Concert II

Saturday Evening, October 24, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.
Arkansas Best Corporation Performing Arts Center

Program:

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5,
op. 73 in E-flat major “Emperor”
Tanya Bannister, piano

intermission

Beyond the Score:
Ottorino Respighi’s Roman Festivals
Performance preview from
the concert stage.

Respighi: Feste Romane (Roman Festivals)

Presenting the largest Fort Smith Symphony orchestra ever assembled, this concert features two monumental classics of epic proportions! International piano sensation Tanya Bannister joins the orchestra for a special performance of Beethoven’s heroic Emperor Concerto, an audience favorite and the final piano concerto ever written by this prolific composer. Then, experience the awe and visceral sweep of Ottorino Respighi’s rarely-performed Feste Romane, composed in 1928 as a gripping depiction of Rome’s ancient festivals. A dynamic duo indeed!