2023-2024 Season Concert Schedule
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August 19, 2023 7:30 PM
Classics by the Lake -
Light Classics and Popular Favorites
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Lake Harriet Band Shell
4135 W Lake Harriet Parkway
Minneapolis, MN 55409
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October 29, 2023 3:00 PM
A Season of Celebration -
Aaron Copland – Appalachian Spring
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Michael Torke – Bright Blue Music
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Johannes Brahms – Symphony #3
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Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd
4801 France Ave. Minneapolis, MN 55410
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December 17, 2023 3:00 PM
Remembrance and Reflection -
Gustav Holst – Jupiter from The Planets
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Readings from Dylan Thomas' A Child's Christmas in Wales
Valerie Kahler, Reader -
Gerald Finzi – Eclogue for Piano and Strings
Sue Ruby, Piano -
Ralph Vaughan Williams – The Lark Ascending
Essie Commers, Violin -
Sir Edward Elgar – Enigma Variations
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Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd
4801 France Ave. Minneapolis, MN 55410
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February 25, 2024 3:00 PM
Realizing Dreams -
Kevin Day – Danza del Sol
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Gerald Near – Concerto for Organ and Orchestra
Catherine Rodland, soloist
Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the national syndication of Pipedreams -
Florence Price – Symphony #1
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Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd
4801 France Ave. Minneapolis, MN 55410
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April 6, 2024 11:00 AM
Family Concert - Nature in Music and a Musical Petting Zoo-
Steve Heitzeg – Mustang
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Camille Saint-Saëns – The Swan
Eitan Cher, solo cello and the Civic Orchestra cello section -
Cary John Franklin – Skating in the Northern Lights
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Sergei Prokofiev – Selections from Peter and the Wolf
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Gioachino Rossini – Overture to 'William Tell'
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Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd
4801 France Ave. Minneapolis, MN 55410
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May 19, 2024 3:00 PM
Gustav Mahler Symphony #5-
Ralph Vaughan Williams – A Serenade to Music
Carol Margolis. Violin -
Sergei Prokofiev – Violin Concerto No.2, 1st movement
Vladimir Tsiper, MacPhail Center Concerto Competition Winner, Soloist -
Gustav Mahler – Symphony #5
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Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd
4801 France Ave. Minneapolis, MN 55410
Our concerts are always free and open to the public, though donations are gladly accepted.
Please be aware that seating at all concerts is first-come, first-serve and in some venues is limited. We recommend arriving 15-20 minutes before the concert to ensure that you're comfortably seated for the program.
What to Expect
If you're new to concerts of classical music (or even if you're not), welcome and enjoy the music. Our concerts are typically an hour and a half to two hours long with a ten to fifteen minute break (or intermission) somewhere in the middle. A concert program usually consists of three to five pieces. At least one will be quite substantial and will take up most or all of one half of the concert.
During the concert, you should settle in, sit back, experience the music, and react to it. In formal concert settings there ARE some conventions and bits of etiquette - who to applaud and when to applaud, for example - that strike many first time concert goers as weird, but knowing them in advance can make the concert experience more comfortable, and even frequent concert goers can stand a refresher from time to time. For a guide to concert conventions and etiquette, click here.