Bass Performance Hall
October 30, 31, November 1, 2026
Irritated with the bustle and bother of city life in Vienna, Beethoven found inspiration for his “Pastoral” Symphony on long, rambling walks in the countryside. The composer weaves shepherd tunes and bird calls into the music in a celebration of nature, amplified in these performances with artwork from the Kimbell Art Museum’s landscape collection. The concert opens with American composer Missy Mazzoli’s ballet suite Orpheus Undone and closes with Benjamin Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings, drawn from a series of poems about the mysteries of the night.
Bass Performance Hall
November 20-22, 2026
Aaron Copland was the quintessential American composer in the 20th century. Don’t miss the FWSO and conductor Tomáš Netopil’s performance of his third and final symphony, a fusion of his famous balletic style from works like Appalachian Spring and Rodeo with the European symphonic form. Also on the program are Rachmaninoff’s titanic Piano Concerto No. 2, dedicated to a hypnotist who helped the composer overcome severe case of writer’s block, and Dvořák’s bright and festive Carnival Overture.
Bass Performance Hall
January 15-17, 2027
American violinist Stella Chen graduated from Harvard and The Juilliard School before launching an international performance career. In January, she performs Finnish composer Sibelius’ brooding Violin Concerto, which shivers with arctic beauty in its opening melodies. After intermission, Dame Jane Glover leads the FWSO in the Russian composer Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 9, a work originally intended to honor the Soviets’ victory over Germany in WWII that transformed into an ironically lighthearted piece by the time it premiered.
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Bass Performance Hall
January 29-31, 2027
The composer Mahler described the finale of his Symphony No. 6 as “the hero on whom fall three blows of fate, the last of which fells him, as a tree is felled.” Sometimes called his “Tragic” Symphony, he wrote this work during a happy time in his life, after his marriage to his love Alma and the birth of his second daughter. To open the program, Bruce Wood Dance Dallas interprets another work by Mahler, the Songs of a Wayfarer song cycle, written after an earlier unhappy romantic quest.
Bass Performance Hall
March 19-21, 2027
Czech composer Dvořák infused his famous Symphony No. 8 with the melodies and rhythms of his people, building a mighty work from humble folk tunes. Popular conductor Anna Skryleva returns to Fort Worth for this performance, which also features the Violin Concerto by Erich Korngold, a composer famous for his film music to swashbucklers like Robin Hood and The Seahawk. The program opens with another Czech favorite, Bedrich Smetana’s mighty “Moldau,” an evocative tone poem about a river that passes through the countryside.
Bass Performance Hall
April 30, May 1, 2, 2027
The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra’s own Jake Fridkis opens the evening with Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice, performing the enchanting Minuet & Dance of the Blessed Spirits, a work that highlights the flute’s lyrical beauty and grace. Acclaimed pianist Inon Barnatan then joins the orchestra for Beethoven’s radiant Fourth Piano Concerto, a piece brimming with intimacy and invention. To bring the night to a powerful close, Music Director Robert Spano conducts Rachmaninoff’s sweeping Symphony No. 2, a lush and emotional journey that showcases the orchestra in full brilliance.
Bass Performance Hall
May 14-16, 2027
Experience an evening of breathtaking orchestral color as Music Director Robert Spano leads the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra through three captivating works by Maurice Ravel and a world premiere by acclaimed American composer Christopher Theofanidis. FWSO Principal Cellist Allan Steele takes center stage for the first performance of Theofanidis's Against the Dying of the Light, a new concerto for cello, strings, and harp. From the enchanting fairy-tale world of Ravel's Mother Goose Suite to the elegance of Valses nobles et sentimentales and the exhilarating finale of Daphnis et Chloé, this program brings together the beauty of French impressionism and the thrill of hearing a new work come to life.
