Events

Concord Orchestra: Past, Present, Encore!

Past, Present, Encore!

We are delighted to embark on our second season with Music Director Zeke Fetrow and invite you to join us for a fascinating 2024-2025 season showcasing beloved masterpieces from the classical repertoire, rediscovered gems, and exciting contemporary works. We explore music from the era of Mozart and Beethoven to that of living composers Beal, Kurth, Marquez, and Tarrodi.

We welcome back guest conductor Alyssa Wang in a program featuring Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suites and cello soloist Aron Zelkowicz.

In March 2025 we will present American Heritage concerts as part of Concord’s celebration of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, featuring Concord native Richard Sebring, principal French horn with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a new work we’ve commissioned by composer Jeff Beal for the occasion.

We look forward to seeing you this season! Bring the whole family; youth attendance is free.

Visit our website for details on how to subscribe and to learn more about the programs, soloists, and guest conductor. If you missed our performance of Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture last season (or just want to hear it again), click here to watch a clip.

2024-2025 Concert Season

October 19 and 20, 2024  •  Resolve
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Barber: Music for a Scene from Shelley
Debussy: Petite Suite
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2

December 6 and 7, 2024  •  The Unknowable
Boulanger: D’un Matin de Printemps
Finzi: The Fall of the Leaf
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending – Siri Smedvig, violin
Tchaikovsky: Marche Slave
Sibelius: Symphony No. 7

February 1 and 2, 2025  •  Wanderlust
Guest Conductor: Alyssa Wang
Tarrodi: Camelopardalis
Schumann: Cello Concerto – Aron Zelkowicz, cello
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites

March 29 and 30, 2025  •  American Heritage
Bernstein: Candide Overture
Beal: Commission Celebrating Concord 250
Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 3 – Richard Sebring, French horn
Sebring: The White Cockade – Richard Sebring, French horn
Sousa: A Sousa Surprise!
Price: Symphony No. 3

May 31 and June 1, 2025  •  Dreaming With Your Feet
Kurth: Everything Lasts Forever
TBD: Young Artist Winner – concerto
Marquez: Danzon No. 2
Respighi: Pini di Roma

Concord Orchestra

www.concordorchestra.com

P.O. Box 381, Concord, MA 01742

(978) 369-4967

All concerts at:
51 Walden St, Concord, MA 01742

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This program is supported in part by a grant from the  Acton-Boxborough,  Bedford , Carlisle, and Concord local cultural councils, local agencies which are supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

 

Concord250 Event: Concord Conservatory of Music Event

February 7, 2025 7:30pm

 

Meet music history’s rebels and revolutionaries, from Monteverdi and Beethoven to our contemporaries and witness how, by breaking the rules, these composers changed the course of history. In honor of the 250th anniversary of Concord’s role in the American Revolution, the program will feature the world premiere of Unrest by local composer and CCM faculty member Aaron Jay Myers, commissioned by Concord Conservatory. Purchase tickets in advance or payable at the door for this event. ($25 General Admission and free for students 18 and under) Join CCM faculty speaker Jackson Carruthers as he recounts how each featured musical selection broke with the conventions of its time, launching the artform and its audience into the next era. CCM faculty artists soprano Rose Hegele and cellist Steve Marotto, along with guests, violinist Nicole Parks, pianist Elaine Rombola Aveni, and percussionist Matt Sharrock will perform this array of boundary-breaking music.

Concord250 Event: Choral Evensong

On Sunday, March 2, at 5:00 pm, Concord choirs from First Parish, Trinitarian Congregational, Holy Family, and West Concord Union Church will gather with the choir from Trinity Episcopal Church at Trinity, 81 Elm Street, Concord, MA for a traditional English service of sung prayer called Choral Evensong, in honor of the 250th celebration of the historic battle.  Music included will be by several composers representing the 17th to 21st centuries.  The service is open to all and free admission.

Concord250 Event: Concord-Carlisle High School & Lexington High School Bands present 250th Celebration Concert

March 4, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Concord-Carlisle High School & Lexington High School Bands present 250th Celebration Concert

Concord Chamber Music Society Presents: Wendy Putnam, violin & Vytas Baksys, piano

Concord Chamber Music Society Presents:
Wendy Putnam, violin & Vytas Baksys, piano
March 9, 2025, 3pm, at Lexington’s Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library
Tickets available to purchase beginning August 5, 2024: concordchambermusic.org/putnam-baksys
Description: An intriguing program of works by American composers that includes a tribute to the American Revolution with Vieuxtemps’ Souvenir d’Amerique – virtuosic variations on “Yankee Doodle.

