CLASSICAL MUSIC

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

Robert A. Marra Memorial Sounds of Christmas Concert Sunday December 13th @ 4 pm St. Anthony's, Revere Map icon Sunday December 20th @ 4 pm St. Richard's, Danvers Map icon Price of admission to both concerts is non-perishable food items.