By FOSC is proud to announce our 2026-2027 Concert Season!
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Saturday, September 26th, 2026
2:00 PM
Wild & Tended
Mary Mackenzie, Soprano and Matthew Jaskot, Piano
The art song is a cultivated form that emerged in the early 19th century, as composers began to set poetry to music in a more deliberate and expressive way to convey the emotional and psychological depth of the text.
Art song was born as an intimate genre, written to be performed in people’s homes — music for a room, for a gathered circle of friends, for a voice close enough to hear every detail. It continues to be a vibrant and diverse genre, and this program lives in that tension — between the wild and the tended — tracing art song from its Romantic roots to music written in our own time.
Featuring an array of songs by Clara Schumann, Hugo Wolf, Arnold Schoenberg, Lili Boulanger, Francis Poulenc, and American composers Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, and John Frantzen.
Sunday, November 1, 2026
2:00 PM
On an Overgrown Path
Diana Fanning, Piano
Diana Fanning’s latest program program traces a journey from Classical form to Romantic and Impressionist color. The program opens with Beethoven’s Six Variations in F Major, Op. 34, a set that showcases his inventive treatment of a simple theme, followed by Janáček’s deeply personal On an Overgrown Path—a folk-inflected work crowded with memories dating back to his childhood in a small Czech village
The second half includes two Debussy preludes—the sensuous Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir and the puckish Minstrels, and concludes with Chopin’s passionate and virtuosic Sonata in B Minor, Op. 58.
Saturday, April 10, 2027
7:00 PM
Buster Keaton’s The General (1926)
Peter Krasinski, Organ
When his beloved locomotive is stolen by Union spies along with the woman he loves, Southern railroad engineer Johnnie Gray sets off on a one-man mission behind enemy lines to get them both back. Buster Keaton writes, directs, and stars in this silent-era masterpiece, performing his own death-defying stunts amid runaway trains, collapsing bridges, and explosive Civil War chaos.
Internationally-renowned organist Peter Krasinski returns to the Stone Church to perform his award-winning live, improvised accompaniment.
Saturday, May 8, 2027
2:00 PM
Voyages
David Krakauer, Clarinet and Kathleen Tagg, Piano
Krakauer & Tagg share a constant quest to redefine the sounds and roles of their instruments, bringing together all aspects of their music making– influences range from interlocking African drumming patterns to jazz to Romantic symphonic music to minimalism to klezmer.
Their acrobatic and highly virtuosic arrangements of tunes by a host of performer-composers from around the globe are placed alongside original compositions and complete reimaginings of traditional tunes and standards close to their hearts.
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ALL are welcome!
If you have a question about accessibility, you can contact the organizers at least 48 hours prior to the event by email to Events@FriendsoftheStoneChurch.org.
Holders of the Massachusetts Card to Culture, a program of the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency, are entitled to request one or two free tickets at the box office.
Youth under 18 are admitted free to all concerts presented by Friends of the Stone Church.
Reservations are not required to use these programs.
If you are planning to obtain a free ticket and wish to make a reservation, you may contact us by email to Events@FriendsoftheStoneChurch at least 48 hours prior to the start of the concert. Thank you.
Community Concerts – Free to the public!
Holiday Concerts
Weir River Jazz Band
Sunday, December 13, 2026 – 2:00 PM
Weir River Concert Band
Sunday, December 20, 2026 – 2:00 PM
Concerts on the Lawn
Weir River Jazz Band
Sunday, June 6, 2027 – 2:00 PM
Weir River Concert Band
Sunday, June 13, 2027 – 2:00 PM
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