Max Hobart, music director
March 16, 2025, 2 p.m.
From Schubert to St. Clair
Richard St. Clair, “Hello!” for Orchestra
Franz Schubert, Concerto for Arpeggione and Orchestra
Aaron Copland, Quiet City
Charles Gounod, Ballet music from Faust
This concert will take us from the early nineteenth century right through the twenty-first. The earliest-written piece is Franz Schubert’s beautiful, sonorous Concerto for Arpeggione, which is named for, and was written for, an 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.
Cellist Seth MacLeod
FOR TICKETS:
Adults $20, Seniors/Students/Veterans $10, FSU Community and Under 12 Free Buy tickets via Square
Your reservation will be held at the door.
To reserve tickets, email info@metrowestsymphony.org or call (339) 222-2723.
For a campus map and directions, please visit https://www.framingham.edu/about-fsu/campus-map-and-directions.
The Dwight Performing Arts Center is within Dwight Hall, on the eastern side of the Framingham State campus. Patrons may enter by the front door, which involves fifteen steps, and find the auditorium straight ahead.
For those who would prefer an elevator, the entry is at the back of the building, through the glass door to the attached Athletic Center. Please follow the signs to the elevator and the concert hall. Restrooms are on the same floor as the concert hall.
Patrons may be dropped off at the A Zone lot entrance before parking vehicles.
And–save the date for our all-Beethoven program on May 4, 2025, with the overture to Fidelio, Two Romances for Violin performed by Elliott Markow, and Symphony no. 8 in F.
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