New Bedford Symphony Orchestra
Mission | Vision | Values
About the NBSO
Founded in 1915, the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra (NBSO) has grown into a nationally recognized, community-embedded organization that delivers transformative musical experiences across the South Coast. As a professional orchestra committed to excellence in everything it does, the NBSO performs masterworks, pops, and chamber concerts, provides music education in over 60 schools, and collaborates with over 40 cultural and civic partners to bring music into neighborhoods, libraries, parks, and community centers.
Mission
The New Bedford Symphony Orchestra builds community through music.
Vision
The NBSO elevates the artistic vibrancy and cultural vitality of New Bedford and the South Coast region through the guiding framework of the NBSO Pathways model, which encompasses our symphony orchestra and a wide range of interconnected music, education, and community programs that seek to meaningfully engage all members of the community.
Values
E – EXCELLENCE
We are committed to excellence in everything we do on and off the stage, including our work in schools and the community and as stewards of our resources.
P – PASSION
We are passionate about music and sharing music with all members of our community.
I – INTEGRITY
We treat everyone with honesty, fairness, and respect.
INNOVATION
We approach opportunities and challenges with a spirit of curiosity, openness to change, and continuous learning.
INCLUSIVENESS
We welcome and seek to engage with everyone in our community. We celebrate the diversity of thought, experience, and background that is the fabric of the South Coast region.
C – COLLABORATION
We embrace, celebrate, and prioritize collaboration, and we are a good partner.
Your donations make possible our innovative educational programs.
Our educational programs serve over 25,000 children a year, and we are recognized nationally for our innovative approach and high impact. We all know of the documented benefits of children learning music, and we firmly believe that by introducing classical music to a new generation of students through our programs, we are helping them to make critical connections between music and their everyday lives, making their NBSO experience enriching on multiple levels.
SING TO ME
October 12 &13, 2024, 3 PM
Special Additional Performance: Friday, October 11, 7 PM, New Bedford Whaling Museum
On October 11, join us in the Harbor View Gallery and stay for an after-concert reception to mingle with guests and musicians while enjoying hors D'oeuvres and spirits.
A dazzling vocal journey
Featuring Philip Lima, baritone
Many thanks to Patty Plum Wylde, whose generous Gift of Music has made this concert possible. She dedicates her gift to all teachers of music for their devotion to the art of making music eternal.
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Selections from Songs of Travel (arr. John Greer)
The Vagabond
Youth and Love
Whither Must I Wander?
Bright is the Ring of Words
I have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope
Samuel Barber: Dover Beach, Op. 3
Charles Ives: Songs
The Children's Hour
Tom Sails Away
The Circus Band
Three Spirituals
Wade in the Water (arr. Anthony Green)
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (arr. H. T. Burleigh/Green)
Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho (arr. Cynthia Jackson/Green)
Joly Braga Santos: Piano Quartet in D Major, Op. 26
Joaquín Turina: The Toreador's Prayer, Op. 34
Jesse Holstein, violin
EmmaLee Holmes-Hicks, violin
Anna Griffis, viola
Leo Eguchi, cello
Janice Weber, piano
Lustrous baritone Philip Lima joins NBSO core musicians in an eclectic potpourri ranging from Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel and Samuel Barber’s Dover Beach to the earthy songs of Charles Ives and three spirituals. A piano quartet by Portuguese master Joly Braga Santos and The Toreador’s Prayer by Joaquín Turina offer interludes of instrumental poetry and brilliance.
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Feel the pull of fate, the thrill of the unexpected, and the sheer force of sound wash through you. What begins as suspense will give way to a feeling of being fully alive.
Yaniv Dinur, conductor
Sydney Lee, cello
Silvestre Revueltas: Sensemayá
Antonín Dvořák: Cello Concerto
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4
Marking his 10th season with the NBSO, Yaniv returns to his audition piece that got him the job—Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4. Opening with the “fate” motif, the eternal ballet composer’s most original symphony consists of numerous surprises, like an entire movement of just string plucking, cymbals and bass drum only in the last movement (making so much noise) and an unhinged piccolo solo, to name just a few. Sydney Lee returns to the NBSO to perform Dvořák’s Cello Concerto, the Mount Everest of the cello repertoire. We open our season with Revueltas’ stirring Sensemayá, or as Yaniv likes to call it: “the Latin version of The Rite of Spring in seven minutes.”
Come Early for the Full Experience!
Make the most of your evening by arriving early to check out the pre-concert activities and settle into the rhythm of the night.
- 6:00 to 7:25 PM: Drop in to The Speakeasy Experience! Free pre-registration required. The Speakeasy in the lower level of the Zeiterion has quickly become the place to be! Get your ticket to Fatal Beauty, then register to attend this special pre-concert experience. (You must have a ticket to Fatal Beauty to attend this experience.)
Come on down for a beverage at the cash bar and entertainment by the Buttonwood Brass jazz quartet. It’s a cool, relaxed setting with tables and chairs where you can mingle with friends before the NBSO concert. - 6:30 to 6:55 PM in the auditorium: Join Yaniv Dinur and guest artist Sydney Lee for the always-popular pre-concert chat—a lively and insightful preview that deepens your connection and enhances your listening experience.
- 7:00 to 7:15 PM in the Dr. Gail Davidson Movement Studio: Sangha Yoga will lead a gentle 15-minute chair yoga session as a calming reset to help you slow down, ground yourself, and open your senses before the music begins.
- 6:30 to 7:30 PM: Enjoy a cocktail in the main lobby bar and mingle with friends! The bar will be open for intermission as well.