Panhandle Symphony Orchestra Fall Concert is Tuesday

The Panhandle Symphony Orchestra will perform its Fall Concert at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Lake City High School auditorium, 6101 Ramsey Road, Coeur d'Alene.

The free concert will celebrate the fall season and prepare audiences for the holidays to come with offerings including “English Folk Songs” by R. Vaughan Williams, a British collection of three folk songs as follows: No. 1. March — “Seventeen Come Sunday”; No. 2. Intermezzo — “My Bonny Boy”; No. 3. March — “Folk Songs from Somerset.” 

“Three Dances from The Fantastic Toyshop” by Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) will follow. “Tarantella” will be the first of a set of three dances from a ballet about dancing dolls created by a famous toy maker.

Selections from Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Phantom of the Opera" will carry the audience through these melodies: “The Phantom of the Opera,” “Think of me,” “Angel of Music,” "The Music of the Night,” “Masquerade” and “All I Ask of You.” "Phantom" is a 1909 novel by French author Gaston Leroux. Its musical form was inspired and created by Webber and first performed at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London in 1986, winning every major British theater award. The New York production opened in January 1988 and swept the 1988 Tony Awards. 

A taste of holiday music will deliver familiar Christmas melodies: "Three Noels" by Clare Grundman and “Christmas Hymn,” "Christmas Eve is Here” and “Now We Sing of Christmas." A vocalist will join for those selections.

For those who love Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker," the concert will include “Marche,” “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” and “Danse Russe Trepak.”

The Panhandle Symphony Orchestra is a volunteer community orchestra conducted by Tim Sandford.