Welcome to the Longview Symphony
Dear Friends of the Symphony,
The current Longview Symphony season will be a season of beauty, variety and exceptional talent.
We are thrilled to feature Haochen Zhang, 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Gold Medalis, in the May concert. The Season Opener will be a spectatulator concert with Beethoven's 5th Symphony which opens with the most famous four notes ever written and the Concerto for Solo Percussion and Chamber Orchestra featuring our very own Principal Percussionist Chandler Teague.
Symphonic music permeates our society. It is all around us. It is important. Karl Paulnack, Director of Music at the Boston Conservatory comments:
"...I have come to understand that music is not part of “arts and entertainment” as the newspaper section would have us believe. It’s not a luxury, a lavish thing that we fund from leftovers of our budgets, not a plaything or an amusement or a pass time. Music is a basic need of human survival. Music is one of the ways we make sense of our lives, one of the ways in which we express feelings when we have no words, a way for us to understand things with our hearts when we cannot with our minds.
Attending a Longview Symphony concert is a wonderful way to inspire and enrich your life. We hope you will enjoy our “Season of Celebration.”
Thank you for your patronage.
Sincerely,
Randy Maines
President, Longview Symphony
The Longview Symphony is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and all contributions are tax-deductible.
