Symphony by the Sea

Just in time to celebrate waking up from our annual winter hibernation (this year’s being exceptionally long and cold), Symphony by the Sea presents a breath of spring air with its performances on Thursday, April 30th at 7:30 pm at Abbot Hall in Marblehead and Sunday, May 3rd at 3:00 pm at the Firehouse Center for the Arts in Newburyport.

And what better way to announce the season than with flute soloist, Paula Robinson, considered an “American Treasure” whose “music bursts from her as naturally as leaves from trees”. Performing a program liberally dotted with music of American music, including that of George Gershwin, Ms. Robison brings extraordinary experience on the world stages to our North Shore venues.

“The program, of Poems, Serenades and Soliloquies, will be framed by works composed by Dvorak during his American sojourn and a Symphony-by-the-Sea premier of a new arrangement of Gershwin’s Preludes for flute and orchestra,” says Donald Palma, Maestro and Music Director of the Orchestra. And he continues, also embracing the season, “Celebrate Spring with American masterpieces for Flute and Orchestra performed by the incomparable Paula Robison, America’s premier flute soloist and a favorite of our audiences for many years.”

Visit the Symphony website at www.symphonybythesea.org for all ticket information.