Woodlands Symphony plans brass section concert

The brass section of The Woodlands Symphony Orchestra will perform from 1-3 p.m. on Aug. 21 at Dosey Doe Music Café, as the non-profit organization continues to raise money in an effort to remain an active performing arts organization. Admission is free but donations will be accepted.

If it succeeds in its goal to raise $50,000, the Woodlands Symphony Orchestra will begin a new season in September, called “Cantus Firmus,” which is Latin for “fixed song.”

The Woodlands Symphony Orchestra is led by artistic director and principal trumpet, Darryl Bayer — who helped create the original group in 1992, when Bayer worked at The John Cooper School. In 2014, the organization came back to life with a community jam covering the works of The Beatles at Rob Fleming Park.

The next big performance for the group is its season opener during UpStage Theater’s one-night performance of Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream” at 7 p.m. on Sept. 17 as part of the Arts in the Park event. There, the symphony will peform Mendelsohn’s “Incidental Music” to accompany the stage performance.

Such collaborative works will make up the majority of the Woodlands Symphony Orchestra’s upcoming season: It also plans performances with Class Act Productions and Woodlands Area Youth Symphony, which it collaborated with earlier this year in presenting a concert that blended Igor Stravinsky’s “Firebird Suite” with music from the “Legend of Zelda” and “Final Fantasy VII.”

Dosey Doe Music Café is located at 463 FM 1488 in Conroe. Learn more at www.doseydoe.com or call 936-271-2171.