Now in its 45th season, the Chestnut Hill Orchestra  presents free concerts of great music throughout the Philadelphia area. The group rehearses on Sunday evenings from 7:45 to 10 pm at St. Paul’s Reformed Episcopal Church in Springfield Township Montgomery County. It presents as many as 12 performances at various venues throughout the Philadelphia area.  Past achievements of the Orchestra include performances of all the Beethoven Symphonies, a complete cycle of the Haydn London Symphonies and the major works of Mozart, Schubert and Dvorak.  The orchestra regularly celebrates Mozart’s birthday with a special concert and party in late January.   In addition to regular symphonic repertoire, the Orchestra plays performances of complete operas and oratorios in concert in conjunction with the Northeast Oratorio Society and the Bucks County Choir. Past opera repertoire includes all the major Mozart operas, Fidelio, The Barber of Sevile, Don Pasqule, Rigoletto and La Traviata.  They have also presented complete performances of Haydn’s Creation, Mendehlson’s  Elija, Handel’s Judas Maccabeus  and semi annual performances of Messiah as well as choral works of Mozart, Schubert and Vivaldi.