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ALL DATES, TIMES, AND PROGRAMMING ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. 1 SPRINGFIELDMOSYMPHONY.ORG | 2021-2022 SEASON In Step With Your Active Lifestyle! Enjoy all inclusive, independent living featuring fine dining, beautiful walking trails, exciting wildlife, and life enrichment programs.

417-831-3828 www.elfindaleretirement.com We’re back to normal and ready to dance! After an unusual year of limited audiences, smaller orchestras, and maybe a lot of time alone on our couches or in front of our screens, it’s time to get back together, get on our feet, and dance! Dance is universal and is an important part of many celebrations and social gatherings. What better way to celebrate a year when we are all gathering again than with a musical collection of dances from around the world? This season is full of energetic and upbeat music that was either written for or inspired by dance. It’s going to have us all tapping our toes and itching to dance along. We’ll be playing familiar selections like Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker ballet and Strauss’s Voices of Spring Waltz, as well as less familiar but just as danceable pieces like Dances in the Canebrakes by Florence Price and the show-stopping Danzón No. 2 by Arturo Márquez. You will experience Flamenco romances and elegant court minuets in addition to Cuban, Russian, African, and Italian dances. We’ll hear dance styles from across many cultures and see them emerge in many symphonic forms. We look forward to seeing you at our season of dance! Kyle Wiley Pickett, Music Director

A Letter from the Executive Director I am overjoyed that we are able to present to you our newest season. We are excited for you to come along with us as live music returns in its fullest expression at Hammons Hall. As the Springfield Symphony opens its 2021-22 season and launches its 87th season of bringing music to our community, we find ourselves emerging into a new world— ourselves and our surroundings undeniably changed after an unusual and isolating pandemic year. If ever there were a time for new beginnings and celebrating the many music connections that held us together this past season, it is now. Your Springfield Symphony Orchestra was one of only 23% of American orchestras that played live in 2020-21. You should be extremely proud of our extraordinarily brave and forward-thinking team consisting of the staff, board members, orchestra musicians, and music director—they are quite special. This past season was unlike any other, however, I hope we were able to provide you with musical joy during the many months of uncertainty, bring light to the darkest of times, and fill your heart with hope. We cannot wait to see you at the Symphony. Jennifer Cotner-Jones, Executive Director

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ALL DATES, TIMES, AND PROGRAMMING ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. 3 SPRINGFIELDMOSYMPHONY.ORG | 2021-2022 SEASON Rachel Lee Priday, Violin

Homecoming Dance | SEPTEMBER 18, 2021 PERFORMANCE: 7:30 PM Don’t miss the Homecoming Dance! Our opening performance will be a Arturo Márquez – Danzón No. 2 joyful celebration of thrilling dance rhythms to usher in our new season. Pablo Sarasate – Carmen Fantasy There will be orchestral fireworks with Stravinsky’sFirebird ballet score With Rachel Lee Priday, Violin and you’ll have a hard time not dancing along to Márquez’s Danzón Sarasate – Zigeunerweisen No. 2. We will also feature a true star soloist — virtuoso violinist Rachel With Rachel Lee Priday, Violin Lee Priday will thrill you with sultry, ecstatic, and spectacular dances for Igor Stravinsky – The Firebird violin and orchestra.

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ALL DATES, TIMES, AND PROGRAMMING ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. 4 SPRINGFIELDMOSYMPHONY.ORG | 2021-2022 SEASON 2021 Hellam Competition Winner, Simon Karakulidi, Piano

Fancy Footwork | OCTOBER 9, 2021 Don’t look at your feet! Enjoy an eclectic concert of orchestral PERFORMANCE: 7:30 PM and piano show-stoppers, including Dvořák’s high-spirited Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – Petite Suite de Slavonic Dances and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s lively concert Petite Suite de concert. We welcome to our stage 2021 Dvořák – Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 Hellam Competition Winner Simon Karakulidi for Prokofiev’s Prokofiev –Piano Concerto No. 2 astonishingly technical and enchanting Piano Concerto No. 2. With 2021 Hellam Competition Winner, Simon Karakulidi, Piano

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ALL DATES, TIMES, AND PROGRAMMING ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. 5 SPRINGFIELDMOSYMPHONY.ORG | 2021-2022 SEASON Highland – Broadway in Concert | NOVEMBER 6, 2021 LERNER AND LOEWE’S BRIGADOON; Book and Lyrics by ALAN JAY LERNER; Music by FREDERICK LOEWE; Original dances created by AGNES DE MILLE PERFORMANCE: 7:30 PM Come away, ye lads and lassies, for a concert of Scottish song and POPS! Lerner and Loewe – highland dance from the Broadway classic, Brigadoon. You will Brigadoon in Concert be transported to the mystical hills of Scotland by the talented With State University students of the Missouri State University BFA Musical Theatre and BFA Musical Theatre and Dance Programs Dance Programs under the direction of Broadway legend Robert Is presented through special arrangement Westenberg, featuring enchanting songs like Almost Like Being in with Musical Theatre International (MTI). All Love, Waiting for My Dearie, and Heather on the Hill. authorized materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com

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ALL DATES, TIMES, AND PROGRAMMING ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. 6 SPRINGFIELDMOSYMPHONY.ORG | 2021-2022 SEASON En Pointe | DECEMBER 11, 2021 POPS! We will be en pointe for a classic holiday with music from The PERFORMANCE: 7:30 PM Nutcracker. This beloved ballet is as much a part of the holiday Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker season as Santa and Christmas carols. It is thrilling to hear this Selections music played by a full symphony orchestra. Our holiday concert And more holiday favorites! is always one of our biggest hits all season long, and this year will be no exception. Get your tickets early! You won’t want to miss our wonderful holiday music, annual visit from Santa, and a return to our audience carol sing-a-long.

