The Claremont Symphony Orchestra will perform a final farewell concert next week to honor the late Dr. James Fahringer, who had been the music director emeritus.

The concert will begin at 3:30 p.m., Sunday, June 8, in Bridges Hall of Music (“Little Bridges”) on the Pomona College campus.

Fahringer, who devoted much of his rich musical life to the orchestra for more than 50 years, passed away in December. The CSO dedicated its season to this man who served as violist, percussionist, associate conductor and music director.

There will be an exhibit about Fahringer and the 60- year history of the volunteer organization in the lobby. Cushney Roberts, leader of Las Vegas Motown group Spectrum, may make an appearance to honor his good friend with a song.

This final homage to Fahringer will be a performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, which includes a solemn funeral march as its second movement. This moving work has been used in funerals for many notable people, including Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, conductor Arturo Toscanini, and the 19th century composer Felix Mendelssohn.

The concert will begin with a performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, performed by Dr. Fahringer’s successor Dr. Robert Sage.

Sage will conduct the orchestra from the piano, a rarely performed feat with a community orchestra. Completed 228 years ago, Piano Concerto No. 23 was an immediate success and remains among the most popular and most recorded works in classical repertoire. Mozart composed it as a showpiece to demonstrate his own virtuosity.