When harp lessons were announced at a school assembly, Mared Pugh-Evans’s hand shot up immediately. She later recalled in an interview that she had always been very well-behaved — it was simply in her nature — but that moment may have been the most mischievous thing she had ever done. Little Mared was six at the time, and her father was the headmaster of her primary school. And that headmaster looked pretty stunned on the podium — perhaps mentally calculating the family budget, since a good harp can easily cost many tens of thousands of pounds. In Mared’s case, however, the investment more than paid off: by eleven she was already proving herself in competitions, and she has since earned numerous awards. The crowning moment came in 2024, when King Charles III appointed her “The King’s Harpist” — a royal position that had been reinstated by the then Prince of Wales in 2000. Back then, it went to Catrin Finch, the very harpist whose concert the young Mared had once listened to in rapt fascination, sparking her own love of the instrument. A “full circle” if ever there was one!

Mared Pugh-Evans

Lukaskirche Lucerne

Enjoy the very best of classical music with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra – Sweden’s National Orchestra. Bring a friend to Götaplatsen and experience Beethoven’s iconic Fifth Symphony with Stephanie Childress! Free admission.

Göteborgskalaset: Summer Concert with the Gothenburg Symphony

Göteborgskalaset

Come and enjoy all the sounds of a symphony orchestra when the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra visits Kulturhuset Hav & Land in Hunnebostrand. A pop-up concert in late summer where we get to experience the powerful Fate Symphony by Beethoven, with its famous opening where fate knocks on the door.

Pop Up in Hunnebostrand with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

Sea and Land Cultural Center

Come and enjoy all the sounds of a symphony orchestra when the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra visits Jubileumsteatern in Mariestad on the shores of Lake Vänern. A pop-up concert in late summer where we get to experience the powerful Fate Symphony by Beethoven, with its famous opening where fate knocks on the door.

Pop Up in Mariestad with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

Karlsholme Folkets Park

Magnificent coronation ceremonies. Lavish weddings. Fateful choices. And plenty of romance – both inside and outside the castle walls.

EPSG:4326

A Royal Evening

DR Koncerthuset

Hot off the plane from their annual Festival in Tuscany, Sinfonia Smith Square brings a taste of Italy to their home at Smith Square Hall with a whistle-stop tour of some much-loved Italian music. Grab some gelato and be transported to an Italian piazza.

Sinfonia Smith Square’s Guide to Italy

Smith Square Hall

Myth, Cinema and Prokofiev

Chiaramonte Steri Palace

A crossing where Bach meets jazz and electronica: finely chiseled counterpoint, incisive rhythms, hypnotic pulses. A vibrant reinterpretation, between improvisation, electric energy and baroque architecture.

The Art of the Fugue: Marimba Overture

Festival Salon

You don’t just hear Saint-Saëns’s “Organ” Symphony; you feel it. Experience the power of this magnificent music and the 6,025 pipes of Severance’s mighty Norton Memorial Organ. Kazuki Yamada contrasts this audience favorite with Haydn’s smaller, but no less delightful “London” Symphony. Principal Trombone Brian Wendel also steps into the spotlight for the dramatic Trombone Concerto of Nino Rota, best known for his score for The Godfather.

Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony

Severance Music Center

Chamber music across three centuries of music history: Beethoven, Glinka, Brahms, Juon and Nino Rota, performed by the Quantum Clarinet Trio (clarinet, cello, piano) as part of Klassik am See.

Quantum Clarinet Trio – Between Worlds

Theater am See

Tonight's program offers a refined musical journey through the 19th and 20th centuries, highlighting the extraordinary expressive possibilities of the flute and harp duo. The combination of the two instruments, among the most evocative in chamber music, allows for the exploration of a rich palette of sound, capable of evoking intimate and contemplative atmospheres, but also virtuosic impulses and accents of intense theatricality.

Notes at the Museum

Palazzo Abatellis

“Folklore and Fable” invites audiences into a world where storytelling and symphonic color intertwine, revealing how legends, fairy tales, and frontier myths continue to shape our musical imagination. Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite shimmers with delicate textures and pastel hues, each movement unfolding like a storybook illustration brought gently to life. Copland’s Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes shifts the scene to the American West, brimming with rustic charm, open-air vitality, and the unmistakable snap of “Hoe-Down.” Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite crowns the evening with elemental force, rising from shadowy enchantment to blazing triumph, its brilliant orchestration conjuring magic, menace, and redemption in a vivid, unforgettable sound. 

