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Music by Joachim Holbek. Libretto by Rhea Leman. Directed by Dmitry Troyanovsky. Musical Direction by Cristi Catt.

It’s 1953 Cold War USA, and Ethel and Julius Rosenberg have been accused of atomic espionage and sentenced to death.

Adults ($30); Seniors-62+ ($25); Students with valid ID ($10)

BRITTEN Simple Symphony
CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 1
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 4, Italian
Jan Lisiecki, piano

BRITTEN Simple Symphony
CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 1
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 4, Italian
Jan Lisiecki, piano

A chamber opera based on the paintings of Edward Hopper.

Figures from five Edward Hopper paintings come to life through intimate vignettes as imagined by John Musto and Mark Campbell in this chamber opera, based on “Room in New York,” “Hotel Window,” “Hotel Room,” “Two on the Aisle,” and “Automat.”

Joshua Major directs, Robert Tweten conducts

ELGAR: The Dream of Gerontius

BENJAMIN ZANDER, CONDUCTOR

MADELEINE SHAW, MEZZO-SOPRANO
ROBERT MURRAY, TENOR
DEREK WELTON, BASS

CHORUS PRO MUSICA
JAIME KIRSCH, MUSIC DIRECTOR

Mahler Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection”
Tickets and information at Harvard Box Office.

Music by Joachim Holbek. Libretto by Rhea Leman. Directed by Dmitry Troyanovsky. Musical Direction by Cristi Catt.

It’s 1953 Cold War USA, and Ethel and Julius Rosenberg have been accused of atomic espionage and sentenced to death.

Adults ($30); Seniors-62+ ($25); Students with valid ID ($10)

La Bohème, in four acts, sung in Italian with English supertitles. Seven-piece ensemble led Beatrice Affron, contemporary setting by Greg Smucker.

$30-$60

Yu-Hui Chang: Pixlandia (2016) *
Shih-Hui Chen TBA
Anthony Paul De Ritis: The Legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl (2018)*
Beibei Wang, percussion
Lei Liang: A Thousand Mountains, A Million Streams (2017)*

*World Premiere
Gil Rose, conductor

BRITTEN Simple Symphony
CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 1
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 4, Italian
Jan Lisiecki, piano

A Medieval Romance in Poetry and Music

Anne Azéma brings Boston Camerata’s retelling of the Tristan and Iseult lovers’ tale back to life, in Joel Cohen’s powerful scenario complemented by a stunning new stage design.

$25/42/60 general; students $10

Works by Myslivecek, Wendling, Cannabich and other musicians with whom Mozart collaborated, competed, and socialized, as well as works by Wolfgang himself. WCRB’s Laura Carlo reads from the colorful letters that chart Mozart’s personal and professional circles!

Music by Joachim Holbek. Libretto by Rhea Leman. Directed by Dmitry Troyanovsky. Musical Direction by Cristi Catt.

It’s 1953 Cold War USA, and Ethel and Julius Rosenberg have been accused of atomic espionage and sentenced to death.

Adults ($30); Seniors-62+ ($25); Students with valid ID ($10)

BWV 38 Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu Dir

A journey through the musical landscape of British and American song in the 20th and 21st centuries. (Britten, Vaughan Williams, Lauridsen, Marvin)
FREE and open to the public
Jameson Marvin, Music Director
Justin Blackwell, piano

SCHUBERT
Im Frühling | Geheimes | Gretchen am Spinnrade, Lied der Mignon (Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt) | Rastlose Liebe
JANÁČEK: from In the Mists
I. Andante |IV. Presto (Mr. Kalish solo)
RAVEL: Histoires Naturelles
REBECCA CLARKE
June Twilight | Infant Joy | The Tiger | A Dream | The Cloths of Heaven
BARTÓK
Fekete | Annyi bánat a szüvemen | Régi keserves | Eddig való dolgom | ‘Hatforintos’ nóta
WILLIAM BOLCOM
Black Max | Toothbrush time | Waitin’ | George

