The Glacier Symphony Orchestra will perform its MasterWorks 4 concert “Anthem” this weekend under the direction of Maestro John Zoltek. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22, and 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 23, in the Flathead High School auditorium.

Thanks to generous contributions by this season’s Youth Music Experience sponsors, free student tickets (through grade 12) are available for this MasterWorks concert. Free student tickets are for Tiers 2 and 3.

February is “Love Your Symphony Month.” Bring your Valentine to the Saturday performance and get two tickets for $29. Tickets can be purchased at glaciersymphony.org or by calling 406-407-7000.

MasterWorks 4 “Anthem” features two works evoking the great and heroic spirit of Romanticism — Tchaikovsky’s iconic Piano Concerto No. 1 in Bb minor and Sibelius’ magnificent Symphony No. 2 in D major.

Written in 1874, Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto was premiered in the United States by the virtuoso German pianist Hans von Bülow in Boston on Oct. 25, 1875. Since then it has become one of the most beloved concertos in the piano repertoire. Even those who have never heard the entire piece will most likely instantly recognize its opening. This theme became the pop song “Tonight We Love” in 1941. Tchaikovsky maintained its inspiration was a tune he heard sung by a blind man begging at a street fair.

The Glacier Symphony brings to Montana a compelling post-Cliburn interpreter — guest soloist for this towering piano concerto is Uzbekistan-born Israeli pianist Roman Rabinovich, praised by the New York Times for his “uncommon sensitivity and feeling” and the winner of the 2008 12th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv.

The concert concludes with another favorite piece of the Romantic repertoire by the great Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. His Symphony No. 2 in D major was composed in 1902.