CLASSICAL MUSIC

VIVID IMAGES SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2026 | 7:30PM PRE-CONCERT CONDUCTOR'S TALK AT 6:30PM Strauss | Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks Debussy | La Mer Kancheli |Styx —Emily Rideout, viola —New World Chorale, Holly Krafka – Artistic Director Three brilliant depictions that fire the imagination – Richard Strauss’s tone poem about prankster Till Eulenspiegel, Debussy’s stunning portrayal of the sea followed by Giya Kanchelli’s Styx which portrays the passage to the land of the dead across the River Styx, featuring our own Principal Violist, Emily Rideout and the New World Chorale.

HOLIDAY POPS! SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2026 | 7:30PM SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2026 | 3:00PM KIDS POPS! SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2026 | 4:00PM Blake | The Snowman Featuring Massachusetts’s first Poet Laureate Regie Gibson, Soprano Teresa Winner Blume, Lexington High School Choruses, and special guest, Santa Claus! Other Holiday Favorites For kids of all ages, Regie Gibson, the first Poet Laureate of Massachusetts, returns to narrate Raymond Briggs’s classic story of a little boy who builds a snowman that comes to life.

Impromptus Sunday, December 6, 2026 2 pm Pre-Concert Talk with Professor Suzannah Clark, 1:15 pm Music Recital Hall, Centennial Arts Center, Concord Academy Shai Wosner, piano Praised as “a Schubertian of unfaltering authority and character” (Gramophone), Shai Wosner brings his trademark blend of intellect, imagination, and playfulness to a program exploring the spirit of improvisation. Pairing works by Schubert, Chopin, Dvořák, Gershwin, and Ives with a brief improvisation of his own, Wosner culminates the evening with Schubert’s transcendent final sonata, the B-flat Major Sonata, D. 960. Program Schubert: Impromptu No. 1, D. 935 Ives: Three Improvisations, III. Dvořák: Impromptu, B. 129 Gershwin: Impromptu in Two Keys Chopin: Impromptu No. 1, Op. 29 Schubert: Impromptu No. 2, D. 935 (short improvised transition) Chopin: Impromptu No. 2, Op. 36 Ives: Three Improvisations, I. Schubert: Impromptu No. 4, D. 935

Tailored for children of all ages, “Amahl and the Night Visitors” is a Christmas fable about a poor mother and her young son, Amahl, who are visited by three kings while on a journey to offer gifts to a new born king.

INSPIRATION & DIFFUSION SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2027 | 7:30PM PRE-CONCERT CONDUCTOR'S TALK AT 6:30PM Adams | The Chairman Dances Ravel | Mother Goose Suite Zhao | Symphony No. 1 Our collaboration with the Chinese American Association of Lexington continues with three exciting and unique approaches to cultural diffusion through music.