Tickets: $46, $40, $29

BRUCH Selection from Eight Pieces for clarinet, viola, and piano, Op. 83
BOULANGER Nocturne and Cortège, for cello and piano
Stacy GARROP Bohemian Café for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, and double bass
MOZART String Quintet in C, K.515

with organist Fred MacArthur, the ensemble will perform Handel’s rollicking Music for the Royal Fireworks and Strauss’ Festival Procession Feierlicher Einzug, as well as Schutz’ Psalm 111, scored for 4 antiphonal brass choirs and organ. New England native Carl Ruggles’s Angels and Franz Biebl’s Ave Maria also make an appearance, along with Kent Baker’s The Common Good, winner of Bay Colony’s 1st annual call for scores.

$15 suggested for those 14 and older. Kids 13 and under are free

Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Cello
Scott Wheeler: Songs Without Words
Dvořák: Piano Trio in F Minor.

Lucia Lin, violin; Jonathan Miller, cello; Diane Walsh, piano

A chamber opera based on the paintings of Edward Hopper.

Figures from five Edward Hopper paintings come to life through intimate vignettes as imagined by John Musto and Mark Campbell in this chamber opera, based on “Room in New York,” “Hotel Window,” “Hotel Room,” “Two on the Aisle,” and “Automat.”

Joshua Major directs, Robert Tweten conducts

A Medieval Romance in Poetry and Music

Anne Azéma brings Boston Camerata’s retelling of the Tristan and Iseult lovers’ tale back to life, in Joel Cohen’s powerful scenario complemented by a stunning new stage design.

$25/42/60 general; students $10

BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio Op. 70 No. 1 “Ghost”
SCHOENFIELD: Cafe Music
BRAHMS: Intermezzo in E major from 7 Fantasien, op. 116
MUZCYNSKI: Desperate Measures (Paganini Variation)
BRIDGE: Valse Russe from Miniatures for Piano Trio

Vicky HyunJin Lee (violin), Yu Mi Bae (cello)
Hyojin Rhim (piano)
FREE

Kati Agócs: Concerto for Violin and Percussion Orchestra (World Premiere; Fromm Foundation Commission)
Christopher Rouse: Bonham
Lior Navok: Signals
Joan Tower: Small
Joan Tower: DNA

Nicholas Kitchen, Violin
Frank Epstein, Conductor
FREE

Luciano Berio, Folk Songs for mezzo-soprano, flute, clarinet, viola, cello, harp, and 2 percussionists
Garwood Whaley, Dialogue for snare drum and timpani
Manuel Moreno-Buendia, Suite Popular Espanola for flute, viola, and harp
Adrienne Albert, Cuban Stories for flute, clarinet, viola, and harp

FREE

Haydn: Symphony no 44 in E minor, H 1 no 44 “Trauer”, Conductor: Donald Palma

Strauss: Metamorphosen
FREE

BRAHMS Violin Concerto
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5
Vadim Gluzman, violin

Reicha: Parthia in D (1784)
André Caplet: Suite Persane (ca. 1900)
Frank Bridge: Norse Legend (1938)
Dvořák: Czech Suite, Op. 39 (1879)

$20; Students $10; 13 and under free

Visual artist Charles Ogilvie, will premiere a pastiche opera drawing on themes of lies, fake news pastiche opera with music from Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, Berlioz, and Weber in rarely-performed period arrangements and new arrangements in period style by Yoni Kahn and Thomas Carroll.

