Friday, May 16, 2025 7:30 PM  - Sunday May 18, 2025 2:00 PM

CLASSICS SERIES | SYMPHONY HALL

Grand Canyon Suite 

Thomas Wilkins, conductor 
Francisco Fullana, violin 

CONCERT REPERTOIRE 
Copland: El Salón México 
Márquez: Fandango Violin Concerto 
Grofe: Grand Canyon Suite 
To be announced: Mystery Piece 

The magnificence of the Southwest landscape is portrayed in the Phoenix Symphony’s final classical concerts of the season. Conductor Thomas Wilkins leads the orchestra in Grofe’s cinematic Grand Canyon Suite, which offers five musical scenes of one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. Wilkins also conducts Aaron Copland’s popular El Salón México, and Spanish violinist Francisco Fullana joins the orchestra for Fandango Violin Concerto, a mariachi-flavored work by contemporary Mexican composer Arturo Márquez.