Concord250 Event: Friends of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery 18th Annual Breakfast

March 15, 2025: 

Concord250 Event: Friends of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery 18th Annual Breakfast

Details to follow

 

 

QUILTS 250: Stitching in the Spirit of Democracy

QUILTS 250: Stitching in the Spirit of Democracy

March 22 – March 23

Cost: Show free, Lecture tbd

Showcasing the creative energy of quilters near and far, Quilts 250 will display as many as 250 quilts that visually express through fabric and thread themes related to our country’s founding and evolution and the dynamic range of quilting arts in the last 250 years. The show is sponsored by the Concord 250 Celebrations Committee and is organized by the Concord Piecemakers, Quilters’ Connection, and Rising Star Quilters guilds.

Planned Events

· Quilt show with “shows within the show” on the Spirit of 1775; Antique and Antique-Inspired Traditional Quilts; Quilts of Protest; Modern, Contemporary, and Pictorial Quilts; and Student Quilts and Fiber Arts

· Lecture by Gerald Roy, Pilgrim/Roy Collection, Quilt Collector and Quilt Historian, and Jennifer Swope, David and Roberta Logie Curator of Textile and Fashion Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

· Boutique

· Children’s Activities

For more information and instructions on entering a quilt, visit https://www.quiltersconnection.org/Quilts250.html

 

Venue

Concord Academy

166 Main St, Concord, MA 01742

Concord250 Event: Concord Free Public Library Concert

March 22, 2025

Concord250 Event: Concord Free Public Library Concert

Details to follow

 

Concord250 Speaker Event: Historian Robert A. Gross

March 26, 2025, 7pm

Concord250 Speaker Event: Historian Robert A. Gross

Milldames Sponsored event Robert Gross speaker event at TriCon

CONCORD250: Concord Orchestra “American Heritage”

Past, Present, Encore!

We are delighted to embark on our second season with Music Director Zeke Fetrow and invite you to join us for a fascinating 2024-2025 season showcasing beloved masterpieces from the classical repertoire, rediscovered gems, and exciting contemporary works. We explore music from the era of Mozart and Beethoven to that of living composers Beal, Kurth, Marquez, and Tarrodi.

We welcome back guest conductor Alyssa Wang in a program featuring Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suites and cello soloist Aron Zelkowicz.

In March 2025 we will present American Heritage concerts as part of Concord’s celebration of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, featuring Concord native Richard Sebring, principal French horn with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a new work we’ve commissioned by composer Jeff Beal for the occasion.

We look forward to seeing you this season! Bring the whole family; youth attendance is free.

Visit our website for details on how to subscribe and to learn more about the programs, soloists, and guest conductor. If you missed our performance of Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture last season (or just want to hear it again), click here to watch a clip.

2024-2025 Concert Season

October 19 and 20, 2024  •  Resolve
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Barber: Music for a Scene from Shelley
Debussy: Petite Suite
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2

December 6 and 7, 2024  •  The Unknowable
Boulanger: D’un Matin de Printemps
Finzi: The Fall of the Leaf
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending – Siri Smedvig, violin
Tchaikovsky: Marche Slave
Sibelius: Symphony No. 7

February 1 and 2, 2025  •  Wanderlust
Guest Conductor: Alyssa Wang
Tarrodi: Camelopardalis
Schumann: Cello Concerto – Aron Zelkowicz, cello
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites

March 29 and 30, 2025  •  American Heritage
Bernstein: Candide Overture
Beal: Commission Celebrating Concord 250
Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 3 – Richard Sebring, French horn
Sebring: The White Cockade – Richard Sebring, French horn
Sousa: A Sousa Surprise!
Price: Symphony No. 3

May 31 and June 1, 2025  •  Dreaming With Your Feet
Kurth: Everything Lasts Forever
TBD: Young Artist Winner – concerto
Marquez: Danzon No. 2
Respighi: Pini di Roma

Concord Orchestra

www.concordorchestra.com

P.O. Box 381, Concord, MA 01742

(978) 369-4967

All concerts at:
51 Walden St, Concord, MA 01742

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This program is supported in part by a grant from the  Acton-Boxborough,  Bedford , Carlisle, and Concord local cultural councils, local agencies which are supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.