SMSO: Belshazzar's Feast

Featuring: Jonathan Beyer, the Southwest Michigan Symphony Chorus and the Lake Michigan Youth Orchestra

Margaret Beckley Upton Memorial Concert

Jonathan Beyer and the Southwest Michigan Symphony Chorus serve as musical storytellers for William Walton’s dramatic cantata “Belshazzar’s Feast” which conveys the account of Babylon’s fall as depicted in the Old Testament. Completing the storytelling will be a side-by-side performance of "Bacchanale" from "Samson et Delilah" by Saint-Saens with the Lake Michigan Youth Orchestra and the premiere of "Michigan Mosaic, Op. 13," an original composition by SMSO member Alan Palider.

Pre-concert Conversation at 3 p.m.