MSO Presents “Calm Seas” This Weekend

MOBILE, Ala. — The Mobile Symphony Orchestra (MSO) is hosting “Calm Seas” on April 2 at 7:30 p.m. and April 3 at 2:30 p.m. at Mobile’s Saenger Theatre. The University of South Alabama Concert Choir and Mobile Opera Chorus will join the orchestra to perform Ludwig van Beethoven’s Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage. The concert opens with Béla Bartók’s Romanian Folk Dances, based on traditional tunes from Transylvania, and concludes with Joseph Haydn’s London Symphony. This concert is performed in memory of Dr. Andrew Harper, longtime chairman of the Music Department at the University of South Alabama, founder and conductor of the Port City Symphony and lifelong promoter of classical music. Individual tickets are on sale now for $20-$89, with those for students costing $10. Tickets may be purchased online, by phone at 251-432-2010 or at the MSO box office at 257 Dauphin Street. Through MSO’s Big Red Ticket program, sponsored by the Alabama Power Foundation, grade-school students may attend any of the season’s six classical Sunday performances for free when accompanied by a paying adult. Masks will not be required.