Missouri Philharmonic Orchestra

Though we remain on hiatus for the time being, the MPO is wishing the very best for our sisters and brothers in the arts as they confront the many challenges posed by the pandemic. Nonetheless, we're thrilled to announce that we'll return to the stage in a grand collaboration with Springfield Regional Opera next fall: a concert performance of the incredible Turandot by Puccini! Stay tuned for updates, and support your arts and artists!

SATURDAY, join our friends at Springfield Regional Opera for a special online event: Coming Home: Opera in the Ozarks with Michael Spyres and Friends! Join the SRO for one of the first performance events in the Ozarks since March! Watch via the FB event or on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtTmOzt_iCU

A message from our friends at Springfield Regional Opera--please support your local arts and artists!

Tonight's Masterworks II concert is ON, but please check back throughout the day for updates!

Jim Davidson rehearsing Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy!

We just passed 3000 likes--thank you!! Join us for Masterworks II on Wednesday!

The wonderful Clara Christian will perform Beethoven's Choral Fantasy with us next week at Masterworks II on Wednesday, February 5th at Juanita K. Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts! Tickets via: https://www.hammonshall.com/viewshow.aspx?ID=3772

The first of our famous (or infamous) 'icon' posters, and our first Mahler year! Join us next Wednesday for Masterworks II!

Hear the the amazing Ann Marie Wilcox-Daehn next Wednesday, February 5th at Masterworks II at the Juanita K. Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts! She is featured in the world premiere of Carlyle Sharpe's Of These Years I Sing for orchestra, chorus, and mezzo-soprano. Tickets at: https://www.hammonshall.com/viewshow.aspx?ID=3772

With our Charles R. Hall Masterworks II season finale concert coming on February 5th, we'll be celebrating a bit of SDCO history by posting some 'vintage' concert posters over the next week. Here's our very first foray into a more upscale look--our famous (or infamous) Nielsen 4 concert with dueling timpani!

COMPOSER FEATURE Rehearsals are underway for our February 5th Masterworks II world premiere of Carlyle Sharpe’s new work for chorus and orchestra--we're thrilled! "The Springfield-Drury Civic Orchestra has been asking me to write another choral/orchestral work since they performed the Missouri premiere of Proud Music of the Storm with the Drury University Chorale back in 2008. Unlike Proud Music of the Storm, which was taken from a single poem by Walt Whitman, this work is drawn from 11 different poems by Whitman which focus on freedom, death, and the triumphs and messiness of democracy, as well as the importance of women and mothers in society." Tickets on sale via: https://www.hammonshall.com/viewshow.aspx?ID=3772