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• October 27, 2024   3:00 PM
  Unforgiving Fate 
  Kornel Thomas, Conductor  ​    

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – Othello Suite

  • TJ Cole – Death of the Poet

  •  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Symphony #5
     

           Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd

           4801 France Ave. Minneapolis, MN 55410

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• December 15, 2024   3:00 PM
  A Winter's Caprice 
  Timothy Lovelace, Conductor  ​   

  • Engelbert Humperdinck – Prelude to Hansel and Gretel

  • Snow Suite – songs arranged for voice and orchestra by Timothy Lovelace
                       Maria Jette, Soprano
        Arthur de Greef – La Neige
        Niels Gade  – Snee-Dronningen
        Sigurd Lie – Sne
        J. P. E.  Hartmann  – Die Schneeköniginn
        Robert Schumann  – Schneeglöckchen

  • Duke Ellington (arr. Custer) - Duke Ellington! (A Medley for Orchestra)

  • Leroy Anderson – Sleigh Ride

  • Jule Styne (arr. Sayre) – Let it Snow

  • Amanda Harberg – Solis

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Capriccio Espagnol

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​           Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd

           4801 France Ave. Minneapolis, MN 55410

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The December 15 concert may be livestreamed. Click here to reach Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd's streaming page. Scroll until you find the October Civic Orchestra concert. The stream goes live a few minutes before the 3:00 PM concert time.

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An online copy of the concert program can be found here.​​​

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• February 23, 2025   3:00 PM
  Inspiring Counterpoint
  Kenneth Freed, Conductor ​ 

  • Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson – Sinfonietta #2, Generations

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Bassoon Concerto in B-Flat Major
                       Fei Xie, Principal Bassoon, Minnesota Orchestra, Soloist

  • Johannes Brahms – Symphony #1

 

           Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd

           4801 France Ave. Minneapolis, MN 55410

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• April 6, 2025   3:00 PM    
  Concerto for Orchestra
  William Schrickel, Conductor 

  • Ludwig van Beethoven – Coriolan Overture, op. 62

  • Polina Nazaykinskaya – Winter Bells

  • Béla Bartók – Concerto for Orchestra

  

          Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd

          4801 France Ave. Minneapolis, MN 55410

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• May 18, 2025   3:00 PM
  Metamorphosis
  Matthew George, Conductor 

  • Carl Maria von Weber – Overture and March from Turandot

  • Lili Boulanger – D'un Matin de Printemps

  • Paul Hindemith – Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber

  • Nubia Jaime-Donjuan – Maso Ye’eme

  • Aaron Copland – Rodeo

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            Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd

            4801 France Ave. Minneapolis, MN 55410

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Our concerts are always free and open to the public, though donations are gladly accepted.

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Please be aware that seating at all concerts is first-come, first-serve and in some venues is limited. We recommend arriving 15-20 minutes before the concert to ensure that you're comfortably seated for the program.

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To improve audience access, we plan to livestream as many concerts as feasible. Details will be available before each concert.

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What to Expect  

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If you're new to concerts of classical music (or even if you're not), welcome and enjoy the music. Our concerts are typically an hour and a half to two hours long with a ten to fifteen minute break (or intermission) somewhere in the middle. A concert program usually consists of three to five pieces. At least one will be quite substantial and will take up most or all of one half of the concert.

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During the concert, you should settle in, sit back, experience the music, and react to it. In formal concert settings there ARE some conventions and bits of etiquette - who to applaud and when to applaud, for example - that strike many first time concert goers as weird, but knowing them in advance can make the concert experience more comfortable, and even frequent concert goers can stand a refresher from time to time. For a guide to concert conventions and etiquette, click here.

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