Will feature five Sunday concerts at 3:00 PM in the Yavapai College Performing Arts Center
The Prescott POPS Symphony has announced its 2019-2020 season. If features five Sunday concerts at 3:00 PM in the Yavapai College Performing Arts Center. Season tickets at $100 will be available until the first concert on July 7, 2019: Youth (under 18) season tickets are $20. Reserved seating: $25 Adult, $5 Youth. ADA seating is only available through the Ticket Office: (928) 776-2000.
CONCERT SCHEDULE:
July 7, 2019 – “The Music of America”
Continuing the theme of our Independence Day holiday, POPS will open the season with a celebration of truly American music and a walk down memory lane with such hits as “Stardust,” “Lazy River” and “Georgia On My Mind,” favorites by Irving Berlin, and selections from Aaron Copland’s Old American Songs featuring your favorite vocal artists and lots more.
July 28, 2019 – “Magical Tour of the Movies”
The ever popular POPS Chorus along with many of your favorite soloists join the orchestra under the direction of Maestro Darrell Rowader to bring you an awe inspiring selection of themes from major motion pictures. Elmer Bernstein’s “To Kill A Mockingbird Suite” plus selections by Henry Mancini and Andrew Lloyd Webber headline an all star production.
September 15, 2019 – “Pops, People, Places”
Climb aboard the POPS magic carpet for a tour of some of the world’s most exotic destinations with such selections as “Vienna, City of My Deams,” “The Yellow Rose of Texas,” “Belle of New York” and the unique experience of Ralph Vaughn Williams’ Symphony No. 2 (“London”).
December 8, 2019 – “Holiday Dreams and Traditions”
The entire POPS musical family of instrumentalists, chorus, soloists and dancers comes together to present a spectacular program of the music of the holiday season. You will hear the traditional favorites with perhaps some different arrangements as well as some beautiful pieces that are heard less frequently. “Dreams of Fireflies” is a rousing romp based on the fourth movement of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. An old English carol, “See, Amid the Winter’s Snow” is an experience in lyric splendor that will surely brighten your holiday.
February 16, 2020 – “Love and Laughter”
For its final concert of the season, the POPS draws on its musical versatility to underscore the mood of Valentine’s Day celebrants with the lively “Humoresque” by Antonin Dvorak, and Martini’s “Plasird’Amour” to be countered by the sultry sounds of “My Funny Valentine” plus some old and new favorites.