Bloomington Symphony Orchestra - Indiana

The Orchestra Games
2019-02-10 15:00 - 16:30 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Bloomington South High School Auditorium
BSO musicians face off in an Olympic-style competition at this FREE family-friendly concert!
Also featuring:

Violinist Elson Koh, runner-up, 2019 Youth Concerto Competition sponsored by Hilliard Lyons
A side-by-side performance with members of the Hoosier Youth Philharmonic

TICKETS
No ticket is required for this free concert.

Amahl and the Night Visitors
2018-12-09 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center, 122 S. Walnut Street, Bloomington, Indiana, 47404
The Bloomington Symphony Orchestra, Reimagining Opera for Kids, Windfall Dancers, and Voces Novae Chorus are partnering to present Gian Carlo Menotti’s beloved opera for children, Amahl and the Night Visitors.
Two FREE performances are scheduled on Sunday, December 9th
First show: 5:30 pm
Second show: 7:30 pm

TICKETS NO LONGER AVAILABLE

Amahl and the Night Visitors
2018-12-09 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center, 122 S. Walnut Street, Bloomington, Indiana, 47404
The Bloomington Symphony Orchestra, Reimagining Opera for Kids, Windfall Dancers, and Voces Novae Chorus are partnering to present Gian Carlo Menotti’s beloved opera for children, Amahl and the Night Visitors.
Two FREE performances are scheduled on Sunday, December 9th
First show: 5:30 pm
Second show: 7:30 pm

TICKETS ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE

Holly Days - 8:00 pm show
2018-11-23 20:00 - 21:30 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | IN
Celebrate the season and kick off your holidays in style with the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra’s Holly Days – BUY TICKETS NOW!
Our two shows are perfectly packaged around downtown’s Canopy of Lights – Friday, Nov. 23 at 5:30 pm and 8:00 pm
All your favorite holiday music plus an audience sing-along adds up to magical memories for the whole family.
Our 8:00 pm show is the perfect ending to a sparkling evening!
On the program (8:00 pm show)

Christmas at the Movies
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Amahl and the Night Visitors – Excerpts
Trepak from the Nutcracker Suite
’Twas the Night before Christmas, featuring WFIU’s Brother William
Sleigh Ride
Christmas Sing-Along
A Rockin’ Christmas
Carol of the Bells
Farandole
White Christmas
I Wonder as I Wander
Fantasia on Greensleeves
BUY TICKETS NOW!
or visit the BCT Box Office – 114 E. Kirkwood to reserve your seats today!

Holly Days - 5:30 pm show
2018-11-23 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, IN, 47408, United States
Celebrate the season and kick off your holidays in style with the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra’s Holly Days – BUY TICKETS NOW!
Our two shows are perfectly packaged around downtown’s Canopy of Lights – Friday, Nov. 23 at 5:30 pm and 8:00 pm
All your favorite holiday music plus an audience sing-along adds up to magical memories for the whole family.
An early, kid-friendly concert at 5:30 p.m. finishes just in time to catch the Canopy of Lights celebration on the Square!
On the program
Christmas at the Movies
We Wish You a Klezmer Christmas
Amahl and the Night Visitors – Excerpts
Trepak from the Nutcracker Suite
’Twas the Night before Christmas, featuring WFIU’s Brother William
Sleigh Ride
Christmas Sing-Along
A Rockin’ Christmas
Carol of the Bells
Farandole
BUY TICKETS NOW!
or visit the BCT Box Office – 114 E. Kirkwood to reserve your seats today!

Made in America
2018-10-13 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, IN, 47408, United States
Join the BSO for a celebration of music made in the U.S.A.
Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man is a different sort of anthem. Composer Terence Blanchard says “Whenever I hear it, it stops me in my tracks and makes me reflect on the goodness of man. And I know that sounds corny for some, but it really makes me think about how, at the end of the day, most people in this country are good people. Honestly, that could have been our national anthem.”
Also on the program, Copland’s Appalachian Spring is iconic American music, deeply embedded and embraced in our culture. Our performance will be of the original chamber version, showcasing the talents of our core musicians.
Ever since its spectacular premiere in December 1893, Dvořák’s New World Symphony has remained one of the most beloved works of the symphonic repertoire. Dvořák’s tribute to his newly adopted country is powerful yet sentimental, filled with a sweet longing for the promise of a better life.
Tickets
Tickets are available online or at the BCT Box Office, 114 E. Kirkwood Avenue.
General admission: $15 advance, $18 day of show
Student with ID: $8 advance, $10 day of show
Children 18 & under: free (ticket required)
SEASON tickets are now available. Save on four concerts and reserve your favorite seat today!

