Natchitoches-Northwestern Symphony will open its season on Tuesday, Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m. in Magale Recital Hall. Dr. Douglas Bakenhus is the musical director. Raul Mangula will be the guest conductor.
Tickets are $16.50 each and are available a t https://nnssla.org/tick et-sales. Season tickets can be purchased athttps://nnssla.org/d onate.
The first concert will feature Northwestern State music faculty soprano Dr. Marcy McKee, Bakenhus on bassoon. Dr.Masahito Kuroda on euphonium and Dr. Andrej Kurti on violin.
The 2023-24 season, “Symphony in the Key of Love,” will honor the late arts philanthropist and former Natchitoches-Northwestern Symphony Society co-founder and former president Jim Bob Key. Each concert will have selections dedicated to Key. After serving as the second president of the Symphony Society in 19681969, Key was a lifetime member of its board of directors. He served on the National Council of the Metropolitan Opera and the regional boards of the Shreveport Symphony and Shreveport Opera. He was inducted in the NSU Creative and Performing Arts Hall of Fame in 2014 and selected a Natchitoches Treasure in 2015.