Our next performance....

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Join us on Sunday December 15, 2024 at 3:00 PM, for the second concert of our 2024-25 season: A Winter's Caprice.

Under the baton of Timothy Lovelace, the orchestra will perform a program with ties to winter and dreams of summer. The concert is bookended by Humperdinck's Prelude to "Hansel and Gretel" and Rimsky-Korsakov's vibrant and colorful masterpiece Capriccio Espagnol.  Also featured are Amanda Harberg's beautiful 2015 work Solis and winter-themed songs arranged by Timothy Lovelace for soprano and orchestra and sung by Maria Jette.  Leroy Anderson's Sleigh Ride, Jule Styne's Let it Snow, and a medley of Duke Ellington pieces round out the program. 

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Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd

4801 Frances Avenue

Minneapolis, MN.

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Like all of our concerts, this one is FREE and open to the public. However, seating is limited and first-come, first-serve. Arriving 15-20 minutes before the concert will help ensure you are comfortably seated for the program.

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To accommodate a broader audience we hope to have this concert livestreamed, at least in part. Click here to reach Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd's streaming page. This page will open in its own browser window. Scroll until you find the Civic Orchestra Concert. The stream will go live a few minutes before the 3:00 PM concert time on December 15. 

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An electronic copy of the concert program can be found here.

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A Season of Possibility...

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On May 19, Cary John Franklin completed his 30 year tenure as the music director of the Civic Orchestra of Minneapolis. Grateful for three decades of strong leadership, the orchestra sent him out with a rousing and celebratory performance of Mahler's Symphony #5, closing one chapter of the orchestra's history and beginning a new one. 

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Since late 2023, the Civic Orchestra of Minneapolis has been searching for a new music director, and is pleased to report that five finalists for the position have been selected and confirmed. To see photos and thumbnail biographies of each finalist, visit the information on our Leadership Transition on the About Us page.

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Each finalist will conduct a cycle of rehearsals and a concert program of their own choosing on the 2024 - 25 season. The programs have been finalized and the season features a fantastic mix of standard repertoire, really new music, new spins on older music, and surprising musical gems from different eras. To get a glimpse of what's in store for the new season visit our Concerts page. ​​​​