a virtual journal and essential blog of the classical music scene in greater Boston

Music for the Lenten season by Marc-Antoine Charpentier set to the emotive texts of the Lamentations of Jeremiah. Readings and commentary by Acting Minister Emelia Attridge. Performed on period instruments.

$15 to support the Hancock Music Program.

Tenor Fred VanNess Performs A Unique Cocnert Of Songs And Monologue With Noted Accompanist James Myers.

Works by Bach, Mozart, Langlais, Whitlock, et al.

Katelyn Emerson plays Aeolian-Skinner op. 1353 (III/55), inaugurating recently rebuilt Great, Swell, and Antiphonal divisions.
FREE

Tudor Dornescu – violin
Aleksandra Labinska – violin

Leclair – Sonata for two violins in e minor, Op. 3
Prokofiev- Sonata for two violins in C, op. 56
Bartok-selections from 44 Duos, Sz.98, BB
Mozart- Sonata for two violins in B flat major,
Wieniawski- Caprice for two violins in G minor,
Handel- Passacaglia for two violins in g minor

$15, $12, students $10, children free

Kristine Opolais, soprano
Violeta Urmana, mezzo-soprano
Lorelei Ensemble,
Tanglewood Festival Chorus,
Boston Symphony Children’s Choir

BOULANGER D’un Soir triste (12 min)
DEBUSSY Nocturnes (24 min)
PUCCINI Suor Angelica* (55 min)

Robert Carver: Sanctus from Missa L’homme arme
Josquin des Prez: Tu solus qui facis mirabilia
Orlande de Lassus: Magnificat Susanne un jour
Orlande de Lassus: Kyrie from Missa Susanne un jour
Guillaume Du Fay: Kyrie from Missa Se la face ay pale
Jacob Obrecht: Gloria from Missa Fortuna desperata
Heinrich Isaac: Kyrie from Missa Carminum
Songs by Busnois, Isaac, Lassus, Ockeghem, and others.

Nathaniel Meyer, Conductor

Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Overture
Sachiko Murata: Sorrow Songs, World Premier

Chausson: Poème, Op.25
Thomas Cooper, Violin

Coleridge-Taylo: Hiawatha Overture, Op. 30

free, but advance reservation suggested

Kristine Opolais, soprano
Violeta Urmana, mezzo-soprano
Lorelei Ensemble,
Tanglewood Festival Chorus,
Boston Symphony Children’s Choir

BOULANGER D’un Soir triste (12 min)
DEBUSSY Nocturnes (24 min)
PUCCINI Suor Angelica* (55 min)

Mendelssohn, String Quartet No. 1 in E-flat,
Mendelssohn, String Quartet No. 4 in E Minor,
Ruth Crawford Seeger, String Quartet (1931)
Bernstein, Yosi, the Jokester (arr. Nicholas Kitchen) (c. 1950)

Magdalena Suchecka Richter, violin
Anne Tyson, piano

works by Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Bartok

FREE

Bach: Chaconne, from Partita No. 2 in D minor,
Beethoven String Trio in G major, Op. 9 No. 1
Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60

Yura Lee, violin; Marcus Thompson, viola
Edward Arron, cello; Gloria Chien, piano

Robert Carver: Sanctus from Missa L’homme arme
Josquin des Prez: Tu solus qui facis mirabilia
Orlande de Lassus: Magnificat Susanne un jour
Orlande de Lassus: Kyrie from Missa Susanne un jour
Guillaume Du Fay: Kyrie from Missa Se la face ay pale
Jacob Obrecht: Gloria from Missa Fortuna desperata
Heinrich Isaac: Kyrie from Missa Carminum
Songs by Busnois, Isaac, Lassus, Ockeghem, and others.

Gregorian chant from the Lieber Usualis
Chant setting for compline, arranged by Daryl Bichel from plainchant hymns
Psalm 4, music by Patricia Van Ness
Hymn: Te lucis ante terminum, plainchant
Blessed Are Those by Thomas Tallis
Ave Regina caelorum by Felice Anerio
Instrumental improvisations

Harriet Bridges, soprano
Beth Spaulding, alto and cantor
Sian Kleindienst, alto
Daryl Bichel, baritone; Bill Leonard, bass
Ben Schwendener, piano
FREE

Viol legend Jordi Savall revisits Alain Corneau’s 1991 film Tous les matins du monde featuring music by these extraordinary composers and other French Baroque masters, including Jean-Baptiste Lully, François Couperin, and Jean-Marie Leclair.