Folklore & Fable

Riverwalk Center

8.  Chamber Concert

Lübeck Town Hall

Matinee of the Friends of the Berliner Philharmoniker e. V. Das ist ja unerhört!

Berliner Philharmoniker

Naples Millionaire

Comunale Nouveau

4th Chamber Concert

Reithalle

Rome is where Corelli developed the concerto grosso, where Respighi was inspired while celebrating its beauty, and where Nino Rota composed countless film scores. For Handel, Rome played a decisive role during his early career, even though his opera about the most famous Roman emperor was composed in London. This tribute to the Eternal City will mark the debut of contralto Rose Naggar-Tremblay and young conductor Kyrian Friedenberg with Les Violons du Roy.

Les Violons à Rome, de Corelli à Nino Rota

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Palais Montcalm – Maison de la musique

“How am I supposed to do that? I'm going mad!” On Fadinard’s wedding day, his horse eats the straw hat of a lady having a bit of fun with her lover in the bushes. But Anaide doesn’t dare return to her jealous husband Beaupertuis without her new Florentine hat: she simply has to get hold of a new one! An odyssey full of hijinks begins, taking Fadinard across the length and breadth of Paris ...

The Italian Straw Hat

Semperoper Dresden

In Nino Rota's "Nonetto," his characteristically sensitive melodic structure and Mediterranean flair combine to create one of the most elegant chamber music works of the entire 20th century. Rota's first version of this piece was created in 1959 – the same year as Bohuslav Martinu°'s Nonet No. 2. Martinu° completed it shortly before his death. His biographer, Harry Halbreich, called it "Martinu°'s chamber music legacy," which, despite its apparent modesty, surpasses almost all of the composer's other works. Here, he said, is a piece of eternal beauty. "As with Mozart's late work," Halbreich summarized, "in this work, the deepest feeling and the wisdom of a lifetime are concealed behind the facade of graceful divertissements and smiling purity of expression."

7. Sunday Matinee

Rathaus der Stadt Frankfurt

Nino Rota had every reason to be happy in 1973 – at least for a short time: his music for Francis Ford Coppola’s film The Godfather was initially nominated for an Oscar, but was suddenly removed from the list. During this time, the Italian composer wrote his clarinet trio, which shows him from both a romantic, yearning and humorous side. Rota did win the Oscar two years later. The melodic arcs in the Phantasy Quintet by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams are shrouded in mist. These elegiac sounds blend 16th and 17th century idioms with moments of English folk song. Just as Vaughan Williams transformed his most successful film music for Scott of the Antarctic into his seventh symphony, Erich Wolfgang Korngold incorporated music from many films into his concert music. The sonorous passion so typical of his style also pervades his large-scale Piano Quintet in E major op. 15, where exuberant intensity and eruptions of sound alternate with the most delicate lyricism and airy sentiment in the smallest of spaces.

7. Chamber Music Concert

Liederhalle Cultural and Congress Center

Antonio Vivaldi is known across all continents today. Among other things, he has his four violin concertos from his Opus 8 of 1725 to thank for this, which are considered to symbolise the art of Baroque music-making. Vivaldi himself summarised them as the ‘Four Seasons’ and under this title they are still among the best-known works from the Baroque period. Very virtuosic and full of small and large affects, they present the great wealth of colour of their era. These violin concertos are made for the top Dutch violinist Janine Jansen and the Camerata Salzburg, because rediscovering the classics of music history is their speciality. We can look forward to the breath of fresh air that the musicians, who are well attuned to each other, will blow through the familiar scores in May. And even more virtuoso baroque music can be experienced in this concert when Francesco Geminiani's Concerto grosso in D minor is performed that evening in the Alte Oper. (Pro Arte Frankfurt)

Janine Jansen, violin

Alte Oper

Just like the epic saying "When in Rome," you can expect an epic concert led by Marcelo Lehninger to make the audience feel like they are in Rome. Featuring the must-hear Italian composer Ottorino Resphigi's Pini di Roma or known as the Pines of Rome.

