THE 2023-24 SEASON IS HERE NOW!
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SERIES SUBSCRIPTION (Masterworks, Pops, Casual, Spark, Kids)
- Get the best deal in town! Tickets start at $16/concert for subscribers!
- Priority Seating: Choose your seats before the general public and keep them from concert to concert and season to season.
- Save On Single Tickets: Buy tickets to bring friends, attend a Special Event, or try out another Series! As a Series subscriber, you’ll receive 25% off any additional tickets you purchase for other Series concerts. (This discount may not apply to all Special Events.)
- Avoid ticket fees: Ticket fees are waived on additional single tickets purchased in person or by phone throughout the season.
- Advanced access for Special Event tickets: Receive pre-sale access before Special Event tickets go on sale to the general public (The Messiah, Nutcracker Twist, Gospel Meets Symphony).
- FREE and easy ticket exchanges if you need to miss a performance (upgrade fees may apply if your seating area changes).
- Receive invitations to attend select rehearsals throughout the season.
- Bring Friends, Get a Discount: Your subscription includes a Symphoria “Buy One, Get One” voucher, valid for the 2023-24 season. Use yours to grow the Symphoria family!
- Enjoy loyalty benefits! Renewing subscribers receive a special Symphoria Swag Bag each season, customized according to how long you’ve been a subscriber! (Limit one Swag Bag per household)
SYMPHORIA UNLIMITED
It’s like your gym membership or Netflix subscription – sign up once and your account will be charged each month. Learn more and sign up here.
- Pay one monthly fee and have access to as many Symphoria Series concerts as you’d like each month! You don’t have to wait until next season – sign up today and receive access to the rest of the 2022-2023 Series concerts.
- The more you attend the better the price – as low as $11/concert!
- Your Symphoria Unlimited Subscription is good for any Series concert Symphoria presents – Masterworks, Pops, Casual, Spark, and Kids (Special Events are not included).
- Choose the best seats available (box seats and Area A in the mezzanine are excluded)
- Easily cancel at any time by contacting info@experiencesymphoria.org.
- Get your tickets any time beginning 7 days before the concert. You can choose the best seats available for the Series concert you plan to attend. Tickets can be secured online, by calling the Box Office, or by visiting the Box Office the day of the show.
- Save On Single Tickets: Buy tickets to bring friends and you’ll receive 25% off any additional tickets you purchase for other Series concerts. (This discount may not apply to all Special Events.)
- Advanced access for Special Event tickets: Receive pre-sale access before Special Event tickets go on sale to the general public (The Messiah, Nutcracker Twist, Gospel Meets Symphony)
- Receive invitations to attend select rehearsals throughout the season.
- Give back to those in need. When you buy a Symphoria Unlimited Subscription, we will give a Symphoria Unlimited Subscription to a person or family in need so that every person in CNY can have access to symphonic music.
- Enjoy loyalty benefits! Renewing subscribers receive a special Symphoria Swag Bag each season, customized according to how long you’ve been a subscriber! (Limit one Swag Bag per household)
FLEXPACKS
Mix and match your ideal concert season with FlexPacks.
- Subscriptions are affordable, with tickets starting at $16/concert for subscribers! (Prices vary depending on seating selection and concert series.)
- Customize your 2023-2024 season by choosing 4, 5, 6, or 8 concerts from all our Series events (Masterworks, Pops, Casual, Spark, Kids – Special Events are not included).
- Pick your seats today and receive the subscriber discount on your seats. (Note: Seat selection may vary from concert to concert.)
- Save On Single Tickets: Buy tickets to bring friends, attend a Special Event, or try out another Series! As a FlexPack subscriber, you’ll receive 25% off any additional tickets you purchase for other Series concerts. (This discount may not apply to all Special Events.)
- Avoid ticket fees: Ticket fees are waived on additional single tickets purchased in person or by phone throughout the season.
- Advanced access for Special Event tickets: Receive pre-sale access before Special Event tickets go on sale to the general public (Messiah, Nutcracker, Gospel Meets Symphony).
