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Flautist Nicholas Southwick and harpist Angelina Savoia play Mozart, Donizetti, and Debussy in a room from 1660!

$15 for members, $20 for non-members

Truls Mørk, cello

HAYDN Cello Concerto No. 1 in C
BRAHMS Symphony No. 1

CANCELLED

Baroque at Heart: Music of J. S. & J. C. Bach, Erlebach, Lully, Geminiani-Corelli, & New Compositions of Baroque Inspiration”

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Charles Wuorinen with libretto by James Feon, based on the novel by Salman Rushdie. Led by Artistic Director and Conductor Gil Rose, this semi-staged opera features performances by BMOP and special guest soprano Heather Buck.

Baroque nuns again!12 singers, with the Clerici Quartet

Repertoire by northern Italian nuns like Isabella Leonarda, Raffaella Aleotti, Sulpitia Cesis, and Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Hildegard von Bingen, and new pieces by Patricia Van Ness and Suzanne Sheppard,

$35/Adults, $30/Seniors, $20/Students

Baroque at Heart: Music of J. S. & J. C. Bach, Erlebach, Lully, Geminiani-Corelli, & New Compositions of Baroque Inspiration”

Haydn, Sonata in E Major, Hob. XVI: 31
Beethoven, Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111
Brahms, Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 5
Bernstein, “For Stephen Sondheim” (1965), “In Memoriam: William Kapell” (1981), and “For My Daughter, Nina” (1981), from Thirteen Anniversaries

Rafael Popper-Keizer, cello and Andrew Rangell, piano perform sonatas of Beethoven and Brahms, with shorter works by Busoni, Webern, and Schoenberg.

Free; no tickets required

Baroque nuns again!12 singers, with the Clerici Quartet

Repertoire by northern Italian nuns like Isabella Leonarda, Raffaella Aleotti, Sulpitia Cesis, and Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Hildegard von Bingen, and new pieces by Patricia Van Ness and Suzanne Sheppard,

$35/Adults, $30/Seniors, $20/Students

Baroque at Heart: Music of J. S. & J. C. Bach, Erlebach, Lully, Geminiani-Corelli, & New Compositions of Baroque Inspiration”

Truls Mørk, cello

HAYDN Cello Concerto No. 1 in C
BRAHMS Symphony No. 1

Heitor Villa-Lobos Five Preludes
Luiz Bonfá Passeio no Rio – Samba
Pedro Elías Gutiérrez Alma Llanera – Joropo
Roland Dyens Tango en Skäi
Agustín Barrios Mangoré Un Sueño en la Floresta
Leonard Bernstein Selections from West Side Story
Antonio Lauro Seis por Derecho – Joropo

Schubert: Trio in B-flat Major
Shostakovich: E-minor trio

Marti Epstein: Mary Magdalen (2016)
Andy Vores: Hard Songs (2016)
Jennifer Ashe, soprano; Nicholas Tolle, cimbalom

FREE

Martin Helmchen, piano

Kaija SARRIAHO Ciel d’hiver
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 22
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 6
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 7

Aisslinn Nosky, violin and leader
Mireille Asselin, soprano
Catherine Wyn-Rogers, mezzo-soprano
Jeremy Budd, tenor
Sumner Thompson, baritone
H+H Orchestra and Chorus

Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, Turkish
Haydn: Symphony No. 99
Haydn: Mass in B-Flat Major, Harmoniemesse

Arvo Pärt: Te Deum
Béla Bartók: Divertimento for Strings
James Primosch: Matins
Peggy Pearson, oboe

Works by multimedia artist Ted Ollier, and music by Carl Schimmel, our 2018 Call for Scores winner, plus Lainie Fefferman and Jen Wang. A centerpiece of this program is Akili Jamal Haynes’ Becoming Chibuzo, a work incorporating film, music, multiple instrumental performances, and spoken word. With performances by Rane Moore, clarinet; Gabriela Diaz, vioin; Francesca McNeeley, cello; Sarah Bob, piano; Akili Jamal Haynes, assorted instruments, actor.

$20, $15 students, seniors and children.

Lydian String Quartet
Harbison: String Quartet No. 6 (Boston Premiere)
Harbison: Thanks, Victor

Towards a New Popular Song
World Premiere of six new popular songs

John Harbison, piano
Charles Blandy. Carrie Cheron. Susan Consoli, Sarah Moyer, David Tinervia, Lynn Torgove
Ryan Turner

Martin Helmchen, piano

Kaija SARRIAHO Ciel d’hiver
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 22
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 6
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 7

Lydian String Quartet
Harbison: String Quartet No. 6 (Boston Premiere)
Harbison: Thanks, Victor

Towards a New Popular Song
World Premiere of six new popular songs

John Harbison, piano
Charles Blandy. Carrie Cheron. Susan Consoli, Sarah Moyer, David Tinervia, Lynn Torgove
Ryan Turner

Singers ages 20 to 30 perform before judges of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Applause is encouraged. Judges’ awards are announced at the end of the afternoon, with winners advancing to compete for Grand Finals.

