Celestial Visions: Symphonie Fantastique
Saturday, September 20, 2025 – 7:30PM
Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville
Program:
Missy Mazzoli – Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)
Johannes Brahms – Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Hector Berlioz – Symphonie Fantastique
Lawrence Loh, Guest Conductor
“I envision this concert to be an imaginative trip through space and time. The program is centered around Berlioz’s hallucinatory masterpiece, Symphonie Fantastique. This revolutionary symphony depicts a fever dream with everything from love, loss, opium, a scaffold, and a midnight scene that devolves into madness! I can’t wait to return to SoNA, and share this wonderful music with you!”
About Lawrence Loh
American conductor Lawrence Loh is the newly appointed Music Director of the Waco Symphony Orchestra. He is in his final season as Music Director of The Syracuse Orchestra, having held that position for 11 years. He was previously Music Director of the West Virginia Symphony, Pittsburgh Youth Symphony, Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic and the Denver Young Artists Orchestra. He held major staff conductor positions with the Pittsburgh, Dallas and Colorado Symphonies. Loh is highly sought after as a guest conductor, and appears regularly with major orchestras such as the Cleveland, Sarasota and Florida Orchestras, Atlanta, Detroit, Phoenix, Seattle, Utah, San Francisco, National (D.C.), Baltimore, North Carolina Symphonies, Grant Park Music Festival and the Boston Pops among many others. He is a film music buff and enjoys conducting Film in Concert as well as programs featuring the music of film composers, especially John Williams. Larry and his wife Jennifer are proud parents of two college students, Charlie and Hilary, and they share their home with an adorable dog named Coco, who is the CEO of the household!