Tickets: $15-30

David Lang: the little match girl passion

Margot Rood, soprano and percussion
Emily Marvosh, contralto and percussion
Matthew Anderson, tenor and percussion
Jesse Blumberg, baritone and percussion
Ryan Turner, conductor
Jessie Jeanne & Dancers: Dance Company

David Lang: the little match girl passion

Margot Rood, soprano and percussion
Emily Marvosh, contralto and percussion
Matthew Anderson, tenor and percussion
Jesse Blumberg, baritone and percussion
Ryan Turner, conductor
Jessie Jeanne & Dancers: Dance Company

Visual artist Charles Ogilvie, will premiere a pastiche opera drawing on themes of lies, fake news pastiche opera with music from Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, Berlioz, and Weber in rarely-performed period arrangements and new arrangements in period style by Yoni Kahn and Thomas Carroll.

Tickets: $15-30

BRAHMS Violin Concerto
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5
Vadim Gluzman, violin

works for chorus and strings book-ended with chants by Hildegard von Bingen

Arvo Pärt’s Adam’s Lament
Elena Ruehr’s Eve

Tickets from $20

joined by soprano Sonja Tengblad and baritone Bradford Gleim.

Scarlatti, Sinfonia from La caduta de’ Decemviri
Berio, Selections from Duetti per due Violin
Rossini, String Sonata No. 3 in C Major
Porpora, Calcante ed Achille
New work by the winner of A Far Cry’s first Young Composers Competition

Let Justice Roll Down by Kathy Wonson Eddy
Sweet Princesses by Pamela J. Marshall
Eulogy by John M. Tarrh
I Have Decided to Love by Thomas Stumpf
In the Words of Dr King by Vartan Aghababian
The compositions will be interspersed with other spoken reflections on MLK Jr.

Alexandra Whitfield, soprano, Regie Gibson, speaker, Elizabeth Whitfield, violin, Lisa Kempskie, viola, Jane Sheena, cello

The Arlington-Belmont Chorale and
The Arlington Philharmonic Orchestra
Barry Singer and Orlando Cela, Music Directors

Dmitri Shostakovich — Festive Overture, Op. 86
Mabel Daniels — Exultate Deo
Gabriel Fauré – Requiem

Roman Rudnystky, piano by Erard, Paris (1877)

Debussy:
Préludes, Bk. I; Masques; Les soirs illuminés par l’ardeur du charbon; Ballade slave in F; Danse: Tarantelle styrienne

Albéniz: Iberia, Bk II
de Falla: Fantasía Bética.

$15; children & students free

Renaissance Antiphonal Music, Italian Madrigals, Carnaval Songs, Dances, Contemporary, African Music and the World Premier of Melika Fitzhugh’s Oracle septet for greatbass and contrabass recorders!

Guest Artists: Aldo Abreu, Martin Bernstein, Sheila Bosworth, Emily O’Brien

English and Dutch 16th and 17th- century works

Karen Burciaga: violin, treble viol, voice
Daniel Meyers: recorder, flute, bagpipes, voice
Josh Schreiber Shalem: bass viol, voice
Matthew Wright: lute, voice
$10

Michele Pinet, harp
Bach, Corelli, Salzedo, and more

$5 suggested

Program TBA

ALL-BRAHMS PROGRAM
Piano Concerto No. 2
Symphony No. 2
Emanuel Ax, piano

Cendrillon (in English) is Cinderella as you’ve never seen her before! A simple but savvy Mexican señorita, a papá with a shady past, and ditzy hermanas.

Music Director: Juliet Cunningham
Stage Director: Alexandra Dietrich

Kathryn McKellar-Cendrillon
Jeremy Ayres Fisher – Prince Charming
Gyuyeon Shim – La Fée
Stephanie Hollenberg – Maguelonne
Jaime Hartzell – Armelinde
Junhan Choi – Baron de Pictordu
Fran Daniel Laucerica – Count Barigoule

Pamela Mindell, Music Director
J. S. Bach Wedding Cantata, BWV 196
W.A. Mozart Requiem
J.M. Haydn, Requiem Aeternam/Kyrie & Quam olim Abrahae, from Requiem Solemne

soprano: Neva Corbo-Hudak
mezzo: Emily Harmon
tenor: Jesse Darden
Bass: Ian Pomerantz

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

Music of Italian Renaissance master Cipriano de Rore.

