The 2026 Lexington Arts Council Calendar
The park project is in progress and on schedule, with plans to be completed before the Music in the Park season starts! Questions about the project can be directed to the Village of Lexington at (810) 359-8631.
September 15-20, 2026 – Various times and locations
Featuring performances by the Croswell-Lexington High School Symphonic Band, Bach Festival String Quartet, Les Delices, Gabriel Martins, and Konrad Kowal.
Reception, Art Exhibit, and performance by the Croswell-Lexington High School Symphonic Band. Kevin R. Czarnik, Conductor.
Program to be selected from the following:
J.S. Bach: Praeludium in B-flat (arr. Robert Blim)
English Masters Suite (arr. Philip Gordon)
Two Epiphany Chorales (harm. J.S. Bach, arr. Gene Milford)
Tyler S. Grant: Simple Suite for Band
Jorge Vargas: I Still Think About You
E. Benton Lilliefors: Blackberry Winter
Commissioned by the Lexington Arts Council and the Oldford Foundation
J.S. Bach: Sheep May Safely Graze (arr. Lloyd Conley)
W. A. Mozart: Die Schlittenfahrt (arr. Patrick Dunnigan)
Selections from the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach (arr. Kevin Czarnik)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Concerto No. 2 in E major (arr. Nina Kopparhed)
Selections from “Last Leaf” by Danish String Quartet:
Stædelil
Unst Boat Song (Shetlandic Traditional)
Menuet No. 60 (Danish Traditional)
R. Sørensen: Shine You No More
Alexander Borodin: String Quartet No. 2 in D major
Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Concerto No. 2 in E major (arr. Nina Kopparhed)
Selections from “Last Leaf” by Danish String Quartet:
Stædelil
Unst Boat Song (Shetlandic Traditional)
Menuet No. 60 (Danish Traditional)
R. Sørensen: Shine You No More
Alexander Borodin: String Quartet No. 2 in D major
Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Concerto No. 2 in E major (arr. Nina Kopparhed)
Selections from “Last Leaf” by Danish String Quartet:
Stædelil
Unst Boat Song (Shetlandic Traditional)
Menuet No. 60 (Danish Traditional)
R. Sørensen: Shine You No More
Alexander Borodin: String Quartet No. 2 in D major
Debra Nagy, Director
François Couperin: L’Impériale from Les Nations
Johann Sebastian Bach: E minor sonata for violin and continuo BWV 1023
François Couperin: Les Sylvains (arr. Robert de Visée)
C.P.E. Bach: Oboe sonata in G minor
Antoine Forqueray : La Couperin
François Couperin: Chaconne from L’Impériale
Johann Sebastian Bach: Fuga canonica in epidiapente from The Musical Offering
Georg Philipp Telemann: Sabbato from Scherzi Melodici
Photo credit Steven Mastroianni
6:15pm • Pre-concert talk with John Thomas Dodson
Johann Christian Bach: Symphony No.4 in D major, Op.18
Claude Debussy: Sarabande
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op.33 (Gabriel Martins, Cello)
-intermission-
Gabriel Fauré: Masques et bergamasques, Op. 112
Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 (Classical)
Photo credit Martin Allison
3:45pm • Pre-concert talk with John Thomas Dodson
Georg Friedrich Handel: Overture to Acis and Galatea, HWV 49/K. 566 (Orchestrated by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Ricercar a 6 from The Musical Offering, BWV 1079 (Prussian Fugue) (Orchestrated by John Thomas Dodson)
Antonín Dvořák: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in F minor, Op. 11 (Konrad Kowal, Violin)
-intermission-
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 38 in D Major, K. 504 (Prague)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Vor deinen Thron trett’ ich hiermit, BWV 668 (Orchestrated by John Thomas Dodson)
Eat, Drink, and be Merry with the Arts Council as we celebrate the arts, and a year of change and accomplishment in the Blue Water Area! Performance by Dave Bennett!
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