The Syracuse Orchestra

An Unforgettable Evening with The Syracuse Orchestra! Get ready to kick off The Syracuse Orchestra’s 2026-27 season in style at the stunning Carol Watson Greenhouse! Join us for an enchanting evening of music, community, and friendly competition—all while supporting your Syracuse Orchestra. Here’s what’s in store:

America’s Got Talent finalist Jimmie Herrod is featured in an American Songbook program curated by Sean O’Loughlin. Explore restaurants and recreational sites in and around Syracuse. Click here to find out more!

The Syracuse Orchestra Wind section is featured in this concert. Written just seven years apart from each other, the two works on this program reflect a time period when these composers focused on clarity and balance, while continuing to incorporate national character into their work. Charles Gounod’s Petite Symphonie brings French elegance and refinement to the wind ensemble. Similarly, Antonin Dvorak’s Serenade in D Minor embraces serenade traditions while infusing them wi

This program contains musical influences from early 20th-century Paris. Darius Milhaud’s Le boeuf sur le toit captures the playful, jazz-inflected energy of the French avant-garde, while Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major pairs jazz influenced elegance and rhythmic sparkle. Though Russian by birth, Igor Stravinsky helped make Paris the center of musical modernism in the early 20th century, and the 1919 suite from The Firebird closes the program with shimmering color a

Get ready for a fun (and slightly spooky) adventure in music! Come in costume and march in our costume parade! Performances of this concert are on Saturday, October 24 at 10:30 AM and 12:00 PM.

From John Williams to Danny Elfman to the Monster Mash, this candlelit concert has no shortage of recognizable Halloween tunes. Principal cellist Heidi Hoffman is featured in Diane Jones’ Soul Dance . Click here to learn about the Insiders’ Experience reception before the concert!

Our friends at the Syracuse University Oratorio Society join us to ring in the 200th Anniversary of St. Paul’s Syracuse! Gustav Holst’s St. Paul’s Suite , written for the students of St Paul’s Girls’ School in London where he served as music director, reflects the accessibility, craftsmanship, and folk-inspired vitality that shaped Anglican church and school music. That heritage resonates in John Rutter’s Magnificat , a radiant setting of Mary’s song from the Gospel of Luke, a

John Adams’s The Chairman Dances emerges from his opera Nixon in China , conceived as an “outtake” from the stage in which Madame Mao imagines a glittering, surreal dance. From that dramatic spark, the program turns inward with the luminous warmth of Jake Heggie’s Good Morning Beauty , whose lyrical immediacy speaks in a deeply personal voice. After intermission, Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings offers profound stillness and shared humanity, unfolding in lo