2024-2025 Season
Mark Latham, Music Director

September 29, 2024 – The Forces of Destiny

• ​Giuseppe Verdi: Overture to La Forza del Destino 

• Carlos Simon: Fate Now Conquers

• Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question

• Cindy McTee: The Unquestioned Answer

• Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony #12, The Year 1917

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November 3, 2024 – From the Americas

• Carlos Simon: Breathe

• Samuel Barber: Concerto for Violoncello, Brent Selby, cello

• Leonard Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story​

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Saturday Dec 14 – Holiday Concert

• Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: The Procession of the Nobles

• Johann Strauss II: Emperor Waltz

• Rod Goldstein (arranger): Hanukah Medley

• Gabriel Fauré: Il est né devin enfant

• Max Reger: The Virgin’s Slumber Song (Mariä Wiegenlied), Rebecca Hains, Soprano

• Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves

• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Excerpts from The Nutcracker

• Kristen & Robert Lopez: Music from Frozen

• Brooks & Stanley: The Man with the Bag

• Irving Berlin: I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm, Rebecca Hains, Soprano

• Bill Holcombe: 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, Rebecca Hains, narrator

• Leroy Anderson: A Christmas Festival

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February 9, 2025 – Celebrate the Symphony​

• Mozart – Symphony #40

• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

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March 23 Family Concert – Hymns to Nature​

• Gioachino Rossini: Overture to The Thieving Magpie

• Smetana: Má vlast 

• Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto, Op. 54, 1. Allegro affettuoso

Maggie Bai, Winner of the 2024 Michael H. Welles Young Soloist Competition

• Geog Frideric Handel: Largo (from Xerxes )

• Kathy L. Fishburn, Arr.: Celtic Suite *

• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Themes from The Nutcracker

* featuring young musicians from the Wellesley Public Schools

• Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring Ballet Suite

 

May 11, 2025 – The Hero’s Journey 

• Carl Nielsen: Saga Dream

• Carl Nielsen: Flute concerto, Jennifer Wright, flute

• Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1, Titan