Upcoming Concerts & Performances
4 upcoming concerts and performances from Charles River Wind Ensemble, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All classical in Greater Boston →
Sun Oct 25 · 3pm
The Charles River Wind Ensemble, led by artistic director Matthew M. Marsit, plays a programme of twentieth-century band works: Vaughan Williams's Toccata Marziale, written for the 1924 British Empire Exhibition; Persichetti's Symphony No. 6 for band; Alfred Reed's Hounds of Spring, after Swinburne's poem; Schoenberg's tonal Theme and Variations, Op. 43a; and Vittorio Giannini's Symphony No. 3, commissioned by the Duke University Band in 1958.
Sun Jan 24 · 3pm
The Charles River Wind Ensemble, led by artistic director Matthew M. Marsit, plays Bernstein's Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, Vicente Ortiz Gimeno's Poirot and Adolphus Hailstork's American Guernica, his memorial to the 1963 Birmingham church bombing, in Brent Levine's arrangement. Amir Molookpour's The Ruins of Palmyra and Arturo Márquez's Danzón No. 2, arranged by Nickel, complete the programme. Admission and parking are free.
Sun Apr 4 · 3pm
Four English composers make up the Charles River Wind Ensemble's Shakespeare programme. Gordon Jacob's William Byrd Suite arranges Elizabethan keyboard pieces for band; Guy Woolfenden, for decades the Royal Shakespeare Company's head of music, wrote Gallimaufry; Edward Gregson's The Sword and the Crown draws on his music for the RSC's history plays; and Nigel Hess's Shakespeare Pictures completes the programme.
Sun Jun 6 · 3pm
The Charles River Wind Ensemble's season finale pairs Robert Buckley's Undercurrents with John Mackey's Haunted Objects: Tsukumogami, after the Japanese folk belief that household objects come to life once they reach a hundred years old, and Hayato Hirose's Journey to the West, drawn from the classic Chinese novel. Michael Markowski's Elixir and Julie Giroux's Symphony No. 7, Titan, complete the programme. Admission and parking are free.