Concert 1 – October 8, 2026 – Webber and Brahms

Brandon Morales, tenor, Bronwyn White, soprano

Our season opening concert brings Andrew Lloyd Webber’s music from the Tony Award winning musical The Phantom of the Opera to the Cailloux Theater stage. Distinguished vocal soloists Brandon Morales and Bronwyn White will bring the thrilling story to life in two selections from Phantom.

The second half of this storied performance features one of the central composers of classical music: Johannes Brahms, who was the heir apparent to the great Ludwig van Beethoven. Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C minor has the influence of Beethoven’s mighty 5th Symphony, set in the same key, and opening with thundering timpani strokes. Brahms, like Beethoven, ends his first symphony leaping from the somber minor key to joyful exuberance in C Major.