Clara Schumann: Four Fleeting Pieces op. 15
Gubaidulina:
Sonata (1965)
​​​​​​Musical Toys (1969)
Clara Wieck: ​​​Variations from ​​​​​​​​​Bellini’s “Pirata,”
FREE

Arlington Philharmonic Orchestra
Orlando Cela, Music Director

Chev.r de Saint-Georges: Overture to “L’Amant Anonyme”

Korngold Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Hikaru Yonezaki, Violinist

Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites 1 and 2, Op 46 and 55

$10 suggested

Kristine Opolais, soprano
Violeta Urmana, mezzo-soprano
Dmytro Popov, tenor
Ain Anger, bass
Tanglewood Festival Chorus,

DVOŘÁK Stabat Mater

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

With four-piece ensemble, she will perform a broad range of improvisation-forward musical styles – ranging from Italian old-style art songs to jazz across centuries and genres

Albany Pro Musica and Camerata Coral

Music from North, South, and Central America, as well as from the Caribbean, distinctive harmonies and thrilling rhythms celebrate diversity, multiculturalism, inclusiveness and acceptance.

$45 – $0

Trecento stands at a cultural crossroads between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Music from the Rossi and Squarcialupi Codeces, and by composers Jacopo da Bologna, Francesco Landini, and Lorenzo da Firenze, among others, performed on winds, percussion, harp, and voices.

Teri Kowiak, director, voice
Barbara Allen Hill, voice, percussion
Jaya Lakshminarayanan, harp, voice
Dan Meyers, percussion, winds
Giovanni M Spanu, voice
Cathy Meyer Stein, voice, recorders
$20 suggested

Melinda Wagner’s Proceed, Moon
newly restored passage from Bruckner’s Third Symphony.
Poulenc’s Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (1932), featuring local husband and wife duo Randall Hodgkinson and Leslie Amper.

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

Mozart, Trio in E-flat Major for clarinet, viola & piano, Kegelstatt
Messiaen, Le Merle Noir for flute & piano
Thea Musgrave, Night Windows for oboe & piano
Kristin Kuster, Ando: Light Against Shade for Fauré, Piano Quartet No. 1 in c minor, Op. 15

Haydn: Symphony No. 103 in E-flat major (“Drumroll”)
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 15 in A major, Op. 141

BWV 24: Ein ungefärbt Gemüte

Masterworks Chorale
Ross Wood, organ
Kevin Leong, conductor

Ralph Vaughan Williams: O Clap Your Hands
Randall Thompson: The Lord Is My Shepherd
Henry Purcell: Funeral Music for Queen Mary
Dominick Argento: Sanctus & Gloria (from The Masque of Angels)
Hubert Parry: I Was Glad
Charles Villiers Stanford: Beati quorum via
Steven Sametz: Munus (A Gift) (from Amo!)
John Rutter: Gloria

Tickets: $50, 35, 20

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS O Clap Your Hands
RANDALL THOMPSON The Lord Is My Shepherd
PURCELL Funeral Music For Queen Mary,
ARGENTO Gloria & Sanctus (from The Masque of Angels)
STANFORD Beati Quorum Via
STEVEN SAMETZ Munus (A Gift) (No.1 from Amo!)
RUTTER Gloria

Ross Wood on Old South Church’s magnificent and mighty 1921 Skinner orchestral pipe organ.

choral works exploring the voices of women as composers, subjects, storytellers, and poets: James Woodman’s The Midwife’s Tale i
Schütz’s Deutsches Magnificatsets
Edie Hill sets St Teresa of Avila
Gwyneth Walker sets Thomas Merton.
Richard Clark: Woman of No Distinction,

Heinrich Christian, organ; Anna Ward, soprano.

Sarita Kwok, violin, Alexandre Lecarme, cello and Melinda Lee Masur, piano.

Beethoven Piano Trio in D major Op.”Ghost”
Joaquin Turina: ‘Circulo’ for Piano Trio Op. 91
Brahms: Piano Trio in c minor Op. 101

music by Libby Larsen, Robert S. Cohen and Mark Fish

Sarasa gathers a wide cast of characters on stage— with 17th-century Italian music by Uccellini, Merula, Morsches, Pasquini and a world premiere of Julian Grant.’s Three Ladies Beside the Sea for soprano, two violins, 5-string piccolo cello, theorbo and harpsichord.