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ALL DATES, TIMES, AND PROGRAMMING ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. 7 SPRINGFIELDMOSYMPHONY.ORG | 2021-2022 SEASON Sentimental Sarabande | JANUARY 15, 2022 PERFORMANCE: 7:30 PM We’ll start off 2022 with an intimate concert of romantic and soulful Gabriella Lena Frank – Coqueteos – dances, including Gabriella Lena Frank’s flirtatious Conqueteos from from Leyendas Leyendas and William Grant Still’s transcendent and enchanting William Grant Still – Summerland Summerland. The Springfield Symphony’s wind section will get a chance in the spotlight with Dvořák’s Serenade for Winds, and Britten – Simple Symphony the string section is featured in Benjamin Britten’s playful Simple Dvořák – Serenade for Winds Symphony, full of dance motifs and charm.

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ALL DATES, TIMES, AND PROGRAMMING ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. 8 SPRINGFIELDMOSYMPHONY.ORG | 2021-2022 SEASON Pas de Deux | FEBRUARY 5, 2022 The Pas de Deux is a grand duet — a love story in ballet form PERFORMANCE: 7:30 PM — and at this concert we present the epic love story of Ravel’s Amy Beach – Bal Masque Daphnis and Chloe. Gorgeous and lush, this orchestral Brahms – Gesang der Parzen masterpiece also features our local university choirs. With the combined choirs of Drury, Evangel, and Missouri State Universities Additionally, we are delighted to present American composer Amy Beach’s courtly and elegant Bal Masque for the first time Ravel – Daphnis and Chloe With the combined choirs of Drury, in Springfield, Missouri. Evangel, and Missouri State Universities

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ALL DATES, TIMES, AND PROGRAMMING ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. 9 SPRINGFIELDMOSYMPHONY.ORG | 2021-2022 SEASON Symphonic Dances | MARCH 5, 2022 PERFORMANCE: 7:30 PM Hear the orchestra dance in this night of catchy rhythms and toe-tapping Florence Price – Dances melodies. We open with the evocative, jazzy, and nostalgic Dances in in the Canebrakes the Canebrakes by Florence Price, the first African-American woman Sergei Rachmaninoff – composer to have her work performed by major orchestras. We will also Symphonic Dances play Rachmaninoff’s fascinating Symphonic Dances, which was originally intended to be a ballet score, but eventually became a meditation on ecclesiastical chant motifs.

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ALL DATES, TIMES, AND PROGRAMMING ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. 10 SPRINGFIELDMOSYMPHONY.ORG | 2021-2022 SEASON 2019 Hellam Competition Winner, Bryan Cheng, Cello

Dance Around, Around | APRIL 2, 2022 At our final Classical masterworks concert of the season, we bring Europe’s PERFORMANCE: 7:30 PM many dance traditions together. You will hear a traditional, elegant, and Strauss – Voices of Spring Waltz swirling Viennese waltz by Johann Strauss, Jr., the “Waltz King.” You will Tchaikovsky – Variations on a enjoy the stately and classical Rococo Variations with Hellam Competition Rococo Theme Winner Bryan Cheng on the cello. We conclude our concert with Mahler’s With Hellam Competition epic Symphony No. 1, which includes foot-stomping dances and yodeling Winner, Bryan Cheng, Cello from one of Mahler’s early songs, Hans und Grete. “Dance around, around!” Mahler – Symphony No. 1 – the song goes. “Let whoever is happy weave in and out! Let whoever has The Titan cares find his way home.”

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Flamenco! | MAY 7, 2022

PERFORMANCE: 7:30 PM POPS! We will finish our season of dance music with a Spanish flourish! Join An Evening of Flamenco us for a thrilling performance of Flamenco music with Kansas City’s own With Ensemble Iberica Flamenco group — Ensemble Iberica. Hear the rhythms and melodies of Spain as the orchestra is joined by guitar, percussion, and vocals. Watch as the drama of the Flamenco dance is brought to life on stage at Hammons Hall. It will be a great way to cap a season of our Dance Mix!