When in Rome

DeVos Performance Hall

2nd Academy Concert

Janine Jansen has no problem playing popular works like Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" again and again, because, as she says, "ultimately, every interpretation is unique." The CAMERATA audience can also expect such unique performances when the orchestra's artistic partner embarks on an adventurous and atmospheric journey through the Italian seasons of the early 18th century, still unclouded by climate change. The music magazine Stereoplay praised Janine Jansen's performance of "The Seasons" as "a completely natural, breathing flow." Janine Jansen also brings two other great Italian Baroque violinists into play, bundled together in one work: Vivaldi's contemporary Geminiani reworked a violin sonata by Corelli on the voluptuous Portuguese dance "folía" into a brilliant concerto grosso. Jansen and the CAMERATA will demonstrate how productive this concert form still is in our time in a string concerto by film music king Nino Rota from 2007 and a charming concerto combination for string quartet, string orchestra and harpsichord by Richard Dubugnon from 2020.

Season Concert Five: The Four Seasons

Mozarteum Foundation

Anastasia Samsel, flute

Curtis Institute of Music

Experience the sweeping elegance of Tchaikovsky’s Polish Symphony, a work brimming with dance-like vitality and imperial grandeur. Riccardo Muti and the CSO also delve into the evocative world of Nino Rota — composer of The Godfather and The Leopard — capturing the drama, lyricism and charm of one of the 20th century’s most celebrated composers.

CSO at Wheaton: Muti Conducts Tchaikovsky & Rota

Wheaton College

Muti Conducts Tchaikovsky & Rota

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Ready, set, go! The August Everding Bavarian Theatre Academy and the Munich Radio Orchestra have been working together for 20 years: a truly blessed liaison! Young students unearth previously unknown treasures from the world of musical theater and bring them on stage with the Munich Radio Orchestra. A scenic fireworks display with opulent orchestral sound, touching arias, a colorful set, and trendy dances. Colorful, professional, passionate. The triad of successful cooperation.

I due timidi & Le pauvre matelot

Prinzregententheater

3. Chamber Music in Strausberg – Nonet

Kreismusikschule Märkisch-Oderland

Love tangles, deception, double standards: Rossini ignites a fast-paced firework display in the lively overture to his opera La scala di seta. Hardly anyone could deliver this with more spirit than a stylistically assured conductor like Antonino Fogliani. Things get exciting in Bruno Maderna's Giardino religioso. There are no fixed sequences here; musicians and conductor decide in real time where the journey will take them. It sounds chaotic, but it's cleverly executed! The result is a truly special concert moment. No less thrilling is Nino Rota's Bassoon Concerto, played by Sophie Dervaux, the principal bassoonist of the Vienna Philharmonic. Rota was much more than "just" a film music genius. In addition to ten operas, he composed numerous other works – and this charming, joyful concerto. Haydn's Symphony "Mit dem Paukenschlag", which sparkles with wit and inventiveness, is another highlight of a program that promises to be as unusual as it is entertaining.

Haydn: Symphony No. 9 “With the Timpani Roll”

The Bell, Bremen

Unfortunately, there is no symphony by the opera composer Giuseppe Verdi. However, the Italian did compose a melodious string quartet, which the American double bassist and university professor Lucas Drew arranged for string orchestra and entitled "Symphony." It promises a special listening experience.

Chiaroscuro

Zeughaus Neuss

Movie Night

CongressCentrum Pforzheim CCP

The most powerful soundtracks can stand alone without any visual support. They come alive, becoming characters in their own right, and hearing a few bars can instantly transport us back to a favourite scene.

Symphonic Tales of British Cinema: From Hercule Poirot to Harry Potter

Centre Leonardo Da Vinci

Place des Arts

From Ben Hur and Gone with the Wind to The Godfather and Cinema Paradiso, relive the golden age of Hollywood and beyond with music by some of cinema's most brilliant and influential composers.

Golden Age Hollywood and Beyond

Barbican Centre

The chamber concert series is supported by the Philharmonic Society Lübeck / Lübeck Philharmonic Orchestra eV

2nd  Chamber Concert

Lübeck City Library

True to its mission of promoting and raising awareness of classical music, the Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier Occitanie travels across the Occitanie region in various formations.

COR-des Quartet

La Tuilerie

Patrons are invited to a hosted pre-reception from 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM, hors d’oeuvres & beverages will be served. Quattrocento “Four Centuries of Italian Music” will start at 7:30 PM in the Sanctuary.

