Symphony Pops with Show-Stopping Tunes

Unforgettable tunes and engaging scores from Hollywood will be featured in the Dearborn Symphony’s “Hits from the Silver Screen” performance at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13, at Dearborn’s Ford Community and Performing Arts Center.

The Dearborn Symphony, with guest conductor Leif Bjaland, will perform music from “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “The Empire Strikes Back,” “American in Paris,” “Gone with the Wind,” “Psycho,” {West Side Story” and others.

Recognized as a dynamic and exciting American conductor, Bjaland is music director of the Waterbury Symphony in Connecticut, where he has received and critical praise for his performances and imaginative programming.

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Following a 2014 performance with the Chicago Philharmonic, Bjaland was critically acclaimed as “…clearly in synch with [the] music and led a commanding and quite thrilling performance. Leif Bjaland is clearly a conductor we need to hear more of locally—in Evanston or downtown Chicago.”

The concert provides an encore to the “day in court” fundraiser, annual “Dinner at the Dearborn Courthouse” featuring a three-course dinner with wine . This prelude to the evening’s concert will also reflect the Hollywood theme. The dinner begins at 6 p.m., in the airy and aesthetically appealing atrium of Dearborn’s 19th District Court at 16077 Michigan Ave.

Dinner is priced at $85 — just $5 more than an illegal parking ticket in Dearborn on Snow Days — and, because the Dearborn Symphony is a non-profit 501c3 organization, $50 of the $85 price is tax-deductible.

To reserve a spot, send checks payable to Dearborn Symphony to PO Box 2063, Dearborn, MI 48123 or call (313) 565-2424 to pay by credit card.

The Dearborn Symphony has partnered with local restaurants for “Dinner and a Concert.”

The restaurants offer a 20 percent discount to symphony ticket-holders on concert nights. Advance reservations are recommended at Andiamo Dearborn, Big Fish, The Dearborn Inn, The Henry and La Pita.

Season sponsors include Ford Land and Dearborn Sausage. Lodging for the Dearborn Symphony Orchestra’s guest artist is provided by The Dearborn Inn – A Marriott Hotel.

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