg Address.
The Armistice Day program will consist of works inspired by the experiences of soldiers from World War I. Roebuck, who has been on TV shows such as “Matlock,” “NCIS” and “Lost,” will narrate Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait” using excerpts from the Gettysburg Address. Also, Daniel Rodriguez, known as The Singing Policeman, will perform the national anthem and “God Bless America.”
Tickets for the classical series start at $25, with shows free for students 21 or younger. Also in the classical series will be:
“Appalachian Spring & Rhapsody in Blue,” 7:30 p.m. Feb. 9, 2019, and 3 p.m. Feb. 10, 2019. A free meet-the-artist will be noon Feb. 8, 2019. The program of Gershwin and ballet choreographed for Copland’s “Appalachian Spring Suite” will feature jazz pianist Simon Mulligan on two songs.
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” 7:30 p.m. March 16, 2019, and 3 p.m. March 17, 2019. A free meet-the-artist will be noon March 15, 2019. It will feature Shakespeare-inspired music with actors from the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival and singers from Parkland High School’s Women’s Chorale.
“Verdi’s Requiem,” 7:30 p.m. April 13, 2019 and 3 p.m. April 14, 2019. A free meet-the-artist will be noon April 12. With Muhlenberg College Chorus and Allentown Symphony Chorus.
Other shows in the pops series will be:
“The Broadway Tenors,” 7:30 p.m. Oct. 13. Performing music from “South Pacific,” “West Side Story,” “Les Miserables” and more will be Broadway performers Matt Cavenaugh, Brent Barrett and Jeff Kready.
“A Tribute to Ella!,” 7:30 p.m. Jan. 19, 2019. Soloists Capathia Jenkins, Aisha de Haas and Nikki Renee, who have performed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, on television and in films, sing selections from Ella Fitzgerald.
“Disney in Concert: A Dream is a Wish,” 7:30 p.m. May 11, 2019. Allentown Symphony Orchestra performs to clips of such films as “Frozen,” “The Little Mermaid,” “The Lion King,” “Aladdin” and more.
The family concert series will be:
“To The Moon And Back!” It will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing with film from NASA at 2 p.m. Feb. 23, 2019. Pieces by Strauss, Debussy and Beethoven, and the “Star Wars” theme, will be accompanied by a film from NASA. Tickets start at $30; students under 21 free.
Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker,” Repertory Dance Theatre will perform the holiday classic with music by the Allentown Symphony Orchestra at 2 p.m. Dec. 8 and 9. A cast of 100 dancers will perform. There will also be a Land of Sweets party with dancers and Santa after Saturday performance. Tickets start at $43.
Allentown Symphony Orchestra 2018-19 season tickets for 15 pops, classical, family and chamber series performances on sale now at the box office at 23 N. 6th St., Allentown, at 610-432-6715 and www.millersymphonyhall.org.
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