The Santa Fe Symphony: Schubert & The Bells

October is the perfect time for music with spooky and gothic origins. The concert opens with Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony, a piece that proves a ghost’s unfinished business can be romantic and strikingly dramatic. Next is Saint-Saens’ Danse Macabre, a tone poem depicting Death fiddling on Halloween as skeletons dance on their graves. To close the concert, The Santa Fe Symphony Chorus, under the direction of Carmen Flórez-Mansi, and a trio of exceptional soloists join The Symphony to perform Rachmaninoff’s The Bells. Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem, this choral work brings the fabled bells—sleigh, wedding, alarm, and finally funeral—to life.