Johann Sebastian Bach’s life as a church musician and composer escalated the organ to the highest ranks of instrumental virtuosity. His Toccata and Fugue in D Minor is one of the most profound and powerful of his organ compositions and was transcribed for symphony orchestra by the great Leopold Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Beethoven’s 7th Symphony, scheduled for April 2020 (a pandemic canceled concert), fits our GOAT season theme from the standpoint of both composer and composition. Amy Beach’s “Gaelic” Symphony, premiered in 1896 by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, was the first symphony composed and published by an American woman. Of course, one cannot speak of the GOATs of classical music without homage to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. We will feature his clarinet concerto, composed at the end of his life, and one of the most sublimely beautiful pieces in the canon. We end the concert with The Beatles, arguably the greatest popular music combo on the planet.