BOSTON, MA. (Top40 Charts/
Boston Landmarks Orchestra) - A major new summer arts tradition launches at the Hatch Shell on Boston's Esplanade on July 11 at 7 pm with the opening of the inaugural season of the Landmarks Festival at the Shell. This new festival, which will run every Wednesday evening through
September 5th, will offer free classical concerts produced by the
Boston Landmarks Orchestra with Charles Ansbacher, Conductor and Festival Artistic Director.
Seven of the concerts will feature the
Boston Landmarks Orchestra, in collaboration with the
Boston Lyric Opera, The
Boston Community Choir and the New World Chorale. The Longwood Symphony Orchestra and The Greenwood
Music Camp Orchestra, with soloists from NPR's From The Top, will also perform. Several of the concerts will be repeated in other
Boston neighborhoods.
Ansbacher founded the Boston Landmarks Orchestra in 2001 to perform free concerts celebrating historical, geographical and architectural settings. The Orchestra has commissioned several works for children that will be performed as part of the Festival.
The Landmarks Festival at the Shell is grateful to the following organizations: Boston's Classical Radio Station 99.5 WCRB, Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation. Boston Globe Foundation, The Boston Foundation Bank of America, State Street Foundation, Boston Red Sox, Coca-Cola Company, Hess Corporation. Massachusetts Cultural Council, Music Performance Fund, City of Boston, Thomas M. Menino, Mayor, Boston Parks and Recreation Department, New England Cable News (NECN) and WGBH.
For more information about the Landmarks Festival at the Shell, visit https://www.LandmarksOrchestra.org
The Program:
- July 11 - Opening Night - Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Haydn's Symphony No. 104
- July 18 - French Romantics - Bizet, Faure, Rameau, Ravel, Saint-Saens.
- July 25 - Young Brilliance - Greenwood Music Camp Orchestra and From the Top
- August 1 - David and "Old Ironsides" - Landmarks Orchestra's Newest Commission
- August 8 - Salute the Red Sox - An all-American program
- August 15 - A Taste of the Opera: With the Boston Lyric Opera
- August 22 - Longwood Symphony's Musical Magic - Mendelssohn, John Williams, Tchaikovsky
- August 29 - With Liberty and Justice For All - The Journey of Phillis Wheatley, Copland, Gospel Music
- September 5 - Green Masterpieces - Beethoven's 6th, Handel's Water Music, Respighi's The Birds, Landmark's First Commission Make Way for Ducklings
