All Aboard! Join us as we take a Sentimental Journey through the 1940’s with Joseph Rubin directing a 15-piece Big Band Orchestra. We’ll be traveling back to the heyday of the era with tunes from Glenn Miller, Ted Lewis, Benny Goodman, and our own famous bandleader and trumpeter, Clyde McCoy. Clyde McCoy started his musical... Read More

In celebration of Judy Garland’s centennial, Joan Ellison and the Springfield Symphony take us on a nostalgic trip from technicolor Hollywood to Carnegie Hall in a hit parade of songs including “The Trolley Song,” “The Man That Got Away,” “Get Happy,” “Come Rain or Come Shine,” “Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart,” “Almost Like... Read More

In 1995, one of the very first groups to perform at the newly-opened Vern Riffe Center for the Arts in Portsmouth, Ohio, was none other than Rockapella. Since then, Rockapella has become one of the world’s most sophisticated, lasting, and imitated vocal groups around today. Since the early ’90’s, when they first achieved national television... Read More

In 1995, one of the very first groups to perform at the newly-opened Vern Riffe Center for the Arts in Portsmouth, Ohio, was none other than Rockapella. Since then, Rockapella has become one of the world’s most sophisticated, lasting, and imitated vocal groups around today. Since the early ’90’s, when they first achieved national television... Read More