An Explosive Concert!

Step into the grandeur of Baroque as the Detroit Symphony Orchestra perform's Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks, under the baton of conductor Jane Glover! Commissioned in 1749 by King George II to celebrate the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, this jubilant suite was originally scored for a massive wind band and accompanied by a fireworks display in London's Green Park. Experience a piece as vibrant in the concert hall as it must have been under the night sky nearly three centuries ago!

Leading into that sparkling work is Stacy Garrop's Spectacle of Light written for Baroque orchestra, while Handel's joyful suite is then followed by Bach's Brandenburg Concerto and finally Haydn's Symphony No. 104 "London". An explosive concert with Detroit Symphony!