Lexington Symphony Presents 2015-2016 Season Opener

Lexington Symphony will launch its 2015–2016 season at the recently renovated Cary Hall (1605 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington, MA) on Saturday, November 7th at 8 p.m. The season opener, “A Tribute to Sergei Diaghilev and Ballets Russes,” will feature works by composers Eric Satie and Igor Stravinsky. A Conductor’s Talk by Music Director Jonathan McPhee will precede the concert at 7 p.m.

As the founder of Ballets Russes, Diaghilev brought together the best minds in literature, music, visual art, and dance to create stunning new interdisciplinary works that were both controversial and groundbreaking. Having spent his early conducting career working on definitive revivals of these great masterpieces with The Joffrey Ballet, Maestro McPhee at long last brings some of these great musical works to the Lexington Symphony stage. Eric Satie’s Parade blends a panoply of sounds such as roulette wheels, boat whistles, typewriters, guns, and sirens with the orchestra. Add to this two of McPhee’s favorites by Stravinsky, Petrushka and The Rite of Spring, and you have one unforgettable evening of truly great music that changed the course of artistic history. This concert is sponsored by Lexington Symphony Concert Fund Partners.

Tickets for this concert, which are priced at $50/$40/$30 and $15 for students, are available online at www.lexingtonsymphony.org, by telephone at 781-523-9009, or at the door at Cary Hall (based on availability).

Offering up to a 15 percent discount off individual ticket prices, LexSIX and LexFOUR season subscription packages are also on sale now through November 7th.