Saturday, April 30, 2011 8:0pm

The concert will be performed at First United Methodist Church of Allen located at 601 S. Greenville Avenue.

We conclude our season with a performance of works from music’s Romantic period where composers incorporated their country’s local customs and traditions, language and folklore, making the music more passionate and expressive. Repertoire for this evening include Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Russian Easter Festival Overture, Alexander Borodin’s In the Steppes of Central Asia, Jacques Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld, and Symphony No. 1 by Jean Sibelius.

The Allen Symphony Chorus completes its concert season by joining the orchestra in a selection of Opera Choruses from this same music period: Va Pensiero (the Hebrew Slaves Chorus) from the opera Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi, Antiphon from Five Mystical Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Excerpts from Gloria by Antonio Vivaldi, movements 1, 11 and 12.