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Thursday, September 28, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Cambridge
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Thursday, September 28, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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  • New England Conservatory presents
  • NEC Symphonic Winds
  • Location: Jordan Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • William Drury, conductor
    Dave Rivello: Estate Elena Firsova: Lea with Niko Ottersberg Enriquez
    Elizabeth Maconchy: Music for Winds and Brass
    Wilhelm Stenhammar: Symphony #2 Finale arr. for Brass Ensemble

    FREE


Thursday, September 28, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Boston
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Friday, September 29, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Cambridge
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Friday, September 29, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Salem
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  • Boston Artists Ensemble (617.964.6553) presents
  • Harbingers of Change
  • Location: Hamilton Hall, 9 Chestnut St
  • Tickets: here
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  • Frank Martin: Quintet for Piano and Strings (1919)
    Elgar: Quintet in A minor for Piano and Strings, Op. 84
    Mystery Piece — Guess the composer and win tickets

    Sharan Leventhal, Alexander Velinzon – violins, Rebecca Gitter – viola, Jonathan Miller – cello,
    Marc Ryser – piano


Friday, September 29, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Boston Area
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  • Palaver Strings (Various) presents
  • A Change is Gonna Come
  • Tickets: here
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  • Longy-Pickman Hall

    Featuring Grammy-nominated tenor Nicholas Phan,
    Protest songs and music inspired by social movements and historical events, including Nico Muhly’s Stranger, Akenya Seymour’s Fear the Lamb, and the premiere of Errollyn Wallen’s Protest Songs for Tenor and Strings.


Friday, September 29, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Boston
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Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 2:00 pm
in Cambridge
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Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:00 pm
in Brookline
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  • Winsor Music presents
  • “Dancing with Bach
  • Location: St. Paul’s Church 15 St. Paul Street, Brookline
  • Tickets: here
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  • Pérotin: Viderunt Omnes
    J.S. Bach/Eric Nathan: Dancing with J.S. Bach II
    Lavell Blackwell: On the Impulse to Move (premiere)
    Yu-Hui Chang: Song for the Spirit (premiere)
    György Ligeti: Old Hungarian Ballroom Dances


Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:00 pm
in Rockport
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Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:00 pm
in Somerville
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  • Museum of Modern Renaissance presents
  • Renaissance and Beyond
  • Location: 115 College Avenue
  • Tickets: here
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  • J’ai pris amours.- Anonymous
    J’ay pris amours- Anon.
    T’andernaken – Tyting
    T’andernaken – Lapicida
    De tous bein playne – Hayne
    J’ay pris amours/De tous bien playne – Anon.
    De tous bien playne – Josquin
    L’amor donna – Anon.

    Browning – Bevin
    Fantasia – Byrd
    The Nightingale – Morley

    Fantasia per fagotto solo – Selma
    La Bergamasca – Rossi
    Sonata Soprano La Monica – Böddecker
    Ballet – Praetorius
    Courante Würstrow – Praetorius
    Branle Double – Praetorius


Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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  • Korean Cultural Society (JH) (781-223-4411) presents
  • Three Generations of Pianists
  • Location: Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street
  • Tickets: here
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  • Jung-Ja Kim, Wha Kyung Byun, HaeSun Paik, Minsoo Sohn, Hannah Byun and Changyong Shin

    Mozart: Sonata for Piano Four Hands in D Major, K. 381
    Debussy: Petite Suite for Piano Four Hands
    Copland/Bernstein: El Salon Mexico for Two Pianos
    Schubert: Divertimento in Hungarian Style in G minor,
    Ravel: La Valse for Two Pianos


Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Conservatory (T) ((617) 536-6340) presents
  • Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble
  • Location: Boston Conservatory Theater, 31 Hemenway St.
  • Tickets: here
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  • conducted by Matthew Marsit presents the New England premiere of Adam Gorb’s Out of the Darkness, as well as Lindsay Bronnenkant’s Tarot, Henk Badings’s Symphony No. 15, faculty member Anthony Barfield’s Red Sky featuring trombone faculty member Angel Subero, and Bramwell Tovey’s Manhattan Music featuring the Boston Conservatory Faculty Brass Quintet.


Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Conservatory (T) ((617) 536-6340) presents
  • Wind Ensemble
  • Location: Boston Conservatory Theater, 31 Hemenway St.
  • Tickets: here
  • additional information
  • Matthew Marsit presents the New England premiere of Adam Gorb’s Out of the Darkness, as well as Lindsay Bronnenkant’s Tarot, Henk Badings’s Symphony No. 15, faculty member Anthony Barfield’s Red Sky featuring trombone faculty member Angel Subero, and Bramwell Tovey’s Manhattan Music featuring the Boston Conservatory Faculty Brass Quintet.


Sunday, October 1, 2023 at 1:30 pm
in Boston
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Sunday, October 1, 2023 at 2:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Crescendo Productions (V) presents
  • La Belle Epoque:
  • Location: Various Boston-area locations
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  • Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street. Cambridge

    Renee Hemsing (Violin), Guy Fishman (Cello), Renana Gutman (Piano)

    Debussy: Sonata for Cello and Piano, L. 135
    Debussy: Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Minor, L. 140
    Ravel: Piano Trio for Piano, Violin, and Cello in A Minor

    Free Admission


Sunday, October 1, 2023 at 3:00 pm
in Brookline
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  • Boston Artists Ensemble presents
  • Harbingers of Change
  • Location: St. Paul’s Church, 15 St. Paul Street
  • Tickets: here
  • additional information
  • Frank Martin: Quintet for Piano and Strings (1919)
    Elgar: Quintet in A minor for Piano and Strings, Op. 84
    Mystery Piece — Guess the composer and win tickets

    Sharan Leventhal, Alexander Velinzon – violins, Rebecca Gitter – viola, Jonathan Miller – cello,
    Marc Ryser – piano


Sunday, October 1, 2023 at 3:00 pm
in Waltham
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  • Brandeis University (781-736-3400) presents
  • Celebrating David Rakowski’s 65th
  • Location: Slosberg Music Center, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
  • Tickets: here
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  • a birthday concert that includes his chamber works “Dream Logic” and “Thickly Settled”, plus “Secondary Dominance” from his famous 100 piano études collection. Also on the program are ten new études written by his colleagues and several former students in honor of his distinguished career and teaching. This program is to be performed by Collage New Music, conducted by David Hoose.


Sunday, October 1, 2023 at 4:00 pm
in Boston
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Monday, October 2, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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  • New England Conservatory presents
  • First Monday at Jordan Hall
  • Location: Jordan Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • Charles Ives | Sonata No. 4
    Stefan Jackiw, violin
    Max Levinson, piano
    Alfred Schnittke | Piano Quintet
    Vivian Weilerstein, piano
    Masha Lakisova, Kristy Chen, violins
    Njord Fossnes, viola
    Julia Yang, cello
    Johannes Brahms | Trio in C Major, Op. 87
    Stefan Jackiw, violin
    Jonah Ellsworth, cello
    Max Levinson, piano

    FREE


Tuesday, October 3, 2023 at 12:15 pm
in Boston
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  • King’s Chapel presents
  • Tuesday Concerts
  • Location: Kings Chapel
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  • Ben Hoadley, bassoon and Heinrich Christensen, organ:
    Pinkham, Adams, and more
    $5 suggested


Tuesday, October 3, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Boston
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Wednesday, October 4, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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  • New England Conservatory presents
  • NEC Chamber Orchestra
  • Location: Jordan Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • Edward Elgar – Introduction and Allegro
    Christopher Theofanides – Visions and Miracles
    Dmitri Shostakovich – Chamber Symphony, Op.110a

    FREE


Thursday, October 5, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Symphony Orchestra presents
  • Andris Nelsons, conductor
  • Location: Symphony Hall Boston
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  • Rudolf Buchbinder, piano
    BEETHOVEN Consecration of the House Overture
    MOZART Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K.488
    Arturs MASKATS Tango
    STRAUSS Suite from Der Rosenkavalier


