The Metrowest Symphony Orchestra is a community orchestra with members drawn from the Metrowest Region that performs a variety of classical and popular repertoire.
The March 16 concert will take us from the early 19th century right through the 21st century. The earliest written piece is Franz Schubert’s beautiful, sonorous Concerto for Arpeggione, which is named for, and was written for, a six-stringed ancestor of today’s modern cello. Soloist Seth MacLeod will play the version for cello and string orchestra.
A worldwide favorite, Charles Gounod’s opera Faust (1859) has ballet music as well as song and story. The ballet music was added to the opera ten years after its first performance.
Aaron Copland’s Quiet City was originally composed as incidental music for a play by that name by Irwin Shaw. It is now best known as a piece of music separate from the play.
And commissioned on behalf of the MSO, Richard St. Clair’s new piece Hello! for Orchestra celebrates the collaboration of the Metrowest Symphony with Framingham State University.
The MSO invites all to join them on Sunday, March 16 at 2:00 PM at Dwight Performing Arts Center at Framingham State University. To purchase and reserve tickets: https://www.metrowestsymphony.org/concerts/ or call (339) 222-2723.
