Montgomery Philharmonic: Journal of a Season's Journey

Welcome

Welcome to the Montgomery Philharmonic's blog. In this blog, we'll be bringing the journey of a community orchestra to life with behind-the-scenes tales of how we organize, prepare for, and perform concerts, as well as other outreach activities in our...

Designing the season’s programs

How does a concert season come together? A "season" for performing arts organizations is a lot like a school year -- it starts September-ish and ends June-ish. Our season planning typically starts in the spring, when our music director proposes a season theme (which...

Preparing our sixteenth season

Like most performing arts organizations, the Montgomery Philharmonic had to cut short its 2019-2020 season, which ended with our February 2020 concert. While we did run our educational outreach program -- the Youth Leadership and Chamber Music Festival -- in summer...