United In Music - LSCO Spring Concert 52

On Sunday, June 8, 2025, at 3:00 PM, the Lincoln-Sudbury Civic Orchestra (LSCO) concludes the 52nd season of seven concerts with the spring program “United in Music – a Spring Concert” at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School.

Maestro Alfonso Piacentini conducts the program featuring three iconic masterworks of 19th century repertoire: “Finlandia” by Jean Sibelius, “Marche Slav” by Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky, and Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54, featuring soloist Bryan Ojeda Chevres.

The theme of the performance celebrates unity in peoples in their music. Sibelius and Tchaikovsky honored their own cultures and people with symbolic compositions. Childhood friends Conductor Piacentini and soloist Ojeda Chevres are re-united in their art honoring the magnificent Schumann piano concerto.

Sibelius composed Finlandia as a part of a protest against Russian censorship in 1900, when Finland was still part of the Russian empire. It is strongly national, celebrating Finland’s cultural independence. It features the ‘Finlandia Hymn’, a serene hymn-like section near the end of an otherwise rousing work. It is often sung with a chorus joining the orchestra. For this performance, core members of The Master Singers of Lexington, directed by choral director Adam Grossman, supplemented by community members, will join the orchestra for the singing of the hymn section.

In addition to conducting the Master Singers of Lexington, conductor/composer Adam Grossman currently teaches at New England Conservatory Preparatory School and the Newton Public Schools. He has conducted many choruses and orchestras, has conducted over fifty premieres of new works, and has had his own compositions performed by notable ensembles throughout the U.S.

In 1876, the Russian Musical Society commissioned Tchaikovsky to compose an orchestral work for a concert to support Serbia in its war against the Ottoman Empire. Russians generally sympathized with the Slavs. Tchaikovsky composed Marche Slav and called the work ‘Serbo-Russian March’. The Russian imperial anthem ‘God Save the Tzar’ is quoted in the work.

Schumann’s only piano concerto was premiered in 1845 and is one of the most widely performed and recorded concertos for piano. Currently based in New York, soloist Bryan Ojeda Chevres serves on the piano faculty at Third Street Music School in New York and is a co-founder of the Young Artist Concert Orchestra of Puerto Rico. He was born, raised and trained in Puerto Rico, and maintains deep ties with Puerto Rican collaborators and orchestras, frequently travelling between New York and his home. He has performed worldwide and with major ensembles such as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Mozarteum in Salzburg, and the MET Museum's Temple of Dendur in New York.

Admission to the concert is a suggested donation of $20 per adult. Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School is located at 390 Lincoln Rd in Sudbury. The concert will also be livestreamed on Sudbury TV. Go to sudburytv.org, Scroll down on the Main page to the Live Stream section and click on Watch Now for the Educational Channel.

This year, the LSCO launched a chamber music initiative called the “LSCO Chamber Players”, featuring members of the orchestra and guests in small ensemble performances. The LSCO CP gave five concerts in its first season in Sudbury and Lincoln, extending the LSCO season from two to seven full concerts in season 52.

About Lincoln Sudbury Civic Orchestra

Founded in 1973, the LSCO is a volunteer community orchestra comprising high school students and adult community members who share a love for preparing and performing substantial orchestral repertoire. The members have classical music training at the intermediate to advanced level and rehearse weekly Tuesday evenings at LSRHS. Although the scores studied and performed are the original professional scores (not arrangements for school ensembles), professional performance experience is not required for membership. All players are welcome to join regardless of town of residence. For more information visit https://www.lscivicorchestra.org. Founded in 1972 as a community orchestra for high school musicians to work with adult musicians of Lincoln and Sudbury, the group is always looking for new players. Interested amateur musicians are welcome and encouraged to contact the orchestra leadership by email at [email protected]. Visit LSCO on the web at https://lscivicorchestra.org. Listeners may join the LSCO Mailing list by sending an email to [email protected].

LSCO is supported in part by grants from the Sudbury and Lincoln Cultural Councils, local agencies, which are supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

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