Kristen Watson, soprano; Christina Day Martinson, Jesse Levine, violins; Jennifer Morsches, Baroque cello & 5-string piccolo cello, Michael Leopold, theorbo & Baroque guitar, John McKean, harpsichord

Mozart, Trio in E-flat Major for clarinet, viola & piano, Kegelstatt
Messiaen, Le Merle Noir for flute & piano
Thea Musgrave, Night Windows for oboe & piano
Kristin Kuster, Ando: Light Against Shade for Fauré, Piano Quartet No. 1 in c minor, Op. 15

PIAZZOLLA Oblivion
BUNCH Swing Shift: Club Crawl
BACH Theme and Four Goldberg Variations
SMETANA Trio in G minor, Op. 15, I. Moderato assai
BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115, I. Allegro
VIVALDI Concerto for Four Violins in B Minor, Op. 3, No. 10, I. Allegro

Sarah Darling, viola
Harbison – Violist’s Notebook – Book I
Mark Berger, viola
Britten – Elegy

Free but reservations requested

Kirill Gerstein, piano

LISZT Mephisto Waltz No. 1
ADÈS Piano Concerto (world premiere;
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4 (45 min)

At the Boston Center for the Arts
Powerful stories of love, loss, courage, and affirmation. In addition to new songs written by this year’s Lifesongs participants, the program will feature Samuel Barber’s iconic Adagio for Strings, a new commission by Akenya Seymour, and performances by members of the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus.

At the Boston Center for the Arts
Powerful stories of love, loss, courage, and affirmation. In addition to new songs written by this year’s Lifesongs participants, the program will feature Samuel Barber’s iconic Adagio for Strings, a new commission by Akenya Seymour, and performances by members of the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus.

Winners of the 2017 Concert Artist Guild and M-Prize Competitions and Graduate Quartet in Residence at Julliard
Haydn String Quartet Op. 33/1
R. Ratner Second String Quartet
Debussy String Quartet

$10 suggested

Prism Trio:
Subaiou Zhang, violin
Sara Wilkins, cello
Anna Arazi, piano

FIVE WORLD PREMIERES!

Judith Weir Trio II (2004)
Angela Elizabeth Slater Shades of Rain (2019)
Kerensa Briggs Forget? (2019)
Sarah Westwood Etching Circles (2019)
Blair Boyd Undercurrent (2019)
Laura Shipsey Confluere (2019)
Morfydd Owen Trio (1914)
Lili Boulanger “D’un Soir Triste”
Lili Boulanger “ D’un Matin de Printemps”

$10 suggested

All-star cast including tenor Nicholas Phan in the title role, soprano Ava Pine as Iphis, mezzo-soprano Ann McMahon Quintero as Storge, bass-baritone Dashon Burton as Zebul, and soprano Sonja Tengblad as the Angel.

At the Boston Center for the Arts
Powerful stories of love, loss, courage, and affirmation. In addition to new songs written by this year’s Lifesongs participants, the program will feature Samuel Barber’s iconic Adagio for Strings, a new commission by Akenya Seymour, and performances by members of the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus.

Harpsichord Suites by Bach, Madsen, Fischer and Froberger, played by Andrus Madsen

$30, Seniors; $25, Students. $10, Under 18 free

ROSSINI Overture from William Tell
HAYDN Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Hob. VIIb/1
Amit Peled, Cello
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 3 “Rhenish”

Piano Concerto No. 1 with Michael Lewin
Symphony No. 4.
Francisco Noya, conductor

Kirill Gerstein, piano

LISZT Mephisto Waltz No. 1
ADÈS Piano Concerto (world premiere;
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4 (45 min)

Prokofiev Complete Piano Sonatas: Part 2

Exploring repertoire from the Holocaust, the Baltic Singing Revolution, the Civil Rights Movement, and other periods of unrest from around the globe,

WGBH’s Jim Braude and Margery Eagan join us as narrators. Audience members will have opportunity to lend their own voices.

violinist Andrea Segar performs with frequent collaborator, Angela Kim, piano.