Wendy Putnam, violin, Steven Ansell, viola. Cellist Michael Reynolds and Pianist Vytas Baksys
Prokofiev: Sonata for Violin and Piano in D
Debussy: Piano Trio in G Major, L. 5
Walton: Piano Quartet in D Minor

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

Aisslinn Nosky, violin and leader
Mireille Asselin, soprano
Catherine Wyn-Rogers, mezzo-soprano
Jeremy Budd, tenor
Sumner Thompson, baritone
H+H Orchestra and Chorus

Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, Turkish
Haydn: Symphony No. 99
Haydn: Mass in B-Flat Major, Harmoniemesse

Libretto by Gene Scheer
Adapted from Terrence McNally’s original play: “Some Christmas Letters
Sharon Daniels, Stage Direction

Regan Siglin, pianist/coach
Mezzo Leslie Jacobson Kaye as Madeline Erin Merceruio Nelsonr Beatrice
Mitch FitzDaniel Charlie

Selections include works by Puccini, Nessun Dorma from Turandot; Rossini, Overture: Il Barbieri di Siviglia; Langey, From Italy (excerpts); Denza, Funiculi, Funicula

Free but ticket required

Jonathan Bass performs works by Beethoven, Chopin, and Fauré, and the premiere of a new piece by Howard Frazin.

Wagner: Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Harbison: The Most Often Used Chords
Brahms: Symphony No. 4

Free but ticket required

Julian Rachlin, violin

HAYDN Symphony No. 44, Trauer
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto
JANÁČEK Suite from The Cunning Little Vixen
JANÁČEK Sinofonietta

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

Cendrillon features an entirely undergraduate cast, production staff, and orchestra. In the lead roles are Arianna Paz (Cendrillon), Natalie Choo (La Fée), Rebecca Thau (Madame de la Haltière), Sam Rosner (Le Prince Charmant), Alexander Chen (Pandolfe), Hagar Adam (Noémie), Ruva Chigwedere (Dorothée), and James Rose (Le Roi).

Julian Rachlin, violin

HAYDN Symphony No. 44, Trauer
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto
JANÁČEK Suite from The Cunning Little Vixen
JANÁČEK Sinofonietta

Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 14 “Moonlight”
Janácek, Piano Sonata I.X.
Menotti, Ricercare and Toccata (The Old Maid and the Thief)
Vivian Fine, Concertante (1944)
Bernstein, “For Elizabeth B. Ehrmann”

(Snow date: Sunday, Feb. 10 at 3:00 p.m.)

Haydn — Sonata No. 49 in E-Flat Major
Schoenberg — Six Little Piano Pieces, Op. 19
Debussy — Preludes, Book I

$10 suggested

An Improvised Surprise
Cordelia Tapping, voice Chase Morrin, piano

Loeffler: 4 Poèmes, Op.5
D’Anna Fortunato, mezzo-soprano
Damien Francoeur-Krzyzek, piano
Tanner Menees, viola

Brahms: String Sextet No. 2 in G major, Opus 36

Donald Weilerstein, Leonard Fu, violin
Kim Kashkashian, Tanner Menees, viola
Laurence Lesser, Timotheos Petrin, cello

$30+, $10+ students suggested. 100% of revenue will benefit Women’s Lunch Place

Lisa Batiashvili, violin

WILSON Lumina
SZYMANOWSKI Violin Concerto No. 1
COPLAND Symphony No. 3
Open Rehearsal

Lisa Batiashvili, violin

WILSON Lumina
SZYMANOWSKI Violin Concerto No. 1
COPLAND Symphony No. 3

Cendrillon features an entirely undergraduate cast, production staff, and orchestra. In the lead roles are Arianna Paz (Cendrillon), Natalie Choo (La Fée), Rebecca Thau (Madame de la Haltière), Sam Rosner (Le Prince Charmant), Alexander Chen (Pandolfe), Hagar Adam (Noémie), Ruva Chigwedere (Dorothée), and James Rose (Le Roi).

European women composers, including Fanny Mendelssohn, Francesca Caccini, Pauline Viardot, Dora Pejačević, and Clara Schumann, Boulanger, Musgrave, Weit, Chamindae, Talleferre

Cendrillon features an entirely undergraduate cast, production staff, and orchestra. In the lead roles are Arianna Paz (Cendrillon), Natalie Choo (La Fée), Rebecca Thau (Madame de la Haltière), Sam Rosner (Le Prince Charmant), Alexander Chen (Pandolfe), Hagar Adam (Noémie), Ruva Chigwedere (Dorothée), and James Rose (Le Roi).

