
BACH, BEETHOVEN, & BRAHMS SOCIETY
MUSIC DIRECTOR, STEVEN LIPSITT
Bach, Beethoven, & Brahms Society
presents its
2025-2026 Anniversary Season
German Glow: Mendelssohn's Psalm 42 & Brahms' Second Symphony
September 28, 2025, 4 PM at United Parish in Brookline
Emilie Mayer: Overture in D minor
Mendelssohn: Psalm 42
(Sonja Tengblad, soprano; New World Chorale, Holly MacEwen Krafka, director)
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major
Bach's Air, Barber's Adagio, & Frazin's Peace Cantata
November 16, 2025, 4 PM at United Parish in Brookline
J.S. Bach: Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3
Arthur Foote: Air & Gavotte
John Corigliano: Fantasia on a Bach Air
Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings
Howard Frazin: Peace Cantata [Boston premiere]
(Carley DeFranco, soprano; Krista River, mezzo-soprano; Keith Phares, baritone)
Midwinter Mozart & Wintertime Waltzes
December 14, 2025, 4 PM at All Saints Parish in Brookline, Beacon Street
Minuets, scherzos, & waltzes by Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, & Brahms
Choral music of the season from the Apollo Club, Heritage Chorale, & VOICES Boston Children's Choir
Changing Times: Mozart, Haydn, & Garfein
March 1, 2026, 4 PM at United Parish in Brookline
Haydn: Symphony No. 64 ('Tempora mutantur')
Herschel Garfein: New work for saxophone & string orchestra
(Kenneth Radnofsky) [BB&B commission]
Schoenberg: Overture in Old Style
Mozart: Sinfonia concertante (Adrian Anantawan, violin; Sergio I. Munoz Leiva, viola)
Bracingly Beethoven
May 3, 2026, 4 PM at United Parish at Brookline
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel: Pastorella
Beethoven: Violin Concerto (Hina Khuong-Huu)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4
Steven Lipsitt, Music Director
Faneuil Hall's Great Hall
Roksana Sudol, concertmaster for the BB&B Orchestra
Steven Lipsitt conducting the BB&B orchestra
Steven Lipsitt, Music Director
Soloists Lucia Lin and Owen Young. Photo by Michael J. Lutch