Posted May 07, 2022in
Season Finale! Experience the romantic thrill of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto played by virtuoso Alessio Bax. Jessie Montgomery’s Starburst dazzles with swirling, kaleidoscopic musical colors. Finally, feel the stirring joy [...]
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Posted April 09, 2022in
The Symphony’s April concert opens with the heroic trumpet call of Beethoven’s Leonore Overture and ends with his Ninth Symphony, the joyful anthem of humanity and brotherhood. Joseph Giunta and [...]
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Posted March 19, 2022in
Conductor Laureate of the San Diego Symphony Jahja Ling leads the Orchestra in the effervescent Remembering Gatsby. Rising star Janice Carissa plays Beethoven’s turbulent, poetic Third Piano Concerto. Shostakovich’s Fifth [...]
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Posted January 29, 2022in
“Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours.” So Beethoven closed a July 1812 letter to his “immortal beloved,” a woman whose identity has remained one of the great mysteries of classical [...]
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Posted December 31, 2021in
Grammy and Tony-nominated Broadway star Michael Cavanaugh and his band join the Des Moines Symphony for a high-energy celebration that will have you singing along to classic hits and rock [...]
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Posted November 20, 2021in
Renowned for his intensely expressive music making, Paul Huang joins the Symphony to perform Beethoven’s transcendent Violin Concerto in a program featuring the noble grandeur and epic journey of Sibelius’s [...]
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Posted November 03, 2021in Art News
Surrealism was designed to horrify as many people as it amused. The Art Center’s latest show is “Fantasy Figures – Surrealistic Works on Paper.” Because surrealism was designed to horrify [...]
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Posted October 23, 2021in
Tchaikovsky’s blazing Fourth Symphony punctuates dreamlike, lyrical passages with cosmic joy and dramatic spectacle. Beethoven’s “Triple” Concerto features Concertmaster Jonathan Sturm, Principal Cellist Julie Sturm, and pianist Nicholas Roth. But [...]
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Posted October 23, 2021in
Tchaikovsky’s blazing Fourth Symphony punctuates dreamlike, lyrical passages with cosmic joy and dramatic spectacle. Beethoven’s “Triple” Concerto features Concertmaster Jonathan Sturm, Principal Cellist Julie Sturm, and pianist Nicholas Roth. But [...]
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Posted October 06, 2021in Art News
In paintings like “Fall of Eden,” he comments upon technology and its effect on humanity. Chuck Hipsher grew up in Council Bluffs, later attending the University of Iowa and The [...]
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