Upcoming Concerts & Performances
5 upcoming concerts and performances from Brookline Symphony Orchestra, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All classical in Greater Boston →
Sat Oct 24 · 8:00pm
Méhul's First Symphony opens a French programme completed by Ravel's Ma Mère l'Oye, the fairy-tale suite he first wrote as a piano duet for two children, and Debussy's La mer. Méhul was a leading opera composer of the Revolutionary years whose symphonies went largely unplayed for a century afterwards.
Sat Jan 16 · 8:00pm
Mozart's Symphony No. 32 — a single continuous movement in three sections, closer to an Italian overture than a symphony — opens, followed by Elgar's Cello Concerto, written in 1919 in the aftermath of the First World War, and Sibelius's Second Symphony.
Sat Mar 13 – Sun Mar 14 · 8pm/3pm
Sat Mar 13 · 8pm / Sun Mar 14 · 3pm
Emilie Mayer's Faust Overture opens — Mayer wrote eight symphonies in nineteenth-century Berlin and went largely unplayed for a century afterwards — followed by Schubert's Unfinished Symphony and Beethoven's Triple Concerto. Two performances, Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon. Mayer studied with Carl Loewe and had her works played across Germany in her lifetime.
Sat May 8 – Sun May 9 · 8pm/3pm
Sat May 8 · 8pm / Sun May 9 · 3pm
A world premiere by Cooper is paired with Saint-Saëns's First Cello Concerto, which runs its three sections together as one continuous movement, and Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony. The Brookline Symphony, founded in the 1950s and revived in 2010 after a hiatus, is made up of volunteer amateur, student and professional players under music director Andrew Altenbach.
Sun Jun 13 · 3:00pm
The Brookline Symphony Orchestra, a community orchestra of volunteer amateur, student and professional players led by music director Andrew Altenbach, closes its season with a summer pops concert. Last June's pops programme mixed selections from Wicked, Encanto, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars and Toy Story with Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain and a movement of Gounod's Petite Symphonie.