Bates  Mothership Ellington  New World A-Comin’ Gershwin  Variations on “I Got Rhythm” Ellington  Harlem Gershwin  An American in Paris Aaron Diehl, piano

Cirque Musica presents Crescendo with the Asheville Symphony Cirque Musica blends the grace and skill of the world’s greatest cirque performers with the stunning symphonic music of your Asheville Symphony.

Offenbach  Overture to Gaîté Parisienne Saint-Saëns  Cello Concerto No. 1 Poulenc  Gloria Berlioz  La Marseillaise Asheville Symphony Chorus Daniel Kaler, cello Laura Strickling, soprano

Kodály  Dances of Galánta Dvořák  Violin Concerto Beethoven  Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral” Alexi Kenney, violin

Lang  Gravity for piano Four Hands Schubert  Sonata in C Major for Piano Four Hands, “Grand Duo” Lang  After Gravity for Two Pianos Brahms  Sonata in F Minor for Two Pianos Shai Wosner & Orion Weiss, piano

Mozart  Symphony No. 25 Rachmaninoff  Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Rachmaninoff  Piano Concerto No. 2

Handel  Messiah, Parts II and III Asheville Symphony Chorus with members of the Asheville Symphony

Márquez  Danzón No. 2 Saint-Saëns  Violin Concerto No. 3 Stravinsky  The Rite of Spring Simone Porter, violin