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NEC Philharmonian Hugh Wolff conductor

Laurence Lesser, soloist
Revueltas: Sensemayá
Ives: Three Places in New England
Bloch: Schelomo
Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

FREE but tickets required

“Lullabies of my Sorrow”
(Johannes Brahms, on his Opus 117)

Music of Schubert, Brahms, and NEC composer John Heiss

FREE but tickets required

At Boswell Hall

Excerpts from new operas by William David Cooper, Eun Young Lee and Bálint Karosi.

Hagar and Ishmael – Act 1 – Scene 3 —- William David Cooper

Soo and Hyun – Soo’s Call Home —– Eun Young Lee

Lonely Hearts – Biro and Pamela Duet —– Balint Karosi

Hagar and Ishmael – Act 2 – Scene 1 – Hagar’s Aria – “Sixteen years ago” —- William David Cooper

Soo and Hyun – Hyun’s Aria —- Eun Young Lee

Hagar and Ishmael – Excerpt from Act 2 – Scene 3 —– William David Cooper

Carrie Hennessey — Soprano
Paul An — Bass
William David Cooper — Piano

FREE

Aaron Sheehan, tenor
Aisslinn Nosky, Susanna Ogata, violins
H+H Orchestra and Chorus

J.S. Bach:
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor
Cantata V from Christmas Oratorio
Cantata 179, Siehe zu, daß deine Gottesfurcht nicht Heuchelei sei
Mass in G Major, BWV 236

Dan Visconti, Composer
Cerise Lim Jacobs, Creator and Librettist
Pirate Epstein, Co-Librettist
Cori Ellison, dramaturge

Music by J.S. Bach, Philip Glass, Vijay Iyer, and Isang Yun

Kevin Rhodes, conductor

Augusta R. Thomas: Prayer and Celebration
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for 4 winds,
(Reconstructed by Robert Levin)
featuring Ann Bobo, flute – Nancy Dimock, oboe; Ron Haroutunian, bassoon – Robert Marlatt, horn
FAURÉ: Pelléas et Mélisande Suite, Op. 80
BERLIOZ: La mort de Cléopâtre
featuring Barbara Quintiliani, soprano

BWV 50 Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft
BWV 120 Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille

J.S. Bach: Partita No. 2 in b minor
Eugène Ysaye: Solo Sonata No. 4

DEBUSSY: Printemps
SCRIABIN: Symphony No. 4 (“The Poem of Ecstasy”)
HIGDON: “Fanfare Ritmico”
HIGDON: Concerto 4-3—featuring Time for Three members Nick Kendall (violin), Charles Yang, (violin), and Ranaan Meyer (double bass)

Aaron Sheehan, tenor
Aisslinn Nosky, Susanna Ogata, violins
H+H Orchestra and Chorus

J.S. Bach:
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor
Cantata V from Christmas Oratorio
Cantata 179, Siehe zu, daß deine Gottesfurcht nicht Heuchelei sei
Mass in G Major, BWV 236

Then and There, Here and Now contains music by some of Chanticleer’s favorite composers, from Palestrina and Victoria to Mason Bates and Steven Stucky, lustrous examples of the South American baroque, as well as audience favorite arrangements by Jennings, Shaw and others.

Music Composition Department Faculty Concert”

New works by Andrew List, Larry Bell, Yoon-Ji Lee, Margaret McAllister, and 2 student compositions

FREE

Chamber Music and Lieder by Clara Wieck Schumann featuring an 1870s Streicher piano

Three Romances for violin and piano, op. 22
Romance in A-flat Major for piano and cello, op. 7, no. 2
Trio in G Minor for violin, cello, and piano, op. 17
Lieder Opus 13

Piano Byron Schenkman, Andrus Madsen
Violin Jesse Irons
Cello Kate Bennett Wadsworth
Soprano Nicole Estima

an opera, in five tapestries
commissioned by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Music by David Lang
Libretto by Sibyl Kempson
Performed by Roomful of Teeth and the Callithumpian Consort, Stephen Drury, conductor

featuring guest artist Robert Levin (piano).

MOZART: Quintet in E-flat for piano and winds, K.452
FAURÉ: Piano Quartet in G Minor, No. 2, op.45

FREE

Fantasias for viol consort, featuring Shirley Hunt and Sonnambula with soprano Elise Groves.

The program will include selections from Purcells fantasias (Or “fantazias” as Purcell would write), accompanied by selected consort songs curated by soprano Elise Groves.

