“QCSO at the Movies: 'Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows: Part 1' in Concert" at the Adler Theatre -- November 23.
Saturday, November 23, 2 & 7:30 p.m.
Adler Theatre, 136 East Third Street, Davenport IA
Following last year's hugely successful QCSO at the Movies presentations of Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince, as well as such franchise hits as Sorcerer's Stone in 2017, Prisoner of Azkaban in 2019, and Order of the Phoenix in 2022, the Quad City Symphony Orchestra returns to Davenport's Adler Theatre on November 23 to perform live accompaniment for Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, the seventh movie smash adapted from J.K. Rowling's iconic fantasy/adventure novels.
The Harry Potter movie series, which introduced the world to its young stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint and boasted British acting legends such as the late legends Maggie Smith and Alan Rickman, was an immediate cultural phenomenon that, after an eight-film run, continues to delight millions of fans around the world. The Adler Theatre events, meanwhile, will feature the entirety of Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 displayed on a giant screen in high-definition with every note of Oscar-winning composer Alexandre Desplat's score played live by the Quad City Symphony Orchestra under guest conductor Ernesto Estigarribia. With audiences invited to watch (or re-watch) Harry and his friends try to find and destroy Lord Voldemort's secret to immortality, they'll enjoy a magnificent entertainment that Rotten Tomatoes' critical consensus calls "a beautifully filmed, emotionally satisfying penultimate installment" that wound up earning $960.9 million worldwide, making it the third-highest-grossing film of 2010.
Hailed for his “expert direction” by Fanfare magazine, Paraguayan conductor Ernesto Estigarribia is the recently appointed conductor and artistic director for the Curb Youth Symphony at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music. A previous assistant conductor and youth ensembles music director of the QCSO, he also served as music director of Buffalo Community Orchestra and Southeastern Minnesota Youth Orchestras, and was a member of the conducting staff of the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies. Estigarribia has conducted the Mankato Symphony, Rochester Symphony, Oskaloosa Music Festival Orchestra, Argentina's Orquesta del Centro del Conocimiento, and his home country's Orquesta Sinfónica del Congreso Nacional, where he was the first Paraguayan guest conductor to appear in the International series.
In 2016, Estigarribia conducted the premiere recording of the “Concertino for Viola” by Brazilian composer João Ripper with violist Korey Konkol and the University of Minnesota Camerata, and beyond his symphonic performances, the conductor has led numerous opera productions including Gianni Schicchi, Idomeneo, and Albert Herring. Estigarribia's festival appearances, meanwhile, include Brazil's Festival de Música de Santa Catarina, Italy's Pienza Music Festival, Russia's International Festival Week of St. Petersburg Conservatory, and Chile's Academia Internacional Teatro del Lago, and the musical artist holds degrees from Pittsburg State University and the University of Minnesota, where he studied conducting with the QCSO's full-time conductor Mark Russell Smith.
QCSO at the Movies: "Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows: Part 1" in Concert will be presented in downtown Davenport on November 23, admission to the 2 and 7:30 p.m. events is $24-76, and tickets are available by calling (800)745-3000 and visiting QCSO.org.
