Elements  
 
Sunday, November 8th, 2020, 3pm
San Antonio Botanical Garden
                
An intimate set of works highlighting the various sections of the orchestra, including music by Handel, Stravinsky, Richard Strauss, and more.
 
Handel:            Excerpts from Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks
R. Strauss:        Serenade in Eb for Winds, Op. 7
Dukas:              Fanfare from La Peri
Gabrieli:           Sonata Pian e Forte               
Elgar:                Serenade for Strings, Op. 20
J. Strauss:         Blue Danube Waltzes
Stravinsky:       Berceuse and Finale from The Firebird
 
 
The Virtual Nutcracker 
 
Ticketed Online-Only Release in December 2020
 
Viva’s first all-virtual ballet collaboration with the Alamo City Dance Company, featuring the company’s annual production of Tchaikovsky’s time-honored masterpiece. Available online beginning in December, this unique video performance will include an excerpted storyline with choreographed scenes from around the San Antonio area with accompaniment from the musicians of Symphony Viva.
 
Tchaikovsky:    Excerpts from The Nutcracker, Op. 71
 
 
Pastorale 
 
Sunday, March 7th, 2021, 3pm
San Antonio Botanical Garden
 
Picturesque landscapes, fantastical imagery, and stunning beauty weave this nature-themed program together. The nuance and sensuousness of Mallarme’s poetry comes to life in Debussy’s Prelude, and Symphony Viva Concertmaster Eric Siu joins the orchestra in Vaughan-Williams’s ravishing work The Lark Ascending. The concert concludes with one of Beethoven’s most beloved and recognizable symphonies, an elegant, whimsical, and powerful tribute to nature.

Debussy:                        Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun             
Vaughan-Williams:       The Lark Ascending
                                        Eric Siu, violin
Beethoven:                    Symphony No. 6 in F Major (“Pastoral”)
                                   
 
Carnival of the Animals
 
Sunday, June 6, 12:30pm
San Antonio Zoo
 
Symphony Viva and the ACDC conclude their collaborative season with Saint-Saëns' charming and imaginative work Carnival of the Animals.
 
Saint-Saëns:        Carnival of the Animals
 
 
Viva Extravaganza! 
 
Sunday, June 13, 2021, 3pm
The Fellowship of San Antonio
Limited In-Person Audience and Livestream Tickets Available!
 
A celebration like no other, with music to match! “The Waltz King” Johann Strauss Jr.’s celebrated and endearing operetta Die Fledermaus (“The Bat”) boasts one of the most famous and tuneful overtures of its kind. Viva's Principal Oboist Erin Webber joins the orchestra for Mozart's Oboe Concerto, and the season concludes with Respighi’s stunningly beautifully and epically hair-raising tone poem Pines of Rome, a set of four vignettes of the famed Italian city.
 
J. Strauss:          Overture to Die Fledermaus
Mozart:             Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra in C Major, K. 314
Respighi:           Pines of Rome