Glacier Symphony’s “Rolling with Beethoven” season continues Feb. 23 with  the composer’s Symphony No. 3 in E flat Major, “Eroica.”

The concert will also feature Croatian guitar virtuoso Ana Vidovic as a soloist in “Concierto de Aranjuez” by Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo, one the most popular guitar concertos in the repertoire.

Concerts will be held at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 23 at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center and 3 p.m. Feb. 24 at the Flathead High School performance hall in Kalispell.

A free Concert Talk discussion about the musical repertoire will be held 45 minutes before each performance.

The concert will take the audience into distinctly different realms of symphonic music. The first half opens with lively opera music from “The Bartered Bride” by Czech composer Bedrich Smetana, followed by the Rodrigo piece featuring Vidovic.

“Both of these wonderful pieces are rich in Czech and Spanish cultural idioms as both composers made use of dance rhythms, melodies and harmonies influenced by the folk and popular music of their lands,” said John Zoltek, Glacier Symphony and Chorale’s music director.

“For Smetana, it was essentially the beginnings of such incorporation of folk elements in ‘classical’ music often referred to as music nationalism. The Spaniard Rodrigo also brilliantly fused this cultural concept into his music, which is highly personal and evocative of an entire culture. Both composers are still honored as cultural assets in their homelands.”

The second half of the concert will be devoted to Beethoven’s revolutionary “Eroica.” Zoltek describes the work as filled with intense and dynamic music — some of the greatest Beethoven composed.

“This tremendous work is monumental in terms of musical design and human dynamism,” Zoltek said. “It was the first symphonic heroic musical statement by Beethoven, creating a musical revolution and artistic evolution from musical classicist to early Romantic era.”

Tickets are available in a range of prices and seating tiers. All youths through grade 12 are admitted free to the concerts.

To reserve student seats, call the symphony office at 257-3241 or buy online at www.gscmusic.org.