Free but advance reservations are required.

ALL-BRAHMS PROGRAM
Piano Concerto No. 2
Symphony No. 2
Emanuel Ax, piano

Tessa Lark and Robin Scott, violin
Rebecca Albers and Molly Carr, viola
Marcy Rosen, cello

Haydn, Quartet in D Major, Op. 20, No. 4
Penderecki, String Trio
Brahms, String Quintet in F Major, Op. 88

Cendrillon (in English) is Cinderella as you’ve never seen her before! A simple but savvy Mexican señorita, a papá with a shady past, and ditzy hermanas.

Music Director: Juliet Cunningham
Stage Director: Alexandra Dietrich

Kathryn McKellar-Cendrillon
Jeremy Ayres Fisher – Prince Charming
Gyuyeon Shim – La Fée
Stephanie Hollenberg – Maguelonne
Jaime Hartzell – Armelinde
Junhan Choi – Baron de Pictordu
Fran Daniel Laucerica – Count Barigoule

Harry Christophers leads all forces in Hercules, the tempestuous tale of the mighty hero returning home from war and reconnecting with the life he left behind

Conductor: Lewis Buckley

Johannes Hanssen: Valdres March

Rossini/arr. Cailliet: La Gazza Ladra Overture
Morton Lauridsen/: O Magnum Mysterium
David Gillingham: Apocalyptic Dreams
Vaughan Williams: Toccata Marziale
Eric Whitacre: Ghost Train
Steven Reineke: Sedona

Pre-concert lecture by conductor Lewis Buckley is at 2:30 pm $18, $14 for seniors, $6 for students, and are free under 5.

Ibero-American dances and song-dances, including folias, jácaras and fandangos, from the Renaissance to the present.

Daniela Tošić, voice,
Yi-Li Chang,violin & viola da gamba
Roberto Pérez, bandola & percussion
Eduardo Betancourt, Venezuelan harp & cuatro
Carlos Sulbarán, cuatro, percussion
Laury Gutiérrez, viola da gamba & guitars

$35 reserved, $20 general, $15 seniors, $10 students, $5 low income

Infrequently-performed choral works by lesser-known composers such as Hensel, Beach, Finzi, Senfl, and Biebl.

$20 $15

Cendrillon (in English) is Cinderella as you’ve never seen her before! A simple but savvy Mexican señorita, a papá with a shady past, and ditzy hermanas.

Music Director: Juliet Cunningham
Stage Director: Alexandra Dietrich

Kathryn McKellar-Cendrillon
Jeremy Ayres Fisher – Prince Charming
Gyuyeon Shim – La Fée
Stephanie Hollenberg – Maguelonne
Jaime Hartzell – Armelinde
Junhan Choi – Baron de Pictordu
Fran Daniel Laucerica – Count Barigoule

World premieres of music by Berklee students Devina Boughton, Jordan Kerr and Madison Miller and also my new work The Signs of Our Time a social commentary on corruption in our government and greed in our world seen through the eyes of 11th and 12th century writers of the Carmina Burana.
FREE

Including Byrd’s Ne irascaris Domine, de Brito’s Lamentations for Holy Saturday, and selections from Lassus’ Lagrime de San Pietro alongside lesser known gems.
FREE

Music, Emeritus at Harvard University, at 7pm.
Tomás Luis de Victoria: Officium defunctorum
Arvo Pärt: Berliner Messe
William Harris: Faire is the Heaven

Program TBA

Works for voices and instruments written during the Thirty Years War by Henrich Schütz, directed by Joshua Rifkin
FREE

Works by Teresa Carreño (Venezuela), Gabriela Lena Frank (Peruvian-American), Tania León (Cuba), and Lucía Caruso (Argentina)

Brahms, Zigeunerlieder
Daniel Elder, Three Nocturnes
Stephen Paulus, The Road Home and more

David Carrier, Music Director
Mark Feldhusen: Piano

Elgar’s ‘My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land’, Barber’s ‘Sure on this Shining NIght, Lauridsen’s “Les Chansons des Roses”, Choral dances from “Gloriana,” plus works by Elgar, Monteverdi, Barber, Lennon/McCartney, and more.

