Clinton Symphony Orchestra

Saturday, September 21, 2024– 7:30pm – Zion Lutheran Church – “Beethoven and Friends” forms the general outline of this season’s concerts. We begin with his Symphony No. 1, premiered at the turn of the 19th century. During that same decade,

Saturday, November 2, 2024– 7:30pm – Centennial Auditorium – Sterling High School – The Symphony No. 2 by Beethoven anchors this annual concert in Sterling’s Centennial Auditorium. The new discovery on this concert is an overture by Spanish Basque composer

Saturday, December 14, 2024– 7:30pm –Zion Lutheran Church – The Holidays are a time for family, friends and music. On this special evening we gather many of our friends to perform for you, and we hope you will bring your

Sunday, January 12, 2025– 2:00pm –Zion Lutheran Church – Warm a Sunday afternoon in January with this performance of chamber music. Composers, musicians, and listeners alike consider chamber music to be the music of friendships. Composers write it with specific

Sunday, February 23, 2025– 2:00pm –Morrison High School Auditorium – Gather the whole family for this special afternoon concert with Beethoven’s arguably most famous hit, his Symphony No. 5 (Da Da Da Dum….) An early overture by Anton Bruckner –

Saturday, April 26, 2025– 7:30pm –Durgin Performing Arts Center – Clinton High School – The Symphony will be joined by our friends in Clinton’s RiverChor for a performance of Mozart’s final work, his Requiem. Begun in late 1791, it was

Where it Begins – Beethoven’s First
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September 16, 2024
Saturday, September 21, 2024– 7:30pm – Zion Lutheran Church – “Beethoven and Friends” forms the general outline of this season’s concerts. We begin with his Symphony No. 1, premiered at the turn of the 19th century. During that same decade, Étienne Nicolas Méhul was writing in France. We open with the overture to his opera Joseph. Moving a century ahead, we include a Concerto [Click to read more…]
Riverfront Pops
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July 31, 2024
6:30 p.m. — Sunday, June 2, 2024 Riverview Park Bandshell – Clinton, Iowa Join us for the annual Sunday Pops in Riverview Park concert! Enjoy a variety of music from light classical, Broadway, film, and television music. It is a free concert, open to the public and you are invited to bring along your whole family, friends and neighbors for this once-a-year festival of music. Program: Star [Click to read more…]
Triumphantly Dvorak
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April 1, 2024
7:30 p.m. — Saturday, April 20, 2024 Vernon Cook Theater – Clinton High School Cellist Anthony Arnone, a member of the music school faculty at the University of Iowa, joins us to play the Elgar Concerto for Cello in E minor, one of the last and most beloved works by that composer. It will be complimented with the G major Symphony of Antonin Dvořák. Learn more about our Guest Artist Anthony [Click to read more…]
Clinton Symphony to present concert for the young….and young at heart
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February 6, 2024
2:00 p.m. — Sunday, February 18, 2024 Morrison High School Auditorium, Morrison, Illinois The whole family will enjoy this mix of new and old mystics and fantasy. Top of the list is The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, the music by Paul Dukas used for the Disney animated film Fantasia. It will be joined by two pieces by contemporary composers: The Three Virtues of Zarathustra, and Nimue and Her [Click to read more…]

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