- FREE and easy ticket exchanges if you need to miss a performance (upgrade fees may apply if your seating area changes).
- Receive invitations to attend select rehearsals throughout the season.
- Enjoy loyalty benefits! Renewing subscribers receive a special Symphoria Swag Bag each season, customized according to how long you’ve been a subscriber! (Limit one Swag Bag per household)
To purchase subscriptions or FlexPacks offline:
Call (315) 299-5598, ext. 201
Stop by 450 S. Salina Street, Suite 100, Syracuse, NY 13202
Box Office Hours: Monday – Friday 9:30am to 3:30pm and 1 hour prior to each performance at the venue
*PLEASE NOTE: All programs and artists are subject to change.
MASTERWORKS
Brought to you by PEC Inc.
Eight-concert series at Crouse Hinds Theater (Sept.-May). All performances are at 7:30pm on Saturdays.
PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION
SEPT 30
2021 Gramophone Artist of the Year James Ehnes, one of the most sought-after violinists on the international stage, joins us in the first half, followed by Ravel’s orchestral adaptation of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.
WEST SIDE STORY: SYMPHONIC DANCES
OCT 14
We begin with Bernstein’s Candide Overture, a buoyant and lively curtain-raiser, and close the show with symphonic dances from West Side Story. 2019 National Sphinx Competition winner Sterling Elliott plays Schumann’s Concerto for Cello.
CARMINA BURANA
NOV 18
Dallas-based composer Quinn Mason’s A Joyous Trilogy opens the show. Syracuse University Oratorio Society takes the stage to perform Carl Orff’s pop culture classic Carmina Burana, along with its epic movie-famous O Fortuna!
THE FOUR SEASONS WITH RACHEL BARTON PINE
JAN 27
Violinist Rachel Barton Pine leads the orchestra in the second half for Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. The show opens with Missy Mazzoli’s atmospheric Orbiting Spheres and Brahms’s Symphony No. 3, the only remaining Brahms symphony yet to be conducted by music director Lawrence Loh.
THE PLANETS
FEB 17
The Syracuse University Oratorio Society women’s chorus joins Symphoria for Holst’s influential, astrology-inspired orchestral suite, The Planets. Before intermission, principal flutist of the Seattle Symphony and incredible soloist Demarre McGill performs a staple of the Romantic flute repertoire, François Borne’s Carmen Fantasy.
JULIAN PLAYS TCHAIKOVSKY
MAR 9
Longtime favorite returning artist and international award-winning cellist Julian Schwarz plays Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme. Lawrence Loh conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 for the first time, bringing back to our stage one of the most famous purely orchestral Mahler symphonies.
OPERA’S GREATEST HITS
APR 20
Enjoy familiar opera choruses and arias from favorites like Verdi, Puccini, Donizetti, Rossini, and Wagner. Award-winning soprano Jasmine Habersham joins us.
NATASHA PLAYS RACHMANINOFF
MAY 11
Pianist Natasha Paremski returns to perform Rachmaninoff’s Variations on a Theme of Paganini. This is the only work for piano by Rachmaninoff that Natasha has yet to perform with Symphoria. The show opens with Berlioz’s Roman Carnival Overture and concludes with Respighi’s famous Pines of Rome.
POPS
Brought to you by the Slutzker Family Foundation.
Five-concert series at Crouse Hinds Theater (Oct.-May). All performances are at 7:30pm on Saturdays.
COUNTRY HITS: SYMPHORIA LOVES COUNTRY
OCT 7
Symphoria Loves Country brings to life the classic hits of Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, and Johnny Cash, as well as songs by the biggest artists of today, like Garth Brooks, Tim McGraw, The Chicks, and Kacey Musgraves.
HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS
DEC 16
Bring family and friends together to experience Symphoria’s annual Holiday Pops! This year, we welcome back local vocalist Katie Weber as well as the Syracuse Pops Chorus under the direction of Lou Lemos.
