A New Hope at the Linda Ronstadt: Tucson Symphony Plays the Full Star Wars Score Live This Saturday and Sunday

This coming weekend — Saturday May 16, 2026 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday May 17, 2026 at 2 p.m. — the Tucson Symphony Orchestra closes its 97th season with Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope In Concert at the Linda Ronstadt Music Hall at the Tucson Convention Center, 260 S. Church Avenue, downtown Tucson 85701. Guest conductor Matthew Kasper leads the full 71-musician orchestra through John Williams' 1977 Academy Award-winning score while the original George Lucas film plays in HD on a giant screen above the stage. It is a Disney Concerts-licensed live-to-picture presentation, it sits inside a 2,289-seat hall renamed for Tucson native Linda Ronstadt in May 2022, and it is the last big symphonic weekend in downtown Tucson before the summer break. Here is a fully sourced May 12, 2026 walk-through for Tucson residents, downtown buyers and sellers, and anyone visiting from Marana, Oro Valley, Sahuarita, Vail, or out of state — including practical streetcar-and-parking logistics for first-time Music Hall attendees.