BERNSTEIN: Dance Suite
BERNSTEIN: Shivaree: a Fanfare
BERNSTEIN: Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs
BERNSTEIN: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

Vimbayi Kaziboni, conductor

FREE

Music Without Borders”
with soloists Annelle Gregory, Christine Lamprea, and Thomas Mesa

Yasushi Akutagawa, Triptyque for String Orchestra (1953)
Miguel del Águila, Life Is a Dream (La vida es sueño), Op. 76 (2002)
Terence Blanchard, Concerto for SV (2018)
Gaspar Cassadó, “Intermezzo e Danza Finale” from Solo Cello Suite (1926)
Shostakovich, Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a
Kareem Roustom, “Dabke” from A Voice Exclaiming (2014)
Bernstein, “America” from West Side Story

Gabrieli: Sonate e Canzone
Raff: Sinfonietta, Op. 188
Tippett: Mosaic
Milhaud: La création du monde
Holst: Hammersmith, Op. 52

FREE but tickets required

Ockeghem: Missa Cuiusvis toni
Anonymous (Chigi Codex): Ave rosa speciosa / Beata mater
De la Rue: Regina celi
Busnoys: Amours nous traitte honnestement / Je m’en vois au vert bois
Ockeghem: S’elle m’amera / Petite Camusette
Ockeghem: Se vostre cuer eslongne moy a tort

Margot Rood & Martin Near, cantus
Owen McIntosh, Jason McStoots, Stefan Reed & Sumner Thompson, tenor & contratenor; Paul Guttry & David McFerrin, bass
Scott Metcalfe, director

New York’s “contemporary new music dynamos,” (NPR). With Richter on keyboards and electronics and ACME in quintet form, the ensemble will perform music from Richter’s 2010 release, Infra and the HBO series The Leftovers.

Buswell Ensemble: James Buswell, violin, Amy Galluzzo, violin/viola, Carol Ou, cello, with Victor Rosenbaum, piano

Violin Sonata in B-flat Major, K. 454
Divertimento in E-flat Major, for string trio, K. 563
Quartet for piano and strings in g minor, K. 478

Featuring Matthew Worth, Daniela Mack, Jesus Garcia, David Crawford, Steven Condy, and Michelle Trainor

Conductor David Angus
Stage Director Rosetta Cucchi
Set Designer Julia Noulin-Mérat
Costume Designer Gianluca Falaschi
Lighting Designer DM Wood

works by Bach, Copland, Mozart, Mark O’Connor, Piazzolla, Webern, and Chen Yi. Lynn Chang, director.

FREE

Richard Pittman, conductor; Randall Hodgkinson, piano

Nielsen, Maskarade Overture
Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 2
Schubert, Symphony No. 9

Gubaidulina: String Quartet no. 4
Prokofiev: String Quartet no. 2
Beethoven: String Quartet in F major, Op. 59 no. 1

Preconcert talk, 7 p.m. | Reception to follow

Students: $5; Seniors & Brandeis Community: $15; General Public: $20

Ockeghem: Missa Cuiusvis toni
Anonymous (Chigi Codex): Ave rosa speciosa / Beata mater
De la Rue: Regina celi
Busnoys: Amours nous traitte honnestement / Je m’en vois au vert bois
Ockeghem: S’elle m’amera / Petite Camusette
Ockeghem: Se vostre cuer eslongne moy a tort

Margot Rood & Martin Near, cantus
Owen McIntosh, Jason McStoots, Stefan Reed & Sumner Thompson, tenor & contratenor; Paul Guttry & David McFerrin, bass
Scott Metcalfe, director

Strauss: Sonata in F Major for cello & piano,
Earl Kim: Now and Then for soprano, flute, viola & harp
Schoenberg,: Chamber Symphony for flute, clarinet, violin, cello & piano, Op. 9
Penderecki: Quartet for clarinet & string trio
Beethoven: Piano Trio in c minor, Op. 1, No. 3

BWV 229 Komm, Jesu, komm

with Daniel Stepner, violin and Yehudi Wyner, piano

Music of Bach, Webern, Hindemith, Wyner and Debussy. Proceeds to benefit the summer 2019 Aston Magna Unaccompanied Bach Workshop Scholarship Fund.

Students: $5; Seniors & Brandeis Community: $15; General Public: $25

Featuring Matthew Worth, Daniela Mack, Jesus Garcia, David Crawford, Steven Condy, and Michelle Trainor

Conductor David Angus
Stage Director Rosetta Cucchi
Set Designer Julia Noulin-Mérat
Costume Designer Gianluca Falaschi
Lighting Designer DM Wood

Strauss: Sonata in F Major for cello & piano,
Earl Kim: Now and Then for soprano, flute, viola & harp
Schoenberg,: Chamber Symphony for flute, clarinet, violin, cello & piano, Op. 9
Penderecki: Quartet for clarinet & string trio
Beethoven: Piano Trio in c minor, Op. 1, No. 3

Schubert: Quartet No. 15 in G Major, D. 887
Debussy: Quartet in G minor, L. 85, Op. 10

$25; Student: $18; EBT Card Holder: $3
under 13 admitted free.

