DAMIEN GETER COMPOSER & BARITONE

“Being a Composer-in-Residence for the Richmond Symphony is an incredible honor. I grew up in Chesterfield, Virginia. Many of my earliest musical memories and my love for classical music came from sitting in the Richmond Symphony concert hall as a young person. This was the place that set the foundation for me as an artist - it feels like a homecoming.”

The Richmond Symphony is thrilled to announce a three-year residency with Chesterfield born composer and bass-baritone Damien Geter. With this residency, the Richmond Symphony embarks on a new model of a holistic and long-term residency program, reaching far into the local community and laying the foundation for future composers.

Geter is concurrently writing the score for the new opera Loving v. Virginia which is being cocommissioned by Virginia Opera and the Richmond Symphony - set for its world premiere tour throughout Virginia in Spring 2025.

During his first season in residence with the Symphony, Geter curates a concert at Hardywood Brewery, engages with young, local composers and explores collaborations utilizing the interdisciplinary nature of music within a diverse range of art forms.

During the full extent of the residency Geter will compose new compositions for the Richmond Symphony to be premiered during the 23/24 and 24/25 seasons, and spend time working with the Richmond Symphony, the Richmond Symphony Chorus and the Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra, while engaging with patrons, donors and Richmond community members along the way. The legacy of the role will mean that the canon of symphonic music will grow and the Richmond Symphony will become known as a place of new music creation.

Classic Hollywood Love Songs Pops

4 SAT • 8:00

WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

Hooray for Hollywood

JEFF TYZIK (B. 1951)

The Big Music Suite

TCHAIKOVSK (1840-1893)

Sleeping Beauty Waltz

ROTA (1911-1979) /arr. HOLCOMBE

A Time For Us from “Romeo and Juliet”

MANCINI (1924-1994) /arr. MOSS

Moon River

BERNSTEIN (1918-1990) /arr. MASON

West Side Story

Intermission

STEINER (1888-1971)

Casablanca Suite

BARBRA STREISAND (B. 1942)

A Star is Born from “Evergreen”

DE VITA (1932-1998) /arr. BACHALIS

Softly as I leave You

JOHN WILLIAMS (B. 1932)

Across the Stars from “Star Wars: Episode II”

HORNER (1953-2015) /arr. MOSS

Titanic

BROWN (1896-1964)

Singin’ in the Rain

1:56 approximate program length