Welcome to the Sedalia Symphony’s 90th season! I’m thrilled to be conducting a growing orchestra. I’m excited about our future and our goal of becoming a leading regional orchestra of choice for performers and audiences. We are grateful that you have chosen to attend our concerts and hope this year will be even more rewarding than ever.
With the 90th year, we celebrate our partnership with Smith-Cotton High School on their centennial, our communities, and our imaginations. Join us as we celebrate all of these things through music. Did you know that the Sedalia Symphony is the oldest continuously performing orchestra west of the Mississippi River? That is indeed something to celebrate!
We open our season on October 7th with the work that was performed on the very first Sedalia Symphony season—Beethoven’s “Egmont” Overture, a work full of powerful energy, drama, resilience, and triumph. This work embodies 90 years of what the Sedalia Symphony Orchestra has experienced: times of war and peace, economic booms and recessions, and, most recently, surviving the Covid-19 pandemic.
Samuel Stokes and Dylan Noble are Sedalia natives and Smith-Cotton alumni who have gone on to have prominent careers in music. They join us as soloists for our opening and closing concerts. We’ll also feature the Concordia Community Kinderchor at the Christmas concert and bring you our favorite classical pieces based on fairy tales at our Winter Concert in February.
Our final concert on April 28th features a beloved work that has never been performed by the Sedalia Symphony—the complete Symphony No. 9 in d minor, the “New World Symphony” by Antonín Dvořák. This glorious work is a celebration of you, our audience, and all who have supported what the Sedalia Symphony Orchestra has brought to this region these past 90 years.
Thank you for your support through attending concerts, encouraging young people to play an instrument, becoming a member, and spreading the word about this orchestra. I look forward to meeting you soon!
Jerrode Marsh
Artistic Director and Conductor
The Sedalia Symphony will be a leading regional symphony orchestra of choice for performers and audiences in Central Missouri.
The Sedalia Symphony Society exists to provide quality orchestra concerts, educational opportunities, and cultural enrichment for Sedalia and the surrounding region.