Souvin Kim, violin

TBA

Allison Eldredge, cello; Max Levinson, piano

Strauss: Sonata for Cello and Piano in F major
Michael Daugherty: Tales of Hemingway (2015)
$10

Scarecrow Bliss, Sacred Tea (all music by Karl Henning)
Considering My Bliss Options, Op.137 no. 2a (première)
Kurosawa’s Scarecrow (Memories of Packanack Lake),
Boston Harbor Heave-Ho (Tea Party Dance) (première)
Mistaken for the Sacred, Op.141a

The k a rl h e nn i ng Ensemble:
Carol Epple & Peter H. Bloom: flutes
Pamela Marshall: horn
Karl Henning: clarinet, fixed media

$5 suggested

Jonah Ellsworth in Dvořák’s Cello Concerto, Plus
Brahms’s First Symphony and Glinka’s Ruslan & Lyudmila Overture

Garrick Ohlsson, piano
HARBISON Remembering Gatsby
(Foxtrot for Orchestra)
RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 1
PROKOFIEV Excerpts from Romeo and Juliet

Gary Capozziello, violin
Ignacy Gaydamovich, cello
Cihan Yücel, piano

Debussy: Piano Trio in G Major
Schubert: Piano Trio in E-flat Major, D.929, Op. 100

$20 Suggested

Charles-Hubert Gervais : Cantata “Télémaque” from Premier livre de Cantates Françoises

François Couperin:
La Superbe ou La Forqueray
Les Petits Moulins à Vent
from Dix-septième ordre, Troisième livre de pièces de clavecin

Nicolas Renier:
Cantata “L’Indifférence punie” from Premier livre de Cantates Françoises (1728)

François Couperin: L’Apothéose de Lully

Michel Pignolet de Montéclair:
Cantata “Le Retour de la Paix” from Premier livre de Cantates Françoises (1709)

Mozart: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, K. 478
Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor

Ayano Ninomiya, violin Marcus Thompson, viola Clancy Newman, cello Max Levinson, piano

Pairing Gin Stone’s reclaimed fishing gear animal sculpture with fauna-themed works by Jonah Elrod and Daniel Felsenfeld, featuring soprano Aliana de la Guardia.
Multimedia abstracts by Christine Kyle, photographs by Gail Samuelson, and textile sculptures by Daniel Zeese. The concert closes with a set of Hindustani inspired music performed by Derek Beckvold and Utsav Lal.

$20, $15 for students, seniors, children

STEPHEN PAULUS: “Sing Creations Music On”
JONATHAN DOVE: “It Sounded as if the Streets Were Running”
DAN CAMPOLIETA: “Will There Really Be a “Morning?”’
LEE DENGLER: “Things That Never Die”

George Case, conductor
Chorale
WILLIAM BILLINGS: “David’s Lamentation”
RANDALL THOMPSON: “Last Words of David”
THOMAS WEELKES: “Hosanna to the Son of David”
ORLANDO GIBBONS: “Hosanna to the Son of David”
HANDEL: “Mourn, Israel” from Saul
MENDELSSOHN: “How Lovely are the Messengers” from Paulus
JAKE RUNESTAD: “I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes”

Nathan Reiff, conductor

FREE

Jonah Ellsworth in Dvořák’s Cello Concerto, Plus
Brahms’s First Symphony and Glinka’s Ruslan & Lyudmila Overture

BWV 99 Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan II
John Harbison, conductor

Johann Sebastian Bach, The Art of Fugue (1749)

Students from Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Berklee College of Music come together to perform seven works written by College and Conservatory faculty members. Lawrence Isaacson, conductor.

FREE

Featuring Matthew Worth, Daniela Mack, Jesus Garcia, David Crawford, Steven Condy, and Michelle Trainor

Conductor David Angus
Stage Director Rosetta Cucchi
Set Designer Julia Noulin-Mérat
Costume Designer Gianluca Falaschi
Lighting Designer DM Wood

with Garrick Ohlsson, piano

HAYDN Piano Trio No. 43 in C, Hob. XV:27
Tom JOHNSON Failing: A Very Difficult Piece for
Solo String Bass
HINDEMITH Kleine Kammermusik, Op. 24, No. 2, for wind quintet
BRAHMS Quintet in F minor for piano and
strings, Op. 34