812-323-3020
bctboxoffice.org

Six Degrees of Leonard Bernstein
2018-08-19 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | IN
Six Degrees of Leonard Bernstein, a free outdoor concert celebrating the centennial of Bernstein’s birth
Sunday, August 19, 2018, 7 p.m.
Waldron Hill Buskirk Park, 331 S. Washington Street, Bloomington, IN
The Bloomington Symphony Orchestra will open its 2018–19 season on Sunday, August 19, at 7 p.m. with a free outdoor concert at Waldron Hill Buskirk Park. The concert will pay tribute to beloved American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, who would have celebrated his 100th birthday this month. The orchestra will perform works by Bernstein and his friends and contemporaries, including Aaron Copland, Duke Ellington, and George Gershwin. The program also will include patriotic and pops favorites.
The concert is free and open to the public. Sponsored by Smithville, the event is part of the City of Bloomington Parks and Recreation Department’s Performing Arts Series.
Pack a picnic, bring the whole family, and join the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra for our annual free summer concert!

Composition Competition 2018: Call for Scores
2018-06-15 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | IN
To celebrate the diversity of music-making in the Bloomington community, the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is seeking scores to perform in its 2018-19 season.
Three winners will be announced: two winners for orchestral works (School Division and Community Division) and another for chamber work (Chamber Division). Composers can submit to more than one division but will only be eligible to win one. Works must be original and unpublished but may have been performed before.

Eligibility:

School Division (7th-12th grade & IU undergraduates): Open to grade 7-12 students residing in the counties served by MCCSC, as well as undergraduates enrolled in Jacobs School of Music courses in the current year.
Community Division (IU graduate students & community members): Open to graduate students enrolled in the Jacobs School of Music as well as community-based composers residing in Monroe or adjacent counties.
Chamber Division (all ages): Open to all composers. Composers submit chamber pieces, for up to eight players, for performances in smaller venues across Bloomington.

Entry fee: No entry fee, though the winning composers are responsible for printing a score and parts if they are selected.
Instrumentation: 2222/4231/timp+2perc/str for orchestral works. Any combination of eight orchestral instruments for chamber submissions.
Selection process: Our panel is made up of BSO’s Artistic Director Alejandro Gómez Guillén, BSO Vice President Eric Lindsay, as well as other music-makers in the Bloomington community. The winning pieces will be determined based on their artistic merit as well as their level of difficulty being appropriate for a community orchestra.
Prizes: A winning piece from each division will be performed in the BSO 2018-19 season. BSO reserves the right to declare that a winner does not exist if the entry requirements and musical standards are not fulfilled. Should the winning composition be published, it must carry the designation: Winner, 2018 Bloomington Symphony Orchestra Competition on score. All royalties will remain the sole property of the composer.
Submit application, recording (MIDI’s OK) and PDF of the score through our online form by June 15, 2018. To ensure equity, composers must use a pseudonym on the score and recording.
Deadlines:
May 2, 2018 – Contest announced at BSO Spring Gala
June 15, 2018 – Scores and Applications due (submit through our online form)
July 13, 2018 – Winners announced
August 17, 2018 – Winning composers submit hard-copy score & parts to Bloomington Symphony Orchestra
P.O. Box 1823, Bloomington, IN 47402.

