A Musical Menagerie

Sun, 18 Jan, 2026 at 03:00 pm UTC-05:00

Newton City Hall and War Memorial | Newton

Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston
Publisher/HostPro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston
A Musical Menagerie
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This January, conductor Conner Gray Covington leads your family on a thrilling trip to our musical zoo! Things get buzzing with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s zippy Flight of the Bumblebee. In Camille Saint-Saëns’s humorous Carnival of the Animals, clucking chickens, lumbering elephants, and braying donkeys all make their appearance. Works by Modest Mussorgsky, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and Ludwig van Beethoven paint vivid scenes of children playing, swans dancing, and birds calling to each other by a brook. Our visit ends with The Mountain That Loved a Bird, in which Caroline Shaw’s stirring music brings Alice McLerran’s heartwarming fable to musical life.
The instrumental music for this occasion is made possible in part by funds supplied by the Recording Companies of the United States and Canada through the Music Performance Trust Funds, a public service organization created under agreements with the American Federation of Musicians. The grant for this performance was obtained with the cooperation of AFM Local No.9-535.
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Newton City Hall and War Memorial, 1000 Commonwealth Ave, Newton Center, MA 02459-1449, United States, Newton

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