$10* – $50

Music, Emeritus at Harvard University, at 7pm.
Tomás Luis de Victoria: Officium defunctorum
Arvo Pärt: Berliner Messe
William Harris: Faire is the Heaven

Tahiti/Arias will be presented as a cabaret, built within the DCR Steriti Memorial Rink in Boston’s North End. Stage Director David Schweizer (BLO’s 2017 production of Burke & Hare) and Artistic Advisor John Conklin on a mission to blend the works into a dramaturgically complete evening. Heather Johnson and Marcus Deloach as Sam and Dinah. Mara Bonde, Neal Ferreira and Vincent Turregano sing Tahiti‘s “Greek chorus” and other parts within the Arias arrangements.

Olga Vinokur, piano by Erard, Paris (1859)

Chopin:
Nocturne in Db, Op. 27, No. 2; Scherzo No. 4 in E, Op. 54; Sonata No. 2 in b-flat, Op. 35 •

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: Lied ohne Worte in Db, Op. 8, No. 3
Schumann: Sonata No. 2 in g, Op. 22
Verdi-Liszt: Paraphrase from Rigoletto, S.434.

$15; children & students free

Mozart: Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-flat major
Fauré: La bonne chanson, Op. 61
Schubert: Octet in F major for Winds and Strings
Charles Blandy tenor • Peggy Pearson oboe • Rane Moore clarinet • Adrian Morejon bassoon • Jason Snider French horn • Jennifer Frautschi violin • Yura Lee violin • Marcus Thompson viola • Raman Ramakrishnan cello • Thomas Van Dyck double bass • Max Levinson piano

Tahiti/Arias will be presented as a cabaret, built within the DCR Steriti Memorial Rink in Boston’s North End. Stage Director David Schweizer (BLO’s 2017 production of Burke & Hare) and Artistic Advisor John Conklin on a mission to blend the works into a dramaturgically complete evening. Heather Johnson and Marcus Deloach as Sam and Dinah. Mara Bonde, Neal Ferreira and Vincent Turregano sing Tahiti‘s “Greek chorus” and other parts within the Arias arrangements.

Tahiti/Arias will be presented as a cabaret, built within the DCR Steriti Memorial Rink in Boston’s North End. Stage Director David Schweizer (BLO’s 2017 production of Burke & Hare) and Artistic Advisor John Conklin on a mission to blend the works into a dramaturgically complete evening. Heather Johnson and Marcus Deloach as Sam and Dinah. Mara Bonde, Neal Ferreira and Vincent Turregano sing Tahiti‘s “Greek chorus” and other parts within the Arias arrangements.

Higdon Blue Cathedral
2018 Concerto competition winner
Vaughan Williams Symphony No.5

Concord Chorus
Teresa Wakim, soprano; Julia Cavallaro, mezzo
Charles Blandy, tenor; Robert Honeysucker, baritone
with professional orchestra
Kevin Leong, conductor

Joseph Haydn: Ave regina in A, Hob. XXIIIb:3
Joseph Haydn: Missa in Angustiis (Lord Nelson Mass), Hob. XXII:11

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

Antonìn Dvorák: Mass in D major, op. 86 (original version)
Noted soloists, with Heinrich Christensen, organ
Frank Martin: Mass for Double Choir a cappella

Tahiti/Arias will be presented as a cabaret, built within the DCR Steriti Memorial Rink in Boston’s North End. Stage Director David Schweizer (BLO’s 2017 production of Burke & Hare) and Artistic Advisor John Conklin on a mission to blend the works into a dramaturgically complete evening. Heather Johnson and Marcus Deloach as Sam and Dinah. Mara Bonde, Neal Ferreira and Vincent Turregano sing Tahiti‘s “Greek chorus” and other parts within the Arias arrangements.

