The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra presents the first concert of the ACXIOM Pops Live! Series – Classical Mystery Tour: A Tribute to The Beatles – on October 6 at 8 p.m. and October 7 at 3 p.m. at the Robinson Center Music Hall, conducted by Geoffrey Robson, ASO Associate Conductor. This concert is sponsored in part by Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield.
Hear The Beatles live in concert with YOUR Arkansas Symphony Orchestra! These four musicians look and sound just like the real thing. Hear Eleanor Rigby with a live string section; experience the peace anthem All You Need is Love full of brass fanfare; and enjoy the upbeat and optimistic tune Here Comes the Sun. From early Beatles music through the solo years, this concert is the best of The Beatles as you’ve never heard them.
All kids through 12th grade can attend the Sunday matinee performances for free (with purchase of an adult ticket) using the Entergy Kids Ticket – available for download at http://www.ArkansasSymphony.org. Adult single tickets range from $18-$58 and can be purchased online at http://www.ArkansasSymphony.org or over the phone at (501) 666-1761. Student and military tickets are $10.
Featuring
Program:
Beatles Medley Overture arrangement by Martin Herman
Classical Mystery Tour will perform selections from the following:
A Day In the Life
All You Need Is Love
Beatles Medley Overture
Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite
Come Together
Eleanor Rigby
Golden Slumbers
Got To Get You Into My Life
Here Comes the Sun
I Am the Walrus
I Saw Her Standing There
I Want to Hold Your Hand
Imagine
Live and Let Die
The Long and Winding Road
Ob-la-di, ob-la-da
Penny Lane
Sgt. Pepper /Little Help From My Friends
Strawberry Fields Forever
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Yellow Submarine
Yesterday
All songs written by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, or George Harrison.