Enemies and Allies: Music Beyond Borders

Soprano Monika Krajewska and pianist Natasha Ulyanovsky present a concert of music written by composers from the countries in conflict that represent some of the multifarious aesthetic musical movements of the time including expressionism, neoclassicism, symbolism and cabaret.
FREE

Mozart: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, K. 478
Saint-Saëns: Oboe Sonata in D major, Op. 166
Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor

Peggy Pearson, oboe; Ayano Ninomiya, violin
Marcus Thompson, viola; Clancy Newman, cello
Max Levinson, piano

Omar Chen Guey, violin; Rafael Popper-Kaiser, cello; Melinda Lee Masur, piano

Haydn: Piano Trio Hob. XV:35 in A major
Pierre Jalbert: Piano Trio #2
Chopin: Trio in g minor
$10

Kevin Kenner has become one of America’s premier and most poetic pianists. He has performed worldwide and is recognized for his Chopin performances. This Piano Masters Series performance features works by Chopin and Paderewski.

Leonard Bernstein’s Candide

FREE but tickets required

Ying Fang, soprano
Bernarda Fink, mezzo-soprano
Tanglewood Festival Chorus,

Maija EINFELDE Lux aeterna, for mixed
chorus
MAHLER Symphony No. 2, Resurrection

Seven short operas, 6 of which are brand ne , from Marti Epstein, Jonathan Bailey Holland, Eva Kendrick, Rachel Peters, Tony Solitro, and Scott Wheeler, and one U.S. premiere by British composer Sam Wilson. These bite-sized operas run between 10 and 15 minutes and are accompanied by a small instrumental ensemble conducted by Dan Ryan. Performed cabaret style.

$15-$45

William Drury
Dan Cho, MM ’19 Wind Ensemble Conducting
Adams: The Chairman Dances
Stravinsky: Octet
Pinto Correia: Bonecas de Chuva

FREE but tickets required

BWV 23 Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn

William Schuman, Prologue: Carols of Death
William Byrd, Bow thine ear, O Lord
Thomas Tomkins, O Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem
Herbert Howells, Requiem
Jeffrey Van, Fourteen Angels
Jeffrey Van, A Procession Winding Around Me

Cleveland Orchestra Musicians and George Lopez

Martha Aarons, flute
Lev Polyakin, violin
George Lopez, piano
Eli Epstein, concert guide

Bach, Trio Sonata BWV 1038
DeFalla, “Suite Popular Espagñol”
Rota, Trio for Flute, Violin, and Piano (1958)

FREE

King’s Chapel Choir & Heinrich Christensen, organ
“Dona Nobis Pacem”
works of Brahms, Britten, Howells, Schutz, Vaughan Williams & others
Observing the 100th anniversary of the Armistice and the end of the First World War.

$20 / $15 seniors/students

TBA

Palestrina Revisited

An acapella program demonstrating the skill, versatility, and wit of a musician who was the preeminent Italian composer of the 16th century.
$10

works by African composers Hamza El Din, Vimbayi Kaziboni, Ayo Ogunranti, Joshua Uzoigwe, and Kevin Volans. Vimbayi Kaziboni, conductor.

FREE

Ying Fang, soprano
Bernarda Fink, mezzo-soprano
Tanglewood Festival Chorus,

Maija EINFELDE Lux aeterna, for mixed
chorus
MAHLER Symphony No. 2, Resurrection

HAYDN Symphony No. 93
Mark-Anthony TURNAGE Remembering: In Memoriam Evan Scofield (American premiere; BSO co-commission) (November 1, 3, 6)
ELGAR Enigma Variations

Britten:
A Charm of Lullabies for mezzo-soprano and piano, Op. 41
Three Character Pieces for Piano
No, Resistance is but Vain (Purcell)
Tit for Tat for baritone and piano
String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25

Is A Far Cry a giant string quartet, or is a string quartet a tiny A Far Cry? Find out…

Nathaniel Meyer, Conductor

Wagner: Tannhäuser Overture
Coleridge-Taylor: Petite Suite de Concert
Sachiko Murata: Sorrow Songs
World Premier
Schubert: Symphony No. 8

Free, but reserve in advance

HAYDN Symphony No. 93
Mark-Anthony TURNAGE Remembering: In Memoriam Evan Scofield (American premiere; BSO co-commission) (November 1, 3, 6)
ELGAR Enigma Variations

BWV 77 Du sollst Gott, deinen Herren, lieben

J.S. Bach, Suite Nos. 1, 4, and 5 (about 1720)

Britten:
Lachrymae (Reflections on a Song of Dowland for viola and piano), Op. 48
If My Complaints Could Passions Move (Dowland)
Winter Words for tenor and piano, Op.
William Hite, tenor
Mark Berger, viola
Brett Hodgdon, piano
String Quartet No. 3 in G Major, Op. 94
Lydian String Quartet

