Join the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra for opening night as we celebrate our 100^th season!

Hector Berlioz: Le Corsaire

Evoking swashbucklers at sea, this high-spirited overture is both fiery and sentimental. Its boisterous nature is both surprising and unexpected from Berlioz.

Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto

Sibelius doesn’t waste a note in this colorful orchestration. His lineage is that of Beethoven, with whom he stands as the bookends spanning the Romantic century. Martin Chalifour, principal concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, is featured in this technically demanding work.

Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor (“New World”)

Though written by a Czech composer, this is an iconic American symphony and, ironically, the first symphony defined as American. Dvořák composed the work during a discontented three-year stay in America, influenced greatly by his mentor, Johannes Brahms, along with inspiration from the sounds of his new world and his native Bohemian folk tunes.

The NBSO is a superb professional orchestra that performs with internationally renowned guest artists, annually presenting a 7-concert series of classical and pops music and a 4-concert chamber music series, as well as providing nationally recognized educational programs for the children of South Coast. For $10 tickets for children and students under age 22, please call or visit The Z box office, 508-994-2900. For discounted season tickets, please call the NBSO office at 508-999-6276.

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join the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra for this masterful oratorio featuring soprano Noune Karapetian, mezzo-soprano Margaret Lias, tenor Matthew Anderson, baritone Philip Lima plus the Rhode Island College Chorus and singers from the Sippican Choral Society and the New Bedford Choral Society!

Felix Mendelssohn: Elijah

Considered the equal of Handel’s Messiah and Haydn’s Creation, Mendelssohn tells the dramatic story of the Biblical prophet Elijah. Known for his symphonies and concertos, this ambitious, vivid and gripping composition is one of Mendelssohn’s most familiar works and marks the climax of the young composer’s career. Mendelssohn imagined Elijah as “[e]nergetic and zealous, but also stern, angry, brooding, in striking contrast to the rabble you find both in court and in the populace — indeed, up against the whole world — yet borne aloft on angels’ wings.” Tragically, not long after the hugely successful premiere, Mendelssohn died at age 38.

The NBSO is a superb professional orchestra that performs with internationally renowned guest artists, annually presenting a 7-concert series of classical and pops music and a 4-concert chamber music series, as well as providing nationally recognized educational programs for the children of South Coast. For $10 tickets for children and students under age 22, please call or visit The Z box office, 508-994-2900. For discounted season tickets, please call the NBSO office at 508-999-6276.

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Featuring appearances by NB Symphony Youth Orchestra and Showstoppers

Join the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra for the best holiday concert in town!

The Family Holiday Pops Concerts feature all the holiday music you love played by our great orchestra! Our family-friendly atmosphere and choice of performance times make this the perfect family holiday outing. The children’s matinee performance at 3:30 features fun surprises for the young at heart, while the 7:00 concert features a bit more music. Both performances are approximately one-hour long, with no intermission. Share the joy of the season with friends and family in the festively decorated theater and take part in a South Coast holiday tradition! Let your holiday season sparkle with a special experience only the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra can provide!

The NBSO is a superb professional orchestra that performs with internationally renowned guest artists, annually presenting a 7-concert series of classical and pops music and a 4-concert chamber music series, as well as providing nationally recognized educational programs for the children of South Coast. For $10 tickets for children and students under age 22, please call or visit The Z box office, 508-994-2900. For discounted season tickets, please call the NBSO office at 508-999-6276.

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Join the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra as we bring our 100^th season to a close with one of the greatest symphonies of all time. Featuring soprano Karen Slack, mezzo-soprano Abigail Fischer, tenor Yeghishe Manucharyan and baritone David Kravitz plus the Back Bay Chorale.

Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms

Some of Bernstein’s most accessible concert music. This vibrant, even jazzy exploration of the roots of the composer’s Jewish heritage is based on the beautiful poetry of The Book of Psalms and merges text sung in Hebrew with Christian choral tradition. Bernstein composed each of the three movements around one complete psalm, with excerpts from a paired psalm. The end result is a contemporary choral work that is bold and brassy as well as contemplative and peaceful.

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor

One of the greatest symphonies of all time. After its booming start, Beethoven is uncharacteristically gentle in this work, and his tender Ode to Joy in the final movement is unforgettable. With its themes of hope for humanity and brotherhood, the Ninth encompasses the greatness that is Beethoven.

