Classics

Metro Series

Join us for intimate, chamber orchestra concerts that allow you to get up close and personal with the musicians of the Richmond Symphony. The Metro Series includes concerts on Friday evenings at the Baxter Perkinson Center for the Arts in Chester, Saturday evenings at St. Christopher’s School in Richmond, and Sunday afternoons at Blackwell Auditorium at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland.

Patrons can purchase a full subscription to the Metro series at Randolph-Macon College or mix and match these concerts as part of a Compose Your Own subscription. The concerts are general admission with single tickets also available.

Series Schedule

January 31, 2025 @ 7:30 pm Goodyear’s Serenade for Strings

The rhythmic precision Artist in Residence Stewart Goodyear brings a to his playing is also at the core of his compositions. His Serenade for Strings complements the Prelude for Strings […]

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February 1, 2025 @ 7:30 pm Goodyear’s Serenade for Strings

The rhythmic precision Artist in Residence Stewart Goodyear brings a to his playing is also at the core of his compositions. His Serenade for Strings complements the Prelude for Strings […]

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February 28, 2025 @ 7:30 pm Appalachian Spring

Two beloved favorites inspired by folk music – Vaughan Williams haunting Fantasia on Greensleeves and Aaron Copland’s tender Appalachian Spring – cradle and console the 1940 Clarinet Concerto by the 19-year-old Ruth Gipps, composed […]

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March 1, 2025 @ 7:30 pm Appalachian Spring

Two beloved favorites inspired by folk music – Vaughan Williams haunting Fantasia on Greensleeves and Aaron Copland’s tender Appalachian Spring – cradle and console the 1940 Clarinet Concerto by the 19-year-old Ruth Gipps, composed […]

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March 2, 2025 @ 3:00 pm Appalachian Spring

Two beloved favorites inspired by folk music – Vaughan Williams haunting Fantasia on Greensleeves and Aaron Copland’s tender Appalachian Spring – cradle and console the 1940 Clarinet Concerto by the 19-year-old Ruth Gipps, composed […]

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April 3, 2025 @ 7:30 pm Haydn’s Drum Roll

The Symphony existed before Franz Josef Haydn, but it was he who formed how we experience it.  He composed an astonishing 104 Symphonies, with the “Drum Roll” one of his […]

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April 5, 2025 @ 7:30 pm Haydn’s Drum Roll

The Symphony existed before Franz Josef Haydn, but it was he who formed how we experience it.  He composed an astonishing 104 Symphonies, with the “Drum Roll” one of his […]

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April 6, 2025 @ 3:00 pm Haydn’s Drum Roll

The Symphony existed before Franz Josef Haydn, but it was he who formed how we experience it.  He composed an astonishing 104 Symphonies, with the “Drum Roll” one of his […]

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