Natchitoches - Northwestern Symphony Society
ATTENTION: NSU’s January concert date has changed! Due to a scheduling change of the NSY Symphony’s performance in New Orleans for the Louisiana Music Educators Association (LMEA) that week, the Natchitoches performance of its January 2025 concert has been change from January 16 to
Wednesday, January 15, 2025,
at 7:30 p.m. at Magale Recital Hall on the NSU Campus. Please note this change!
Remaining 2024- 2025 Concert dates and venues at a glance:
(for more information and repertoire for each concert, click here)
(Program changes are updated here as soon as possible)
Wednesday, January 15, 2025, 7:30pm Magale Recital Hall:
(also on Friday, January 17, 2025, 11:30am, LMEA, Grand Ballroom of the Hilton New Orleans Riverside in New Orleans, LA)
We were fortunate to be asked to perform at this year's Louisiana Music Educators Association Conference in New Orleans. Thus, we will have a Natchitoches performance on January 15. The program will include Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 by Johannes Brahms, Symphony No. 1, Op. 21 by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Hungarian March (“Marche Hongroise”) from “The Damnation of Faust,” Op. 24 (1846) by Hector Berlioz, and closing with Jean Sibelius’s glorious Finlandia, Op. 26.
Tuesday, March 18, 2025, 7:30pm, Magale Recital Hall: "Concerto Winners and Appalachian Spring"
This concert will feature NSU's most talented student musicians. In addition, we have Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring" and a jovial orchestra demonstration piece by Russell Peck called "Playing with Style."
Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 7:30pm Magale Recital Hall: "Bach Magnificat"
For our final concert, we return to our pre-pandemic tradition of closing the season with a grand choral work! We will be joined by the NSU Symphony Chorus performing two of the most profound and heartfelt utterances in all symphonic and chorus repertoire. First, J.S. Bach's awe-inspiring Magnificat followed by Franz Joseph Haydn's passionately majestic Te Deum for the Empress Marie Thérèse.
Natchitoches-Northwestern Symphony Society, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) organization, with an IRS ruling year of 1979. Our mission is to provide NSU Symphony Orchestra students scholarships to supplement tuition and books. All donations are tax-deductible.