Boston Landmarks Orchestra will Produce Nine Free Concerts at Boston's Hatch Shell on the Esplanade on Wednesday Evenings Beginning July 11

Boston Landmarks Orchestra will Produce Nine Free Concerts at Boston's Hatch Shell on the Esplanade on Wednesday Evenings Beginning July 11

BOSTON, July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- A major new summer arts tradition launches at the Hatch Shell on Boston's Esplanade on July 11 at 7 pm with the opening of the inaugural season of the Landmarks Festival at the Shell. This new festival, which will run every Wednesday evening through September 5th, will offer free classical concerts produced by the Boston Landmarks Orchestra with Charles Ansbacher, Conductor and Festival Artistic Director. Seven of the concerts will feature the Boston Landmarks Orchestra, in collaboration with the Boston Lyric Opera, The Boston Community Choir and the New World Chorale. The Longwood Symphony Orchestra and The Greenwood Music Camp Orchestra, with soloists from NPR's From The Top, will also perform. Several of the concerts will be repeated in other Boston neighborhoods.

Ansbacher founded the Boston Landmarks Orchestra in 2001 to perform free concerts celebrating historical, geographical and architectural settings. The Orchestra has commissioned several works for children that will be performed as part of the Festival.

The Landmarks Festival at the Shell is grateful to the following organizations: Boston's Classical Radio Station 99.5 WCRB, Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation. Boston Globe Foundation, The Boston Foundation Bank of America, State Street Foundation, Boston Red Sox, Coca-Cola Company, Hess Corporation. Massachusetts Cultural Council, Music Performance Fund, City of Boston, Thomas M. Menino, Mayor, Boston Parks and Recreation Department, New England Cable News (NECN) and WGBH.

For more information about the Landmarks Festival at the Shell, visit http://www.landmarksorchestra.org/

The Program:

-- July 11 - Opening Night - Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Haydn's Symphony
No. 104
-- July 18 - French Romantics - Bizet, Faure, Rameau, Ravel, Saint-Saens.
-- July 25 - Young Brilliance - Greenwood Music Camp Orchestra and From
the Top
-- August 1 - David and "Old Ironsides" - Landmarks Orchestra's Newest
Commission
-- August 8 - Salute the Red Sox - An all-American program
-- August 15 - A Taste of the Opera: With the Boston Lyric Opera
-- August 22 - Longwood Symphony's Musical Magic - Mendelssohn, John
Williams, Tchaikovsky
-- August 29 - With Liberty and Justice For All - The Journey of Phillis
Wheatley, Copland, Gospel Music
-- September 5 - Green Masterpieces - Beethoven's 6th, Handel's Water
Music, Respighi's The Birds, Landmark's First Commission Make Way for
Ducklings

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FCMN Contact:

Source: Boston Landmarks Orchestra

CONTACT: Edwina Kluender of Harron & Associates, Inc. for Boston
Landmarks Orchestra, +1-617-267-7366, edwina@harronandassociates.com

Web site:

http://www.landmarksorchestra.org/

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