2012 Season

photo 2011 HSMF horn apprenticesSeason XVII – The Spice of Life will bring an unprecedented variety of Art Musics to downtown Hot Springs… guaranteed to spice up your life!

Click a date below for detailed concert information, programs, and more… and check back often as details are finalized and updated.

For general information about this year’s season, click here to read how we plan to put the “HOT” in Hot Springs!

Click here for ticket information.

[Musicians must arrive in time for the 5:00 p.m. orientation on Saturday, June 2, 2012.]

The following schedule and information is subject to change until further notice:

Sunday, 3 June

Opening Fanfare AND The Cassatt String Quartet 6:45pm Festival Brass: Opening Fanfare – Arlington Hotel Terrace, free program TBA 7:30pm Cassatt String Quartet – Arlington Hotel Ballroom, $15 Antonin Dvorak,  excerpts from Cypresses Sebastian Currier, Quiet Time (written for the Cassatt) Stefan Pöntinen, Third Quartet Claude Debussy, Quartet in G Students under 17, or of [...]

Monday, 4 June

Inside Looking Out! 7:30pm, Hot Springs Fieldhouse, $15 Conducting Master Class and Reading… with a twist! Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture (Carlos Espinosa, Assistant Conductor – coached by Peter Bay) Mahler: Symphony No. 1 – select movements (conducted by Peter Bay) This special event will feature the Festival Orchestra spread out on the floor of the Hot [...]

Tuesday, 5 June

Festival Chamber Players I 7:30pm, First Presbyterian Church, $10 Mozart, “Haydn” Quartet (tba) Tommasini, Taking Sides Beethoven, Dressler Variations, WoO 63 Poulenc, The Story of Babar the Elephant Students under 17, or of any age with a valid student ID, attend any ticketed concert for $5.  Times, locations and repertoire are subject to change.  Click [...]

Wednesday, 6 June

Festival Symphony Orchestra Hot Springs Fieldhouse 6:30pm Pre-Concert Talk, included with concert ticket 7:30pm Festival Symphony Orchestra, $15 Ives/Schuman, Variations on “America” Paganini, Caprice No. 24 Rachmaninoff, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Hindemith, Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber Students under 17, or of any age with a valid student ID, [...]

Thursday, 7 June

Festival Chamber Players II 7:30pm, Visitor’s Chapel AME Church, $10 Foote, Nocturne and Scherzo Dvorak, Serenade Telemann, Concerto for Four Violins in G Major, TWV 40:201 Street, Adagio in Eb Ellington, Martin Luther King from Three Black Kings Students under 17, or of any age with a valid student ID, attend any ticketed concert for [...]

Friday, 8 June

Festival Chamber Players III 7:30pm, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, $15 Funk, Rhayader excerpts from the ballet Beethoven, Sextet Bach, Toccata and Fugue in d minor Paterson, The Thin Ice of Your Fragile Mind Funk, The Old Masters, Op. 121 for triple string quartet Composer Eric Funk will be present for the Arkansas Premiere of The [...]

Saturday, 9 June

Market Music I 8-8:30am, Hot Springs Farmers’ Market, free   A Progressive Concert Down Historic Bathhouse Row! 7:30pm, Bathhouse Row in downtown Hot Springs National Park, free This special concert featuring Special Mentor Rick Robinson, aka Mr. CutTime, will progress from outside the Buckstaff Bathhouse, across Central Ave. from the Municipal Parking Garage, down Bathhouse [...]

Sunday, 10 June

Cassatt String Quartet 2:oopm, Kirk in the Pines Presbyterian Church, 275 Asturias Drive, Hot Springs Village, $15 Jouaquin Turina, Prayer of the Bullfighter Andy Tierstien, selections from Restless Nation (written for the Cassatt) Lasse Thorenson, PYR AIONION for string quartet op. 26 Erno Dohnanyi, Piano Quintet, Op. 1 in c minor with Michael Gurt, piano [...]

Monday, 11 June

Piano-Mania! 7:30pm, Hot Springs Fieldhouse, $15 Piano Mentor Michael Gurt with Apprentices.  Program TBA Students under 17, or of any age with a valid student ID, attend any ticketed concert for $5.  Times, locations and repertoire are subject to change.  Click here to return to the 2012 Festival Schedule.

Tuesday, 12 June

Festival Family Concert 6:00pm, First Christian Church, $5   Festival Chamber Players IV 7:30pm, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, $10 TBA Schubert, Octet Students under 17, or of any age with a valid student ID, attend any ticketed concert for $5.  Times, locations and repertoire are subject to change.  Click here to return to the 2012 [...]

Wednesday, 13 June

Festival Symphony Orchestra II Hot Springs Fieldhouse 6:30pm Pre-Concert Talk (included with concert ticket) 7:30pm Festival Symphony Orchestra, $15 Mendelssohn, Hebrides Overture Martin, Concerto for Seven Winds, Percussion and Strings Beethoven, Symphony No. 3 Students under 17, or of any age with a valid student ID, attend any ticketed concert for $5.  Times, locations and [...]

Thursday, 14 June

Piano-Mania! 7:00pm, Woodlands Auditorium, Hot Springs Village, $15 Piano Mentor Michael Gurt with Apprentices.  Program TBA   Festival Chamber Players V – Multimedia Sponsored by Low Key Arts! 7:30pm, Malco Theater, $10 Bimstein, Dark Wind Rising Henson-Conant, Baroque Flamenco Paterson, Embracing the Wind PDQ Bach, Echo Sonata Cowell, Pulse Jacob TV, I Was Like Wow [...]

Friday, 15 June

Festival Chamber Players Potpourri 7:30pm, First Presbyterian Church, $10 A delightful assortment of your favorite chamber music. Students under 17, or of any age with a valid student ID, attend any ticketed concert for $5.  Times, locations and repertoire are subject to change.  Click here to return to the 2012 Festival Schedule.

Saturday, 16 June

Market Music II 8-8:30am, Hot Springs Farmers’ Market – free   Festival Symphony Orchestra – Finale 6:30pm Pre-Concert Talk – Hot Springs Fieldhouse (included with concert ticket) 7:30pm Festival Symphony Orchestra, $15 Mozart: Clarinet Concerto Mahler: Symphony No. 1 Students under 17, or of any age with a valid student ID, attend any ticketed concert [...]