Resistance and Patriotism

John Harbison – Songs America Loves to Sing
Olly Wilson – Trio
Protest songs
$20 general admission; $10 students/seniors 65+

from folk to classical to jazz to pop; all executed with the same fearlessness, immense technical skill, and typical Viennese “schmäh”

Lisa Batiashvili, violin

WILSON Lumina
SZYMANOWSKI Violin Concerto No. 1
COPLAND Symphony No. 3

Cendrillon features an entirely undergraduate cast, production staff, and orchestra. In the lead roles are Arianna Paz (Cendrillon), Natalie Choo (La Fée), Rebecca Thau (Madame de la Haltière), Sam Rosner (Le Prince Charmant), Alexander Chen (Pandolfe), Hagar Adam (Noémie), Ruva Chigwedere (Dorothée), and James Rose (Le Roi).

Clara Schumann: Piano Trio in G minor
Robert Schumann: String Quartet No.1
Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor. Short excerpts from their love letters will be read in between the chamber works.

Lisa Batiashvili, violin

WILSON Lumina
SZYMANOWSKI Violin Concerto No. 1
COPLAND Symphony No. 3

Yuja Wang, piano

SCHUMANN Piano Concerto
BRUCKNER Symphony No. 9

Chopin Études, Opus 25
Ravel Miroirs
Stravinsky/Agosti The Firebird

France and England Entwined
Agnes Coakley Cox, soprano
Nathaniel Cox, lute

Music that sprang from this union of two Royals and two countries, featuring the songs of Robert Johnson, Etienne Moulinié, and Nicholas Lanier, among others.

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

ROBERT LEVIN, PIANO

BWV 176: Er ist ein trotzig und verzagt Ding

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

ROBERT LEVIN, PIANO

Tabla virtuoso and Grammy Award-winning member of the Silkroad Ensemble, Sandeep Das celebrates the vibrant cultural heritage shared by India and Syria in his latest project with the thrilling HUM Ensemble.

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

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)

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)

BRITTEN: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
SCHWANTNER: New Morning for the World
HOLST: The Planets

Karina Schmitz, viola
H+H Orchestra

Corelli: Concerto Grosso in F Major, 2
Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in D Minor, RV 242,
Muffat: Concerto Grosso No. 12 in G Major,
Telemann: Viola Concerto
Geminiani: Concerto Grosso, After Corelli, Op. 5,
Telemann: Concerto for Three Violins
Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin, Op. 8, No. 5, La tempesta di mare

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.

Composer, performer, and MIT professor Evan Ziporyn has created a blockbuster tribute to the late David Bowie, transforming his final album, Blackstar, into a cello concerto for avant-garde cellist Maya Beiser, backed by the Ambient Orchestra with musicians from Boston Conservatory at Berklee and light and projection

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

DVOŘÁK Stabat Mater

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

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

Prokofiev Complete Piano Sonatas: Part I

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

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

Mischa Salkind-Pearl: The Plum Gathere for soprano and cimbalom and new song cycle composed by Curtis Hughes, and U.S. premieres by Konstantia Gourzi and Alessandro Solbiati.

Kirill Gerstein, piano

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

Chamber works composed by Amy Beach, Sofia Gubaidulina, and Clara Schumann.

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”

TOWER – Red Maple for bassoon and strings
RAVEL arr. JONES – Le Tombeau de Couperin for wind quintet
COLEMAN – Portraits of Langston for flute, clarinet, piano and narrator with special guest Regie Gibson
Plus a new work by the winner of the Pappalardo Composition Competition for oboe, cello and piano

BWV 57 Selig ist der Mann

Vivaldi: Piccolo Concerto in C (RV 443) (Cynthia Meyers)
Molter: Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in A (Thomas Martin)
Lipsitt: Duettino Piccolino (Variations on a Theme by Mozart)
Haydn: Symphony No. 49 (La passione)

Eric Hoeprich, clarinet
H+H Orchestra

Mozart: Overture to The Magic Flute
Weber: Clarinet Concerto No. 1
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

Works by Cassadó, Debussy, Franck, and Schumann with pianist Randall Hodgkinson.

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

Rhonda Rider, cello
Britten – Cello Suite No. 3

Free but reservations requested

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)

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

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

The complete Sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord performed by Shirley Hunt (viola da gamba) and Akiko Sato (harpsichord). Party favors included!