An early music concert with a creel-full of glees, rounds and songs about fish, fisherman, fishmongers and fisheaters, a secular cantata by Reinhard Keiser titled Der glückliche Fischer and table music by Johann Fischer and J.C.F. Fischer. Performed on period instruments.

$15

Tahiti/Arias will be presented as a cabaret, built within the DCR Steriti Memorial Rink in Boston’s North End. Stage Director David Schweizer (BLO’s 2017 production of Burke & Hare) and Artistic Advisor John Conklin on a mission to blend the works into a dramaturgically complete evening. Heather Johnson and Marcus Deloach as Sam and Dinah. Mara Bonde, Neal Ferreira and Vincent Turregano sing Tahiti‘s “Greek chorus” and other parts within the Arias arrangements.

Jerilyn Jorgensen, violin
Cullan Bryant, piano
Tröndlin (ca. 1830) instrument
Schubert: Grand Duo in A, D.574
Beethoven: Sonata No. 9 in A, “Kreutzer”.

$15; children & students free

Ravel: Mother Goose Suite for wind quintet and piano
Brahms: Serenade No. 2 in A Major, Op. 16, for wind quintet, viola, cello, and double bass
$10 for non-subscribers; free for subscribers

Yi Li Chang, violin
Nicholas Southwick, flute
Mary Jodice, organ
Works by J.S. Bach

$5 suggested

Music of Johann Bernhard and Johann Sebastian Bach with guest harpsichordist and conductor Hank Knox

J.S. Bach: Overture for Violin and Strings in A minor, BWV 1067a
J.S. Bach: Concerto in C minor for Two Harpsichords, BWV 1060
Johann Bernhard Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 3 in E minor
Johann Bernhard Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D major

Elyane Laussade, piano
Erard, Paris (1928) instrument

Chaminade: Etude de concert in D-flat
Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag; The Easy Winners Debussy: Reflets dans l’eau; La fille aux cheveux de lin •
Zez Confrey: Dizzy Fingers; Concert étude in f# Satie: Je te veux
Copland: The Cat & the Mouse
Ravel: Ondine (Gaspard de la nuit)
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue.

$15; children & students free

Thomas Pandolfi, piano
Erard, Paris (1877) instrument

Bach-Tausig Toccata in d • Paderewski • Chopin Fantaisie-Impromptu in c#; 3 études • Bach-Godowsky Andante in C • Wiktor Labunski Paganini Var. • F.X. Scharwenka • Godowsky Alt-Wien • Gounod–Godowsky/Pandolfi.

$15; children & students free

The Arlington Philharmonic Orchestra and The Arlington-Belmont Chorale
Orlando Cela and Barry Singer, Music Directors
Sarah Telford, Assistant Chorale Conductor

Barry Shiffman leads an 11 member ensemble in a program of Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence and Golijov’s Ayre, featuring soprano Miriam Khalil.

TURINA: Piano Trio No. 2 in B minor, Op. 76
MENDELSSOHN: Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor,
BRAHMS: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25 with Barry Shiffman

Martin Beaver, violin | Clive Greensmith, cello | Jon Kimura Parker, piano

BOSTON ORGAN STUDIO:
CHRISTIAN LANE, DOR AMRAM
BRANDON SANTINI, JENNIFER HSIAO
Elgar, Franck, Vierne, Morel and Reubke

Samantha Hankey, Stephen Prutsman, John McKean; Rockport Fellowship String Quartet
LIGETI: Continuum
BIZET: arias from Carmen (Non piu mesta, Habanera)
PRUTSMAN: original compositions
LISZT: Hungarian Rhapsody, No. 2

Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier interspersed with works by Beethoven, Wagner, Debussy, Schoenberg as well as music of bebop legend Charlie Parker.

with Suzie Leblanc and Daniel Taylor
Baroque chamber music performed by an ensemble led by violinist Adrian Butterfield, followed by Handel’s Love Duets by Leblanc and Taylor

Eric Pultz plays Hollins, Purvis, Mendelssohn, Hirten, Flagler, Widor and Vierne

$12, children $5

SCHUBERT: Impromptu, Op. 142, No. 3 in B-flat
RAVEL: La Valse
STRAUSS (arr. Percy Grainger): “Ramble on the last love duet from Rosenkavalier”
DVORÁK: Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major, with YEKWON SUNWOO, piano

with Dawn Upshaw, soprano
MOZART: String Quartet No. 16 in E-flat major, K. 428
WEBERN: 6 Bagatelles for String Quartet, Op. 9
SCHUBERT: Minuets (alternating with Webern Bagatelles)
RESPIGHI: Il Tramonto
SCHOENBERG: String Quartet, No. 2

Samantha Koch plays works by Tchaikovsky, Reger, Joplin, Bach and Price

$12, children $5

Rolston String Quartet | Davóne Tines, bass-baritone | Michael Schachter, piano
Featuring a program including string quartets of Tchaikovsky and Schafer and concluding with a dramatic staging of Were You There, a series of spirituals for voice, piano and strings.

Barry Shiffman, Luri Lee, violins
Jonathan Lo, cello; Matt Sharrock, marimba

BACH: Concerto for two violins in D minor,
GOLIJOV: “Mariel” for marimba and solo cello

J.S. BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048
PHILIP GLASS: Symphony No. 3
BARTÓK: Divertimento, Sz. 113
GOLIJOV: Tenebrae

Rudolf Buchbinder, piano
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5

Andris Nelsons, conductor
TMC Conducting Fellows
BERNSTEIN Opening Prayer (Benediction)
SMETANA Vyšehrad
DVOŘÁK Carnival Overture
STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben

PROKOFIEV Visions fugitives
BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 30 in E, Op. 109
BEETHOVEN (arr. LISZT) An die ferne Geliebte
SCHUMANN Fantasy in C, Op. 17

Instrumental Ensemble
Charles Prince, conductor
Alexandra Silber, soprano^
Shuler Hensley, baritone^
Vocal Ensemble
Jamie Bernstein, director
BERNSTEIN Trouble in Tahiti

Paul Lewis, piano
WAGNER Siegfried Idyll
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat, K.595
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 3, Rhenish

with Estela Olevsky, piano

From Vienna to Buenas Aires: Works of Franz Lehar, Emmerich Kalman, and more

$20, 16 and under free. Bring a friend, who new to these concerts free.

Andris Nelsons, conductor
Kristine Opolais, soprano (Mimì)
Piotr Beczała, tenor (Rodolfo)+
Susanna Phillips, soprano (Musetta)+
Franco Vassallo, baritone (Marcello)
Davide Luciano, baritone (Schaunard)+
Luca Pisaroni, bass-baritone (Colline)
Paul Plishka, bass (Benoît/Alcindoro)
Neal Ferreira, tenor (Parpignol)
David Cushing, bass (Customs Sergeant)
Tanglewood Festival Chorus,
James Burton, conductor
Children’s Choir

BEETHOVEN: String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat major, Op. 130 (no fugue)
SCHUBERT: String Quintet in C major, D. 956

Carson Cooman plays works by Willscher, Dalton,
Lo Muscio, Cooman, Ferrari and Ǻber

$12, children $5

J.S. BACH Capriccio in B-flat, BWV 992
(“On the departure of a beloved brother”)
J.S. BACH Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor,
BWV 903
J.S. BACH (arr. BRAHMS) Chaconne in D minor for
the left hand
KIRCHNER L.H.
BRAHMS Sixteen Waltzes, Op. 39, for piano four-hands
RAVEL La Valse, for piano four-hands

Celebrating Leon Fleisher’s 90th birthday

Works of Schubert, Spratlan,
Mendelssohn, Wheelock, Ravel

$20, 16 and under free. Bring a friend, who new to these concerts free.

