Albany Symphony to celebrate Valentine’s with Romantic Music by Candlelight
The Albany Symphony Orchestra will present Romantic Music by Candlelight on Feb. 8.
ALBANY — For southwest Georgians with a little romance in their soul, the Albany Symphony Orchestra has just the ticket to make your Valentine’s Day even more special.
The symphony will host Romantic Music by Candlelight Feb. 8 at Doublegate Country Club’s ballroom, setting the mood for an elegant dinner to be shared with someone special.
“It’s something a little different,” ASO Musical Director/Conductor Claire Fox Hillard said of the event, a first-of-its-kind for the symphony. “It’s an opportunity to get fancy, to dress up and enjoy a concert and dinner by candlelight.
“We’ve never done this before, but if you go online you see these kinds of candlelight concerts all over cities like Atlanta. We like to do different things, so we’re hoping the community is ready to support something new, a truly romantic evening.”
An intimate group of 27 or so members of the orchestra will provide the music for the dinner, and principle clarinetist Peter Geldrich and principal bassoonist Shannon Lowe — a married couple — will provide intimate music during desert with a “Chocolate Symphony.”
“The ‘Chocolate Symphony’ is a neat little thing in four sections,” Hillard explained. “Participants will receive their desert — four chocolates — and the special symphony is played in four parts, each lasting a couple of minutes. The audience is supposed to eat each piece of chocolate along with each section, which describes the chocolates.”
Tickets, which are available online at the symphony’s website or by phone at (229) 430-8733, are $100 each, and tables for eight may be purchased for $1,000. The romantic evening starts at 5:30 p.m. with cocktails at a cash bar, dinner at 6:30 and the concert at 7 p.m. The “Chocolate Symphony” is expected to start around 7:35 p.m.
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