Voices and Symphonies

Sunday, October 26, 2025, 7:00 p.m.

Mount Olive Lutheran Church
1343 Ocean Park Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA  90405

Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 (first movement)
Grieg: Holberg Suite
Verdi: Arias from Rigoletto and Un Ballo in Maschera
Weber: Recitativo e Aria di Agathe, from Der Freischütz
Zoraqi: Kaba for Orchestra
Brahms: Symphony No. 4 (finale)

Emma Berggren, soprano
Matthew Peterson, baritone

Palisades Symphony Orchestra
Maxim Kuzin, Conductor and Music Director
Andrew Karatay, Guest Conductor

We launch the season with excerpts from Beethoven’s buoyant Symphony No. 8 and Brahms’s dramatic Fourth Symphony, alongside thrilling excerpts from Verdi's operas, Rigoletto and Un ballo in maschera. A special highlight is Grieg’s Holberg Suite, which will feature and strengthen our string section with its elegant, virtuosic writing. We’ll also explore a rarely heard gem, Zoraqi’s Kaba for Orchestra, which vividly evokes a traditional folk genre of Albania. This program celebrates the orchestra’s versatility—from Classical sparkle to Romantic intensity.

Admission is free, donations are welcome.
Open seating.