Quattrocento

First Congregational Church of Long Beach, UCC

First Congregational Church of Los Angeles

NDR Chamber Concert

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Italian Night

Kloster Eberbach

Across the centuries, composers have found resonance in Nature. This playful and delightful program features leading English violinist Anthony Marwood in Schubert’s beloved “Trout” Quintet; Xhosa composer Bongani Ndodana-Breen’s Intlanzi Yase Mzantsi (The Fish from South Africa, based on Schubert’s “Trout”); and music by Nino Rota, composer of the famous film score to The Godfather. Festival Artistic Directors Aaron Wunsch and Julia Bruskin join, along with trumpeter Chris Coletti.

Gone Fishing

First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles

“Gently Saying Farewell” – Escape to Exile II

Saanen Church

Respect – a word that is as essential in music as it is in everyday interaction. Without respect for one another, there is no harmonious interaction, neither on stage nor in society. The concert, compiled exclusively for KulturPur, is dedicated to this central theme and impressively demonstrates how music builds bridges, creates connections, and inspires hope.

Respect! – Concert at KulturPur 2025

Großes Zelttheater

Since making her BBC Proms debut on a televised broadcast 40 years ago leading the London Mozart Players in Schubert’s Fifth Symphony, British conductor Dame Jane Glover has been a world-renowned interpreter of the Classical masters and a champion of gender equity. Her thoughtful, informed interpretation allows Mozart and Schubert to shine with full transparency. BSO principal bassoon Harrison Miller injects impish humor into the neoclassical Bassoon Concerto by Nino Rota, the versatile composer of concert and film music best known for his Godfather scores. 

Mozart & Schubert

Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall

The Music Center at Strathmore

### Event Description: BSO: Mozart and Schubert

**Event Title:** BSO: Mozart and Schubert

**Presented By:** Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

**Date and Time:** Saturday, May 17, 2025, at 8:00 PM

**Location:** The Music Center at Strathmore

**Event Overview:**
Join the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for an enchanting evening of classical music featuring the works of Mozart and Schubert. Under the baton of the esteemed British conductor Dame Jane Glover, known for her insightful interpretations and advocacy for gender equity, this concert promises to be a memorable experience.

**Program:**
- **MOZART:** Symphony No. 34 in C, K. 338
- **ROTA:** Bassoon Concerto, featuring BSO principal bassoonist Harrison Miller
- **MOZART:** Minuet for a Symphony in C, K. 409
- **SCHUBERT:** Symphony No. 5

**Special Highlights:**
- **Dame Jane Glover:** Celebrated for her debut at the BBC Proms 40 years ago, leading the London Mozart Players in Schubert’s Fifth Symphony, Dame Jane Glover brings her world-renowned expertise to this performance.
- **Harrison Miller:** The BSO principal bassoonist will add a touch of humor to Nino Rota's neoclassical Bassoon Concerto, showcasing the versatility of the composer best known for his scores for "The Godfather."

**Additional Information:**
- This event is not presented by Strathmore.
- Strathmore is Global Biorisk Advisory Council STAR accredited.

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Mozart and Schubert

In pursuit of their degrees at SFCM, each student presents a recital that represents their artistry and craft. Student Recitals feature repertoire curated by students with guidance from their faculty instructor.

Ian Rigg, tenor trombone- First Year Master's Recital

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Austin Talbot, tenor trombone - Senior Recital

Pre-College Morning Recital

Join us for an enchanting afternoon with the Omaha Symphony as we present "Rota & Schumann" at the Joslyn Art Museum on Sunday, April 6th at 2:00 PM. This captivating concert features Music Director Ankush Kumar Bahl and Assistant Principal Bassoon Nicholas Nelson in a program that promises to be a delightful exploration of classical music.

The concert will open with Michael Gandolfi's "Themes from a Midsummer Night," an imaginative piece that conjures the whimsy of Shakespeare's comedy through exquisite chamber orchestra writing. Following this, Nicholas Nelson will take center stage with Nino Rota's Bassoon Concerto, a warm and humorous tour-de-force for the double-reed instrument. The afternoon will culminate with Robert Schumann's Symphony No. 1, "Spring," a piece inspired by the composer's wife, Clara, and premiered by Felix Mendelssohn in 1841. Schumann aimed to capture the essence of the world awakening to spring, making this piece the perfect selection for an April weekend.