David Carrier, Music Director

Antonio Salieri: Requiem
Johann Kuhnau: Magnificat
$30/Adults, $25/Seniors and Students

All-star cast including tenor Nicholas Phan in the title role, soprano Ava Pine as Iphis, mezzo-soprano Ann McMahon Quintero as Storge, bass-baritone Dashon Burton as Zebul, and soprano Sonja Tengblad as the Angel.

with pianist Randall Hodgkinson.
DEBUSSY: Sonata in D Minor
CASSADÓ: Unaccompanied Suite, Movement I
SCHUMANN: Fantasy Pieces
FRANCK: Sonata in A Major

Max Levinson, piano plays Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Schubert, and Schumann.

Rhonda Rider, cello
Britten – Cello Suite No. 3

Free but reservations requested

Christina Grandy de Oliveira/soprano, Meghan Jolliffe/mezzo soprano, Eduardo Ramos/tenor, James Lesu’i/baritone, and Kathryn Rosenbach, piano in arias by Strauss, Bolcom, Mozart, Purcell, Donizetti, Verdi, and more

FREE

Rumpelstiltskin by Marti Epstein is based on a classic Brothers Grimm tale that has permeated our culture for hundreds of years. Retelling the story for our time, with many of the roles voiced by women, Marti’s hypnotic music transports you to an expansive fairy tale world.

This family friendly performance is sung in English in an oratorio style with shadow puppetry. Directed by Nathan Troup with puppet design by Iranian theater artist Deniz Khateri, and production design by co-artistic director Julia Noulin-Mérat.

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.

Debussy En blanc et noir
Stravinsky/Shostakovich Symphony of Psalms
Lutoslawski Variations on a theme by Paganini
Debussy Lindaraja
Adès Concert paraphrase on Powder Her Face
Ravel La Valse

Thomas Adès, piano
Kirill Gerstein, piano
DEBUSSY En blanc et noir, for two pianos
STRAVINSKY (arr. SHOSTAKOVICH) Symphony of Psalms,
for two pianos
LUTOSŁAWSKI Variations on a Theme by Paganini, for two pianos
DEBUSSY Lindaraja, for two pianos
Thomas ADÈS Concert paraphrase on Powder Her Face,
for two pianos
RAVEL La Valse, for two pianos

John Adams, Shaker Loops (1978)
Julia Perry, Stabat Mater (1951)
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Sinfonietta No. 1 (1955)
Jessie Montgomery, Starburst (2012)

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

Beethoven: Duo for viola & cello in E flat major
Beethoven: String Trio in G Major, Op.9, No.1
Marti Epstein: Yet There is Hope—Time and Tide Flow Wide
Dohnányi: Serenade

Samuel Barber – Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Florence Price – Symphony no. 3
Grace Williams – Fairest of Stars (Jessica Jacobs, soprano)
Samuel Barber – Essay No. 2 op. 17

BWV 46: Schauet doch und sehet, ob irgendein Schmerz sei

Haydn: String Quartet in G Major, Op.No.1 by
Bartok: String Quartet No. 6 Sz. 114, BB 119
Grieg: String Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 27

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

Dvorak Slavonic Dances, Op. 46, ( 6,7, 8)
Hummel Trumpet Concerto,
Schumann, Symphony No. 4

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

David Russell, cello
Britten – Cello Suite. No. 2

Free but reservations requested

music of Matthew Locke, Pelham Humfrey, John Weldon, John Banister, Jean Baptiste Lully, and Purcell with a newly created narration by Laurence Senelick,

Ian Watson: harpsichord and Musical Director
Paula Chateauneuf: theorbo and early guitar
Susannah Foster, Amy Rawstron: violin
Emily Dahl: viola; Guy Fishman: cello

Vocalists: Charles Blandy, Jacob Cooper, Jessica Cooper, Wei En Chan, Douglas Dodson, Nicole Estima, Katherine Growdon, MaryRuth Lown, Shannon Rose McAuliffe, David McFerrin, Eric Christopher Perry, Deborah Selig, Sumner Thompson, Sarah Yanovitch, and Gregory Zavracky

Haydn: The Creation (Die Schöpfung)

Amanda Forsythe, William Hite, Mark Andrew Cleveland, Alexandra Whitfield, Brian Church

Black Sheep Contemporary Ensemble presents an performance of new music and dance at Laconia Gallery. The visual art of Joeseph Caruso will be featured during the gallery’s exhibition.

