Plainfield Symphony Orchestra 107th Season Announced

Contact: Mark Miller (908-561-5140)

Website: www.plainfieldsymphony.org

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The Plainfield Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of its acclaimed music director Charles Prince, announces its 107^th season filled with a rich mixture of periods, styles and composers. Maestro Prince is entering his 18^th season as Music Director.

The season opening concert, on November 21, 2026, at 7 PM, is entitled “Celebrating America’s Songbook.” We welcome back audience favorite, Brian Cheney as soloist. Works will feature the music of Irving Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hammerstein/Hart.

Our Annual Free Family Concert will be held on January 16, 2027, at 3 PM with the exact program under development.

“Clarinet Dreams” will be presented on March 20, 2027, at 7 PM and will feature Kevin Dayton, PSO Principal Clarinetist, in Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A major K.622. This diverse chamber orchestra program will also include the Sinfonietta No.1 for Strings by American composer Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson and Josef Haydn’s Symphony No. 103 in Eb major (The Drumroll).

On April 17, 2027, at 7 PM, “Spotlight on the Orchestra” will include Carl Maria von Weber’s Overture to the opera Euryanthe, Op. 81 and the tone poem Don Juan in E major, Op. 20 by Richard Strauss. The dramatic Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70 by Antonin Dvořák will conclude this concert.

“Fiesta Latina” will be the concluding concert of the 107^th season on May 15, 2027, at 7 PM. You will be treated to works by both familiar and perhaps unfamiliar Latin composers: Sensemayá by Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas followed by Spanish composer Manuel de Falla’s impressionist suite, Nights in the Gardens of Spain, G. 49 (Noches en los Jardines de España) with piano soloist Enriqueta Somarriba. The symphonic poem, The River of the Seven Stars (El Rio de las Siete Estrellas) by Venezuelan composer Evencio Castellanos and Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera’s Estancia Suite, Op. 8a will also be presented.

Join us for this upcoming season to experience a diverse set of programs across centuries, continents and styles, from the familiar to the newly heard.