DM SYMPHONY - SEASON DEBUT: BEETHOVEN’S NINTH

Our 83rd season opens with the heroic trumpet call of Beethoven’s Leonore Overture and the meditative, ringing resonance of Pärt’s Fratres. 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.” 

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           

Arvo PÄRT                                           Fratres

WAGNER                                              Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde

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