South Shore Conservatory's Duxbury Music Festival Presents Fall Preview Concert

South Shore Conservatory presents a special Duxbury Music Festival (DMF) fall preview concert on Sunday, October 25 at 4:30 pm. Leaves of Music to Color a Fall Afternoon, held at the Ellison Center for the Arts, 64 St. George Street in Duxbury. A wine and cheese reception follows the performance.

Audience members will experience magnificent chamber music in a small and intimate setting, which is the hallmark of DMF’s popularity. Leaves of Music to Color a Fall Afternoon features woodwind chamber music and songs of Michel Legrand. While away an autumn afternoon with Duxbury Music Festival and South Shore Conservatory faculties as they explore the pathos of mythical Greece, the charm and effervescence of woodwind chamber music written by a member of Les Six, a jazz-influenced piano trio of New Zealander Christopher Norton, and a wonderfully eclectic selection of songs of Michel Legrand and Alan and Marilyn Bergman.

Tickets for Leaves of Music to Color a Fall Afternoon are $50 per person. For more information and to purchase tickets call 781-749-7565 ext. 19 or visit www.duxburymusicfestival.org.

About Duxbury Music Festival

Duxbury Music Festival (DMF), entering its 11th season, is a celebrated program for solo and chamber instrumental performance unique to all of New England. Founded with the knowledge that music enriches the human spirit and upon the belief that this enrichment endures, DMF is an intensive program of chamber music, bringing world-renowned pedagogues and performers and aspiring young artists together in one of New England’s most beautiful bayside villages, thirty-five miles south of Boston and twenty miles north of Cape Cod. For nearly three weeks each summer, Duxbury is abuzz with chamber music whether it be coachings and student recitals or festival competitions and faculty concerts. For a little more than fortnight chamber music abounds, perfectly complementing this picturesque historic town’s cultural diversity. Both Festival faculty and students perform in concerts in public and private venues, from the Duxbury Town Green and The Ellison Center for the Arts to beautiful seaside homes and venues. DMF has tremendous community support, involving over 200 volunteers and over 2500 patrons each season. DMF headquarters are located at South Shore Conservatory’s Duxbury campus at the Ellison Center for the Arts, 64 St. George Street, Duxbury, 781-934-2731. For more information, follow Duxbury Music Festival on Facebook or visit www.duxburymusicfestival.org

About South Shore Conservatory

South Shore Conservatory, recently recognized as a national model for arts education by the National Guild for Community Arts Education, is celebrating nearly 45 years of enriching the lives of South Shore residents through music and the arts. SSC was founded as a not-for-profit community music school in 1970 and now has two beautiful campuses in Hingham and Duxbury. Currently serving over 3500 students of all ages and abilities, SSC is the largest community school for the arts in Massachusetts. Students participate in more than 50 diverse programs in music, dance and drama. Through innovative partnerships with social service agencies, SSC’s Creative Arts Therapies department supports the mental, emotional, and physical health of some of our community’s more fragile members. SSC’s Hingham campus is located at One Conservatory Drive, Hingham, 781-749-7565. SSC’s Duxbury campus is located at the Ellison Center for the Arts, 64 St. George Street, Duxbury, 781-934-2731. South Shore Conservatory is a member of the National Guild for Community Arts Education. SSC programs are supported in part by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. For more information call us, follow us on Facebook or visit www.sscmusic.org.

In keeping with SSC’s inclusive mission to provide access to quality education in the arts for all, the Conservatory offers programs for all segments of the population to enjoy, regardless of age, ability, geography, and financial means. Furthermore, South Shore Conservatory admits students and families of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school.