Carol Cybulska, soprano; Anne Smith, mezzo-soprano
Michael Tabak, flute; Sachiko Murata, oboe
Shu Satoh, bassoon; Dawn MacGarvey, piano
Caroline Mellott, harp
Quantz: Trio Sonata in C minor
Bach: Wir eilen, from Cantata 78
Bach: Du Musst Glauben
Offenbach: Barcarolle
Piazzolla: Histoire du Tango
Joseph Canteloube: Songs of the Auvergne
Roger Quilter: Three songs from Five Shakespeare Song
Ibert: Deux Interludes
Delibes: Flower Duet from Lakme
$10

Tomasi: Fanfares Liturgiques
Werner Henze: L’heure bleue
Kirchner: Concerto for Violin, Cello and Ten Winds and Percussion
Sweelinck: Ballo del Granduca
FREE but tickets required

HAYDN Symphony No. 93
Mark-Anthony TURNAGE Remembering: In Memoriam Evan Scofield (American premiere; BSO co-commission) (November 1, 3, 6)
ELGAR Enigma Variations

Program to include arias by Handel, a premiere of a new piece written for Anthony by Gregory Spears, plus other works by Purcell, Britten, Poulenc, and Philip Glass.

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 1
Andris DZENĪTIS Māra (American premiere;
BSO co-commission)
TCHAIKOVSKY The Nutcracker, Act II

GOUNOD: LE MÉDECIN MALGRÉ LUI (THE DOCTOR IN SPITE OF HIMSELF)

recitatives by Erik Satie
Libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré after the play by Molière

Fully staged, Performed in French with English supertitles

Schubert: String Trio in B-flat major, D. 471
Bruckner: String Quintet in F major, WAB 112

Jennifer Frautschi, violin Yura Lee, violin Marcus Thompson, viola Carol Rodland, viola Clancy Newman, cello

Boston premier of Seven Joys, a BBC co-commission from Caroline Shaw, a young American Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and performer with wide-ranging interests and appeal.

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 1
Andris DZENĪTIS Māra (American premiere;
BSO co-commission)
TCHAIKOVSKY The Nutcracker, Act II

Beethoven, Piano Trio in B-flat Major, Archduke
Bernstein, Piano Trio (1937)
Kati Agócs, Queen of Hearts (2017) – Boston Premiere

Robert Levin, fortepiano
H+H Orchestra

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor
Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C Major, The Great

William Drury, Conductor, Symphonic Winds
Kenneth Radnofsky, Faculty Coach, Saxophone Ensemble
Holst: Moorside March

March Medley: (railroad marches)
Grafulla: CB and Q March
Rehm: Southern Railway March
Rosenkrans: B.R. and P March

Performance by the Saxophone Ensemble

FREE but tickets required

Donald Palma, Faculty Coach
Kodály: Hungarian Rondo
Mozart: Symphony No. 33
Bartók: Divertimento for String Orchestra

FREE but tickets required

Håkan Hardenberger, trumpet

HK GRUBER Aerial, Concerto for trumpet
and orchestra
MAHLER Symphony No. 5

Open Rehearsal

David Loebel, conductor
Bernstein: Three Dance Variations from “Fancy Free”
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5

FREE but tickets required

Håkan Hardenberger, trumpet

HK GRUBER Aerial, Concerto for trumpet
and orchestra
MAHLER Symphony No. 5

Leclair Sonata in D Major, Opus 9
Wheeler The Singing Turk
Prokofiev Five Melodies
Kreisler Praeludium and Allegro (In the Style of Pugnani)
Franck Sonata in A Major

Rheinberger: Abendlied
Heinz Werner Zimmermann – Vesper (Vibraphone, Contrabass, Harpsichord)
Reger: Nachteild
Brahms: In stiller Nacht, other night songs
Robert Schumann: Zigeunerleben, Gute Nacht
Clara Schumann: Abendfeir in Venedig, Gondoliera
Schubert: Nachhelle, Der Gondelfahrer

James Barkovic, piano
lecture at 7:00

Håkan Hardenberger, trumpet

HK GRUBER Aerial, Concerto for trumpet
and orchestra
MAHLER Symphony No. 5

Bernstein, Four Anniversaries
Bartók, String Quartet No. 4
Dvořák, Miniatures, Op. 75a
Dvořák, Piano Trio in F Minor, Op. 65

Zoltán Fejérvári, piano
Robyn Bollinger & Soovin Kim, violins
Hwayoon Lee, viola
Tony Rymer & Alice Yoo, cellos

