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SEASON OPENER

Saturday, September 12, 2026, @ 7PM

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An exhilirating opening night performance featuring GRAMMY®-nominated pianist Han Chen delivering Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto, and the orchestral powerhouse of Dvorak’s mighty Seventh Symphony.

After Party @ The Bakery District – 8:30 PM

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MYTHOLOGIES

Saturday, October 3, 2026, @ 7PM

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Join us for the world-premiere performance of MYTHOLOGIES, a genre-defying, visionary musical work featuring a piano soloist, three vocalists, and narration. Composed by GRAMMY®-winner Danae Xanthe Vlasse, this concert features a GRAMMY®-acclaimed cast: sopranos Sangeeta Kaur and Hila Piltmann, tenor Omar Najmi, and pianist Robert Thies.

This collection of lush Romantic symphonic tone poems combine operatic elements with virtuostic piano writing, and interweaves narration to celebrate some of the most iconic myths from ancient Greece.

 

          

After Party @ The Bakery District – 8:30 PM

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CHRISTMAS IN MAUI with Kalani Pe’a

Saturday, December 5, 2026, @ 7PM

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Celebrate the holidays with four-time GRAMMY ®-award winning Hawaiian artist, Kalani Pe’a and this mainland-premier Christmas symphony concert.

This amazong evening includes White Christmas, Little Drummer Boy, Jingle Bell Rock, and island holiday favorites. 

 

After Party @ The Bakery District – 8:30 PM

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REVELATIONS RECORDING PROJECT

Saturday, March 6, 2027, @ 7PM

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Acclaimed Spanish composer Oscar Navarro’s tour-de-force work for clarinet and orchestra comes to life, performed by Fort Smith Symphony Principal Clarinetist Andrew Deboer.

Then, the world premiere of Symphony No. 2: “Remission” by composer-in-residence Patrick Conlon – a deeply personal and powerful new symphonic work.

The symphony will be recorded for the next Fort Smith Symphony release on Divine Arts Records, produced by Christina Giacona, whose work includes five GRAMMY®-nominated albums. The album will feature four compositions by Conlon, all commissioned by the Fort Smith Symphony. 

After Party @ The Bakery District – 8:30 PM

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Thank you to our Revelations Recording Project Executive Producers

ArcBest Corporation • Doug & Kathy Babb • The Belinga Foundation • The Walter O. Caldwell Foundation • The Dream Alliance • Judy R. & Lance McReynolds • Lavon Morton & Brenda Yelvington • Mark & Victoria Rumsey

TOM CRUISE TOP GUN: MAVERICK In Concert

Saturday, April 24, 2027, @ 7PM

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Top Gun: Maverick in Concert will feature the Fort Smith Symphony performing Lorne Balfe, Harold Faltermeyer, Lady Gaga and Hans Zimmer’s score – conducted by
John Jeter in a world-premiere.

Top Gun: Maverick was nominated for six Academy Awards® including Best Picture and Best Original Song, winning Best Sound.

After more than 30 years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick”
Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test
pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. When he finds himself training a detachment of TOPGUN graduates for a specialised mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen, Maverick encounters Lt. Bradley Bradshaw (Miles Teller), call sign: “Rooster,” the son of Maverick’s late friend and Radar Intercept Officer Lt. Nick Bradshaw, aka “Goose.”

Facing an uncertain future and confronting the ghosts of his past, Maverick is drawn into a confrontation with his own deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who will be chosen to fly it.

After Party @ The Bakery District – 10:00 PM

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