2024 Spring 3-Pack

We are excited to continue our 2023-2024 Concert Season with Maestro Alexander Platt!

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March 2, 2024:Mozart and Rising Stars!” Sponsored by: O'Flaherty Law and Jan & Tom Brock

 

April 6, 2024:Spring Pops - The Ultimate Movie Night” with hosts Dustin and Dominique Luecke. Sponsored by: ISG

 

May 4, 2024: Spring Finale a World Premiere” with Andrey Gugnin, piano. Sponsored by: Trust Point

March 2, 2024

"Mozart & Rising Stars"

 

What better combination, than the eternally youthful Mozart -- classical music's ultimate child prodigy -- and the brilliant young finalists of our annual Richard Record Rising Stars Competition? Join us and be thrilled by the amazing talents of these young soloists, from across the region, in what has become one of the LSO's great traditions.

The night begins with the Overture to Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream” written by a 17 year-old Felix Mendelssohn, while Mozart's final symphony -- his Symphony No.41, the awesome "Jupiter" -- crowns the evening’s second half.

Felix Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night's Dream

Two Concerto Finalists
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551 (Jupiter)

Sponsored by O'Flaherty Law and Tom & Jan Brock

April 6, 2024

"Spring Pops: The Ultimate Movie Night"

From the recent blockbusters of Hans Zimmer, to the timeless classics of James Horner and John Williams -- April's Spring Pops concert promises to be the Ultimate Movie Night! Batman, Superman, Titanic, Apollo 13, Jaws, Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean, and more --

Join us as the LSO's extraordinary musicians and our Maestro bring together their talents in celebration of some of the greatest contemporary scores for the silver screen!

And Dustin and Dominque Luecke once again join as onstage, as the perfect hosts for another celebration of music for the movies that's the perfect LSO outing for friends and family.

John Williams: March from Superman
Hans Zimmer, arr. Victor Lopez: Concert

Suite from Batman - The Dark Night Rises

James Horner/John Moss: Suite from Apollo 13

Hans Zimmer, arr. Paul Lavender: Suite from Pirates of the Caribbean – Dead Man’s Chest

James Horner/John Moss: Medley from Titanic
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John Williams:
Escapades for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra, from Catch Me if You Can
(Greg Balfany, alto saxophone)

Suite from Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Flying Theme from E.T.

Medley, arr. Burden - from Star Wars

Sponsored by ISG

May 4, 2024

"Spring Finale & A World Premiere"

Our 125th Anniversary Season ends with an evening that the major orchestras of the Midwest would envy for themselves! To start, an anniversary World Premiere: a sumptuous orchestration of a forgotten late-Romantic genius, the African-American composer and pianist Nathaniel Dett, by one of the great Black musicians of our time: the former composer-in-residence with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Jonathan Bailey Holland, recently appointed Dean of the Northwestern University School of Music.

Then, the La Crosse debut of one of the world's great emerging pianists, the young Russian-Canadian artist,  Andrey Gugnin, in Edvard Grieg's timeless and beloved Concerto in A Minor. And in another great LSO tradition, we present our winning Conductor Wannabes, as our two top fundraisers get to try out their talents on the podium!

And we close with the magnificent Finnish landscapes of Jean Sibelius' Symphony No.3, with its almost rock-music ending bringing our 125th anniversary to an unforgettable conclusion.

Andrey Gugnin, Piano

Nathaniel Dett, orch. Jonathan Bailey Holland: Madrigal Divine
(World premiere, commissioned by the LSO for its 125th Anniversary)

Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto in A Minor
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Two Winning Conductor Wannabees

Bizet: March of the Toreadors from Carmen

Mendelssohn: Scherzo from Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61

Sibelius: Symphony No. 3 in C Major

Sponsored by TrustPoint

For more information

Contact the LSO office at (608) 783-2121