Haydn: The Creation (Die Schöpfung)

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

James Carter, saxophones

Adolphus HAILSTORK An American Port of Call
Roberto SIERRA Concerto for Saxophones
and Orchestra
PRICE “Symphonic Reflections” from Symphony No. 3
ELLINGTON A Tone Parallel to Harlem (Harlem Suite)

Purcell, Chacony
Dvořák, String Sextet in A Major, Op. 48
Bernstein, Andante Contemplativo (1944)
Britten, String Quartet in C Major, Op. 36

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

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

Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (1990)
Milosz Songs for Soprano and Orchestra (2006)
Dawn Upshaw, soprano

Symphony No. 6 (2011)

Gil Rose, conductor

World premiere of a new work by Kati Agócs’, commissioned by Ashmont Hill Chamber Music for the ensemble. Additional works on the program by Matthew Aucoin and Judd Greenstein.

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

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.

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

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)

Buxtehude: Selections from Jesu Membra Nostr

WAGNER: Overture to Meistersinger
PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No. 2, IN MO YANG, VIOLIN
TCHAIKOVSKY: Fantasy Overture Romeo and Juliet
MAHLER : Symphony No. 3, Finale (“What love tells me”)

MOZART Quartet in F for oboe and strings, K.370
FRANÇAIX Dixtuor, for winds and strings
BEETHOVEN Septet in E-flat for strings and winds,

Not-So-Heavy Metals

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 –

Graham Scott, piano

BEETHOVEN: Bagatelles op. 126
CHOPIN: Polonaise-Fantasie
SCHUMANN: Kreisleriana

Francesco Piemontesi, piano

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

Francesco Piemontesi, piano

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

Haydn, String Quartet in F Major, Op. 77, No. 2
Beethoven, String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132
Caroline Shaw, Entr’acte
Caroline Shaw, Valencia
Bernstein (arr. Andrew Yee), from Piano Anniversaries

Daniil Trifonov, piano

RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 15

twentieth- and twentieth-first century American women composers, including Ruth Crawford Seeger, Amy Beach, Libby Larson, and Marjorie Merryman.

Musicologist Liane Curtis will give a pre-concert talk at 6:30pm, free to all

Semi-staged in new performing versionby Martin Pearlman,with soprano Amanda Forsythe in the title role, joined by countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo as Nero, Alessandra Visentin as Ottavia, with stage direction by Tara Faircloth.

Daniil Trifonov, piano

RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 15

WV 42 Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbat

BACH: Chaconne in D Minor from Violin Partita No. 2 (arr. Busoni)
SCHUMANN: Fantasie in C major, Op. 17
WEISSENBERG, ALEXIS: Six Arrangements of Songs Sung by Charles Trénet
CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Cipressi, Op. 17
CHOPIN: Polonaise-Fantaisie in A-flat major,
CHOPIN: Scherzo No. 4 in E major, Op. 54

Semi-staged in new performing versionby Martin Pearlman,with soprano Amanda Forsythe in the title role, joined by countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo as Nero, Alessandra Visentin as Ottavia, with stage direction by Tara Faircloth.

Joshua Bell, violin; Jeremy Denk, piano; Steven Isserlis, cello

Mendelssohn Trio TBD
Shostakovich Trio No. 2 in E minor
Rachmaninoff Trio élégiaque No. 1 in G minor
Ravel Trio in A minor

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

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

Baiba Skride, violin

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

Brahms, Sonata No. 1 for Violoncello and Piano
Beethoven, Seven Variations on “Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen”
Ginastera, Pampeana No. 2 for Cello and Piano,
Bach (arr. Silioti/Casals), Adagio from Toccata in C Major, BWV 564 (c. 1715/1925)

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

Bach: Sonata No. 3 in G minor for viola da gamba (cello) and keyboard, BWV 1029
Beethoven: Sonata No. 10 in G for violin and piano, Op. 96
Brahms: Piano Trio No. 2 in C, Op. 87
Jason Horowitz, violin
Rafael Popper-Keizer, cello
Sergey Schepkin, piano

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.

Haydn: Mass in B flat major, HOB. XXII:12, Theresienmesse
Te Deum No. 2 in C major, HOB. XXIIIc:2

Sarah Yanovich, soprano; Thea Lobo, alto; Charles Blandy, tenor,
Sumner Thompson, bass with full orchestra

lecture at 7:00

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

Agnes Coakley Cox, soprano
Nathaniel Cox, cornetto and theorbo
Fabio Pirozzolo, percussion and voice
Dan Meyers, winds and percussion
Simon Martyn-Ellis, guitar

Combining the living tradition of folk music from across southern Italy with music by 17th-century Neapolitans Andrea Falconieri, Girolamo Montesardo and Simone Coya. In Stile Moderno is joined by Italian folk percussionist and singer Fabio Pirozzolo, multi-instrumentalist Dan Meyers, and guitarist Simon Martyn-Ellis.

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