BOSTON LANDMARKS ORCHESTRA

SUMMER SEASON CALENDAR 2008

 

**Part of Landmarks Festival at the Shell at the Hatch Shell on the Esplanade off Storrow Drive in Boston

 

**July 9, 7:00 p.m. “Opening Night: Copland and the New World”

Featuring Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man and Lincoln Portrait, featuring Governor Deval Patrick and Dvorak’s New World Symphony. 

Boston Landmarks Orchestra, Charles Ansbacher, conductor.

            Repeat Performance:

            July 11, 8:00 p.m.

            Neighborhood Concerts

            “Copland and the New World”

            Sanders Theater, Harvard University

            Sponsored by Harvard University Division of Continuing Education

 

**July 16, 7:00 p.m. “Green Masterpieces”

 Featuring music inspired by nature, including Handel’s Water Music, Smetana’s The Moldau, Vivaldi’s “Spring” from The Seasons and a new commission about whales.

Boston Landmarks Orchestra, Charles Ansbacher, conductor

In collaboration with the Massachusetts League of Environmental Voters and The Esplanade Association

Repeat Performance:

            July 20, 6:00 p.m.

            Neighborhood Concerts

            “Green Masterpieces”

            Jamaica Pond, Jamaica Plain

 

July 17, 10:30am and noon. Children’s Concerts: “John Adams: The Voice Heard ‘Round the World”

Landmarks’ newest work for children, composed by Anthony DiLorenzo with text by Marian Carlson.

Shirley-Eustis House, Roxbury

 

July 18, 10:30am and noon. Children’s Concerts: “John Adams: The Voice Heard ‘Round the World”

Landmarks’ newest work for children, composed by Anthony DiLorenzo with text by Marian Carlson.

The Great Hall at Codman Square, Dorchester

 

**July 23, 7:00 p.m. “Gospel and Gershwin”

Featuring Gershwin’s An American in Paris, and gospel selections in collaboration with Berklee College of Music.

Boston Landmarks Orchestra, Charles Ansbacher, conductor

Repeat Performance:

            July 27, 6:00 p.m.

            “Gospel and Gershwin”

            Dorchester Park, Dorchester

 

July 24, 7:00 p.m. Neighborhood Concerts: “John Adams: The Voice Heard ‘Round the World”

Landmarks’ newest work for children, composed by Anthony DiLorenzo with text by Marian Carlson.

Beale Estate, Adams National Historical Park, Quincy

 

 

 

**July 30, 7:00 p.m. “The Rite of Spring”

Stravinsky’s masterpiece featuring the Boston University Tanglewood Institute Orchestra, performing only once in Boston this summer season.

Boston University Tanglewood Institute Orchestra, Paul Haas, Conductor

 

**August 6, 7:00 p.m. “Opera Highlights”

Featuring Boston Lyric Opera soloists in excerpts from BLO’s 2008-2009 season:

Dvorak’s Rusalka, Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffman, and Mozart’s Don Giovanni.

Boston Landmarks Orchestra, Charles Ansbacher, conductor

 

**August 13, 7:00 p.m. “Inspired Classics”

Featuring violinist James Buswell, New England Conservatory faculty member, in Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3.

Boston Landmarks Orchestra, Charles Ansbacher, conductor

 

**August 20, 7:00 p.m. “China on the Charles”

Featuring the winner of The Foundation for the Chinese Performing Arts piano competition.

Longwood Symphony Orchestra, Jonathan McPhee, conductor

 

**August 27, 7:00 p.m. “Delightful Dances”

Featuring waltzes, polkas, mambos and tangos by Johann Strauss, Sibelius, Thomas Oboe Lee and others.

Boston Landmarks Orchestra, Charles Ansbacher, conductor

 

**September 3, 7:00 p.m. “Red Sox and Apple Pie”

Celebrating baseball, American music, and the 100th anniversary of Leroy Anderson’s birth. Anderson was an American composer of short, light concert pieces, including The Typewriter and Fiddle Faddle

Boston Landmarks Orchestra, Charles Ansbacher, conductor

 

**September 10, 7:00 p.m. “Verdi’s Requiem”

Featuring Chorus Pro Musica, Jeffrey Rink, Artistic Director.

Boston Landmarks Orchestra, Charles Ansbacher, conductor

 

All concerts are free and open to the public. For more information, please visit www.LandmarksOrchestra.org