SOPRANO SOLOIST Rachele Schmiege will perform with the MSO this weekend as the orchestra closes out its season.
The Midcoast Symphony Orchestra, under conductor Rohan Smith, will conclude its 2016-17 season with concerts titled “Idyllic Scenes” on Saturday and Sunday.
The centerpiece of the program will be Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 in G Major (1901), with soprano soloist Rachele Schmiege. Also on the program will be Carl Maria von Weber’s “Oberon” Overture (1826) and Joseph Canteloube’s Songs of the Auvergne (1930), performed by Schmiege with the orchestra.
Like Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Mahler’s Fourth concludes with singing. In Mahler’s symphony, the final movement is called “Das Himmlischen Leben” (“The Heavenly Life”) and depicts a child’s view of heaven. The symphony as a whole presents idylls and nightmares, folk song and 19th century modernity.
Schmiege previously performed with the MSO, singing Verdi Requiem last year.
The program will be presented on Saturday at 7:30 p.m., at the Gendron Franco Center in Lewiston, and Sunday at 2:30p.m., at the Orion Performing Arts Center in Topsham.
Tickets are available by phone at (207)846-5378, or at Gulf of Maine Books, Brunswick, Now You’re Cooking, Bath, the Franco Center, Lewiston, or on line at www.midcoastsymphony.org.
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