Music from Ludwig van Beethoven all the way to a movie classic from 1961 will highlight the performance of the University of Georgia Symphony Orchestra on Sept. 9 as a part of the Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College ABAC Presents! Performing Arts Series.

At a 3 p.m. performance at the Tift Theatre, the Symphony will honor the 100th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein with “Symphonic Dances” from “West Side Story.”  The orchestra will also spotlight Beethoven’s immortal “Fifth Symphony.”  In between, the “Mother Goose Suite” pulls timeless childhood classics into the present day.

ABAC Arts Connection Director Wayne Jones looks forward to the Symphony’s return to Tifton.

“I am so happy we are able to bring the UGA Symphony back to the Series this year,” Jones said.  “This will be the Symphony’s third appearance in the ABAC Presents! Performing Arts Series since it started. The program this year promises to be one of the most exciting we’ve heard.”

Other performances in the ABAC performing arts series include Chanticleer on Oct. 11, “Broadway’s Next H!t Musical” on Nov. 29, “The Crucible” on Feb. 7, the Albany Symphony Orchestra featuring Chris Brubeck’s Triple Play on March 3, the Turtle Island String Quartet on March 28, and Byron Stripling with the ABAC Jazz Ensemble on April 18.

Tickets can be purchased online at www.purplepass.com/abac or at the box office at the concert.  Tickets for the UGA Symphony’s performance will be available at the door at a cost of $20 for adults and $10 for students who are 18 and under. ABAC students will be admitted free with student ID.

Bell Plantation is the ABAC Presents! series sponsor. Tift Regional Health System is a Premium Event sponsor. Single Event sponsors are Hilton Garden Inn Tifton and Ponder’s Office Products. Preferred sponsors include Captain D’s, McDonald’s, South Georgia Banking Company, the Tifton Housing Authority, and the Tifton Rotary Club.

Community partners are Colony Bank, Bowen Donaldson Home for Funerals, Dave’s Bread and Coffee House, the Georgia Museum of Agriculture and Historic Village, The Local, 41 and Main, Chicago Pizza and Pasta, and Southern Station.

ABAC Presents! is supported in part by Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. Georgia Council for the Arts also receives support from its partner agency, the National Endowment for the Arts.