Concerts

• I: October 2022

  

  Season Opener

  Rohan Smith, Conductor

  Program:

  Valerie Coleman: Seven O’Clock Shout

  Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2

  -- featuring Chiharu Naruse, Pianist

  Johannes Brahms:  Symphony No. 4

   

  Performances:
  
        Saturday, October 29, 2022 - 7:00 p.m. - Franco Center in Lewiston
        Sunday, October 30, 2022 - 2:30 p.m. - Orion Performing Arts Center in Topsham

   

  Concert length approximately 2 hours including intermission. All MSO musicians and staff members are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Masks are recommended for audience members.

   

  Sunday FREE pre-concert event 1:30-2 p.m.: Meet the Soloist, Chiharu Naruse

   

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• II: January 2023

  

  Favorite Music for All Ages

  Rohan Smith, Conductor

  Program:

  Hector Berlioz: Hungarian March from The Damnation of Faust

  George Kleinsinger: Tubby the Tuba

  -- featuring Douglas Ertman, Tubist, and Denise Shannon, Narrator

  Arturo Marquez: Danzon No. 2

  Morton Gould, arranger: Yankee Doodle

  -- featuring Joel Preston, “Conduct the Orchestra” Winner

  Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Allegro molto moderato

   -- featuring Mesa Schubeck, Pianist, 2022 Judith Elser Concerto Competition Winner

  Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol

   

  Performance Dates:
  
  Saturday, January 14, 2023 - 7:00 p.m. - Franco Center

  with Intermission Entertainment by Young Fiddlers Beck Welling and Owen Kennedy

  
  Sunday, January 15, 2023 - 2:30 p.m. - Orion Performing Arts Center

  with FREE pre-concert "Meet the Instruments" 1:30-2 p.m. People of all ages are invited to toot, strum, and squawk on a variety of orchestral instruments with MSO musicians. Adults bringing children may qualify for free tickets! Get info here.

   

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• III: March 2023

  

  Tried and True, Plus a Newer Crew

  Hiroya Miura, Guest Conductor

  Program:

  Tanner Porter: Propellers in the Sun

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 35 in D major, K. 385, “Haffner”

  Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 4

  Florence Price: Symphony No. 3

   

  Concert length with intermission: approximately 2 hours

   

  Performance Dates:
  
        Saturday, March 18, 2023 - 7:00 p.m. - Riverfront-Franco Center

  with intermission performance by Bates piano student Alek Zelb, in Heritage Hall (downstairs)

  
        Sunday, March 19, 2023 - 2:30 p.m. - Orion Performing Arts Center

  with FREE pre-concert youth performance by 13 students from the Maine Suzuki Association, in Mt. Ararat Gym (next to Orion) from 1:30-2 p.m.

   

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  PROGRAM NOTE:

  Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins by Johannes S. Bach, featuring violinists Eva Gruesser and Rohan Smith, was originally planned for this concert.  Its performance has been postponed to a future date.

• IV: May 2023

  

  French Impressions
  

  Hiroya Miura, Guest Conductor

  Program:

  Lili Boulanger: D'un matin de printemps

  Jean-Philippe Rameau/arr Paul Dukas: Les Indes Galantes, Suite No. 1

  Maurice Ravel:  La Valse

  Modest Mussorgsky/orch. Maurice Ravel: Pictures at Exhibition

   

  Performance Dates:
  
        Saturday, May 20, 2023 - 7:00 p.m. - Riverfront-Franco Center
        Sunday, May 21, 2023 - 2:30 p.m. - Orion Performing Arts Center

   

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• V: June 2023

  

  Classical Night Fever

   

  MSO will team up with Motor Booty Affair, Maine’s own 70s disco/funk tribute band. You’ll leave this show with a big smile on your face and a new appreciation for this great era of popular music, where dance music and the symphony collide to create something special.

  These special concerts are not part of MSO's 2022-23 Classical Season.

   

  Performance Dates:
  
        Saturday, June 10 2023 - 7:00 p.m. - Riverfront-Franco Center
        Sunday, June 11, 2023 - 2:30 p.m. - Orion Performing Arts Center

   

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