Announcing our 25/26 season.
Stage and Screen
Salomon is pleased to announce our 2025-26 Season of exciting concerts at Smith Square Hall (formerly St. John's, Smith Square). All three celebrate music written especially for the Stage or Screen, or classical music that has become associated with the screen.
Our first concert, October 18, 2025, features music from Miklós Rózsa's huge score for the film epic Ben-Hur, Zoltán Kodály's Háry János Suite, and Nino Rota's score for Fellini's film La Strada. Graham Ross is making a welcome return to Salomon to conduct this glorious music.
On February 15, 2026, Michal Oren returns to conduct a programme of suitably romantic Valentine's Day music, opening with Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto, which was, of course, made famous in David Lean's 1945 British romantic drama Brief Encounter. Following the interval, we feature another romantic pairing with a suite from Maurice Ravel's ballet Daphnis et Chloé.
The concert closes with the most famous of all star-crossed lovers - Romeo and Juliet. But not the Romeo and Juliet of the Montagues and Capulets, but Tony and Maria of the Jets and Sharks, and gangland rivalry in 50's New York City: The Dance Suite from Leonard Bernstein's remarkable score for West Side Story.
Our final concert of the season, on May 30, 2026, conducted by Philip Ellis, will open with Mussorgsky's Dawn on the Moskva River from his opera Khovanshchina.
Prokofiev's Queen of Spades was originally composed for a 1936 film that was never realised. Michael Berkeley arranged the music for the ballet Rushes, which premiered at Covent Garden in 2008; this will be its first concert performance.
This season comes to a close with one of Stravinsky's most famous scores: the complete music for Sergei Diaghilev's ballet, The Firebird.
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