Wendy Putnam, Axel Strauss, violins; Violists Steven Ansell and Cathy Basrak, Cellist Michael Reynolds

Schubert: String Trio in B-flat Major, D. 581 by
Alban Berg: String Quartet Op. 3 by Alban Berg
Mozart: String Quartet No. 3 in C Major, K 515

Lecture at 2:00 p.m.
$47 and $38 with a $5 discount for students and senior

HAYDN: String Quartet in C major, Op. 20, No.2
ABRAHAMSEN: Quartet no. 1 “Ten Preludes”
BEETHOVEN: String Quartet No. 7 in F major, Op. 59, No.1 (First Rasumovsky)

Bach Toccata in E minor, BWV914
Handel Allemande from Suite in E Major, HWV430
Rameau Courante from Suite in A minor
Couperin L’Atalante
Ravel Rigaudon from Le tombeau de Couperin
Adès Blanca Variations
Ligeti Musica Ricercata Nos. 10 and 11
Barber Fugue from Sonata in E minor
Brahms Variations & Fugue on a Theme by Handel

Peter Zazofsky, violin; Ronald Lowry, cello; Randall Hodgkinson, piano

Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor
Dvorak: Piano Trio No. 3 in F minor, Op. 65
$10

TBA

ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM
Symphony No. 4
Symphony No. 5

Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
Gilbert Blin, Stage Director

Shannon Mercer, Alcina
Colin Balzer, Ruggiero
Kelsey Lauritano, Melissa

Boston Early Music Festival Vocal & Chamber Ensembles

Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
Gilbert Blin, Stage Director

Shannon Mercer, Alcina
Colin Balzer, Ruggiero
Kelsey Lauritano, Melissa

Boston Early Music Festival Vocal & Chamber Ensembles

Choral, orchestral, and organ works, including

BWV 159 Anh. Motet: Ich lasse dich nicht
BWV 1056: Violin Concerto in G minor
BWV 548: Fugue in E minor “The Wedge”
BWV 234. Mass in A major

Singers and instrumentalists, drawn from the Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, Emmanuel Music, Trinity Church in Copley Square, and the Church of the Advent joined by the All Saints’ Boys Choir.

$25; Student: $18; EBT Card Holder: $3
under 13 admitted free.

Lee Hyla: Amore Scaduto
Rzewski: Two North American Ballads: Down by the Riverside Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues

Osnat Netzer: New work (world premiere)
Charles Ives: Piano Trio

Stephen Drury, piano
Peggy Pearson, oboe
Rane Moore, clarinet
Gabriela Díaz, violin
Rafael Popper-Keizer, cello

ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM
Symphony No. 4
Symphony No. 5

In 1818 the “Messiah” had its first full performance in Boston. Also, in that year, the Boston Society of the New Jerusalem was founded. Join us as we celebrate these two momentous events. Our special guest conductor will be Danica A. Buckley leading the vocal soloists and orchestral musicians in a sing-along performance of Handel’s magnificent music.

Ticket Price: $18.18

Andris Nelsons, conductor
Carolyn Sampson, soprano
Christine Rice, mezzo-soprano
Sebastian Kohlhepp, tenor
Andrè Schuen, baritone
Tanglewood Festival Chorus,

J.S. BACH Christmas Oratorio

James MacMillan, O Radiant Dawn
Morten Lauridsen, Lux Aeterna
Ola Gjeilo, Serenity
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Eric Whitacre, Hope, Faith, Life, Love

Bernard Labadie, conductor
Lucy Crowe, soprano
Iestyn Davies, countertenor
James Gilchrist, tenor
Philippe Sly, bass-baritone
H+H Orchestra and Chorus

Andris Nelsons, conductor
Carolyn Sampson, soprano
Christine Rice, mezzo-soprano
Sebastian Kohlhepp, tenor
Andrè Schuen, baritone
Tanglewood Festival Chorus,

J.S. BACH Christmas Oratorio

Stravinsky: Concertino for string quartet
Joan Tower: Petroushskates for flute, clarinet, violin, cello & piano
Saint-Saëns: Septet in E-flat Major for trumpet, string quartet, bass & piano, Op. 65
Stravinsky: L’Histoire du Soldat

Bernstein, “Benediction” from Concerto for Orchestra
Grażyna Bacewicz, Concerto for String Orchestra (1948)
Paul Moravec, Morph (2005)
Grieg (arr. A Far Cry), String Quartet in G minor
Jessie Montgomery, Source Code (2013)

Bernard Labadie, conductor
Lucy Crowe, soprano
Iestyn Davies, countertenor
James Gilchrist, tenor
Philippe Sly, bass-baritone
H+H Orchestra and Chorus

