On Sunday, May 31, 2026, at 3:00 PM, the Lincoln-Sudbury Civic Orchestra (LSCO) concludes its 53rd season of five concerts with the spring program “An American Musical Experience” at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School.

Featured soloists for the program are graduating seniors at LSRHS:cellist Andrew Xia and flutist Maria Huang take the solo position for performances of Cello Concerto in D Minor by Eduardo Lalo, and the Poem for Flute and Orchestra by Charles Griffes.

Celebrating the 250^th anniversary year of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Maestro Alfonso Piacentini conducts the program also featuring works by American composers Leonard Bernstein, Ferde Grofe, John Williams, Edward MacDowell, Scott Joplin, and a new work by Sudbury resident and LSCO Managing Director William J. Nicholson, Jr.

The orchestra will perform “West Side Story Selections” by Leonard Bernstein, a tribute to composer John Willians including excerpts from Jaws, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Superman, Harry Potter, and ET. Edward MacDowells “Hamlet and Ophelia” and the last movement of Ferde Grofe’s Grand Canyon Suite “Cloudburst” are featured.

Two works by Sudbury resident William J. Nicholson, Jr appear on the program:Nicholson’s arrangement of Scott Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag”, and his “American Heritage Suite”, celebrating great American songs “Wayfarin’ Stranger”, “John Henry”, “Comin’ Round The Mountain”, Shenandoah”, and “American the Beautiful”.

Soloist Andrew Xia has been a cellist since the age of nine, and studies with Ying-jun Wei. He is principal cello of the LSRHS school orchestra and plays in the Rivers Youth Symphony and New England Conservatory Youth Philharmonic Orchestra. He will attend Case Western Reserve University, where he plans to study biochemistry, continue his cello study at the Cleveland Institute of Music play in the Case University Circle Orchestra.

Soloist Maria Huang has been playing flute for ten years, studying currently with Ann Bobo and plays in the LSRHS concert Massachusetts Youth Wind Ensembles at the New England Conservatory. She played in the Massachusetts Eastern District Music Festival honor ensembles throughout high school. She recently premiered a piece by NEC composer Matthew Tirona at the Seminar on Contemporary Music for the Young at the Rivers School Conservatory. She will be attending the University of California Los Angeles.

Admission to the concert is a suggested donation of $25 per adult. Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School is located at 390 Lincoln Rd in Sudbury. The concert will also be livestreamed on Sudbury TV. Go to sudburytv.org, Scroll down on the Main page to the Live Stream section and click on Watch Now for the Educational Channel.

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