The Ladies Who Brunch at Club Café, Boston’s popular Saturday divertissement, returns!. Come and indulge yourself in a feast for your senses with renowned cabaret artists Michelle Deluise, Kim Lamoureux and Carla Maniscalco-Giovinco.

CAPTIVATING COMPLEXITY SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2026 | 7:30PM PRE-CONCERT CONDUCTOR'S TALK AT 6:30PM Brahms | Symphony No. 2 Prokofiev | Piano Concerto No. 3 —Clayton Stephenson, piano Mr. Stephenson appears by arrangement with The Cliburn. One of the most celebrated symphonies by Johannes Brahms paired with one of Sergei Prokofiev’s most perfect concertos, performed by the brilliant award-winning Van Cliburn pianist Clayton Stephenson.

Friday, October 30, 2026 8:00 pm Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 (Emperor) Melody Fader, pianist Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 (Pathetique)

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.

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.