Tucson Classical Music Performances 2024

Here’s a comprehensive list of live classical music performances in Tucson for the year 2024 where the program of composers and works has been published. I will keep this Excel document regularly updated. Please post a comment if anything should be added or changed.

I’ve included a column called “Dave’s Faves” which notes the works I am already familiar with and that I highly recommend. This is subjective, of course, but I hope this will help some of you in deciding which concerts to attend.

Happy Listening!

Link below is an Excel file (.xlsx).
Last Updated: March 18, 2024

Tucson Classical Music Performances 2024

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Music for Listeners

Music for Listeners is a series of short courses for high school students and adults presenting the works of composers from a listening enjoyment rather than a music theory perspective. Each course presents the life and music of a composer chronologically and is taught by lifelong classical music enthusiast David Oesper.


Classical Music Exploration Club

If you live in the Tucson metro area and would like to get together each month to listen to and discuss recordings of favorite classical music pieces we love and would like to introduce to others, I hope you will consider joining:

Tucson Exploring Classical Music


Sources
Tucson Symphony Orchestra
Arizona Friends of Chamber Music
University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music
Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra
Civic Orchestra of Tucson
Tucson Repertory Orchestra
Saint Andrew’s Bach Society
Arizona Early Music
True Concord, Voices & Orchestra
Arizona Opera
Helios Ensemble
Tucson Masterworks Chorale

Meteor Shower Calendar 2023

Here’s our meteor shower calendar for 2023.  It is sourced from the IMO’s Working List of Visual Meteor Showers (https://www.imo.net/files/meteor-shower/cal2023.pdf, Table 5, p. 25).

Each meteor shower is identified using its three-character IAU meteor shower code.  Codes are bold on the date of maximum, and one day either side of maximum.

Some additional events have been added to the calendar from Sources of Possible or Additional Activity, Table 6a, p. 27). I used the following abbreviations for the Table 6a events that do not have a standard three-character meteor code:

BA* = 2016 BA14
46P = 46P/Wirtanen

Here’s a printable PDF file of the meteor shower calendar shown below:

Happy meteor watching!

January 2023
SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
1
QUA COM
2
QUA COM
3
QUA COM
4
QUA COM
5
QUA COM
6
QUA COM
7
QUA COM
8
QUA COM
9
QUA COM KCA
10
QUA COM GUM KCA
11
QUA COM GUM KCA
12
QUA COM GUM
13
COM GUM
14
COM GUM
15
COM GUM
16
COM GUM
17
COM GUM
18
COM GUM
19
COM GUM
20
COM GUM
21
COM GUM
22
COM GUM
23
COM
24
COM
25
COM
26
COM
27
COM
28
COM
29
COM
30
COM
31
COM ACE
       
February 2023
SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
      1
COM ACE
2
COM ACE
3
COM ACE
4
COM ACE
5
ACE
6
ACE
7
ACE
8
ACE
9
ACE
10
ACE
11
ACE
12
ACE
13
ACE
14
ACE
15
ACE
16
ACE
17
ACE
18
ACE
19
ACE
20
ACE
21 22 23 24 25
GNO
26
GNO
27
GNO
28
GNO
       
March 2023
SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
      1
GNO
2
GNO
3
GNO
4
GNO
5
GNO
6
GNO
7
GNO
8
GNO
9
GNO
10
GNO
11
GNO
12
GNO
13
GNO
14
GNO
15
GNO
16
GNO
17
GNO
18
GNO
19
GNO
20
BA* GNO
21
BA* GNO
22
BA* GNO
23
GNO
24
GNO
25
GNO
26
GNO
27
GNO
28
GNO
29 30 31  
April 2023
SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
            1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14
LYR
15
PPU LYR
16
PPU LYR
17
PPU LYR
18
PPU LYR
19
ETA PPU LYR
20
ETA PPU LYR
21
ETA PPU LYR
22
ETA PPU LYR
23
ETA PPU LYR
24
ETA PPU LYR
25
ETA PPU LYR
26
ETA PPU LYR
27
ETA PPU LYR
28
ETA PPU LYR
29
ETA LYR
30
ETA LYR
           
May 2023
SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
  1
ETA
2
ETA
3
ELY ETA
4
ELY ETA
5
ELY ETA
6
ELY ETA
7
ELY ETA
8
ELY ETA
9
ELY ETA
10
ELY ETA
11
ELY ETA
12
ELY ETA
13
ELY ETA
14
ARI ELY ETA
15
ARI ETA
16
ARI ETA
17
ARI ETA
18
ARI ETA
19
ARI ETA
20
ARI ETA
21
ARI ETA
22
ARI ETA
23
ARI ETA
24
ARI ETA
25
ARI ETA
26
ARI ETA
27
ARI ETA
28
ARI CAM ETA
29
ARI CAM
30
ARI CAM
31
ARI
     
June 2023
SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
        1
ARI
2
ARI
3
ARI
4
ARI
5
ARI
6
ARI
7
ARI
8
ARI
9
ARI
10
ARI
11
ARI
12
ARI
13
ARI
14
ARI
15
ARI
16
ARI
17
ARI
18
ARI
19
ARI
20
ARI
21
ARI
22
JBO ARI
23
JBO ARI
24
JBO ARI
25
JBO
26
JBO
27
JBO
28
JBO
29
JBO
30
JBO
 
