For it's opening concert of the 2023-'24 season, celebrating the 20th of Music Director & Conductor Geoffrey Gallegos's tenure, the KSO offers works by Antoly Liadov, Maurice Ravel and Piotr Tchaikovsky. With a nod to Halloween, the concert will open with Liadov's brief but evocative treatment of the mythical witch Baba-Yaga, her furious flights, evil deeds and eventual disappearance into thin air. The mythology continues with the magically intimate depiction of five fairytales from the Mother Goose Suite by Ravel in all his sumptuous orchestration. The concert concludes with Tchaikovsky's great Fourth Symphony, nicknamed "Fate," based on the opening theme that is then bookended in the Finale, and dedicated to his friend and patroness Nadezdah von Meck who provided such important creative inspiration throughout his career, and never more so than in this heart wrenching and exhuberant work.