Thursday, October 5, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Cambridge
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  • Radius Ensemble (L) (617.792.7234) presents
  • Parable
  • Location: Pickman Hall, Longy
  • Tickets: here
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  • DANIEL BERNARD ROUMAIN – Filter for solo violin
    CURTIS HUGHES – Chromomodular Lounge Suite for flute, oboe, and clarinet WORLD PREMIERE
    ELEANOR ALBERGA – Shining Gate of Morpheus for horn and strings
    IGOR STRAVINSKY – Petite Suite (L’Histoire du Soldat) for clarinet, violin, piano, and narrator


Friday, October 6, 2023 at 1:30 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Symphony Orchestra presents
  • Andris Nelsons, conductor
  • Location: Symphony Hall Boston
  • additional information
  • Rudolf Buchbinder, piano
    BEETHOVEN Consecration of the House Overture
    MOZART Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K.488
    Arturs MASKATS Tango
    STRAUSS Suite from Der Rosenkavalier


Friday, October 6, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 2:00 pm
in Roxbury
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Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 3:30 pm
in Roxbury
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Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 5:00 pm
in Beverly
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  • Historic Beverly (V) presents
  • Duos Through the Ages
  • Location: Various
  • Tickets: here
  • additional information
  • First Parish Church 225 Cabot Street Beverly,

    Costello: Sonata Primo for Violin
    Handel-Havorsen: Passacaglia for Cello and Violin
    Mozart: Duo for Violin and Cello in G Major
    Beethoven: Duo for Violin and Cello no. 1 in C

    Renee Hemsing (violin), Guy Fishman (cello)


Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 6:00 pm
in Roxbury
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Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 6:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Symphony Orchestra presents
  • Opening Night
  • Location: Symphony Hall Boston
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  • Rudolf Buchbinder, piano
    Aaron Diehl Trio (Ellington)^
    BEETHOVEN Consecration of the House Overture
    MOZART Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K.488
    ELLINGTON New World A-Coming, for piano and orchestra
    ELLINGTON/STRAYHORN Tonk, for piano four-hands
    Carlos SIMON Four Black American Dances


Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Waltham
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  • Brandeis University (781-736-3400) presents
  • Irving Fine Tribute Concert
  • Location: Slosberg Music Center, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
  • Tickets: here
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  • Lydian String Quartet and Chameleon Arts Ensemble

    Irving Fine: String Quartet (1952)
    David Rakowski: new string quartet (world premiere)
    Irving Fine: Romanza for woodwind quintet (1958)
    Harold Shapero: Three selections from “Six For Five” for woodwind quintet (1995)
    Irving Fine: Partita for woodwind quintet (1948)


Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Modern Orchestra Project presents
  • Four Premieres
  • Location: Jordan Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • Eric Moe, piano
    Gil Rose, conductor

    Eternal Return by John Aylward (world premiere)
    The Sweetness of Despair, the Necessity of Hope by Eric Moe
    Time Rift by Richard Cornell (world premiere)
    Both by Shelley Washington (


Sunday, October 8, 2023 at 2:00 pm
in Roxbury
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Sunday, October 8, 2023 at 3:00 pm
in Medford
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  • Tufts University presents
  • Concerts in Dialogue with Art and Audience.
  • Location: Granoff Music Center, 20 Talbot Avenue
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  • Cello Quintet by Franz Schubert.

    L’Étoile Violin Duo (Hsin-Lin Tsai and Miguel Pérez-Espejo), Danny Kim (violin), Blaise Déjardin (cello), and Lluís Claret (cello).

    Free; no tickets required.


Sunday, October 8, 2023 at 3:00 pm
in Concord
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Sunday, October 8, 2023 at 3:00 pm
in Boston
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Sunday, October 8, 2023 at 3:00 pm
in Rockport
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Sunday, October 8, 2023 at 3:30 pm
in Roxbury
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Sunday, October 8, 2023 at 4:00 pm
in Boston
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Sunday, October 8, 2023 at 6:00 pm
in Roxbury
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Monday, October 9, 2023 at 2:00 pm
in Newton
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  • Music Monday presents
  • DUE SOPRANI
  • Location: Scandinavian Cultural Center, 206 Waltham St.
  • Tickets: here
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  • Carley DeFranco and Rhaea d’Aliesio, sopranos
    Andrew Jonathan Welch, piano
    Works by Vivaldi, Bellini,Handel, Respighi, Rossin, Pucinni, Grieg, and Mozart


Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 12:15 pm
in Boston
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  • King’s Chapel presents
  • Tuesday Concerts
  • Location: Kings Chapel
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  • Janet Ross, soprano; Jennifer Webb, mezzo-soprano; Heinrich Christensen, organ:
    Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
    $5 suggested


Thursday, October 12, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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  • New England Conservatory presents
  • NEC Wind Ensemble
  • Location: Jordan Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • James M. Stephenson.
    James Stephenson: Symphony No. 2
    Leonard Bernstein: Overture to Candide
    James Stephenson: Octet
    Brahms, arr. Mark Popkin: Haydn Variations

    FREE


Thursday, October 12, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Symphony Orchestra presents
  • Andris Nelsons, conductor
  • Location: Symphony Hall Boston
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  • Yo-Yo Ma, cello
    HAYDN Symphony No. 22, Philosopher
    SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No. 2
    Iman HABIBI Zhiân (BSO commission)
    SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No. 1


Friday, October 13, 2023 at 1:30 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Symphony Orchestra presents
  • Andris Nelsons, conductor
  • Location: Symphony Hall Boston
  • additional information
  • Yo-Yo Ma, cello
    HAYDN Symphony No. 22, Philosopher
    SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No. 2
    Iman HABIBI Zhiân (BSO commission)
    SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No. 1


Friday, October 13, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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  • Park Street Church presents
  • Chamber Music
  • Location: 1 Park Street
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  • Beethoven Piano Trio no. 1 in E-flat major
    Higdon Piano Trio
    Brahms Piano Trio in B Major

    Amy Galluzzo, violin
    Carol Ou, cello
    Yu-Mei Wei, piano

    FREE


Friday, October 13, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Cambridge
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Friday, October 13, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Cambridge
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Saturday, October 14, 2023 at 3:00 pm
in Cambridge
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  • Blue Heron (617-960-7956) presents
  • Le Rossignol musical /
  • Location: First Church Cambridge, 11 Garden St
  • Tickets: here
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  • Songs about love & freedom, nightingales & other musical birds from Le Rossignol musical (Antwerp, 1597), by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Claude Le Jeune, Andreas Pevernage, Cipriano De Rore & others

    Pre-concert talk by Kate van Orden 2:15 pm


Saturday, October 14, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Cambridge
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Saturday, October 14, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Newton
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  • Cappella Clausura presents
  • Mendelssohn and Milhaud
  • Tickets: here
  • additional information
  • three poems by Welsh-born poet George Herbert (1593-1633): Paradise, Colos, and Heaven. The composer, Hilary Tann, has interspersed within the poetry language from the Psalms in both the Latin Vulgate and the King James bible.


Saturday, October 14, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Concord
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Saturday, October 14, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Celebrity Series (JH) presents
  • Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
  • Location: Jordan Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • Fanny Mendelssohn | Easter Sonata
    Robert Schumann | Kinderszenen, Op. 15
    Frédéric Chopin | Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58


Saturday, October 14, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Symphony Orchestra presents
  • Andris Nelsons, conductor
  • Location: Symphony Hall Boston
  • additional information
  • Yo-Yo Ma, cello
    HAYDN Symphony No. 22, Philosopher
    SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No. 2
    Iman HABIBI Zhiân (BSO commission)
    SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No. 1


Saturday, October 14, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Boston (FC)
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  • Chameleon Arts Ensemble (617-427-8200) presents
  • La Belle Époque
  • Location: First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough St
  • Tickets: here
  • additional information
  • Lili Boulanger, Nocturne et cortège for violin & piano
    Eric Moe, Frozen Hours Melt Melodiously into the Past for flute, clarinet, string trio & piano
    Zoltán Kodály, Duo for violin & cello, Op. 7
    Claude Debussy, Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé for soprano & piano
    Ernest Chausson, Piano Quartet in A Major, Op. 30