Masterpiece - Intensity and Passion
2018-05-20 | Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, IN, 47408, United States
Masterpiece – Intensity and Passion
The Bloomington Symphony Orchestra finishes its 48th season with some seriously gorgeous music.
Michael Schacter’s Five – Six – Seven – Eight
Explore the whole world in just eight minutes! This clever, toe-tapping piece quotes every musical style from Baroque through Klezmer and New Orleans’ Jazz.
Richard Strauss’s Serenade for Winds
Uplifting, charming, youthful, and vivacious – this woodwind feature is sure to leave a smile on your face.
Paul Dukas’s Fanfare to La Peri
A regal fanfare that creates an air of excitement and anticipation, this short piece shines a spotlight on our brass section.
Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor (3rd Movement)
Features the grand prize winner of our 2018 Youth Concerto Competition, Phillip Hammond as soloist on what is arguably the most popular violin concerto ever written.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 – Pathétique
“I have put my whole soul into this work…It is the best thing I ever composed or shall compose.” Tchaikovsky’s final symphony is truly a masterpiece, full of grand hopes and deepest despair. It changed symphonic music forever. What will its impact be on you?
This concert made possible by the generous support of our corporate sponsor, Hilliard Lyons
Sunday, May 20, 2018
6:00 pm
Buskirk-Chumley Theater
114 E. Kirkwood
TICKETS available online or at the BCT Box Office
Reserved Seating:
General Admission – $15 in advance, $18 on day of performance
Student (w/ID) – $8 in advance, $10 on day of performance
18 & under – free (requires ticket)

Homegrown: a FREE family concert blooming with local talent
2018-04-08 | Bloomington South High School Auditorium
Join the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra and students from area schools for a FREE family concert, with…
Youth Concerto Competition Soloists Renee Murphy (harp) and Katie Mills (bassoon)
The world premiere of Velkomin by Zachary Walter
Also featuring music by Balmages, Brahms, and Mussorgsky
Stay after the concert for an instrument petting zoo!
MANY THANKS TO OUR CORPORATE SPONSOR, SOLUTION TREE
Sunday, April 8, 2018
3:30 pm
Bloomington High School South Auditorium

Epic - Motion and Grandeur
2018-03-11 | Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, IN, 47408, United States
Blissful. Warm. Joyful. Ecstatic. Festive.
How will you feel after attending the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra’s next concert?
Houston Grand Opera’s Cecilia Duarte joins the BSO to perform music of De Falla, Grieg, and Fauré. According to Broadway World, “Her gorgeous Mezzo-soprano fills the auditorium with warmth and light every time she opens her mouth to sing.”
M-Magazine calls Dani Howard “an exciting young composer with great energy.” The BSO will be presenting the US premiere of Howard’s hauntingly beautiful Arches.
Last, but certainly not least, we’ll close the concert with Beethoven’s blissful Symphony No. 7, which the composer himself called “one of the happiest products of my poor talents.”
Epic: Motion and Grandeur
TICKETS available online or at the BCT Box Office
Gabrieli, Sonata Pian’ e Forte
De Falla, Seven Popular Spanish Songs
Grieg, Fra Monte Pincio
Fauré, Aurore
Howard, Arches
Beethoven, Symphony No. 7
Sunday, March 11, 2018
6:00 pm
Buskirk-Chumley Theater
114 E. Kirkwood
TICKETS available online or at the BCT Box Office
Reserved Seating:
General Admission – $15 in advance, $18 on day of performance
Student (w/ID) – $8 in advance, $10 on day of performance
18 & under – free (requires ticket)

Holly Days - Celebrate the Season
2017-11-24 | Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, IN, 47408, United States
Join the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra before or after the Canopy of Lights for a swinging, sassy holiday show! Sponsored by Curry Auto Center.
Friday, November 24th
5:30 and 8:00 pm (two shows)
Buskirk-Chumley Theater
114 E. Kirkwood
TICKETS available soon
Reserved Seating:
General Admission – $15 in advance, $18 on day of performance
Student (w/ID) – $8 in advance, $10 on day of performance
18 & under – $5
Encore presentation at Spencer’s Historic Tivoli Theater on Thursday, November 30th at 7:30 pm!

Rhapsody: Color and Improvisation
2017-10-08 18:00 - 20:00 UTC | Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, IN, 47408, United States
Soaring and sexy, amusing and intense, Rhapsody in Blue is instantly recognizable and a favorite of audiences worldwide.
Join the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra and pianist Sung-Mi Im as they perform George Gershwin’s iconic piece for solo piano and orchestra.

Also on the program –
Debussy’s dreamlike Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Ravel’s La Valse, which the composer himself called “a fantastic whirl of destiny”
Debussy’s Fêtes, celebrating the simple delights of a rustic county fair
…and more!
SUNDAY OCTOBER 8
6 pm
Buskirk-Chumley Theater
114 E. Kirkwood
TICKETS available at the BCT Box Office
Reserved Seating:
General Admission – $15 in advance, $18 on day of performance
Student (w/ID) – $8 in advance, $10 on day of performance
18 & under – Free (requires ticket)