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Behind the Baton Spooky Symphony This program is a FREE event where you have the The Springfield Symphony invites you to the 13th opportunity to meet Music Director Kyle Wiley annual FREE Halloween concert! You and your kids will Pickett, along with our guest artists, to hear about the shriek with delight as you listen to spooky sounds and upcoming Classical concerts. Behind the Baton will Halloween favorites. take place LIVE on the Springfield Symphony Orchestra Admission is free and seating is limited. Tickets will Facebook page and will be at an in-person location to be required for entry and are available through the be determined at a later date. Please stay up-to-date on Hammons Hall box office starting October 4th. Please times and locations for our Behind the Baton series at visit www.springfieldmosymphony.org for up-to-date www.springfieldmosymphony.org. information on seating capacity guidelines. October 29, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. 9/16/21 | 10/7/21 Juanita K. Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts 1/13/22 | 2/3/22 | 3/3/22 | 3/31/22

Meet & Greet – 5:15 PM | Program – 5:45 PM SPONSORED BY Swing for the Golf Tournament Symphony 2021 Symphony En Pointe Holiday Matinee October 25, 2021 Admission is free and seating is limited. Millwood Golf & Racquet Club 3700 E Millwood Dr, Ozark, MO 65721 Tickets will be required for entry and are available through the Hammons Hall box office starting November 8th. Please visit www.springfieldmosymphony.org Save the Date for up-to-date information on seating capacity guidelines. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC December 11, 2021 at 2:30 p.m. Juanita K. Hammons Hall for 25th Hellam the Performing Arts Young Artists’ Competition SPONSORED BY HOLIDAY PRESENTING SPONSOR March 26, 2022 PRESENTING HOLIDAY SPONSOR Evangel University Barnett Recital Hall Dr. Michael and www.hellamcompetition.com Krystyna Clarke

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ALL DATES, TIMES, AND PROGRAMMING ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. 13 SPRINGFIELDMOSYMPHONY.ORG | 2021-2022 SEASON JANUARY 1 2: Symphony in the Ozarks Radio Program 13: Behind the Baton 15: Sentimental Sarabande – Classical Concert 26: Symphony in the Ozarks Radio Concert Broadcast FEBRUARY 2: Symphony in the Ozarks Radio Program Symphony Season 3: Behind the Baton 5: Pas de Deux – Classical Concert At-A-Glance 16: Symphony in the Ozarks Radio Concert SEPTEMBER Broadcast 15: Symphony in the Ozarks Radio Program 19: Symphony Night Fever: Springfield 16: Behind the Baton Symphony Gala 18: Springfield Symphony Guild’s Opening Night MARCH 18: Homecoming Dance – Classical Concert 2: Symphony in the Ozarks Radio Program 29: Symphony in the Ozarks Radio Concert Broadcast 3: Behind the Baton OCTOBER 5: Symphonic Dances – Classical Concert 6: Symphony in the Ozarks Radio Program 16: Symphony in the Ozarks Radio Concert 7: Behind the Baton Broadcast 9: Fancy Footwork – Classical Concert 26: 25th Annual Hellam Young Artists’ 20: Symphony in the Ozarks Radio Concert Competition Broadcast 30: Symphony in the Ozarks Radio Program 29: Spooky Symphony 31: Behind the Baton NOVEMBER APRIL 3: Symphony in the Ozarks Radio Program 2: Dance Around, Around – Classical Concert 6: Highland – Broadway in Concert - Lerner and Loewe’s Brigadoon – POPS 13: Symphony in the Ozarks Radio Concert Broadcast DECEMBER MAY 8: Symphony in the Ozarks Radio Program 11: En Pointe Community Holiday Matinee 4: Symphony in the Ozarks Program 11: En Pointe – POPS 7: Flamenco! – POPS

Symphony in the Ozarks is a monthly radio program hosted by Randy Stewart on KSMU 91.1 FM. Tune in the Wednesday before each concert at 10 a.m. to hear Randy and Kyle Wiley Pickett discuss the music the orchestra will be performing at the upcoming concerts. KSMU will broadcast the Classical concerts two weeks following the performance. See calendar above for broadcast dates.

Join us for Symphony Night Fever, the Springfield Symphony’s biggest fundraiser of the season. Reserve your table now for the party with groovy music, dancing, live and silent auction, and delicious food! February 19, 2022 Oasis Hotel and Convention Center 2546 N. Glenstone Ave, Springfield, MO 65803 Call 417-864-6683 to reserve your table.

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Musgrave Community Balcony In order to grow our Outreach efforts, the Springfield SINGLE TICKETS ONLY Symphony has dedicated the entire Petite Balcony as the Musgrave Community Balcony. This balcony is designated to youth or underserved people in the community free of charge, in collaboration with partnering area nonprofits and schools. This provides nearly 3,000 (300 per concert) SINGLE TICKETS ONLY people the chance to see the Symphony for free.

Seating at JKH Hall is on three levels – Orchestra, Mezzanine Balcony, and Community Balcony. The Mezzanine Balcony overhangs the Orchestra level at row P on the sides and T in the middle of the house; the Community Balcony overhangs the Mezzanine at row G. Seats are numbered starting with 1 on house right (patron’s right when seated facing the stage). Number of seats in rows varies from approximately 40-60. For Box Seat availability call the Symphony Office.

For current updates on 2021-22 Springfield Symphony guidelines, concerts and events, seating, and more, please visit www.springfieldmosymphony.org. Questions? Call 417-864-6683 or email [email protected]

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