Metropolitan Symphony Orchestral Association

Our concert season for FY19 runs from October, 2018 through May, 2019. Our first concert, on October 14, 2018, in Mahtomedi, Minnesota, entitled "Three Centuries of Musical Genius," features Minnesota composer (and MSO Composer Laureate) Dominick Argento's "A Ring of Time;" Béla Bartók's Suite from his ballet "The Wooden Prince;" and the overture to Rossini’s one-act farce, "Il Signor Bruschino." Our second concert, "Two Master Symphonists & New Bass Clarinet Showpiece," centers around a recently composed concerto for bass clarinet and orchestra by Todd Goodman, with MSO principal clarinet Paul Schulz as soloist. The concert starts and ends with symphonies, beginning with, Hadyn's Symphony No. 87, and closing with Shostakovich's Symphony No. 9. Our special one hour family friendly concert in February in St. Paul, "Dinosaur Extravaganza!," features "The Jogger and the Dinosaur" by Gould, for narrator (the wonderful Jake Endres) and orchestra. Also on the program is the theme from "Jurassic Park" by John Williams, Bernstein's "Overture to 'Candide'", and two short pieces featuring MSO musicians as soloists. In March the MSO and the Minnesota Chorale collaborate on the World Premiere of "The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci," which they commissioned from Minnesota composer Jocelyn Hagen. We close the season by re-creating our very first concert, originally performed in 1983 when we were the Central Chamber Orchestra. This concert is part of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of Central Lutheran Church in Minneapolis. All of these performances are free and open to the public