Clinton Symphony Orchestra

Program Notes and News

• Clinton Symphony Features Beethoven’s 2nd Symphony on November 2
  In Events, Program Notes
  October 20, 2024
  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 Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga. Nicknamed “the Spanish Mozart,” he was a child prodigy and accomplished composer who died [Click to read more…]
• Where it Begins – Beethoven’s First
  In Events
  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
  In Events
  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
  In Events, Program Notes
  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…]