Sun Nov 1 · 3pm

November Concert: Smyth, Mussorgsky & Dvořák

Waltham Philharmonic Orchestra · Waltham Government Center · 119 School Street · Waltham · Waltham

The Waltham Philharmonic opens its season under music director Michael Korn with Ethel Smyth’s overture to The Wreckers, her 1904 opera about Cornish villagers who lure ships onto the rocks, and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Hayden Ren is the soloist in Dvořák’s Cello Concerto. Smyth, a suffragist jailed in 1912, was the first composer made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.