Sunday, October 15, 2023 at 1:30 pm
in Boston
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Sunday, October 15, 2023 at 2:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Symphony Orchestra presents
  • Andris Nelsons, conductor
  • Location: Symphony Hall Boston
  • additional information
  • Yo-Yo Ma, cello
    HAYDN Symphony No. 22, Philosopher
    SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No. 2
    Iman HABIBI Zhiân (BSO commission)
    SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No. 1


Sunday, October 15, 2023 at 2:30 pm
in Concord
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Sunday, October 15, 2023 at 4:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Cappella Clausura (EC) (617-993-0013) presents
  • Mendelssohn and Milhaud
  • Location: Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street
  • additional information
  • three poems by Welsh-born poet George Herbert (1593-1633): Paradise, Colos, and Heaven. The composer, Hilary Tann, has interspersed within the poetry language from the Psalms in both the Latin Vulgate and the King James bible.


Sunday, October 15, 2023 at 4:00 pm
in Boston (FC)
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  • Chameleon Arts Ensemble (617-427-8200) presents
  • La Belle Époque
  • Location: First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough St
  • Tickets: here
  • additional information
  • Lili Boulanger, Nocturne et cortège for violin & piano
    Eric Moe, Frozen Hours Melt Melodiously into the Past for flute, clarinet, string trio & piano
    Zoltán Kodály, Duo for violin & cello, Op. 7
    Claude Debussy, Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé for soprano & piano
    Ernest Chausson, Piano Quartet in A Major, Op. 30


Sunday, October 15, 2023 at 4:30 pm
in Cambridge
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  • Joshua Peckins (FCC) presents
  • Deep Time, Sense of Place
  • Location: Lindsay Chapel at First Church
  • Tickets: here
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  • Lecture-Recital
    J.S. Bach: Violin Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005
    Niccolò Paganini: Caprice No. 20 in D Major
    Matthew Burtner: Elegy from Muir Glacier (2017)
    Paula Matthusen: Lullaby for Dead Horse Bay (2016)
    Hildegard von Bingen: O Vis Eternitatis


Sunday, October 15, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Baroque presents
  • Beethoven’s ode “To Joy”
  • Location: Jordan Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • Beethoven:

    “Coriolan” Overture
    “Elegiac Song”
    Symphony No. 9


Tuesday, October 17, 2023 at 12:15 pm
in Boston
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  • King’s Chapel presents
  • Tuesday Concerts
  • Location: Kings Chapel
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  • Brian Bartling and Douglas Freundlich, lutes:
    Duels to Delight– New lute duets, with music by Holborne, Terzi, Charpentier, Bach, and Gismonti.

    $5 suggested


Tuesday, October 17, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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  • New England Conservatory presents
  • NEC Symphony
  • Location: Jordan Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • David Loebel, conducts
    Valerie Coleman’s Seven O’Clock Shout
    Haydn’s Symphony No. 95 in C Minor
    Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2.

    FREE


Wednesday, October 18, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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Thursday, October 19, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Symphony Orchestra presents
  • Andris Nelsons, conductor
  • Location: Symphony Hall Boston
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  • Paul Lewis, piano
    Thomas Warfield, narrator* (Oct. 21)

    Hannah KENDALL The Spark Catchers
    BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 1
    BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 3


Friday, October 20, 2023 at 7:30 am
in Boston
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  • UMass Boston presents
  • A Senior Recital: Music by David Patterson
  • Location: University Hall Recital Hall, 100 Morrissey Blvd.
  • Tickets: here
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  • An evening of choral and instrumental works composed by Professor David Patterson, performed by UMass Boston Chamber Singers, alumni, faculty, and guests. Patterson presents compositions on caring, acceptance, and decorum: Butterfly Prayers, Isle of Hope, Sonata in Neo Sol, Cinematic Somnium, and others.

    The UMass Boston Chamber Singers, directed by David Giessow, vocalists Ashley Villard ’22 and Jessica Cooper, pianists Linnéa Bardarson and Timothy McFarland, saxophonist Gerardo Alvarado Rivas ’23, flutist Ashley Addington, cellist Priscilla Taylor, and guest artist and vibraphonist Sarah Tenney.