Free Admission, $$ Accepted

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

Handel: Chandos Anthem No. 6

John Corigliano – Fern Hill
Jake Runestad – Hope of Loving
Eric Whitacre – Five Hebrew Love Songs
Tarik O’Regan – Triptych

Stravinsky: Suite Italienne
Corigliano: STOMP
Michael Thurber: Violin Sonata
Beethoven: Sonata No. 9 “Kreutzer”

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

Rafael Popper-Keizer, cello
Britten – Cello Suite No. 1

Free but reservations requested

Gian Carlo Menotti’s Pulitzer Prize–winning opera The Consul is a response to the many stories of refugees fleeing Eastern Europe after World War II.

Gian Carlo Menotti’s Pulitzer Prize–winning opera The Consul is a response to the many stories of refugees fleeing Eastern Europe after World War II.

Hiob
Lobegesang
Oratorium nach Bildung der Bibel (“The Cholera Cantata”)

16 core singer/soloists and orchestra, Guiomar Turgeon, Concert Mistress and Clerici Quartet, principals

BACH: Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp major
RACHMANINOV: Etudes-tableaux, Op. 39, No. 5
TCHAIKOVSKY: Dumka in C minor, Op. 59
CHOPIN: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor,
LISZT: Transcendental Etude “Wilde Jagd”
MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition

Children under 6 not admitted

Gian Carlo Menotti’s Pulitzer Prize–winning opera The Consul is a response to the many stories of refugees fleeing Eastern Europe after World War II.

BWV 164: Ihr, die ihr euch von Christo nennet

Gian Carlo Menotti’s Pulitzer Prize–winning opera The Consul is a response to the many stories of refugees fleeing Eastern Europe after World War II.

Mozart: Quartet in E-flat Major, K. 428
Zeynep Toraman: things are made to fill voids
Brahms: String Sextet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 36,

Free but tickets required,

Hiob
Lobegesang
Oratorium nach Bildung der Bibel (“The Cholera Cantata”

16 core singer/soloists and orchestra, Guiomar Turgeon, Concert Mistress and Clerici Quartet, principals

$40/Adults, $35/Seniors, $25/Students

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

Ravel, Schubert and Staud trios

Tickets are free but required

SCHUMANN Symphony No. 1, Spring
STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring

Chopin Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor
Chopin Polonaise Brillante in C Major
Franck Sonata for Cello and Piano in A Major

Haydn, Piano Trio No. 43 in C Majo
Poulenc, Sextet in C Major for piano & winds
Oliver Knussen, …upon one note – Fantasia after Purcell for clarinet, violin, cello & piano
Schubert, Cello Quintet in C Major, D. 956,

BWV 227 Jesu, meine Freude
Ruben Valenzuela, conducto

Works of Attaignant, Cavazzoni, Gabrieli, Frescobaldi, Fischer, Graupner, and Bach

$15 suggested; $10 BCS Friends; free with student ID

Dan Forrest:

The Music of Living
You Are the Music
Requiem for the Living

Haydn, Piano Trio No. 43 in C Majo
Poulenc, Sextet in C Major for piano & winds
Oliver Knussen, …upon one note – Fantasia after Purcell for clarinet, violin, cello & piano
Schubert, Cello Quintet in C Major, D. 956,

pianist Damien Francouer-Krzyzek, violinists Leonard Fu and Haruno Sato, violist Daniel Orsen and cellist Jamie Clark. The program will include the world premier of Benjamin Park’s quintet for piano and strings.

$25, $10 for students and seniors suggested

SCHUMANN Symphony No. 1, Spring
STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring

Sergio Tiempo, piano
Aquiles Machado, tenor
Gustavo Castillo, baritone
Tanglewood Festival Chorus,

Paul DESENNE Hipnosis Mariposa
GINASTERA Piano Concerto No. 1
ESTÉVEZ Cantata Criolla

Works by of John Adams, George Benjamin, Carl Schimmel, and Anton Webern. Vimbayi Kaziboni, conductor.

Sergio Tiempo, piano
Aquiles Machado, tenor
Gustavo Castillo, baritone
Tanglewood Festival Chorus,

Paul DESENNE Hipnosis Mariposa
GINASTERA Piano Concerto No. 1
ESTÉVEZ Cantata Criolla

Love and Death, Part III
Puccini’s “Crisantemi,”
Britten’s String Quartet No. 3
Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden.”

