October is Arts & Humanities Month.  To celebrate this, the LR Culture Vulture will highlight a different arts, humanities, or cultural experience each day of the month.

To kick things off in the month, the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra starts its season with a Masterworks concert on October 1 and 2 at Robinson Center Music Hall.

Music Director Philip Mann leads the ASO in Italian Vacation.  The program consists of Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4 in A, Op. 90, Rossini’s, Overture to The Italian Girl in Algiers, Puccini’s Chrysanthemums and Respighi’s Pines of Rome.  In addition to the orchestra musicians, there will be an organ on stage for this concert.

The concert will be October 1 at 8pm at Robinson Center Music Hall and repeated again on Sunday, October 2 at 3pm.

For tickets and more information, visit the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra website.

Other ASO concerts this month include:

OCT 4 – Summer Vacation – Chamber Concert
Clinton Presidential Center
Debussy: String Quartet
Vivaldi: Concerto for 4 Violins

OCT 8-9 – Music of John Williams – Pops Concert
Robinson Center Music Hall
Music from Star Wars, Jaws, Superman, Indiana Jones, Schindler’s List, Harry Potter

OCT 22-23 – Fire & Light – Masterworks Concert
featuring Norman Krieger
Haydn: Symphony No. 59 “Fire”
Brahms: Concerto for Piano No. 1

OCT 25 – Norman Krieger – Chamber Concert
Clinton Presidential Center
Chopin: Selection for Solo Piano
Brahms: Piano Quintet