NEW TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
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Mission Statement
The mission of the NTSO is to enrich the greater Dallas communities. We offer inspiration and entertainment by connecting the patrons of North Texas with live symphonic music.
About This Cause
Celebrating its 16th season in 2020, the New Texas Symphony Orchestra - the premier community orchestra of Dallas - is an organization based on inclusivity and artistic collaboration. Although NTSO was founded and always has been led by members of the LQBTQ+ community, the organization welcomes everyone who has a passion for orchestral music. Over the past decade, numerous arts groups have partnered with the NTSO, including the Dallas Asian-American Youth Orchestra, rock and jazz bands from Seagoville High School and Cedar Valley College, and opera players and singers from the prestigious Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing & Visual Arts. In addition, the NTSO has hosted a variety of individual professional and non-professional singers and instrumentalists from the local area, most recently performing with Dallas Symphony Orchestra musicians, Jolyon Pegis and Maria Schleuning. While the Moody Performance Hall is the primary performance space, the NTSO also performs in diverse locations across the Dallas area. In 2012, the New Texas Symphony performed outdoors as part of the nationally renowned Aurora lights festival in the Dallas Arts District, and, in 2018, performed at Fair Park for the El Centro College commencement ceremony, in honor of the institution’s 50th anniversary. The symphony also performs annually in front of hundreds of holiday shoppers as part of the Sights and Sounds of the Season celebration at NorthPark Center. The NTSO prides itself with an ongoing commitment to innovation. In 2015, the organization launched the Community Concert and Aria Competition, a statewide contest for adult non-professional musicians and singers. Each year two CCAC winners perform with the orchestra as part of the fall concert program. In the spring of 2018, NTSO was one of two community orchestras selected to play at Fort Worth's Bass Performance Hall in their Festival of Orchestras, a statewide competition sponsored by the Fort Worth Symphony. During the 2017-2018 season, the NTSO commissioned its first major work, a four-part symphony inspired by the four architecturally significant bridges of Dallas, composed by a young Dallas composer, and premiered during the final concert of the season in June. For the featured works of their recent 2018-2019 season, NTSO presented three well-known symphonies that appeal to players and audiences alike: Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, and The Planets by Holst. As a result, both the orchestra and the audience have grown in numbers. This increase in support of NTSO has enabled NTSO to commit to free concerts for all the 2019-2020 season, where every concert is free-of-charge to everyone. This is a tremendous benefit to the community by removing any financial barriers to enjoying concerts of great symphonic music.