Friday, October 20, 2023 at 1:30 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Symphony Orchestra presents
  • Andris Nelsons, conductor
  • Location: Symphony Hall Boston
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  • Paul Lewis, piano
    Thomas Warfield, narrator* (Oct. 21)

    Hannah KENDALL The Spark Catchers
    BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 2
    BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4


Friday, October 20, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Cambridge
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  • Boston Opera & Zarzuela (FCC) presents
  • Solidarity Classical Lyric Concert
  • Location: First Church, 11 Garden St,
  • Tickets: here
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  • The collaboration with Afghanistan Freeharmonic Orchestra’s “Universal Love,” a family friendly concert consists of lyric compositions by female composers and Afghan composers.

    Featuring over 10 international musicians on the stage, lifting their voices in solidarity with women across the universe enduring oppression and abuse, such as those living in Afghanistan.


Friday, October 20, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Celebrity Series (JH) presents
  • Chamber Music
  • Location: Jordan Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
    Lisa Batiashvili, violin
    Gautier Capuçon, cello

    Haydn | Piano Trio No. 44 in E Major,
    Ravel | Piano Trio in A minor
    Mendelssohn | Piano Trio No. 2 In C minor, Op. 66


Saturday, October 21, 2023 at 4:00 pm
in Jamaica Plain
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Saturday, October 21, 2023 at 5:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Camerata (TC) presents
  • We’ll Be There!
  • Location: Trinity Chuirch Copley Square
  • Tickets: here
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  • American Spirituals, Black and White, 1800-1900 from neglected early songbook sources and from oral traditions, to tell the story of American spiritual singing, North and South, Black and White, during a crucial century of our country’s history.


Saturday, October 21, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Brookline
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Saturday, October 21, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Symphony Orchestra presents
  • Andris Nelsons, conductor
  • Location: Symphony Hall Boston
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  • Paul Lewis, piano
    Thomas Warfield, narrator* (Oct. 21)

    Hannah KENDALL The Spark Catchers
    James LEE III Freedom’s Genuine Dawn, for narrator and orchestra (BSO co-commission)
    BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5


Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 1:30 pm
in Boston
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Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 3:00 pm
in Cambridge
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  • A Far Cry (LG) presents
  • Ménage à Trio
  • Location: Longy Pickman Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • Freya Waley-Cohen | Conjure
    Salina Fisher | Mata-Au
    Errollyn Wallen | Romeo Turn
    Jean Cras | String Trio


Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 3:00 pm
in Boston
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  • New England Philharmonic (JH) presents
  • Epic Journeys
  • Location: Jordan Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • Eric Nathan: In Between II (2023)
    Oswald Huynh: Gia Đình (2021, rev. 2022)
    He Zhanhao and Chen Gang
    The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto (1959)
    Danielle Maddon, violin


Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 3:00 pm
in Rockport
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  • Rockport Music presents
  • CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER
  • Location: Shalin Liu Performance Center, 37 Main Street
  • Tickets: here
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  • Erika Baikoff, soprano | Gilles Vonsattel, piano | Benjamin Beilman, violin | Clive Greensmith, cello

    RUBINSTEIN: “Romance” from Soirées à Saint-Petersburg arr. for piano, violin and cello, Op. 44, No. 1
    TCHAIKOVSKY: Souvenir d’un lieu cher for violin and piano, Op. 42
    BALAKIREV: “The Goldfish’s Song”
    RACHMANINOV: “Arion” Op. 34, No. 5
    GLINKA: “The Lark”
    RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: “Does Not the Wind Blow” Op. 43, No. 2
    RACHMANINOV: “These Summer Nights” Op. 14, No. 5
    RACHMANINOV: Trio élégiaque in D minor for piano, violin and cello, Op. 9 – in memory of Tchaikovsky


Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 4:00 pm
in Roxbury
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  • Boston camerata (12 Bap) presents
  • We’ll Be There!
  • Location: Twelfth Baptist Church, 160 Warren St.
  • additional information
  • American Spirituals, Black and White, 1800-1900 from neglected early songbook sources and from oral traditions, to tell the story of American spiritual singing, North and South, Black and White, during a crucial century of our country’s history.


Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 4:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Ashmont Hill Chamber Music presents
  • Bach Project
  • Location: Peabody Hall, Parish of All Saints in Dorchester
  • Tickets: here
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  • Trio super Allein Gott in der Höh’ sei Ehr’, BWV 676 – J.S. Bach
    Trio Sonata in B minor, H 567 – C.P.E. Bach
    Trio Sonata in C minor, BWV 526 – J.S. Bach
    Trio Sonata in A major, H. 570 – C.P.E. Bach
    Sonata sopr’il Soggetto Reale from “Musikalisches Opfer”, BWV 1079 –


Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 5:00 pm
in Boston
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Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 7:30 pm
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  • Sound Ways (FCB) presents
  • Ilya Silchukou and Pavel Nersessian
  • Location: First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough Street
  • Tickets: here
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  • Tchaikovsky: 6 Romances (lyrics by D. Rathaus), Op. 73 Rachmaninov: 5 selected romances
    Schumann: Arabesque, Op. 18
    Schumann: Dichterliebe (Poet’s Love), Op. 48

    R. Schumann Arabesque, Op. 18 (1839)

    Dichterliebe (Poet’s Love), Op. 48 (1840)


Monday, October 23, 2023 at 5:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Camerata (EC) presents
  • We’ll Be There!
  • Location: Emmanuel Church
  • Tickets: here
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  • American Spirituals, Black and White, 1800-1900 from neglected early songbook sources and from oral traditions, to tell the story of American spiritual singing, North and South, Black and White, during a crucial century of our country’s history.


Tuesday, October 24, 2023 at 12:15 pm
in Boston
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Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 7:30 pm
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  • New England Conservatory presents
  • NEC Philharmonia
  • Location: Jordan Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • Earl Lee, Guest Conductor
    Robert Schumann, Manfred Overture
    Donghoon Shin, Upon His Ghostly Solitude
    Johannes Brahms, Symphony no. 2

    FREE


Thursday, October 26, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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  • New England Conservatory presents
  • NEC Composers’ Series
  • Location: Jordan Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • Music that features composers who have been connected with NEC in a variety of ways.

    FREE


Friday, October 27, 2023 at 7:00 pm
in Weston
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Friday, October 27, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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  • Handel + Haydn (SH) presents
  • Luks Leads Beethoven
  • Location: Symphony Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • Farrenc: Overture No. 1
    Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3
    Beethoven: Symphony No. 8

    Václav Luks, conductor
    Lukáš Vondráček, fortepiano
    H+H Orchestra


Friday, October 27, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Waltham
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  • Brandeis University (781-736-3400) presents
  • Folk Tales and Fantasies
  • Location: Slosberg Music Center, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
  • Tickets: here
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  • Violinist and faculty Julia Glenn and pianist Mika Sasaki

    Eric Chasalow “The Wings That Bear the Night Away” for violin and fixed media (2022)
    Lera Auerbach Preludes:
    #9 E major
    #4 E minor
    #6 B minor
    Grieg Sonata No. 2
    Lydia Winsor Brindamour new work for solo violin
    Messiaen “Praise to the Eternity of Jesus” from Quartet for the End of Time
    Enescu Sonata No. 3
    Coleridge-Taylor, Four African Dances: No. 2


Friday, October 27, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Boston
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Saturday, October 28, 2023 at 3:00 pm
in Boston
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Saturday, October 28, 2023 at 4:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Musicians of the Old Post Road (OSC) presents
  • Tales
  • Location: Old South Church, 645 Boylston St.
  • Tickets: here
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  • André Cardinal Destouches: instrumental movements from his opéra-ballet Les élémens

    Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre: Cantata for soprano, violin, and continuo: Jonas

    Antonio Vivaldi: Flute concerto, op. 10 no. 1 “La Tempesta di Mare”

    Gregor Joseph Werner: April Suite from (Neuer und sehr curios-Musicalischer Instrumental-Calender (“New and very curious musical instrument calendar”)

    André Campra: Motet for soprano, traverso, and continuo: Domine, Dominus Noster

    Johann David Heinichen: aria for soprano and orchestra: Così sorgea from Serenata sull’Elba


