Upcoming Concerts & Performances
5 upcoming concerts and performances from Wellesley Symphony Orchestra, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All classical in Greater Boston →
Sun Nov 8 · 2:00pm
An all-British programme opens with the Symphony No. 4 of William Boyce, an 18th-century English composer, followed by Britten's Four Sea Interludes, the orchestral scenes of Dawn, Sunday Morning, Moonlight and Storm drawn from his opera Peter Grimes. It closes with Vaughan Williams's Symphony No. 5, premiered in 1943 in the middle of the Second World War. Tickets are pay-what-you-can, with a reception afterwards.
Sat Dec 5 · 2:00pm
The Wellesley Symphony Orchestra's holiday concert pairs seasonal favourites by Tchaikovsky and Leroy Anderson with the orchestra's traditional audience sing-along. Music director Mark Latham, a violinist and conductor trained at the Guildhall School and the University of Michigan, succeeded Max Hobart in Wellesley and also leads the New Hampshire Philharmonic and the University Orchestra at UMass Lowell.
Sun Feb 7 · 2:00pm
The Wellesley Symphony Orchestra plays three works about the natural world. Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) is music in the shape of a solar system; Einojuhani Rautavaara’s Cantus Arcticus, his Concerto for Birds and Orchestra, sets tape recordings of birdsong against the orchestra; and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, the Pastoral, closes the programme. Tickets are pay-what-you-can, with a reception afterwards.
Sun Mar 21 · 2:00pm
The Wellesley Symphony Orchestra’s family programme opens with music from two superhero films, Pinar Toprak’s score for Captain Marvel and Rupert Gregson-Williams’s for the 2017 Wonder Woman. At its centre is Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, the narrated tale he wrote in 1936 to introduce children to the instruments of the orchestra. The winner of the orchestra’s Michael H. Welles concerto competition also performs.
Sun May 9 · 2:00pm
The Wellesley Symphony Orchestra plays two large works with an eye on space. Mason Bates’s The B Sides, composed in 2009, adds electronic sounds to the orchestra as one more instrument. Holst’s suite The Planets follows, each movement named for a planet and its astrological character; the orchestra notes the suite has nearly 100 published orchestral recordings. Tickets are pay-what-you-can, with a reception after the concert.
