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Metropolitan Wind Symphony

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Scottish Rite Masonic Museum, 33 Marrett Road, Lexington · Lexington · metwinds.org

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

Fall Concert: There's a First Time for Everything!
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Sun Nov 1 · 3:00pm

Fall Concert: There's a First Time for Everything!

· · 33 Marrett Road · · ·

MetWinds' first concert under new Music Director Gabe Southard is built on firsts, most of them the first works John Mackey, Frank Ticheli, Dana Wilson and others wrote or arranged for band: Mackey's Strange Humors, Ticheli's Postcard, Wilson's Piece of Mind, Adam Gorb's Awayday and John Stevens's Benediction. Holst's First Suite in E♭, which helped establish the wind band as a serious ensemble, anchors the programme.

$20 adult; $15 senior; $5 student; under 5 free

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Holiday Pops Concert
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Sat Dec 5 · 7:00pm

Holiday Pops Concert

· · 300 West St · · ·

Mark Olson, the Metropolitan Wind Symphony's assistant conductor, leads its holiday pops concert. Olson directs the Harvard Band and Wind Ensemble, which has commissioned and premiered works by Libby Larsen, Tania León and David Amram, as well as the Middlesex Concert Band and the New England Brass Band. He is also a trumpeter, playing in MetWinds and The Tarnished Brass, and was a member of the New Sousa Band.

Adult $20; child (under 15) free

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Winter Concert: Viva La France!
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Sun Mar 7 · 3:00pm

Winter Concert: Viva La France!

· · 33 Marrett Road · · ·

Florent Schmitt's Dionysiaques, which MetWinds calls “the only known example of French Impressionism written specifically for band,” opens a French programme that ends with Martin Ellerby's Paris Sketches. Between them come Debussy's The Engulfed Cathedral, Guy Woolfenden's Suite Française, Jan van der Roost's Suite Provençale and Mark Camphouse's Symphonic Prelude, a tribute to the Normandy American Cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer. Music director Gabe Southard conducts.

Adult $20; senior (62+) $15; student (5+) $5; under 5 free

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Spring Concert: Instant Band Classics!
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Sun May 2 · 3:00pm

Spring Concert: Instant Band Classics!

· · 33 Marrett Road · · ·

The Metropolitan Wind Symphony gives the world premiere of a new commission from John Mackey. The rest of the programme is drawn from the band canon: Arnold Schoenberg's Theme and Variations, Op. 43a, his only original work for band, Wagner's Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral, Michael Colgrass's Old Churches, Steven Bryant's Dusk and Shostakovich's Galop. Middle- and high-school students join the band for the second half.

Adult $20; senior (62+) $15; student (5+) $5; under 5 free

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Boston Festival of Bands
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Sat Jun 12 · 1:00pm

Boston Festival of Bands

· · 1 Faneuil Hall Square · · ·

The Metropolitan Wind Symphony hosts its 33rd annual Boston Festival of Bands, a free day-long concert held each year on the second Saturday in June, in which six invited bands each play a set of 35 to 40 minutes alongside MetWinds. Past festivals have drawn community and college wind ensembles and the occasional brass band from across New England. MetWinds' music director is Gabe Southard, who conducts at Gordon College.

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