Concerts and Events

All performances will be held at the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center in Dearborn. Friday nights concerts begin at 7:30pm.

Dearborn Symphony 62nd Season

“RACH & ROLL”

Tribute to the Beatles and Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #2
Friday, October 13, 2023

In the Hall of the Mountain Swing – Hyken
Love Is All You Need-A Tribute to the Beatles – Healey
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 – Rachmaninoff

“SALUTE TO ARMED FORCES”

Classical & Military Marches
Friday, November 17, 2023
Concert sponsored by Dearborn Orchestral Society Endowment Fund

Star Spangled Overture – Gould
Battle Hymn of the Republic – Bennett
American Salute – Gould
Hymn to the Fallen from Saving Private Ryan – Williams
Strike Up the Band – Gershwin
Liberty Bell March – Sousa
Poet and Peasant Overture – Suppe
Semper Fidelis – Sousa
Born on the Fourth of July – Williams
Armed Forces Salute – Lowden
America the Beautiful – Ward
Stars and Stripes Forever – Sousa

“DATE NIGHT”

Fall in love with this romantic soundtrack
Friday, February 9, 2024
Side-by-Side with Dearborn Youth Symphony

Ruslan and Ludmilla Overture – Glinka
Minuet from String Quintet in E Major, Op 13, No 5 – Boccherini
Ballsirenen Waltzes from The Merry Widow – Lehar
American Sketches No 6 Moondust – Miller
Danse Bacchannale from Samson and Delilah – Saint-Saens
Main Theme from Out of Africa – Barry
Unchained Melodies from Ghost – North
Prelude to Act 1 of La Traviata – Verdi
Besame Mucho from Great Expectation – Velazquez
Canon in D – Pachelbel
Wedding March – Mendelssohn

“POPS! CONCERT”

Blockbuster Movie Themes
Friday, March 15, 2024

Hooray for Hollywood – Williams
A Tribute to Henry Mancini – Mancini
Godfather’s Theme – Rota
Forest Gump Suite – Silvestri
Back to the Future, Suite for Orchestra – Silvestri
Pirates of the Caribbean – Badalt

INTERMISSION

Also sprach Zarathustra – Strauss
Blue Danube Waltz – Strauss
Music from Apollo 13 – Horner
Star Trek through the Years – Custer
Star Trek 2009 – Giacchino
Superman March – Williams

“CARMINA BURANA”

Friday, May 3, 2024 | 7:30pm

Featuring
Vanguard Grand Chorus, directed by G. Kevin Dewey
Dearborn Theatre Collective, directed by Vanessa El-Zein

With Guest Artists
Melissa Maloney, soprano
Seth Johnson, tenor
Trever Schunemann, baritone

And Introducing
Shuya Zheng, Winner 2024 Young Artists Solo Competition
performing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concert No. 1 in F-sharp minor

Concert sponsored in part by Friends of the Dearborn Symphony

All programs subject to change.

Steven Jarvi, conductor

Season subject to change

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