“For the first time this concert season, the Symphony of Southeast Texas performed its Cirque Spooktacular on Saturday in front of a live audience at the Beaumont Civic Center,” writes Jorge Ramos in Sunday’s (10/25) Beaumont Enterprise (TX; subscription required). “ ‘It’s important to be present in our community during this time,’ Chelsea Tipton II, the Symphony of Southeast Texas’ Music Director, said…. While the Cirque Spooktacular was the first concert with a live audience [this season] for the Symphony of Southeast Texas, it was not their first performance of the season. On Sept. 19 the Symphony live streamed its performance of the Cinematic Impressions. During that concert, the Symphony had to reconfigure its 70-musician orchestra to just 20 people on stage at one time.… The Cirque Spooktacular featured acrobatics, jugglers and strongmen accompanied by live music. The six acrobats … included one who played an electric violin while hanging from a trapeze…. Cirque Spooktacular did not have an intermission and … the next two concerts into January 2021 also will have no intermission and will vary from 55-70 minutes…. There will be five more concerts spread out through April, and the Symphony is expected to be back in the Julie Rogers Theatre sometime this season.”
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