Concord Orchestra — Upcoming Concerts & Performances

51 Walden Performing Arts Center · Concord · concordorchestra.com

5 upcoming concerts and performances from Concord Orchestra, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All classical in Greater Boston →

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Sat Oct 17 – Sun Oct 18 · 8:00pm/2:30pm

Dancing in Disguise

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Sat Oct 17 · 8:00pm / Sun Oct 18 · 2:30pm

Music director Zeke Fetrow conducts Anna Clyne's Masquerade, written for the Last Night of the Proms in 2013, the suite from Fauré's incidental music for Maeterlinck's Pelléas et Mélisande, and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 3, the only one of his symphonies in five movements, nicknamed "Polish" for its polonaise finale. Fetrow gives a pre-concert talk at 7:15 before Saturday's performance. Adult tickets are $25; under-18s are free.

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Fri Dec 4 – Sat Dec 5 · 8:00pm

Restless

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Fri Dec 4 / Sat Dec 5 · 8:00pm

Zeke Fetrow conducts Bernstein's West Side Story Overture, Carl Nielsen's Flute Concerto of 1926 with Susan Jackson as soloist, and César Franck's Symphony in D minor, whose themes return across its three movements. Fetrow, the orchestra's music director since the 2023–24 season, holds a doctorate in conducting from the Eastman School of Music and gives a pre-concert talk at 7:15 on Saturday.

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Sat Jan 30 – Sun Jan 31 · 8:00pm/2:30pm

Awakenings

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Sat Jan 30 · 8:00pm / Sun Jan 31 · 2:30pm

Zeke Fetrow conducts Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, written after Mallarmé's poem, and Dvořák's Symphony No. 7 in D minor, composed for the Philharmonic Society of London. Between them the winner of the orchestra's Young Artist Concerto Competition, open to high-school-age musicians in eastern Massachusetts and auditioned in November, plays a concerto. Pre-concert recitals by competition runners-up precede both performances.

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Sat Mar 20 – Sun Mar 21 · 8:00pm/2:30pm

Propulsion

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Sat Mar 20 · 8:00pm / Sun Mar 21 · 2:30pm

Guest conductor Cynthia Woods leads Arturo Márquez's Conga del Fuego Nuevo, Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, with Max Levinson as piano soloist, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 7. Rachmaninoff's 1934 work is a set of 24 variations on the last of Paganini's Caprices for solo violin; Márquez is the Mexican composer of Danzón No. 2. A pre-concert conductor talk precedes Saturday's performance.

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Sat May 22 – Sun May 23 · 8:00pm/2:30pm

The Open Road

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Sat May 22 · 8:00pm / Sun May 23 · 2:30pm

Zeke Fetrow conducts Mozart's Concerto for Flute and Harp, with Lorna McGhee, principal flute of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and Jessica Zhou, principal harp of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, as soloists. Around it are three American works: William Grant Still's Serenade, Heartland by Kevin Puts, who won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for his opera Silent Night, and Copland's suite from his opera The Tender Land.

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