Artistic director Sung Jin Hong will be conducting the One World Symphony and like a travel guide taking the audience on a global tour with musical “Passports Postcards� as the orchestra enters its ninth season at St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church at Montague and Clinton Streets in Brooklyn Heights on Friday, September 11, at 8 p.m.

First stop on the musical voyage is in the North Atlantic via Felix Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture (Fingal’s Cave). Next comes Riders to the Sea, a one-act musical drama by Ralph Vaughn Williams. Then a weary world is described in a Gustav Mahler song translated as “I have become lost to the world.�

Hong premieres his own composition From the Alchemist at the evening’s ending. It is based on Paulo Coehlo’s novel. The music traces a wayfarer’s journeys through all obstacles to realize his destiny, Hong said.

Halloween comes a night ahead of time with “Nightmare on Montague St.� on Friday, October 30, at 8 p.m. For the second year this benefit will raise funds to help repair the landmark church’s leaky roof.

For this spooky evening Hong becomes a sorcerer while the church’s music director Gregory Eaton is the phantom organist.

Friends of the orchestra pick the program in advance, voting by email for four choices from a list of seven “frightful� musical works. For the list and voting, consult www.halloween@oneworldsymphony.org. Audience members arriving in full costume earn a ticket discount.

Travel themes and program highlights for the rest of the season are:

Jan. 22 — Winter Waltzes: Vienna, featuring Johann Strauss’ opera Die Fledermaus (The Bat) sung in English.

March 5 — From Russia with Love, offering Peter Thaikovsky’s Queen of Spades and his Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor with Christopher Johnson, pianist.

May 7 — Prague Spring and Leos Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen.

June 4 — C’est l’Amour, featuring an ensemble singing Edith Piaf favorites.

Ticket prices performance details are available at www.oneworldsymphony.org. A long list of audition dates and rules are also postedon the Website.

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