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Newport Symphony - Listening for Shakespeare
2026-03-22 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Newport Performing Arts Center, 777 W Olive St, Newport, OR, 97365, United States
Frank Oden, performance poet
March 22nd, 2026 – 2:00pm at the Newport Performing Arts Center. Pre-concert chat with Maestro Adam Flatt at 6:45pm
Otto Nicolai, Overture to “The Merry Wives of Windsor”
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Suite from “Much Ado About Nothing”
Giuseppe Verdi, Ballet Music from “Macbeth”
Dan Kellogg, “Pyramus and Thisbe”
Leonard Bernstein, Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story”
A concert like none other! Maestro Adam Flatt welcomes performance poet Frank Oden to share the stage with the Newport Symphony Orchestra!
Mr. Oden will connect the works together with the wondrous performances of some incredible music inspired by the immortal William Shakespeare. The concert will weave together the dramas, the comedy, the tragedy, and heartfelt honesty.
Join the shenanigans of Sir John Falstaff as he tries to seduce “The Merry Wives of Windsor” for financial gain. Follow the gossipy intrigue of Claudio and Hero and Beatrice and Benedick. Can you hear the vile Don John almost ruining the whole thing?
Join the orchestra on a trip to Scotland and dance to ballet music that eases the burden of the bloody king. Next, we’re off to Greece to hear the sad story that inspired Shakespeare’s, Ovid’s “Pyramus and Thisbe”, two youths madly in love trading whispers through a crack in the wall before their sad fate is met. We close with Bernstein’s take on those star crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, in his landmark “West Side Story”. The Symphonic Dances will have you dancing in your seats, you won’t want the fun to end!
All of this connected and shared with the dramatic expertise of our guest, Frank Oden.
Enjoy!

Oregon East Symphony - Summer Concert
2026-06-07 14:30 - 16:00 | Vert Auditorium, 480 SW Dorion Avenue, Pendleton, OR, 97801, United States
Program:
Buetti – Odyssey Overture for OrchestraBach – Concerto for oboe and violinStravinsky – Petrushka (1947)

Newport Symphony Free 4th of July Concert
2026-07-04 16:00 - 17:00 | Newport Middle School, 825 NE 7th Street, Newport, OR, 97365, United States
Join the Newport Symphony on Saturday, July 4th at Newport Middle School for this free concert.
Celebrate the 250th Birthday of the United States with your friends at the Newport Symphony Orchestra. Enjoy music inspired by a handful of rebels who built a revolution. Not only will you hear the patriotic favorites, but also some familiar tunes from movies and much, much more. There will even be a couple of fun surprises.
We’ll see you there!
This free concert is provided to the community by the Newport Symphony Orchestra and its donors in partnership with the Lincoln County School District, and with the generous sponsorship of Oregon Coast Bank and Georgia-Pacific.

Newport Symphony - Siren Song
2026-09-26 19:30, 2026-09-27 14:00 - 17:00 | Newport Performing Arts Center, 777 W Olive St, Newport, OR, 97365, United States
SEPTEMBER 26 and 27, 2026

Siren Song
Adam Flatt, Conductor
Women of the Willamette Master Chorus*
Claude Debussy: Nocturnes*
Robert Lowry: “How Can I Keep from Singing?” – Willamette Master Chorus*
Jessie Montgomery: Coincident Dances
Igor Stravinsky: Suite from “The Firebird” (1945)

Newport Symphony - Songs for the Homeland
2026-11-07 19:30 - 21:00, 2026-11-08 14:00 - 15:30 | Newport Performing Arts Center, 777 W Olive St, Newport, OR, 97365, United States
Adam Flatt, conductor
Rodolfo Leone, piano*
William Schuman: New England Triptych
Jean Sibelius: Finlandia
Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16*
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E-flat minor, Op. 82
November 7th, 2026 @ 7:30pm – Preconcert chat at 6:45pm
November 8th, 2026 @ 2:00pm

Newport Symphony - The Unanswered Question
2027-01-16 19:30 - 21:00, 2027-01-17 14:00 - 15:30 | Newport Performing Arts Center, 777 W Olive St, Newport, OR, 97365, United States
Adam Flatt, conductor
Giuseppe Verdi: Overture to “La Forza del Destino”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550
Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question
Franz Liszt: Les Preludes
January 16th, 2027 @ 7:30pm – Preconcert chat at 6:45pm
January 17th, 2027 @ 2:00pm

Newport Symphony - Harp of Ages
2027-03-20 19:30 - 21:00, 2027-03-21 14:00 - 15:30 | Newport Performing Arts Center, 777 W Olive St, Newport, OR, 97365, United States
Adam Flatt, Conductor
Courtney Hershey Bress, harp*
Walter Piston: The Incredible Flutist
Michael Daugherty: Harp of Ages*
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64
March 20th, 2027 @ 7:30pm – Preconcert chat at 6:45pm
March 21st, 2027 @ 2:00pm

Oregon East Symphony - Season Finale
2027-05-23 14:30 - 17:00 | Vert Auditorium, 480 SW Dorion Avenue, Pendleton, OR, 97801, United States
The season concludes with Strauss’s sweeping Alpine Symphony and special side-by-side performance of Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain with the OES Youth Orchestra-bringing students and professionals together on stage.
