2026 Concerts

Discovery
Sunday, March 15, 2026

Jacqueline Rodenbeck, violin 
William C. White, conductor 

2:00 PM - Pre-Concert Talk
3:00 PM - Concert
5:30 PM - Post-Concert Cocktails @ The Den

GLUCK — Dance of the Furies 
MENDELSSOHN — Violin Concerto in E minor 
CPE BACH — Symphony in D Major, Wq. 183/1 
JS BACH — Orchestral Suite No. 3 

Our soloist for this concert is Jacqueline Rodenbeck, a Tucson native and winner of the  most recent Sphinx Concerto Competition. Jackie will perform one of the all-time favorite solo works in the repertoire, Felix Mendelssohn’s violin concerto in E minor. This concerto gets off to a fiery start, so appropriately enough, we’ll lead into it with Gluck’s “Dance of the  Furies” from his opera Orpheus and Eurydice. 

We have Felix Mendelssohn to thank not only for his great compositions, but also for his  work championing the music of J. S. Bach, whose work was all but forgotten by the  beginning of the 19th century. Certain musicians kept the flame alive though, including  Bach’s most ingenious son, Carl Philip Emmanuel.

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POPS Concert:
America 250 Celebration

Saturday, April 18, 2026 
7:00 pm

Abigail Fischer, vocalist 
Desmond Siu, conductor 

SMITH / KEY The Star-Spangled Banner 
STILL Symphony No. 1, “Afro-American” mvmt. 3
RODGERS Oklahoma Medley 
GERSHWIN Summertime 
COPLAND “Old American Songs” 
The Boatman’s Dance 
Simple Gifts 
I Bought Me a Cat 
JOPLIN The Entertainer 
BERNSTEIN West Side Story Overture 
GROFE Grand Canyon Suite 

Encores: 
WARD / BATES “America the Beautiful” 
SOUSA The Stars and Stripes Forever March 

An all-American spectacular caps off the season as we celebrate our country’s 250th birthday. The best of our nation’s music is represented in this program, from jazz to ragtime to Broadway, crowned by Ferde Grofé’s grand symphonic masterwork, the Grand Canyon Suite, celebrating the amazing natural wonder in our own backyard. 

For this concert, the Symphony will be joined by mezzo soprano Abigail Fischer in songs of Gershwin and Copland, plus a rousing singalong encore of “America the Beautiful.”

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Venue Information

The first four classical concerts in Sedona will be held on Sundays at 3:00 pm, while the final pops concert in Sedona will be held on Saturday at 7:00 pm. All Sedona performances will be presented at the Sedona Performing Arts Center, 995 Upper Red Rock Loop Road in Sedona.

The October 21 concert in Prescott will be presented at The Jim & Linda Lee Performing Arts Center, 1100 E Sheldon Street, presented in partnership with Yavapai Symphony Association. This offers a promising new opportunity for Sedona Symphony to reach new audiences in a nearby market. Tickets available through Yavapai Symphony.

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