Crossroads: Martha Bassett’s Quinteto Brasil
Drendel Auditorium, SALT Block 243 3rd Ave NE, Hickory, NC, United StatesThe Crossroads Concert series opens with North Carolina singer/songwriter Martha Bassett and her Quinteto Brasil presenting a night of bossa nova standards and new arrangements such as Desafinado, Meditation, One Note Samba, and more.
Behind the Music: Screening of PSYCHO with Footcandle Film Society
Carolina Theater 222 1st Ave NW, Hickory, NC, United StatesGo behind the music of PSYCHO with Western Piedmont Symphony and Footcandle Film Society. Before the movie, WPS music director Matthew Troy shares the secrets to the chills and thrills of the iconic film score in conversation with Footcandle Film Society founder Alan Jackson.
Masterworks: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony
P.E. Monroe Auditorium, LRU 775 6th St NE, Hickory, NC, United StatesA program of classical music's “The Three Bs” - a Baroque power play of three on three, Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, the doubly demanding Brahms Concerto for Violin and Cello featuring Misha Keylin, violin, and WPS principal cellist Samuel Magill, and the unforgettable first four notes tell you it's Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
Discovery Family Concert: Robots, Machines, and Music!
P.E. Monroe Auditorium, LRU 775 6th St NE, Hickory, NC, United StatesDiscover musical adventures of live symphonic music and explore where music and science meet in a concert of fun and familiar music and songs. Activities begin at 2:00 p.m., the music begins at 3:00 p.m.
Crossroads: Viola Celebration
Drendel Auditorium, SALT Block 243 3rd Ave NE, Hickory, NC, United StatesPiano and violas come together in a lush program highlighting the dark, rich voice of the viola! Works Brahms, Bridge, and more. Featured artists: Scott Rawls, viola; Kimberly Sparr, viola
Sight + Sound Film Series with Hickory Museum of Art
Drendel Auditorium, SALT Block 243 3rd Ave NE, Hickory, NC, United StatesWestern Piedmont Symphony + Hickory Museum of Art present Sight + Sound Film Series, featuring a great collaboration of symphony and metal rock captured on film.
Foothills Pops: Holiday Spectacular
J.E. Broyhill Civic Center 1913 Hickory Blvd, Lenoir, NC, United StatesEveryone’s favorite seasonal concert is back for an evening of holiday songs and winter music classics. And Santa Claus!
WPS Youth Orchestras Fall Concert
Drendel Auditorium, SALT Block 243 3rd Ave NE, Hickory, NC, United StatesHear our young artists in performance! Both Debut Strings and the Youth Symphony will perform works from the classical repertoire.
Crossroads: Valves and Keys Trio
Drendel Auditorium, SALT Block 243 3rd Ave NE, Hickory, NC, United StatesNorth Carolina artists David Dash, trumpet; Maria Serkin, horn; and Alison Gagnon, piano, perform poetic works by female composers Dorothy Gates, Whitney George, Cecilia McDowall, and Amy Beach.
Masterworks: The Rite of Spring
P.E. Monroe Auditorium, LRU 775 6th St NE, Hickory, NC, United StatesCelebrate the artistic breadth and depth of the sensational The Rite of Spring, Stravinsky's ground-breaking 1913 work for orchestra. Other related works on the program include Debussy's Syrinx (1913), the unforgettable music from Psycho by American film composer Bernard Herrmann, and Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain.
Masterworks: Symphony Swings
P.E. Monroe Auditorium, LRU 775 6th St NE, Hickory, NC, United StatesA night of classic American jazz music featuring one of the greatest clarinetists alive, known as the Louis Armstrong of the clarinet, Doreen Ketchens, performing jazz swing music with the Western Piedmont Symphony. Other works include Soul Force by award-winning composer Jessie Montgomery, Bernstein's On the Town: Three Dance Episodes, and Ellington's Black, Brown, and Beige Suite.
A Birthday Celebration
74 South at Moretz Mills 74 Eighth Street SE, Hickory, NC, United StatesCelebrate our 60th birthday with us! More details to be announced!