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BELLEFONTE -- The Nittany Valley Symphony will present its 2025-26 season opener, "Dreams of the Forest" at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 20, at Bellefonte Area High School.
Tickets are $33.85 including fees for adults, and $7.18 including fees for students and youth. Tickets may be purchased at www.nvs.org/upcoming-events or by visiting the will call table on the day of the concert.
The concert begins with Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, drawing us into a languid, sun-drenched world before venturing into the darker forests of Sibelius' rarely heard tone poem, The Wood Nymph. Once nearly lost to history, The Wood Nymph disappeared from the concert stage after 1936 and was not heard again until its rediscovery 60 years later, in 1996. Our performance will be one of only a handful the work has received in the U.S.
The afternoon culminates with Brahms' Symphony No. 3, one of the great masterpieces of the Romantic repertoire. Throughout the symphony, joy mingles with loneliness, major turns unexpectedly to minor, and moments of tremendous intensity turn quietly inward. Dreams of the Forest invites audiences to lose themselves for an afternoon in three very different musical landscapes and experience the remarkable journey these pieces create.
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Learn more at www.nvs.org/ or contact Executive Director Rebecca Richards at info@nvs.org or 814-231-8224.