Symphony and Chorale feature romantic composers

The Glacier Symphony presents a concert featuring music from two Romantic composers Dvorak and Tchaikovsky Feb. 21-22.

The “Splendid Reveries” concert will feature violin master David Halen, concertmaster of the Saint Louis Symphony and the Aspen Festival Orchestra. Halen has appeared with the GSC in concertos by Sibelius and Brahms. This time he will be featured soloist in one of the rarely performed works by Czech composer Antonin Dvorak, the Violin Concerto in A. John Zoltek, Music Director of the Glacier Symphony and Chorale, said “Dvorak’s symphonies are most often heard in concert halls but it is rare indeed when one gets to hear his Violin Concerto. This work was composed in the grand Romantic tradition and highlights the violin soloist in passages of subtle beauty and rigorous Czech dance rhythms. The orchestra opening calls attention to the dramatic energy of this wonderful concerto, ushering in the soloist’s rhapsodic passages.”

The concert’s second half features Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 1“Winter Dreams” with two of the four movements appropriately titled: “Dreams of a Winter Journey” and “Desolate Land, Land of Mists.” Though Tchaikovsky The “Splendid Reveries” concerts will be Feb. 21 at 7:30 p.m. and Feb. 22 at 3 p.m. at Flathead High Performance Hall in Kalispell. Tickets must be reserved in advance by calling 407-7000 or on the web at www.gscmusic.org.

Local businesses that are sponsoring this concert include Glacier Bank, Daily Inter Lake, KGEZ Radio, Montana Club, Montana Public Radio, Crown of the Continent Guitar Foundation and Hilton Garden Inn.