Words + Music: From Darkness to Light

Name: Words + Music: From Darkness to Light — The Symphony and poetry come together to explore the human experience
Start: 2026-10-28T19:30:00-04:00
End: 2026-10-28T21:00:00-04:00
Location: Sarah Belk Gambrell Center

The Symphony and poetry come together to explore the human experience

Wed, Oct 28, 2026 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Sarah Belk Gambrell Center, Charlotte, NC

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Wed, Oct 28, 2026

7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

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In this special collaboration between the Charlotte Symphony and Queens University of Charlotte’s English Department, music and poetry come together to explore the many dimensions of the human experience — from grief and loss to remembrance, transformation, and healing.

Student writers and performers from Queens pair poetry with powerful orchestral works, creating a dialogue between the spoken word and the symphonic voice.

Presented in partnership with Queens University of Charlotte

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Program

BEETHOVEN Overture to Egmont
TCHAIKOVSKY Pas de Deux from The Nutcracker
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7 in A Major (II. Allegretto)
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, “Rhenish” (V. Lebhaft)
MUSSORGSKY Night on Bald Mountain
OFFENBACH Overture to Orpheus in the Underworld
COPLAND Variations on a Shaker Melody from Appalachian Spring
BRAHMS Hungarian Dance No. 5