Monthly Concert Programs

More to come here later, but this is hopefully going to be the heart and soul of what we do here on Substack: no more independent pieces to be written about or month(s)-long series of a few dozen pieces, but putting a few pieces in context together as you might see them on a concert program. This has all sorts of benefits and implications, hopefully, but in case you want to review what monthly programs have come in the past, here’s the full list.

I was only planning on doing one per month for the 2025-26 season but started doing two a month beginning in November, so those are listed as A and B, as follows:

2026

January

Concert Program A: Mozart and Mahler in D minor

Concert Program B: Coming soon, with Nielsen, Englund, and Beethoven

2025

September

A series/concept opener of sorts, featuring Haydn, Beethoven, and Schumann’s second

October

Dramatic stuff: Schubert’s Rosamunde overture, Brahms’ violin concerto, and Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht

November

Concert Program A: Wagner, Sibelius, and the late Per Nørgård’s first

Concert Program B: Bacewicz, Honegger, and Beethoven’s fifth

December

Concert Program A: Prokofiev, Schnittke, and Tchaikovsky’s fourth

Concert Program B: Langgaard, Abrahamsen, and Sibelius