The NBSO is a superb professional orchestra that performs with internationally renowned guest artists, annually presenting a 7-concert series of classical and pops music and a 4-concert chamber music series, as well as providing nationally recognized educational programs for the children of South Coast. For $10 tickets for children and students under age 22, please call or visit The Z box office, 508-994-2900. For discounted season tickets, please call the NBSO office at 508-999-6276.

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Guest Artists: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and Andrea Bavouzet, Piano

Join the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra for a captivating evening of exciting live music!

Francis Poulenc: Concerto for Two Pianos in D Minor

Poulenc’s charming tongue-in-cheek simplicity is a facade for deeply expressive music in this work where he portrays life in all its aspects–crude and vulgar as well as mystical and beautiful. This highly unusual concerto for two pianos features the husband-wife duo of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and Andrea Bavouzet.

Maurice Ravel: Concerto for the Left Hand

Ravel’s composition for one hand achieves astonishing full sound. Multi-award-winning French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet performs this tour de force that showcases the extraordinary–and exclusive–use of the left hand. The concerto is vibrant in its representation of the forces of good and evil. The piece was commissioned by the brilliant Austrian concert pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who lost his right arm in World War I.

Piotr Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor

Tchaikovsky had an incredible innate gift for melody, but he struggled initially with the larger-scale symphonic form. In the Fifth, he fully grasps symphonic logic and shows a mastery he had been searching for for years. Displaying simplicity and sophistication at the same time, this work was a major shift in Tchaikovsky’s ability to consider himself as a serious composer.

The NBSO is a superb professional orchestra that performs with internationally renowned guest artists, annually presenting a 7-concert series of classical and pops music and a 4-concert chamber music series, as well as providing nationally recognized educational programs for the children of South Coast. For $10 tickets for children and students under age 22, please call or visit The Z box office, 508-994-2900. For discounted season tickets, please call the NBSO office at 508-999-6276.

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The New Bedford Symphony Orchestra’s 100^th season continues with another blockbuster performance that will leave you breathless!

Benjamin Britten: Four Sea Interludes from “Peter Grimes”

One of last great composers of opera, Britten has a lyrical approach and a keen sense of drama. These four haunting scenes capture the physical and emotional atmosphere of the sea.

Robert Schumann: Cello Concerto in A Minor

Carter Brey, principal cellist of the New York Philharmonic, takes on this formidable work, one of deep strength and emotion. The three movements take us on an emotional journey and are played without interruption. Schumann composed the enigmatic concerto in just 15 days but did not live to hear it performed.

Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

A literal promenade through an art exhibit, Mussorgsky composed this as a memorial to his friend Viktor Hartmann, a Russian painter. A colorful depiction of the fantastical and sometimes macabre paintings, Mussorgsky wrote this as a solo piano piece. This orchestration by Maurice Ravel is by far the most popular of the work’s many arrangements.

The NBSO is a superb professional orchestra that performs with internationally renowned guest artists, annually presenting a 7-concert series of classical and pops music and a 4-concert chamber music series, as well as providing nationally recognized educational programs for the children of South Coast. For $10 tickets for children and students under age 22, please call or visit The Z box office, 508-994-2900. For discounted season tickets, please call the NBSO office at 508-999-6276.

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Guest Artist: Ann-Marie McDermott, Piano

Join the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra for this blockbuster concert highlighted by photographer John Robson’s “Sea Portraits” video presentation.

Stephen Paulus: Sea Portraits

Paulus uses layers of sound to portray the sea, taking us from sunrise to moonlight. An important American composer, Paulus is widely performed and commissioned. He died in October 2014 at age 65. This work was commissioned by the NBSO in 2005 for our 90th anniversary celebration.

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

A summation of all Rachmaninoff’s skills as a composer. Each of the 24 variations is a brilliant piece of the whole, including one of the most recognizable themes in all of Romantic classical music. Incredibly challenging for both orchestra and soloist, pianist Anne-Marie McDermott is featured.

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major

Beethoven himself considered this symphony one of his best works. Of his nine symphonies, the Seventh is in many ways a positive regression, an assimilation of everything Beethoven had explored up to that point. Its rhythmic energy compels people to move and prompted Richard Wagner to describe it as the “apotheosis of the dance.”

The NBSO is a superb professional orchestra that performs with internationally renowned guest artists, annually presenting a 7-concert series of classical and pops music and a 4-concert chamber music series, as well as providing nationally recognized educational programs for the children of South Coast. For $10 tickets for children and students under age 22, please call or visit The Z box office, 508-994-2900. For discounted season tickets, please call the NBSO office at 508-999-6276.

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