Colby Symphony Orchestra and Choirs at Colby: Choral Masterworks

The annual Choral Masterworks concert offers two memorial pieces: Johannes Brahms’s Nänie (1881), a transcendent threnody written to honor a young artist-friend, and Joel Thompson’s intimate seven-movement cantata, Seven Last Words of the Unarmed (2015), a choral setting of the final words of Black men murdered by police officers. The concert will also celebrate the winner of Colby’s annual Concerto Competition, Roy Li ’28, who will be performing the 2nd and 3rd movements from Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major. The orchestra will also perform Aaron Copland’s lively one-act ballet, Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes.