Maple City Community Orchestra
Enriching lives through musicConcert Dates for the 2024-2025 Season
Tori Petrak and the Maple City Community Orchestra invite you to our 2024-2025 concert series!
The Maple City Community Orchestra is a growing community of volunteer musicians. We share our love of music with the broader community by performing quality concerts free of charge. We are also dedicated to furthering the artistic growth of our members.
This season’s concerts will be held on the following dates:
- Sunday, October 13 at 4:00 pm
- Sunday, November 10 at 4:00 pm
- Friday, December 20 at 7:30 pm
- Saturday, March 1 at 07:30 pm
- Friday, May 2 at 6:30 pm
Music from France and Brazil
The Maple City Community Orchestra, Goshen Community Chorale, and The Open Fifths jointly invite you to our next concert, “Music from France and Brazil”, featuring works by French composer Gabriel Fauré and Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos.
This concert is free and open to the public.
Earlier This Season…
Musical Landscapes
Please join the Maple City Community Orchestra for the first concert in our 25th season, “Musical Landscapes”.
Our journey evokes images from lands near and far, including works by Borodin, Strauss, Frost, Jinosko, and Rose.
A special feature of this concert is the “St. Joseph River Suite” by local composers Marvin Curtis and Bryan Edington, which explores the people, places, and history of the river.
From the Musicians
A Lifetime of Music, Continued
When he was a child, Dave Cunningham remembers admiring the instruments displayed on the pegboard band room wall, alongside his father, Gordon Cunningham. He remembers entering the fifth grade in Colby, Kansas where he grew up, and playing his first rental trombone. “I have known since at least the age of 3 that I was going to play a trombone all of my life,” he said.
Enriching the Community through Music
For many people in the Goshen area, Maple City Community Orchestra offers a valuable connection to the arts. This connection begins with the members of the orchestra themselves, extends to their families and friends, and includes any others who may attend the concerts at Sauder Hall on Goshen College’s campus.
The Maple City Community Orchestra is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for persons with special needs, including both persons who desire to play with the orchestra and those who wish to attend performances. Persons needing such accommodation should contact us.
NOTE: The MCCO’s rehearsal and performance venues are all accessible to persons with physical limitations.
These concerts are made possible by the Indiana Arts Commission, the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
