2026 Great Music Provincetown series &
2026-27 Concert Season
Saturday, July 11, 2026 at 6 pm
Fanny and Felix
The Garrison Quartet (https://www.garrisonstringquartet.com) will present this concert telling the incredible story of the Mendelssohn brother and sister duo, their relationship, and how her death impacted his last major work.
The program:
Fanny Mendelssohn String Quartet
“Cracks in the Sky” by Boston-based composer Devin Cholodenko
Felix Mendelssohn String Quartet in F minor, Op. 80
Musicians include clockwise from upper left: Bryce Martin, violin; Matthew Vera, violin; Sachin Shukla, viola; and Tyler Michael James.
A part of the Great Music Provincetown series
Location: Unitarian Universalist Meeting House, 236 Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA
Tickets: $30 at the door, ages 17 and under free
Saturday, July 25, 2025 at 6 pm
Songs of Travel
Featuring one of the great English song cycles—alongside a new Whitman setting for our time.
Baritone Peter Kendall Clark (the Brownstone Baritone) and pianist Craig W. Combs present Songs of Travel by Ralph Vaughan Williams, one of the great English-language song cycles. Tracing the path of a solitary traveler, the work moves from youthful confidence into deeper reflection, where love, memory, and the passage of time quietly reshape the inner life. What begins in motion and certainty gradually turns inward, arriving at a final sense of what endures—and what is left behind for posterity.
A part of the Great Music Provincetown series
Location: Unitarian Universalist Meeting House, 236 Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA
Tickets: $30 at the door, ages 17 and under free
Saturday, August 22 at 6pm
Where Light Meets Shadow
In the intimate setting of Provincetown, Where Light Meets Shadow takes on a special dimension. The changing light of the Outer Cape, so immediate and so alive, finds its echo here in sound. Each work reveals a different facet of radiance and reflection. We invite you to listen closely to the spaces between, the colors within, and the quiet ways music illuminates what words cannot. From the luminous clarity of Haydn to the refined color of Saint-Saëns and the rich, glowing textures of Glière. Musicians include (counterclockwise from upper left): Matthew Vera, violin; Sachin Shukla, viola, Jeffrey Thurston, violin; Tyler Michael James, cello; and Craig W. Combs, piano
A part of the Great Music Provincetown series
Location: Unitarian Universalist Meeting House, 236 Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA
Tickets: $30 at the door, ages 17 and under free
Sunday, November 8 at 3pm
Quiet Brilliance
Enjoy the quiet emotional depth and the expressive power of restraint across Mozart, Pärt, Higdon, and Bonis.
Tracing an arch from the radiant clarity of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Quartet in E-flat Major and Flute Quartet in D Major to the muted colors of Mel Bonis’s Suite Orientale, this program explores music of intimacy, refinement, and quiet emotional depth. Between these worlds lies the mystical stillness of a haunting meditation on Mozart in Arvo Pärt’s Mozart-Adagio as well as the atmospheric lyricism of Jennifer Higdon’s Nocturne for Cello and Piano. These works are less about grand gesture than clarity, color, and the expressive power of restraint. Musicians include (clockwise from upper left): Peter Arfsten, flute; Paola Caballero, violin; Sam Kelder, viola; Craig W. Combs, piano; and Tyler Michael James, cello
Location: Provincetown United Methodist Church, 20 Shankpainter Road, Provincetown, MA
Tickets: $25 suggested donation, ages 17 and under free
Sunday, March 21 at 3pm
Where Melody Speaks
Three Classical works trace the elegance of melody as a living language, gradually transformed into something more personal, lyrical, and Romantic.
Composers of music between 1750 - 1825 were interested in melody and were evolving the possibilities. We share three works that reveal Classical melody at different moments in its evolution: youthful, assured, and transformed. Maddalena Laura Sirmen’s Sonata for String Trio, published in 1770, belongs to a world of elegance, clarity, and graceful conversation, while Mozart’s String Quartet in E-flat major, K. 428, written in 1783, shows the Classical language at its most refined and intellectually alive. By the time Schubert composed the Arpeggione Sonata in 1824, that same language had become more inward, lyrical, and emotionally exposed. Together, these works offer a portrait of the Classical period not as a fixed style, but as a living tradition — one that moved from poise and balance toward a more personal and imaginative even romantic perspective. Musicians include (clockwise from upper left) Tyler Michael James, cello; Carson Howell, violin; Sachin Shukla, viola; Matthew Vera, violin; and Craig W. Combs, piano.
Location: Provincetown United Methodist Church, 20 Shankpainter Road, Provincetown, MA
Tickets: $25 suggested donation, ages 17 and under free
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