Stravinsky: Concertino for string quartet
Joan Tower: Petroushskates for flute, clarinet, violin, cello & piano
Saint-Saëns: Septet in E-flat Major for trumpet, string quartet, bass & piano, Op. 65
Stravinsky: L’Histoire du Soldat

Tchaikovsky Quartet No. 3 in E-flat minor, Opus 30
Mason Bates From Amber Frozen
Dvořák Quartet in A-flat Major, Opus 105

A Renaissance Christmas: Music of Palestrina, Byrd, and more

Jonathan Wessler, organ
Kevin Leong & John Sullivan, conductors

Heavenly works for the season by Palestrina, Bach, Brahms, Barber, Thompson, Lauridsen and favorite carols.

$30, Seniors (65+) $25, Students $10

BWV 61 Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland I

music by Heinrich Schütz, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Henry Purcell, William Byrd, and more for eighteen singers and chamber ensemble.

Ian Watson, director
Amanda Forsythe, soprano
Aisslinn Nosky, violin
H+H Orchestra
Vocal Arts Program Concert Choir

C. Graupner: Overture in D Major,
Dall’Abaco: Sinfonia in D Major, Op. 6, No. 12
Vivaldi: “Winter” from The Four Seasons
Bach: Cantata 51, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen
Corelli: Concerto Grosso in G Minor, Christmas
A. Scarlatti: Cantata pastorale per la natività di nostro Signore Gesu Cristo

Carl Nielsen – Helios Overture
Anna Thorvaldsdottir – Hrim
Jean Sibelius – Symphony No. 5

Beethoven: Septet for Strings & Winds (op. 20) (excerpts)
Beethoven: Octet for Winds (op. 103) (excerpts)
Seasonal music from VOICES Boston and The Apollo Club

Pamela Mindell, Music Director

Puccini, Messa di Gloria
Pergolesi, Magnificat

Tenor: Fran Rogers
Baritone: Scott Ballantine

$25, $15 students and seniors; pay-as-able option

Scott Allen Jarrett conducts this beloved Chorale tradition in Copley Square’s beautiful Old South Church. Join the singing of new and traditional carols of the season in an evening celebrating the joy, mystery, and glory of the holidays.

BWV 147 Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben

Mozart: String Quintet No. 5 in D, K 593
Dvořák: String Quintet in E-flat, Opus 97
Peter Zazofsky, Bayla Keyes, violins; BethGuterman Chu, Jonathan Chu, violas;
Jonathan Miller, cello

$30; $25 over 65; $10 Student with ID

Bach: The Four Duets and the Goldberg Variations
Sergey Schepkin, piano

Schumann Three Romances, Opus 28
Janáček On an Overgrown Path, Book 1
Bartók Three Burlesques, Opus 8
Schumann Carnaval, Opus 9

No Tenors Allowed
selections by Mozart, Verdi, Rodgers & Hammerstein, and more.

BEETHOVEN:
Coriolan Overture
Piano Concerto No. 5 “Emperor”
Symphony No. 5

ROBERT LEVIN, PIANO

Complete Bach Cello Suites

BEETHOVEN:
Coriolan Overture
Piano Concerto No. 5 “Emperor”
Symphony No. 5

ROBERT LEVIN, PIANO

Bach: Concerto for two solo keyboards
Stravinsky: Concerto for two solo pianos
Rachmaninoff: Suite No. 2 for two pianos
William Davidson, piano
Ian Lindsey, piano
Sergey Schepkin, piano

Debussy: Sonata for Violin and Piano, L 140
Debussy : Sonata for Cello and Piano, L 135
Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-flat, Opus 44
????????? Mystery Piece (Guess the composer and win tickets)

Diane Walsh, piano; Tatiana Dimitriades, Lucia Lin, violins; Rebecca Gitter, viola; Jonathan Miller, cello

$30; $25 over 65; $10 Student with ID

Bernstein: Chichester Psalms), Irving Fine: The Hour-Glass, plus music by William Billings, Stephen Foster, Charles Ives, Ernst Bacon, William Schuman, others…
with Heinrich Christensen, organ

lecture at 7:00

Debussy: Sonata for Violin and Piano, L 140
Debussy : Sonata for Cello and Piano, L 135
Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-flat, Opus 44
????????? Mystery Piece (Guess the composer and win tickets)

Diane Walsh, piano; Tatiana Dimitriades, Lucia Lin, violins; Rebecca Gitter, viola; Jonathan Miller, cello

$30; $25 over 65; $10 Student with ID

Showcases enterprising creativity in 18th-century Vienna in outstanding works by Mozart and the musical friends around him. Celebrate the rise of the individual and equality of musical voices in Classical chamber music.

