Orchestra Concerts

Next Concert:

Our next concert will celebrate the 250th Anniversary and will take place on Sunday, May 31, 2026, 4pm at Greenbelt Community Center. Program to include Ferde Grofe's Mississippi Suite and Adoration by Florence Price, as well as works by Leroy Anderson and Sousa.

Future concert dates:

November - date TBD - The Planets with NASA imagery

Past concerts:

Sunday, March 22, 2026, 3pm at Greenbelt Community Center

Elfrida Andree - Concert Overture

Judith Bailey - Trencom

Amy Beach - Bal Masque

Veronica Maidoh - The Final Horizon

Louise Farrenc - Symphony No. 2

Click here to read bios of all the composers featured in this program.

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This concert was supported in part by Prince George's Arts & Humanities Council

Sunday, November 16, 2025, 3pm at Greenbelt Community Center

Claude Debussy - Ballet from Petite Suite

George Gershwin - American in Paris

Cecile Chaminade - Callirhoe Suite

Georges Bizet - Carmen Suites

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Thursday, May 22, 2025, 7:30pm at Eleanor Roosevelt High School

Emilie Mayer - Faust Overture

Gabriel Faure - Overture from Basques et Bergamasques

Veronica Maidoh - Journey to the Unknown (world premiere)

ERHS small ensembles:

Handel Baroque Suite - Air Tendre and Tambourin

Mozart Clarinet Quartet, 3rd movement, arr. Bruce R. Smith

Percussion Ensemble - The Viennese Clock

Beethoven - Symphony #7, movements 2-4

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Listen to an audio recording

Read the review in the News Review (page 12)

Sunday, February 23, 2025, 3pm in the Community Center gym for Black History Month

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Danse Negre

Quinn Mason - Symphony No. 5, Harmonia

Joseph Bologne - Symphony No. 1

Florence Price - Ethiopia's Shadow in America

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Listen to an audio recording

Read the review in the News Review (page 7)

Read the preview article in the News Review (page 7)

Sunday, November 10, 2024, 4pm in the Community Center gym

Fanny Mendelssohn Overture

Carlos Gardel "Por la Cabeza"

Dvorak Slavonic Dance Op.46 No.1

Florence Price "Adoration"

Dvorak's New World Symphony

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Click here for program notes written by a music historian from Howard University

Sunday, June 2, 2024: joint concert with Greenbelt Concert Band at the Community Center.

Program:

COPLAND Outdoor Overture

PARRY An English Suite vii. Frolic

Two Sea Shanties for String Orchestra - arr John Mock

COPLAND Suite from “The City”

Watch a short video clip of us rehearsing the Greenbelt theme from The City!

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Listen to an audio recording of the concert here

Read the review in the News Review (back page)

Tuesday, May 21, 2024: event at the Cinema at 7:30pm, including a viewing of the 1939 documentary The City, with music by Aaron Copland. A small group from the orchestra demonstrated Copland's main themes from the soundtrack before the film started and performed the Greenbelt music when the film reached that point. Read the preview article in the News Review (front page)

Sunday, March 17, 2024

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Overture to “Don Giovanni”

FRANZ SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D. 759 “Unfinished”

FELIX MENDELSSOHN String Symphony No. 2 in D major

PERCY GRAINGER “Children’s March”

CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS:Suite in D major, op. 49

PERCY GRAINGER “Irish Tune from County Derry”

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Listen to an audio recording here

Sunday, November 19, 2023

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impresario”), K.486: Overture

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550