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Just before the kids go trick or treating, we’ve got musical tricks and treats! Bruce Hangen and the ESO provide a thrill ride of spooky, creepy fun. Dress up in your Halloween costume, and haunt the concert hall with us.

Pre-concert activities start at 1:15 PM in the main lobby and include an instrument petting zoo and craft making of masks and percussion instruments.

For Halloween thrills more suited to adults, check out our Robbins Pops concerts.

(A) Dress Circle Adult $29 / Child $17
(B, C & F) Orchestra & Terrace Adult $27 / Child $16
(D & E) Upper Circle & Gallery Adult $21 / Child $13
(click map for interactive seating chart)

Tickets subject to applicable service charges.

Thank you to our series sponsor:

For more spooky Halloween activities, check out dEdmonton, Canada's Halloween Festival.

The next Esso Symphony for Kids performance is November 21, 2009.

Program Information

Just before the kids go trick or treating, we’ve got musical tricks and treats! Bruce Hangen and the ESO provide a thrill ride of spooky, creepy fun. Dress up in your Halloween costume, and haunt the concert hall with us.

Pre-concert activities start at 1:15 PM in the main lobby and include an instrument petting zoo and craft making of masks and percussion instruments.

Program

JS BACH
Toccata and Fugue in D minor (excerpt)

MUSSORGSKY
Pictures at an Exhibition: Hut on Fowl's Legs & Catacombs (Orch Ravel)

GRIEG
Peer Gynt: In the Hall of the Mountain King

DUKAS
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

WENDEL
The Ride of the Headless Horseman

LLOYD WEBBER
Selections from The Phantom of the Opera (Arr Custer)

BRATTON
The Teddy Bears’ Picnic (Arr Goldstein)

SHAIMAN / MIZZY
Tango from Addams Family Values

Artist Information

 

Bruce Hangen, conductor

 

Bruce Hangen is Director of Orchestral Activities at the Boston Conservatory, serving as the Conservatory’s principal orchestral conductor as well as director of both the orchestra and conducting programs. The 2008/2009 season marked his 11th season as the Music Director of the Indian Hill Symphony. Recently, Mr. Hangen completed his tenure as the Principal Pops Guest Conductor of the Boston Pops. This position was created in May 2002 especially for Mr. Hangen, reflecting the strong musical relationship built over two decades of regular guest conducting. Other past positions include Music Director of the Omaha Symphony. From 1998 to 2000, he was Acting Resident Conductor of both the Utah and Kansas City Symphony Orchestras. Mr. Hangen was for ten seasons (1976-86) Music Director and Conductor of the Portland (Maine) Symphony; 1973-79 Associate Conductor of the Denver Symphony; 1975-79 Music Director of the Arapahoe Chamber Orchestra in Denver; six summer seasons (1966-72) Assistant Conductor of the Colorado Philharmonic.

A graduate of the Eastman School of Music with a major in conducting, Hangen was also a conducting fellow at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood for two summers, where his conducting teachers included Seiji Ozawa, Leonard Bernstein, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski. His recent appearances have included concerts with the Florida Philharmonic and Boston Symphony as well as the orchestras of St. Louis, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Naples (FL), and Houston. His repeat engagements with the Boston Pops and Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestras alone totaled well over 200 performances since 1979. Mr. Hangen is the recipient of an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the University of New England, and in Omaha he received the ICAN Foundation’s 1990 Browning Award for Career Excellence and Vision. Bruce Hangen was born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania and was raised in Great Falls, Montana.

Mr. Hangen last appeared with the ESO in September 2008.

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