As the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra announces their 39th concert season, be sure to join them on April 25 for their first performance of the 2020-2021 season, Three Icons, hosted at Bryan’s First Baptist Church. Three Icons will be highlighting three of history’s most iconic composers in a concert of exceptional masterpieces. Since the BVSO is opening their season five months after their original plan and over 12 months since their last in-person group performance, Three Icons, as well as the ones to follow, are significant shows for the BVSO. “After multiple disappointing attempts to return to our regular performances, we are confident that the BVSO’s long-awaited return with live music is upon us and that could not be more exciting. This will be the first time in over a year that we come together as a symphony to perform a live concert,” says Marcelo Bussiki, Music Director and Conductor of the BVSO.
The night will begin with a performance of Samuel Barber’s emotional “Adiago for Strings.” “Our musicians are eager and ready to perform,” says Bussiki. “With this much anticipation, we are going for an electrifying performance of two symphonies by the masters: Beethoven and Mozart. We will perform Beethoven’s Symphony No.1, an early work that already announces the musical ventures that he will take us on in later works.” Beethoven’s First Symphony first premiered in 1800 and was a bold and innovative style for the time. “Mozart’s Symphony No. 35, on the other hand, is a later work of the Austrian master and is full of energy and dramatic undertones,” adds Bussiki.
Bussiki has been the music director and conductor for the BVSO since 1996 and also serves as the Vice-Chancellor of Academic Affairs at Blinn College. “Recently, it dawned on me that since my early twenties, I have never gone this long without conducting a concert. The performing arts business is still healing itself from COVID damage, but there is hope that recovery in this country will be quick,” shares Bussiki. Throughout his years as the music director of the BVSO, he has traveled as a coveted guest conductor around the country. In 2002, he traveled to his home country of Brazil under sponsorship from the Brazilian National Bank in Rio de Janeiro to conduct a multitude of symphony concerts.
Three Icons will be held on April 25, 2021 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the First Baptist Church in Bryan. You can purchase tickets here for $45 per adult, $16 per student, and $35 for the “via video” option, which allows you to watch the professionally produced video of the concert at home within a week of the concert. “Via video” tickets can be purchased here.
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Interview with BVSO Music Director Marcelo Bussiki