Sergio Tiempo, piano
Aquiles Machado, tenor
Gustavo Castillo, baritone
Tanglewood Festival Chorus,

Paul DESENNE Hipnosis Mariposa
GINASTERA Piano Concerto No. 1
ESTÉVEZ Cantata Criolla

BRAHMS: Academic Festival Overture
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 5
Featuring a piece performed by the 2018–2019 Boston Conservatory at Berklee Concerto Competition winner.

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

Arnold Bax: Fantasy Sonata for Viola and Harp,
Harbison: String Trio (2013)
Brahms: String Quintet No. 1 in F major, Op. 88

Jesse Mills & Alyssa Wang, violins
Dimitri Murrath & Marcus Thompson, violas
Raman Ramakrishnan, cello
Jessica Zhou, harp

David Coll – *world premiere* for soprano, clarinet, viola, transducers and projectors [New Commission]

Matthew Schumaker – *world premiere* for clarinet and electronics [New Commission]

Patricia Alessandrini – Collaborative work with live instruments, transducers and sheet metal

MIT composition seminar students –new works inspired by this themed event
– Admission Free –

Francesco Piemontesi, piano

BACEWICZ Concerto for String Orchestra
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 19 in F, K.459
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 5, Reformation

Trinity Church Choirs

Charles Wood: St. Mark Passion
$20

The UMass Boston Orchestra in concert, conducted by Sommer Forrester, PhD

Tchaikovsky – Romeo & Juliet – Fantasy Overture
Korngold – Much Ado About Nothing
Elgar – Nimrod from “Enigma Variations”

BWV 4 Christ lag in Todesbanden

Mozart Violin Sonata TBD
Brahms Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major
Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Major, “Kreutzer”

Daniil Trifonov, piano

RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 15

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

Anna Bradford, oboe
Natalie Zemba, bassoon
Stephanie Mao, piano

Jenni Brandon: The Wildflower Trio
Øivind Westby: Portrait of a Family
arranged by Natalie Zemba
André Previn: Trio for oboe, bassoon, and piano

$10 suggested

Visitas Concert
Ives Ragtime Dances, Strauss Suite from Der Rosenkavalier, Strauss Dance of the Seven Veils (from Salome), Ravel La Valse

Ian Watson, director
Margot Rood, soprano, Aisslinn Nosky, violin
Karina Schmitz, viola d’amore

Vivaldi:
Sinfonia “Il coro delle muse,” RV 149
Sinfonia in G, RV 146
Ostro picta, armata spina (introduzione to Gloria, RV 588), solo motet for soprano & strings in D, RV 642
Concerto for Viola d’amore in D, RV 392
Concerto for Violin in E-flat, Op. 8, No. 5, “La tempesta di mare”

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

Mary Mackenzie, soprano & Vivian Chang-Freiheit, piano

Schubert, Gretchen am Spinnrade
Heggie, The Deepest Desire for sop, flute & pf
Kurt Weill, Selected Cabaret Songs
Vaughan Williams, Ten Blake Songs for voice & oboe
Schumann, Frauenliebe und –leben, Op. 42

Faculty Recital – John Tyson – Recorders, Pipe & Tabor

Polyphonic Improvisations on Renaissance Madrigals, Grounds and Dances

Works of: Fabrizio Caroso, Michael Praetorius, Claudio Monteverdi, Claudin de Sermisy, Orazio Vecchi, Giovanni Bassano, Diego Ortiz

RENAISSONICS: Eden MacAdam-Somer – violin and viola, Cristi Catt – soprano and members of the NEC Contemporary Improvisation Department.

