Colors: The Art of Sound
The color of sound is seductive. It’s mesmerizing. It’s one important way we consider meaning, expression, tradition, and culture. Sound is everything. This season, that gorgeous, sensuous thing takes the spotlight. Every piece, each concert, was uniquely selected to be performed this season because of its awesome and diverse tone color. Appreciate all that’s possible.
Each subscription includes 1 ticket to each of the 4 MSO concerts in the 2026-27 Season:
Gold: Metropolis
Saturday, October 3, 2026, at 7:30 PM
- One of the best and most influential films in history, Roger Ebert said, “Metropolis is one of the great achievements of the silent era, a work so audacious in its vision and so angry in its message that it is, if anything, more powerful today than when it was made.”
- A cult classic, it’s a fairytale. Hear the premiere of a new score composed for the legendary film by one of our own, MSO composer and performer Michelle DeWhirst.
Red: Tchaikovsky & Williams
Sunday, December 20, 2026, at 3:00 PM
Featuring Capitol Civic Centre Community Chorale & Lincoln High School Choirs
- Holiday magic is found in Tchaikovsky’s (alternative!) Nutcracker ballet. Hear the greatest music from the ballet that you’ve never heard before.
- Six big-budget Hollywood films offer us popular music fitting the season—Home Alone, Elf, and The Polar Express lead the way. The familiar music is sung by the Capitol Civic Centre Community Chorale and Lincoln High School Choirs.
White: Copland & Barber
Saturday, February 13, 2027, at 7:30 PM
Featuring Erin Bryan, Soprano
- Two American legends, Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber, offer us a picture of where we’ve been. Two living masters, Jessie Montgomery and Michael Torke, surmise where we’re going.
- Lyric Soprano, Erin Bryan, sings the monumental Knoxville: Summer of 1915, a time capsule of Americana about nostalgia and the space between childhood and maturity. It’s sophisticated, emotional, and welcoming.
Blue: Beloved (2 of 9) A Candelit Concert
Saturday, April 10, 2027, at 7:30 PM
Featuring Addison Teng, Violin
- Resolve and optimism. This is year two of our Beethoven cycle! Beethoven is most known for his dramatic, powerful, and outgoing Romantic works, but much of his music is intimate, even soothing. This season, we take an intimate look at Beethoven’s more youthful music, an earlier sound very close to his soul.
- Star violinist, Addison Teng, will perform Beethoven’s two Romances—gentle, loving music. Also, he’ll perform the first movement of Mozart’s third violin concerto, where Mozart reaches his mature aesthetic. Also, Mozart’s overture to The Marriage of Figaro: witty music.