July 2023
SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
            1
JBO
2
JBO
3
CAP
4
CAP JPE
5
CAP JPE
6
CAP JPE
7
CAP JPE
8
CAP JPE
9
CAP JPE
10
CAP JPE
11
CAP JPE
12
CAP SDA JPE
13
CAP SDA JPE
14
CAP SDA JPE
15
CAP SDA PAU
16
CAP SDA PAU
17
PER CAP SDA PAU
18
PER CAP SDA PAU
19
PER CAP SDA PAU
20
PER CAP SDA PAU
21
PER CAP SDA PAU
22
PER CAP SDA PAU
23
PER CAP SDA PAU
24
PER CAP SDA PAU
25
PER CAP SDA GDR PAU
26
PER CAP SDA GDR PAU
27
PER CAP SDA GDR PAU
28
PER CAP SDA GDR PAU
29
PER CAP SDA GDR
30
PER CAP SDA GDR PAU
31
PER ERI CAP SDA GDR PAU
         
August 2023
SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
    1
PER ERI CAP SDA PAU
2
PER ERI CAP SDA PAU
3
KCG PER ERI CAP SDA PAU
4
KCG PER ERI CAP SDA PAU
5
KCG PER ERI CAP SDA PAU
6
KCG PER ERI CAP SDA PAU
7
KCG PER ERI CAP SDA PAU
8
KCG PER ERI CAP SDA PAU
9
KCG PER ERI CAP SDA PAU
10
KCG PER ERI CAP SDA PAU
11
KCG PER ERI CAP SDA
12
KCG PER ERI CAP SDA
13
KCG PER ERI CAP SDA
14
KCG PER ERI CAP SDA
15
KCG PER ERI CAP SDA
16
KCG PER ERI SDA
17
KCG PER ERI SDA
18
KCG PER ERI SDA
19
KCG PER ERI SDA
20
KCG PER SDA
21
KCG PER SDA
22
KCG PER SDA
23
KCG PER SDA
24
KCG PER
25
KCG
26
KCG
27
KCG
28
AUR KCG
29
AUR
30
AUR
31
AUR
   
September 2023
SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
          1
AUR
2
AUR
3
AUR
4
AUR
5
SPE AUR
6
SPE
7
SPE
8
SPE
9
DSX SPE
10
DSX SPE
11
DSX SPE
12
DSX SPE
13
DSX SPE
14
DSX SPE
15
DSX SPE
16
DSX SPE
17
DSX SPE
18
DSX SPE
19
DSX SPE
20
STA DSX SPE
21
STA DSX SPE
22
STA DSX
23
STA DSX
24
STA DSX
25
STA DSX
26
STA DSX
27
STA DSX
28
STA DSX
29
STA DSX
30
STA DSX
October 2023
SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
1
STA DSX
2
STA ORI DSX
3
STA ORI DSX
4
STA ORI DSX
5
STA ORI OCT DSX
6
STA ORI DRA OCT DSX
7
STA ORI DRA OCT DSX
8
STA ORI DRA DSX
9
STA ORI DRA DSX
10
STA ORI DAU DRA
11
STA ORI DAU
12
STA ORI DAU
13
STA ORI DAU
14
STA ORI EGE DAU
15
STA ORI EGE DAU
16
STA ORI EGE DAU
17
STA ORI EGE DAU
18
STA ORI EGE DAU
19
STA LMI ORI EGE
20
NTA STA LMI ORI EGE
21
NTA STA LMI ORI EGE
22
NTA STA LMI ORI EGE
23
NTA STA LMI ORI EGE
24
NTA STA LMI ORI EGE
25
NTA STA LMI ORI EGE
26
NTA STA LMI ORI EGE
27
NTA STA LMI ORI EGE
28
NTA STA ORI
29
NTA STA ORI
30
NTA STA ORI
31
NTA STA ORI
       
November 2023
SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
      1
NTA STA ORI
2
NTA STA ORI
3
NTA STA ORI
4
NTA STA ORI
5
NTA STA ORI
6
LEO NTA STA ORI
7
LEO NTA STA ORI
8
LEO NTA STA
9
LEO NTA STA
10
LEO NTA STA
11
LEO NTA STA
12
LEO NTA STA
13
NOO LEO NTA STA
14
NOO LEO NTA STA
15
NOO AMO LEO NTA STA
16
NOO AMO LEO NTA STA
17
NOO AMO LEO NTA STA
18
NOO AMO LEO NTA STA
19
NOO AMO LEO NTA STA
20
NOO AMO LEO NTA STA
21
NOO AMO LEO NTA
22
NOO AMO LEO NTA
23
NOO AMO LEO NTA
24
NOO AMO LEO NTA
25
NOO AMO LEO NTA
26
NOO LEO NTA
27
NOO LEO NTA
28
PHO NOO LEO NTA
29
PHO NOO LEO NTA
30
PHO NOO LEO NTA
   
December 2023
SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
          1
PUP AND PHO NOO NTA
2
PUP AND PHO NOO NTA
3
HYD PUP AND PHO NOO NTA
4
GEM HYD PUP PHO NOO NTA
5
COM GEM HYD MON PUP PHO NOO NTA
6
COM GEM HYD MON PUP PHO NOO NTA
7
COM GEM HYD MON PUP PHO NTA
8
COM GEM HYD MON PUP PHO NTA
9
COM GEM HYD MON PUP PHO NTA
10
COM GEM HYD MON PUP NTA
11
COM GEM 46P HYD MON PUP
12
COM GEM 46P HYD MON PUP
13
COM GEM 46P HYD MON PUP
14
COM GEM HYD MON PUP
15
COM GEM HYD MON PUP
16
COM GEM HYD MON
17
COM URS GEM HYD MON
18
COM URS GEM HYD MON
19
COM URS GEM HYD MON
20
COM URS GEM HYD MON
21
COM URS
22
COM URS
23
COM URS
24
COM URS
25
COM URS
26
COM URS
27
COM
28
QUA COM
29
QUA COM
30
QUA COM
31
QUA COM