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Audience Choice Concert

YOUR VOTE. YOUR MUSIC.

Help program the opening Masterworks concert of the 2025/26 Season.

The decision-making is in your hands!
Cast your vote for the music you’d like to hear on the
opening Masterworks concert of the 2025/26 Season, scheduled for November 14, 2025

Choose your favorite overture, piano concerto and symphony from a selection of choices in each category below.

Voting open through May 15, 2025. One vote per person.

Results will be unveiled at the 2024/25 season finale, May 30, 2025 and via the WMS website.

All participants may enter a drawing to win one of three prizes:
Coffee with Music Director Scott Speck; pair of tickets for May 30, 2025 season finale; pair of tickets for the Audience Choice Concert Nov 14, 2025.

Listening Links

Scroll through the possible choices in each category, listen to find your favorite!

OVERTURE

Offenbach: Overture to Orpheus in the Underworld
German born Jacques Offenbach was a prolific composer of about 100 French operettas that satirized French society of his time. Orpheus in the Underworld is an irreverent parody of Glucks’ Orfeo ed Euridice. The overture concludes with the risqué Galop Infernal, (you’ll recognize it as the “Can-Can”), which shocked the Parisian audiences of the day!

Rossini: William Tell Overture
This overture to the opera William Tell - the last of Rossini's 39 operas - is a major part of the concert and recording repertoire. It's famous finale, "March of The Swiss Soldiers," is particularly familiar from its use in the radio and television shows of "The Lone Ranger." Several portions of the overture were also used prominently in the films "A Clockwork Orange" and "The Eagle Shooting Heroes."

PIANO CONCERTO

SYMPHONY

Michigan Arts & Culture Council
National Endowment for the Arts