Name: Horizons of the Air at GBS!
Start: 2025-10-04T19:30:00-04:00
Location: Klein Memorial Auditorium Foundation

“HORIZONS OF THE AIR” MARKS THE START OF NINE DECADES OF THE GREATER BRIDGEPORT SYMPHONY, AS EDUARDO LEANDRO CONDUCTS THE 80TH SEASON PREMIERE CONCERT AT BRIDGEPORT’S KLEIN OCTOBER 4TH
“Bridgeport’s Brazilian Sensation,” Maestro Eduardo Leandro will take the podium to lead 59 musicians of the Greater Bridgeport Symphony in its season premiere concert. “Horizons of Air,” the first of the five-concert season styled “New Horizons,” will showcase music based in the essential, the five classical elements: Air (October), Fire (November), Earth (March), Water (April), and Quintessence, the magical fifth element that makes up everything the other four elements do not (December).
The new Maestro is brimming with excitement about the concert, saying “The first concert – Air – will have Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending, a haunting piece for solo violin and orchestra, played by the virtuoso Brunilda Myftaraj. She’ll follow a beautiful and wistful piece for strings by Caroline Shaw. The concert ends with Shostakovich’s 5th Symphony, an ode to survival in challenging times, and a score that has one of the most elating last movements of any symphony.” Shaw’s piece represents modern orchestral music amid great classics. Shaw herself is a Grammy Award winning artist who lives in Connecticut.
“Horizons of Air is so well portrayed in Ralph Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending,” says GBS President Mark Halstead. “It just makes you feel as though you’re soaring into the sky, looking out to far horizons, and that’s the way we feel about GBS this season. Eighty years behind us, and a great future ahead of us – fantastic music all season long! We’re happy to see so many of our longtime friends returning as subscribers, along with a lot of new friends.”
GBS’s upcoming season is dedicated to the life and work of the late Bridgeport industrialist Herbert Harrington and his wife Doris, who served as GBS Board Chair from 2013 until her passing last February. “They both gave their hearts and souls to GBS, and we’ll go on in their great example,” said Halstead.
Kids under 19 are free, and accompanying adults get 15% off their tickets. Call GBS at (203)576-0263 for details and purchase.
Tickets for the October 4 concert range from $21 to $72, but GBS Executive Director Phyllis Cortese reminds us that, “Subscriptions are a great bargain and come with benefits, like a complimentary ‘Bring-a-Friend’ ticket and reserved seats, at discounts as much as 22%.” Five-concert subscriptions – making the music of Tchaikovsky, Britten, Smetana, Copland, Ravel, and many others available, in addition to the October 4 offerings – are on sale now for $95 to $295.
Tickets may be purchased at www.GBS.org, or by calling (203)576-0263.