Don't miss this opportunity to experience the beauty and brilliance of the Omaha Symphony. Subscribe today to enjoy this performance along with other captivating concerts in the Symphony Joslyn series. Subscribers save money, enjoy free exchanges, and receive many great benefits. The 6-Concert package is available for just $190.

Mark your calendars and prepare for an afternoon of exquisite music that celebrates the spirit of spring and the timeless beauty of classical compositions.

Rota & Schumann

Joslyn Art Museum

Watch out, there's something to discover here! The 3rd Loh concert features two opera specialists and a film composer with spectacular instrumental works. Like so many before him, Antonio Salieri, who has chosen to live in Vienna, wrote variations on the popular "Follia" bass. He took the original meaning of "Follia", "madness", very seriously and created extravagant miniatures with highlights for violin, harp, percussion and wind instruments. The fact that his compatriot, the Oscar-winning film music composer Nino Rota, was also at home in classical genres is demonstrated by his bassoon concerto, which is also crowned by a series of variations. The concert concludes with Weber's 1st Symphony, a work full of energy and dynamism that already gives an idea of ​​the later creator of "Freischütz".

3rd Loh concert

Achteckhaus

Following the acclaimed performances of Gustav Mahler's Sixth Symphony, Nicola Luisotti returns to the podium of the Staatsorchester Stuttgart, with whom he has worked closely since his debut in 2001. In the Fantasy Overture Romeo and Juliet at the beginning of the concert, Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky brings together the contrasting worlds of Shakespeare's tragedy with shimmering romantic colours: the hatred of the hostile Capuleti and Montecchi families and the infinite longing of the young lovers. Deeply rooted in the language of romanticism is the Italian Nino Rota, who became known above all for his film music, such as that for Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather.

4. Symphony Concert

Beethoven Hall (Beethovensaal)

Emily Bussa investigates the relationship between performing music that reflects the past and the act of self-reflection in a recital that features works by Bach, Britten and Rota.

Student Degree Recital: Emily Bussa B.M. senior viola recital

University of Maryland

Pre-College Department Recital: Dr. Jennifer R. Ellis, harp

Get award-season ready as we honor past and present Oscar nominees and winners of “Best Picture” and “Best Score”, including selections from E.T., Black Panther, Titanic, Lord of the Rings, The Godfather, and more.

The Envelope Please…

Severance Hall

Discover Debussy’s delightful Images for orchestra, a series of musical postcards inspired by England, Spain, and France; and Ravel’s sultry slow-burn Boléro, with its sensuously hypnotic theme building to volcanic climax. Also on the program: Rota’s lively Trombone Concerto and Decisamente allegro by Nicola Campogrande, “one of the most interesting Italian composers of the young generation” (OperaWire).

Noseda conducts Debussy’s Images & Ravel’s Boléro

Kennedy Center

This recital is given in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music. Chase Farrell is a student of Allen Barnhill. 

Chase Farrell, Trombone

Alice Pratt Brown Hall

Valentine's Day concert

The Concertgebouw

Experience an extraordinary evening of classical music at the "Conciertos Extraordinarios" event, part of the Ibermúsica 2024-2025 season. This special concert will take place on Sunday, 9th February 2025, at 19:30h in the prestigious Auditorio Nacional de Música de Madrid. 

The program promises an eclectic and thrilling lineup of compositions, featuring works by Klengel, Blacher, Williams, Rota, Gershwin, Shearing, Tiziol/Ellington, Dean, Giraud, Salgán, Kaiser-Lindemann, Piazzolla, and McCartney. From the stirring "Hymnus" by Klengel to the timeless "Yesterday" by McCartney, the evening is set to be a memorable journey through classical and contemporary music, including pieces like "Catch me if you can" by Williams and "Fuga y Misterio" by Piazzolla.

Tickets are available for purchase, with prices including a 10% VAT but excluding handling fees, which will be applied at the time of payment. Ibermúsica reserves the right to modify the program if necessary and promises to provide a substitution of equal or superior quality in the event of an artist's inability to perform. The concert will start promptly at 19:30h, and late entry will not be permitted.

