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The Me2 Orchestra is planning to entertain listeners with a wide-ranging program celebrating Autumn.

Michael Colburn, the orchestra’s conductor and music director, will lead the ensemble in works by Glazunov, Kosma, Joplin, Price, Sousa, and Tchaikovsky. The concert is free, but people will need to register.

The program comprises the “Autumn” movement from “The Seasons,” a ballet by Alexander Glazunov. The work is a musical description of the brilliant colors of autumn.

“Autumn Leaves” by Joseph Kosma is an English version of a French song, "Les Feuilles mortes" (“The Dead Leaves”). It has been recorded dozens of times and is a standard in the repertoire.

“Maple Leaf Rag” by Scott Joplin is a lively ragtime tune that will be familiar to anyone who saw the Oscar-winning 1973 film “The Sting.”

Florence Price’s “Adoration” is a piece for organ. As a Black woman, she faced difficulties in having her work performed, but she is beginning to receive due recognition.

John Philip Sousa is the composer of marches like “The Stars and Stripes Forever.” He is represented here by his work “Queen of the Harvest Quadrille.”

“The Seasons” by Tchaikovsky is a suite of 12 short pieces, each one depicting a month of the year.

The concert venue is the Elley-Long Music Center, which is accessible to everyone, and the date of the event is November 10. Events such as this benefit when organizers use brochure printing to create programs that explain the pieces.