Schubert & The Bells

October is the perfect time for music with spooky and gothic origins. The concert opens with Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony, a piece that proves a ghost’s unfinished business can be romantic and strikingly dramatic. Next is Saint-Saens’ Danse Macabre, a tone poem depicting Death fiddling on Halloween as skeletons dance on their graves. To close the concert, The Santa Fe Symphony Chorus and a trio of exception soloists (Diana Newman, Soprano; Ricardo Garcia, Tenor; and Aleksey Bogdanov, Bass), under the direction of Carmen Flórez-Mansi, join The Symphony to perform Rachmaninoff’s The Bells. Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem , this choral work brings the fabled bells—sleigh, wedding, alarm, and finally funeral—to life. Guillermo Figueroa conducts.