This event is a must-attend for classical music enthusiasts and those looking to experience the magic of live performance in one of Madrid's most iconic venues. Don't miss your chance to be part of this exceptional musical evening.

Classical Music Concerts Season Ibermúsica

National Music Auditorium

Children’s Concert with the Decatur School of Ballet

Decatur Presbyterian Children's Community

In the foyer of the opera house, Claudia Muschio, Itzeli Jáuregui, Charles Sy and Johannes Kammler present an entertaining and varied evening of songs from the Italian bel canto repertoire. The ensemble singers will be accompanied by Vlad Iftinca on the piano.

3. Song Recital

The Staatstheater Stuttgart

Two Junior Guildhall ensembles - the Symphony Orchestra and String Ensemble - take to the stage to perform pieces by Nino Rota, Finzi, Strauss and Borodin.

Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra and String Ensemble

Milton Court Concert Hall

Works of Italian Composers in partnership with St Louis-Bologna Sister Cities.

Musica Italiana

Washington University in St. Louis

"Who can do anything after Beethoven?" This sigh, attributed to the young Franz Schubert, expresses - on behalf of so many other composers up to the end of the 19th century - the difficulty of creating any more symphonies after Beethoven's symphonies, which were considered so perfect. Schubert himself left behind a whole series of symphonic fragments in his search for his own path, including perhaps the most beautiful torso of Romanticism with "the Unfinished". Only two movements, but they traverse an entire emotional cosmos.

1st Symphony Concert

Haus der Kunst

Relive the chilling portrait of the Sicilian clan’s rise and near fall from power in The Godfather as the New Jersey Symphony performs Nino Rota’s Oscar®-nominated score live to picture. This three-time Academy Award®-winning film features Marlon Brando as the Corleone family patriarch, accompanied by career-making performances from Al Pacino, James Caan and Robert Duvall. A concert experience you can’t refuse!

The Godfather Live in Concert

Count Basie Center for the Arts

Join us for an evening of exceptional saxophone music at the Northwestern Bienen School of Music. Philip Kleutgens, a Master of Music student under the tutelage of Taimur Sullivan, will be performing a captivating recital on Saturday, June 1, 2024, at 8:30pm CDT. The event will take place in the intimate setting of the McClintock Choral and Recital Room, located within the Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Center for the Musical Arts.

Philip will be joined by a talented ensemble of musicians, including Isaac Boone on soprano saxophone, Yun Qu Tan on alto saxophone, Brian Kachur on tenor saxophone, Natalia Warthen on baritone saxophone, and Nathan Canfield on piano. The program promises a diverse range of pieces, featuring works by Sam Alvarez, John Anthony Lennon, and Paul Creston, as well as transcriptions by Philip Kleutgens himself, including selections from Nino Rota's Concerto for Strings and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Souvenir d’un lieu cher.

This event is free and open to the public, with no tickets required. For those unable to attend in person, a live stream will be available, ensuring no one misses out on this remarkable performance. Don't miss this opportunity to experience the artistry of Philip Kleutgens and his fellow musicians in a program that showcases the versatility and beauty of the saxophone.

Location: David and Carol McClintock Choral and Recital Room, 70 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL 60208, United States.

Philip Kleutgens, saxophone

Ryan Center for the Musical Arts

Cinema in Concert

Pfalzbau Ludwigshafen

In a world where film and music are inseparably linked, Music@Menlo will focus its lens on the relationship between composers and “the seventh art.” Music has always played a paramount role in the movie theater, supporting the rich emotional connection between the audience and the silver screen, and many composers have been deeply influenced by cinema’s traditions, tropes, and heritage. This Focus Residency will explore the why and how behind several such composers’ works as our camera moves through all the angles: music written for cinema, because of it, mimicking it, and even establishing the cinematic sound. Join us for a fascinating look into the life and works of several composers, featuring Dmitry Shostakovich and his relationship to Soviet cinema; the chamber music of Nino Rota, the man behind The Godfather; Patrick Castillo, a name so dear to Music@Menlo, and his fascination with Ingmar Bergman; the vibrant world of Libby Larsen and her dive into the smoky atmosphere of film noir; and, of course, the “Father of Soundtrack,“ the “Haydn of Film Music“ himself: Erich Wolfgang Korngold.