FREE

Bach Odyssey
English Suite No. 1 in A Major,
English Suite No. 2 in A minor,
Suite in F minor, BWV 823
English Suite No. 3 in G minor, Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 894

Free but tickets required,

MOZART: Symphony No. 36 (“Linz”)
HAYDN: Cello Concerto No. 2 in D, Hob.VIIb:2 (featuring Patrice Jackson-Tilghman, cello)
BEETHOVEN: Creatures of Prometheus Suite
Bruce Hangen, conductor

FREE

Baiba Skride, violin

STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
Sebastian CURRIER Aether, for violin and orchestra
(world premiere; BSO co-commission)
STRAVINSKY Petrushka

Joélle Harvey, soprano
Sandra Piques Eddy, mezzo-soprano; Tom Randle, tenor; Soloman Howard, bass
H+H Orchestra and Chorus
Young Men’s Chorus, Young Women’s Chamber Choir

Mozart: Masonic Funeral Music
Allegri: Miserere mei, Deus
Bach: Singet dem Herrn
Mozart: Requiem

A deliciously heady and high quality cocktail of classical, jazz, klezmer, Latin, and pop music

Music of Williams, Broughton, Gershwin, Rodgers, and more

FREE with $15 suggested

STRAVINSKY Scherzo à la Russe
ZACHARY WADSWORTH Piano Concerto
Doris Stevenson, Piano
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88, B. 163

HOLLAND – Alchemy for flute and cello
BEETHOVEN – Trio for flute, bassoon and piano
HARBISON – Six American Painters for oboe and strings
Plus a new work by Laurie San Martin for 9

BWV 28 Gottlob! nun geht das Jahr zu Ende

Gisèle Ben-Dor, Guest Conductor

Javier Álvarez: Metro Chabacano
Gabriela Lena Frank: Will-o’-the-Wisp
Cynthia Meyers, piccolo
Dvořák: Serenade for Strings in E major

Joélle Harvey, soprano
Sandra Piques Eddy, mezzo-soprano; Tom Randle, tenor; Soloman Howard, bass
H+H Orchestra and Chorus
Young Men’s Chorus, Young Women’s Chamber Choir

Mozart: Masonic Funeral Music
Allegri: Miserere mei, Deus
Bach: Singet dem Herrn
Mozart: Requiem

Lavietes Pavilion at Harvard Athletics Complex
Featuring Jennifer Johnson Cano, Caroline Worra, Maria Zifchak, Matthew DiBattista, David Cushing, and Michelle Trainor
With Jesse Darden, Kathryn Skemp, Chelsea Basler, Felicia Gavilanes, Vera Savage, Lynn Torgove and Omar Najmi

Conductor David Angus
Stage Director Anne Bogart
Movement Director Shura Baryshnikov

Lavietes Pavilion at Harvard Athletics Complex
Featuring Jennifer Johnson Cano, Caroline Worra, Maria Zifchak, Matthew DiBattista, David Cushing, and Michelle Trainor
With Jesse Darden, Kathryn Skemp, Chelsea Basler, Felicia Gavilanes, Vera Savage, Lynn Torgove and Omar Najmi

Conductor David Angus
Stage Director Anne Bogart
Movement Director Shura Baryshnikov

BWV 112 Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt

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

Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Cello
Loeffler: Two Rhapsodies for Viola, Oboe and Piano
Chausson: Concert for Violin, Piano and String Quartet, Op. 21

Peggy Pearson, oboe; Yura Lee & Jennifer Frautschi, violins; Marcus Thompson, viola; Raman Ramakrishnan, cello; Max Levinson, piano

The world premiere of a new work by Kareem Roustom, that tells the stories of the women of the Odyssey – from the sorceress Circe to the deadly Sirens, from the ghost Of Odysseus’ mother to the resourceful Penelope. Other works to be announced.

Music Director: Pamela Mindell
Soprano: Rachele Schmiege
Mezzo-soprano: Christina English
Tenor: Stefan Barner
Baritone: Thomas Jones

$25; $15 students and seniors; pay-as-you-are-able

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

Ravel, Sonata for violin & piano No. 2 in G
Fauré, Piano Trio in d minor, Op. 120
Carter, Tempo e Tempi for soprano, oboe, clarinet, violin & cello
Arnold Bax, Elegaic Trio for flute, viola & harp
Brahms, String Quintet No. 2 in G Major

John Tyson, director

Performing Renaissance madrigals, chansons and dances, contemporary and popular music on nine sizes of Renaissance recorders, sopranino to contrabass, made by Italian master craftsman Francesco LiVirghi

Works of: Josquin des Prez, Giovanni Gabrieli, Salamone Rossi, Luca Marenzio, John Bennet,
Sören Sieg and more!

$$ suggested

Zdenek Fibich – Vesna (Spring)
Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 1

The Beautiful Helen: Boston Premiere
Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy

Fully staged, Performed in English