RHAPSODY IN BLUE
FEB 10
Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the premiere of Rhapsody in Blue with Robert Auler as the soloist. Gershwin incorporates influences of his contemporaries, such as Ravel (the tuneful first movement from Le Tombeau de Couperin) and Debussy (Clair de Lune) to pull back the layers and reveal what made Gershwin and his music so timeless and beautiful.
BIG HAIR SATURDAY NIGHT
APR 13
Travel back in time to the 1980s, when arcades, Polaroids, and Walkmen were popular—and pop, punk, rock, metal, and new wave music reigned supreme in the charts. Tease up your hair, dig out your ripped jeans and neon, or your shoulder pads and polo shirts, and join us for a spring evening of niche and nostalgia.
JURASSIC PARK IN CONCERT
MAY 18
Honoring its 30th anniversary, Jurassic Park comes to life on the stage as we view the complete original film at one of Syracuse’s biggest movie theaters. Symphoria performs John Williams’s entertaining and suspense-filled music live.
CASUAL
Four-concert series at Saint Paul’s Syracuse. All performances are at 3:00pm.
MOZART WITH HANNAH WHITE
NOV 12
Hannah White returns to perform Mozart’s Straussburg with Symphoria. At age nine, Hannah began performing with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and she has traveled the globe dazzling audiences ever since. The concert begins with music composed by Jessie Montgomery, and Schumann’s Spring Symphony rounds out the afternoon.
WALTZ ALONG THE BLUE DANUBE
JAN 14
Celebrating music that inspired movement through polka, marches, and the waltz, Symphoria performs the works of Offenbach, Strauss, and Korngold. Familiar tunes including Can-Can from Orpheus in the Underworld and Blue Danube will fill the hall for this afternoon concert at our favorite neighborhood watering hole!
CORONATION CELEBRATION
MAR 3
Music that evokes images of royal ceremony, including Clarke’s Trumpet Voluntary and Haydn’s Symphony No. 104. Pachelbel’s well-known Canon and Gigue in D Major are followed by the Concerto for Harpsichord in G Minor. Handel completes the afternoon with Zadok the Priest, performed alongside the Syracuse University Oratorio Society.
BACH, COPLAND, AND SHOSTAKOVICH
APR 28
Symphoria welcomes back Monica Fosnaugh, English horn player from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, to join principal trumpet John Raschella in a performance of Copland’s Quiet City. The work is bookended by Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony at the start and Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D Major to complete the afternoon.
SPARK
All performances are at 7:00pm at various locations.
OKTOBERFEST
SEPT 23
Enjoy an Autumn festival complete with Bavarian music and refreshments to embrace the sights, sounds, and tastes of the season.
LUNAR NEW YEAR
FEB 3
Welcome in the Year of the Dragon and celebrate the Asian community in Central New York. Experience the unique melodies, instruments, and arrangements of some of the oldest and most complex music in the world.
MUSIC OF MACHINES
MAR 23
The sounds of science create intriguing moments of music in this program that will engage and entertain audiences of all ages. KIDS concert at 10:30am and SPARK concert at 7:00pm.
Performed at Redhouse Arts Center.
KIDS
Brought to you by the Syracuse Sounds of Music Association.
All performances are at 10:30am.
MUSICAL FAIRY TALES
OCT 28
Kids of all ages will enjoy the familiar tines of fairy tales and magical stories. Imagine the characters coming to life with the music on the stage! Costumes are encouraged!
Performed at Carrier Theater at the OnCenter.
PETER & THE WOLF
FEB 3
Sergei Prokofiev’s famous Peter and the Wolf is performed by Symphoria, offering his “symphonic fairy tale for children.”
Performed at Redhouse Arts Center.
MUSIC OF MACHINES
MAR 23
The sounds of science create intriguing moments of music in this program that will engage and entertain audiences of all ages. KIDS concert at 10:30am and SPARK concert at 7:00pm.
Performed at Redhouse Arts Center.
FREQUENTY ASKED QUESTIONS
If you have other questions about subscriptions and the upcoming season, please call our box office at 315-299-5598.