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Firefly Music Festival is just over a week away!

Published 10 days ago • 1 min read

Hello Reader,

With only one week left until the start of the 2025 Firefly Music Festival, we hope you are getting as excited as we are! This week, we are highlighting the Sunday, June 15 pops concert and the Saturday, June 21 masterworks concert, both of which will take place at Battle High School in their state-of-the-art Performing Arts Center. Read on to learn about the fascinating music that will be featured in each of these concerts. And get your tickets today!

Lights, Camera, America!

A local favorite is headed to a new stage at Battle High School! Come dressed up as your favorite characters as the MOSY orchestra plays music from Encanto, Back to the Future, Harry Potter, Jurassic Park, and more! Alongside great American films and pops, Sousa’s marches and contemporary fanfares will help us celebrate July Fourth early and recognize all those who served and are serving in the US Armed Forces.

Through the Branches:
Joyce, Fauré, & Haydn

Composer Molly Joyce composed a contemporary climate-aware response to Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ, confronting the slow yet looming crisis, alluding to the individual actions as missing the forest for the trees when systematic destruction is ignored. Fauré’s tragic love story Pelléas et Mélisande follows this journey into the woods, before handing off to Haydn’s Symphony No. 103 “Drumroll,” where a seemingly peaceful and pastoral E-flat major hides a warning of an ambiguous dies irae in its theme.

Fondly,

Trent

The Missouri Symphony

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