The Santa Fe Symphony presents
Schubert & The Bells, October 18, 2026 4:00PM
Event Summary
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Date
October 18, 2026 4:00PM
Description
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 exceptional soloists, 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.
Runtime: 1 hour 40 minutes. Pre-concert lecture at 3 PM.
The Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra
The Santa Fe Symphony Chorus
Guillermo Figueroa, Music Director
Carmen Flórez-Mansi, Choral Director
Diana Newman, Soprano
Ricardo Garcia, Tenor
Aleksey Bogdanov, Bass
PROGRAM
SCHUBERT
Symphony No. 8, “Unfinished”
Allegro moderato
Andante con moto
SAINT-SAËNS
Danse macabre, op.40
INTERMISSION
RACHMANINOFF
The Bells, op.35
The Silver Sleigh Bells
The Mellow Wedding Bells
The Loud Alarm Bells
The Mournful Alarm Bells