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Concerts

  • I: October 2023

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    Soulful Expressions

    Rohan Smith, Conductor

    Program:

    William Grant Still: Aspiration: Lento, con risoluzione (from Symphony No.1)

    Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3

    -- featuring Anastasia Antonacos, pianist

    Dimitri Shostakovich:  Symphony No. 5

     

    Performances:

    Saturday, October 28, 2023 - 7:00 p.m. - Franco Center in Lewiston

    Sunday, October 29, 2023 - 2:30 p.m. - Orion Performing Arts Center in Topsham

    with FREE pre-concert "Meet the Soloist" 1:30-2 p.m. Sunday: Get to know pianist Anastasia Antonacos, USM piano faculty, as she chats with MSO violinist Caroline Cornish, former television news anchor and reporter.

     

    Concert length approximately 2 hours including intermission.

     

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  • II: January 2024

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    Song and Dance Music from Around the World

    Rohan Smith, Conductor

    Program:

    Alberto Ginastera: Danza final (Malambo) from Danza Estancia

    Astor Piazzolla: Libertango

    José Moncayo: Huapango

    Aaron Copland: songs from Old American Songs

    -- featuring Philip Lima, Baritone

    Johann Strauss, Jr.: Thunder and Lightning Polka

    Gustav Mahler: Three Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy's Magic Horn)

    -- featuring Philip Lima, Baritone

    Leonard Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

     

    Performances:

          Saturday, January 20, 2024 - 7:00 p.m. - Franco Center in Lewiston
          Sunday, January 21, 2024 - 2:30 p.m. - Orion Performing Arts Center in Topsham

    with FREE pre-concert "Meet the Instruments" 1:30-2 p.m. Wannabe musicians of all ages are invited to toot, strum, and squawk on variety of orchestral instruments with MSO musicians.


    Concert length approximately 2 hours including intermission

     

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  • III: March 2024

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    A New Artistic Mélange

    Emily Isaacson, Guest Conductor

    Program:

    Jessie Montgomery: Hymn for Everyone

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 38 in D Major, K.504 “Prague,”

    Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations, Op. 36

     

    Concert length with intermission: approximately 2 hours

     

    Performance Dates:

          Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 7:00 p.m. - Franco Center in Lewiston
          Sunday, March 24, 2024 - 2:30 p.m. - Orion Performing Arts Center in Topsham

    with FREE pre-concert event Sunday 1:30-2 p.m. Enjoy a performance as the next generation of musicians from our community steps into the spotlight. Performers to be announced

     

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  • IV: May 2024

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    Cityscape, Seascape, Soundscape

    Rohan Smith, Conductor

    Program:

    Aaron Copland: Quiet City

    -- featuring Tim Kenlan, Trumpeter, and Billie Jo Brito, English Hornist

    Claude Debussy:  La Mer

    Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

     

    Concert length with intermission: approximately 2 hours

     

    Performance Dates:

          Saturday, May 18, 2024 - 7:00 p.m. - Franco Center in Lewiston
          Sunday, May 19, 2024 - 2:30 p.m. - Orion Performing Arts Center inTopsham

    with FREE pre-concert event Sunday 1:30-2 p.m. You’ll enjoy today’s concert music even more after an introduction by our program notes author, Mary Hunter, Professor of Music Emerita, Bowdoin College. She will also chat with MSO musicians Tim Kenlan and Billie Jo Brito, today’s soloists.

     

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