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Sunday, May 04, 2025
3:00 pm

Met Winds - Spring Concert: "Scenes"

Scottish Rite Masonic Museum

Be transported through music to a variety of places and scenarios! In a nod to the afternoon's young guest artists, the concert opens with the recently composed Fanfare for a New Era. Scenes from Boston, New York, and Minnesota are depicted in Peter Schickele's wonderful Metropolitan Wind Serenade, written for and first premiered/recorded by the MetWinds in 1995. Another highlight is the musical experience of an African American Pentecostal church service re-created in AMEN! by GRAMMY-nominated composer Carlos Simon, recently named Composer Chair of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Local middle school and high school students join the MetWinds for Cajun Folk Songs by Frank Ticheli and Norman Dello Joio's soundtrack for a TV documentary on France's famous art museum, music which has now become a classic work for band, Scenes from "The Louvre."

Fanfare for a New Era Pinkzebra
Metropoitan Wind Serenade Peter Schickele
AMEN! Carlos Simon
Cajun Folk Songs Frank Ticheli
Mark Olson, conductor
Charm Kevin Puts
Jack Tar March J.P. Sousa/ed. Marine Band
Mark Olson, conductor
Scenes from "The Louvre" Norman Dello Joio
3:00 pm

Arlington Philharmonic - Sponsors' Concert

First Parish Universalist Church

The Arlington-Belmont Chorale, Stephanie Beatrice, Music Director and
The Arlington Philharmonic Orchestra, 
Orlando Cela, Music Director

SPONSORS’ CONCERT

Program yet to be determined. 

4:00 pm

Musicians of the Old Post Road - Through the Listening Glass (2)

Old South Church

Escape with the ethereal, other-worldly sound of the Glass Armonica, an invention of Ben Franklin! The instrument is paired with flute and strings in Mozart’s famous Adagio and Rondo alongside exotic gems by Reichardt, Naumann, and early American composers Antes and Moller. American ingenuity at its finest!

With Glass Armonica virtuoso Dennis James