$35 preferred / $30 general / $10 students
7-17 are admitted FREE with adult.

Beethoven:
Duo for viola & cello in E flat major (“With two eyeglasses obbligato”), WoO 32
String Trio in G Major, Op. 9, No.1

Marti Epstein: New Song for the Spirit
Erno Dohnányi: Serenade

Gabriela Díaz, violin
Roberto Díaz, viola
Manuel Díaz, viola
Andrés Díaz, cello
Betty Anne Díaz, piano

Samuel Barber – Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Florence Price – Mississippi Suite
Grace Williams – Fairest of Stars (Jessica Jacobs, soprano)
Samuel Barber – Essay No. 2 op. 17

Ravel: Pavane de la belle au bois dormant
Dowland/Sweelinck: Paduana Lachrymae
Dowland/Byrd: Pavana Lachrimae
Dowland/Farnaby: Lachrimae Pavan
Bach: Fantasia and Fugue in A minor, BWV 904
Trapani: Pavane (Standing Still) for violin and piano
Louis Couperin: Pavanne
Fauré: Pavane for violin and piano
Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte
Ravel: Sonata for violin and piano
Jason Horowitz, violin
Sergey Schepkin, piano and harpsichord

Schubert Quartet in A minor, D. 804, “Rosamunde”
Webern Five Movements for String Quartet, Opus 5
Beethoven Quartet in C-sharp minor, Opus 131

Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor, Christian Tetzlaff, violin

M. Tilson Thomas Agnegram
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, Opus 64
Beethoven Symphony No. 3 “Eroica”

Alone Together: new works, classics, and pop favorites that reflect on connection, longing, and acceptance, including the Boston Premiere of a new work by Libby Larsen

Matthew Aucoin, New Work for Hub New Music
Agocs, New Work for Hub New Music
Yevgeniy Sharlat, Divertissiment (2006)

The Agocs was commissioned by Ashmont Hill Chamber Music for Hub New Music.

Bach The Art of Fugue: Contrapunctus I – IV
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 12 in A Major, K.414 with Paul Lewis
Beethoven String Quartet, Opus 130 (arr. for string orchestra)
Beethoven Grosse fuge, Opus 133 (arr. for string orchestra)

Boccherini : String Quintet No. 75 in D, G 313
Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 2 in A minor,
Arensky: Quartet No. 2 for Violin, Viola and two Cellos,

Lucy Chapman, Bayla Keyes, violins; Jessica Bodner, viola; Marcy Rosen, Jonathan Miller,celli

$30; $25 over 65; $10 Student with ID

IVES: Symphony No. 3
MAHLER: Symphony No. 5

Bach: Overture in C major
Brahms: Concerto for Violin & ‘Cello (op. 102) (In Mo Yang & Cicely Parnas)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 (op. 55) (Eroica)

Rarely-heard chamber works by cutting-edge scientist-musicians along with Baroque music inspired by gazing at the sky. Astronomical imaginations!

$35 preferred / $30 general / $10 students
7-17 are admitted FREE with adult.

Rarely-heard chamber works by cutting-edge scientist-musicians along with Baroque music inspired by gazing at the sky. Astronomical imaginations!

$35 preferred / $30 general / $10 students
7-17 are admitted FREE with adult.

ASSAD : A Brazilian Journey
Winner of the BPYO Concerto Competition
DVORAK: Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”

Margaret Lias, mezzo-soprano
Jason McStoots, tenor
Sumner Thompson, baritone
with professional period orchestra
Kevin Leong, conductor

Antonio Lotti: Crucifixus [a 8]
Bach: Der Gerechte kommt um, BC C 8
Handel: I Will Magnify Thee, O God, HWV 250b
Purcell: O Sing unto the Lord, Z 44
Handel: Jubilate (“Utrecht”), HWV 279

Tickets: $50, 35, 20

Concord Chorus
Deborah Selig, soprano
Sumner Thompson, baritone
with professional orchestra
Kevin Leong, conductor

Mendelssohn: Vom Himmel hoch, MWV 10 A
Mendelssohn: Psalm 42, Op. 42
Fauré: Requiem , Op. 48

$30, Seniors (65+) $25, Students $10

Bach: Arrangement with Peggy Pearson
Robert Schumann: Pedal piano pieces
Bach: Gamba Sonata in D major (arr. Moore)
Glass: Pendulum for violin and piano

Simone Dinnerstein, piano
Peggy Pearson, oboe
Gabriela Díaz, violin
Rane Moore, clarinet
Rafael Popper-Keizer, cello