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November 17, 2018 – March 23, 2019The Foosaner Art Museum presents Derek Gores: Local Edition, a mid-career retrospective of work by Melbourne resident,…

1st Thursday, November 5 Our Children in Peril6:30pm Thursday, November 5, 2015hosted by Space Coast Progressive Alliance
Location: Front Street Civic…

1st Thursday, February 4: Black Lives, Voices, Minds, Children Matter6:30pm Thursday, February 4, 2016hosted by Space Coast Progressive AllianceLocation:…

Since last July, we’ve been retracing the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart through the chronology of his symphonies, We’ll hear that final symphony this week and then we’ll celebrate with some of the wide variety of music he left us after a short but remarkable life.

Luigi Cherubini’s Requiem was written for the royal funeral of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette and so popular did it become that it gained a virtual monopoly over memorial services in Europe for many years. We’ll unearth it for this week’s program.

We’ll hear some concert music with roots in the peoples’ tunes of the United Kingdom as adapted by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, Benjamin Britten, and Percy Grainger this Sunday — and just to keep them honest, we’ll hear some of the Real McCoy too.

American music didn’t get much respect in the Old World in the19th century. This would all change later on with the coming of the Jazz Age, but in the meantime there were a few composers who didn’t fit the traditional mold. We’ll look at two of them on this Sunday’s program.

We’re going to hear a pair of piano concerti this Sunday by two Hungarian-born composers whose slightly overlapping lifespans covered a stretch of nearly 140 years — years from the height of the Hapsburg Empire to the tumultuous times of the last century.

The Silk Road was a network of trade routes spanning the Eurasian land mass and in use for more than 2,000 years, cross-fertilizing cultures from Europe to the Orient and most everything in-between. We’ll touch on just a fraction of the music from the Silk Road on this week’s program.

This week we’re going to look at some of George Friedrich Handel’s “other” music. He was, after all, the most important composer working in Great Britain in the 18th century — no one-hit wonder he -- so let’s stop for a bit and listen to some "Handel Besides The Messiah."