Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra is pulling into the final port of its season-long “Musical Journeys” series this weekend.
Dove of Peace Lutheran Church, meanwhile, closes its 21st season of free classical music concerts with a trio of longtime Tucson musicians performing a concert Sunday, April 13, to benefit Tucson Interfaith HIV/AIDS Network.
And while these two organizations are putting the final exclamations on their seasons, Arizona Arts Live on Saturday, April 12, is bringing what could be one of the season’s most inventive shows to Centennial Hall with the return of the Australian contemporary cirque ensemble Circa.
Ten cirque performers will join France’s Debussy String Quartet for “Opus,” a show based on the music of Dmitri Shostakovich.
“Opus” opens with a solo performer suspended on a rope as the quartet serenades them. Rapidly alternative scenes showcase “dislocated stillness and violent explosions into extreme physicality” that takes the audience to “exquisitely detailed and nuanced geometries of acrobats flying, balancing and landing,” according to program notes.
The Australian cirque troupe Circa brings its new show “Opus” to Centennial Hall on Saturday.
The Debussy String Quartet will be on stage playing a trio of Shostakovich’s passionate quartets as the performers twist and contort and attempt daring aerial feats.
Tickets for Saturday’s 7:30 p.m. performance at Centennial Hall, 1020 E. University Blvd. on the University of Arizona campus, are $25 through arizonaartslive.com.
This is Circa’s encore to its 2022 Tucson show when they performed “What Will Have Been.”
French pianist Aimo Pagin will perform Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra this weekend.
SASO closes season with trip to Brazil and beyond
Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra Music Director Linus Lerner is giving Tucson a taste of his native Brazil with the orchestra’s season-ending concert on Saturday, April 12, and Sunday, April 13.
Lerner will conduct the orchestra in “Brazil, Russia, Spain and France,” the final stop on the season-long “Musical Journeys.” The program opens with works by two Brazilian composers — Alberto Nepomuceno’s “Batuque” and Villa-Lobos’ Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4 “Prelúdio” — and Russian composer Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with guest pianist Aimo Pagin from France.
Cellist Abraham Kim will perform the first movement of Dvořák’s Cello Concerto with the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra as the inner of the Dorothy Vanek Youth Concerto Competition.
Cellist Abraham Kim of Phoenix, a winner in the orchestra’s youth concerto competition, will perform the first movement of Bohemian composer Dvořák’s Cello Concerto before the orchestra tackles Spanish composer Manuel de Falla’s “Three-Cornered Hat” Suite No. 2 and French composer Ravel’s classic “Bolero.”
The orchestra performs at 7 p.m. Saturday at DesertView Performing Arts Center, 39900 S. Clubhouse Drive in SaddleBrooke; and at 3 p.m. Sunday at Catalina Foothills High School, 4300 E. Sunrise Drive. Tickets are $35 for SaddleBrooke through dvpac.net; Cat-Foot tickets are $28 through sasomusic.org.
The Sunrise Trio — from left, Homero Ceron, Ann Weaver and Jim Karrer, who all held principal positions with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra and True Concord Voices & Orchestra — will close out Dove of Peace Lutheran Church’s 21st season of community concerts.
Sunrise Trio headlines Dove of Peace finale
A pair of Tucson Symphony Orchestra principal players and a retired principal are bringing their Sunrise Trio to Dove of Peace’s community concert series on Sunday, April 13.
The trio — retired TSO principal percussionist Homero Cerón, principal violist Ann Weaver and principal bass Jim Karrer — will perform a concert that includes works by Corelli, Haydn, Piazzolla, Bach, Fauré and Karrer.
Sunrise Trio formed last spring when the musicians, who have a long history of working together, created a program that included baroque, classical, romantic and new music.
In addition to working together at the TSO, the trio are principals in True Concord Voices & Orchestra under Eric Holtan, who also curates the Dove of Peace series.
This is the 21st season for the church’s free concerts, which raises money through audience donations to benefit local charities. Proceeds from Sunday’s 2 p.m. concert, which begins at noon at the church, 665 W. Roller Coaster Road, benefit Tucson Interfaith HIV/AIDS Network. The organization works with those affected by HIV/AIDS.
