DM SYMPHONY - BEETHOVEN’S NINTH

Joseph Giunta, conducting

Janice Chandler-Eteme, soprano

Mary Creswell, mezzo-soprano

Charles Reid, tenor

Darren Stokes, bass-baritone

Iowa State Singers

Des Moines Choral Society

James Rodde, Director

BEETHOVEN                                          Leonore Overture No. 3           

WALKER                                               Lyric for Strings

WAGNER                                              Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde

BEETHOVEN                                          Symphony No. 9, Choral; “Ode to Joy”

Our April concerts open with the heroic trumpet call of Beethoven’s Leonore Overture and Pulitzer Prize-winning African-American composer George Walker’s serene Lyric for Strings. Janice Chandler-Eteme makes a memorable return singing Wagner’s passionate Liebestod. Finally, the Orchestra is joined onstage by two choirs and four soloists for Beethoven’s landmark Ninth Symphony. You’ll be swept off your feet as the Orchestra is joined by a soaring chorus singing the immortal, triumphant “Ode to Joy.”