Christian Tetzlaff, violin
Thomas ADЀS Suite from Powder Her Face
SIBELIUS Violin Concerto
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5

Clara Gerdes plays works by Bach, Whitlock, Conte, Hindemith and Dvořák

$12, children $5

Garrick Ohlsson, piano
BRITTEN Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat, K.271
BRAHMS Symphony No. 3

Masako Yanagita, violin; Mark Fraser, cello
Estela Olevsky, piano
Works of Bach, Brahms, and
Shostakovich
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$20, 16 and under free. Bring a friend, who new to these concerts free.

Thomas Adès, conductor
TMC Conducting Fellows
Kirill Gerstein, piano*
Poul RUDERS Thus Saw Saint John
Thomas ADÈS In Seven Days, for piano and orchestra
Gerald BARRY Of Queens’ Gardens
LUTOSŁAWSKI Symphony No. 3

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 ADЀS Concert paraphrase on Powder Her Face,
for two pianos
RAVEL Rapsodie espagnole, for two pianos

Kirill Gerstein, piano
GLINKA Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila
RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 2
STRAVINSKY The Firebird (complete)

Joshua Bell, violin
BORODIN Polovtsian Dances
WIENIAWSKI Violin Concerto No. 2
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5

John Robinson plays work by Bach, de Grigny, Howells, Webber, Franck, Vierne and Dupré

$12, Children: $5

Andris Nelsons, conductor
Jamie Bernstein, host

Inspired by Bernstein’s pioneering work as an educator, the BSO and Andris Nelsons offer a one-time-only hour-long program designed especially for young audiences and their families.

Concert duration is approximately 60 minutes without intermission.

Igor Levit, piano
Michael TILSON THOMAS Agnegram
RACHMANINOFF Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
MAHLER Symphony No. 1

Alexander Pattavina plays work by Reger, Elgar, Vierne, Bach, Mendelssohn and Messiaen

$12, Children: $5

MAHLER Piano Quartet in A minor
MOZART Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, K.478
BRAHMS Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25

Boston Ballet+
Mikko Nissinen, artistic director
Baiba Skride, violin
ALL-BERNSTEIN PROGRAM
Fancy Free#
Divertimento for Orchestra
Serenade (after Plato’s “Symposium”), for violin
and orchestra

Dong-Ill Shin plays work by Messiaen, Bach, Dupré and Elgar

$12, Children: $5

Fully Staged
The Knights
Eric Jacobsen, conductor
Miles Mykkanen, tenor (Candide)^
Sharleen Joynt, soprano (Cunegonde)^
Alex Mansoori, tenor
Baron/Governor/Vanderdendur/Ragotski)^
Gabriel Preisser, baritone (Maximilian/Grand Inquisitor)^

Boston Symphony Orchestra#
Andris Nelsons, Christoph Eschenbach, Keith Lockhart, Michael Tilson Thomas, and John Williams, conductors
Audra McDonald, host and vocalist
Midori, violin; Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Kian Soltani, cello+, Nadine Sierra, soprano
Susan Graham,Isabel Leonard, mezzos
Thomas Hampson, baritone
Jessica Vosk and Tony Yazbeck, vocalists+
James Darrah, director+
Tanglewood Festival Chorus,

Selections from Bernstein’s Candide, West Side Story, Mass, and Serenade, Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn, music by Copland, a new work by John Williams for cello and orchestra plus the finale of Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony

Colin Lynch plays work by Widor, Wright, Gammes, Parry and Duruflé

$12, Children: $5