Concert Program

Menlo School Campus

Canta Libre is a wonderfully unique chamber ensemble of harp, flute and three strings – a combination popular with French composers during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The ensemble specializes in ravishing repertoire that will draw you into the music and cultural atmosphere of turn-of-the-century Paris.

Canta Libre

First United Methodist Church of Oak Ridge

From romantic, savage, and epic American dramas to Japanese anime fantasy, The Hollywood Sound explores film scores from the past 80 years. VSO Concertmaster, Katherine Winterstein, performs Korngold's 1945 film score-infused violin concerto to complete the concert.

Vso At the Flynn

The Flynn

UTNMF: Piano Music & Movies

University of Toronto

CineConcerts invites you to relive this chilling portrait of the Sicilian clan’s rise and near fall from power as a live symphony orchestra performs Nino Rota’s Oscar®-nominated score live to picture: The Godfather Live in Concert. This three-time Academy Award® winning film features Marlon Brando as the Corleone family patriarch, accompanied by career-making performances from Al Pacino, James Caan, and Robert Duvall. A concert experience you can’t refuse!

The Godfather™ in Concert

As every year, the North German Philharmonic Orchestra Rostock starts the season with three concerts as part of the MV Festival, which take place in cooperation with the summer campus of the hmt Rostock. This year's concerts in the Holy Spirit Church in Wismar, in the Bützow Collegiate Church and in the Katharinensaal of the hmt Rostock will not only feature the results of the master classes, but also well-known musicians such as the pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimar, the violinist Henja Semmler, the cellist Daniel Müller-Schott and the trombonist Jamie Williams, who act as lecturers during the summer campus. The varied program of the three evenings under the direction of chief conductor Marcus Bosch presents music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Camille Saint-Saëns and Nino Rota.

Concerts in the Summer Campus: II. Concert

A lively, tuneful score by the celebrated film composer Nino Rota illuminates this delightful farce in which a straw hat eaten by a horse sets in motion a hilarious chain of events, further complicating tangled wedding day preparations.

Il cappello di paglia di Firenze

University of Toronto Faculty of Music

A lively, tuneful score by the celebrated film composer Nino Rota illuminates this delightful farce in which a straw hat eaten by a horse sets in motion a hilarious chain of events, further complicating tangled wedding day preparations. 

U of T presents Il cappello di paglia di Firenze (The Florentine Straw Hat)

With a nostalgic, golden-age voice that routinely inspires comparisons to “legendary singers from earlier eras” (Associated Press), Maltese-born Joseph Calleja has become one of the most acclaimed tenors today, and he will make his BroadStage return as part of the 2023/24 Celebrity Opera Recital Series. Calleja’s extensive discography and appearances on the world’s leading opera, concert, and television stages have marked him as one of the most sought-after tenors of today. Recent operatic seasons have included appearances at notable opera houses such as the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Paris Opera, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and the Royal Opera House in London. Calleja received a GRAMMY® nomination for his recording of La Traviata from the Royal Opera House, and in 2012, he was named Gramophone Magazine’s Artist of the Year. NPR describes Calleja as “arguably today’s finest lyric tenor” (NPR), and his warm and rich tone matched with his impeccable stage interpretations leave audiences enchanted.

Joseph Calleja, tenor

Veterans Memorial Auditorium (The VETS)

Celebrity Opera

Journey to the Golden Era of Hollywood with the Lima Symphony Orchestra and crossover superstar Grammy-winning violinist Charles Yang. Experience the sounds that made the classics: the lush romanticism of Casablanca, the spine-tingling strings of Psycho, the haunting nostalgia of The Godfather, and the lyrical virtuosity of Korngold’s Violin Concerto.

Nino Rota

Events

Upcoming events

Nov 15, 2026

COR-des Quartet · Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier

Dec 13, 2026

COR-des Quartet · Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier

5 - 6 Feb, 2027

Elegy to Exaltation: Ravel, Rota, and Shostakovich · San Diego Symphony

Feb 12, 2027

Ulster Orchestra: Speak Softly · Ulster Hall

May 30, 2027

Daphnis et Chloé on Sunday Morning · Antwerp Symphony Orchestra

Past events

Sep 8, 2026

Mared Pugh-Evans · Lucerne Festival

Aug 29, 2026

Göteborgskalaset: Summer Concert with the Gothenburg Symphony · Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

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