Sunday, October 29, 2023 at 3:00 pm
in Ashburnham
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Sunday, October 29, 2023 at 3:00 pm
in West Newton
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  • Pro Arte (SC) presents
  • Classical Lines
  • Location: Second Church, 60 Highland St,
  • Tickets: here
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  • Jessie Montgomery: Divided for Cello and Strings
    Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, op. 33
    Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550


Sunday, October 29, 2023 at 3:00 pm
in Chestnut HIll
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  • Handel + Haydn (SH) presents
  • Luks Leads Beethoven
  • Location: Symphony Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • Farrenc: Overture No. 1
    Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3
    Beethoven: Symphony No. 8

    Václav Luks, conductor
    Lukáš Vondráček, fortepiano
    H+H Orchestra


Sunday, October 29, 2023 at 3:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Civic Symphony presents
  • Francis Noya, conductor
  • Location: Jordan Hall
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  • St George – Symphony Op 11 N°2
    Tchaikovsky – Violin Concerto in D Op. 35
    Alexander Velinzon, soloist
    Brahms – Symphony Nº 4 Op. 98


Sunday, October 29, 2023 at 4:00 pm
in Boston
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Sunday, October 29, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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  • Park Street Church presents
  • Piano Dedication Recital
  • Location: 1 Park Street
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  • Mia Chung, piano

    SCARLATTI
    Sonata in F minor K. 69
    Sonata in E major K. 380

    BEETHOVEN
    Sonata No. 21 in C major, “Waldstein”

    RACHMANINOFF
    Prelude in C minor, op. 23 no. 7
    Prelude in B-flat major, op. 23 no 2

    FREE


Tuesday, October 31, 2023 at 12:15 pm
in Boston
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  • King’s Chapel presents
  • Tuesday Concerts
  • Location: Kings Chapel
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  • Robert Barney plays the spooky C.B. Fisk Organ
    $5 suggested


Wednesday, November 1, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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  • New England Conservatory presents
  • NEC Chamber Orchestra
  • Location: Jordan Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • Haydn Symphony No. 6 Le Matin
    Stravinsky: Concerto in D
    Miklos Rozsa – Concerto for Strings, Op.17

    FREE


Thursday, November 2, 2023 at 10:30 am
in Boston
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  • Boston Symphony Orchestra presents
  • Joana Mallwitz, conductor
  • Location: Symphony Hall Boston
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  • Anna Vinnitskaya, piano
    KODÁLY Dances of Galánta
    TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1
    SCHUBERT Symphony in C, The Great

    OPEN REHEARSAL


Thursday, November 2, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Symphony Orchestra presents
  • Joana Mallwitz, conductor
  • Location: Symphony Hall Boston
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  • Anna Vinnitskaya, piano
    KODÁLY Dances of Galánta
    TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1
    SCHUBERT Symphony in C, The Great


Friday, November 3, 2023 at 1:30 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Symphony Orchestra presents
  • Joana Mallwitz, conductor
  • Location: Symphony Hall Boston
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  • Anna Vinnitskaya, piano
    KODÁLY Dances of Galánta
    TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1
    SCHUBERT Symphony in C, The Great


Saturday, November 4, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Newton
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Saturday, November 4, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Symphony Orchestra presents
  • Joana Mallwitz, conductor
  • Location: Symphony Hall Boston
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  • Anna Vinnitskaya, piano
    KODÁLY Dances of Galánta
    TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1
    SCHUBERT Symphony in C, The Great


Sunday, November 5, 2023 at 1:30 pm
in Boston
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  • Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (617 278 5156) presents
  • Geneva Lewis, violiin
  • Location: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, The Fenway
  • Tickets: here
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  • Bach: Partita No. 3 in E Major
    with Ashley Bouder, choreography by Gianna Reisen,

    Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances (1917)
    Stravinsky, arr. Dushkin Fairy’s Kiss Divertiment
    Kaija Saariaho Nocturne (1994)
    Cheryl Frances-Hoad Suite No. 1 (2014)
    Reena Esmail Darshan, mvt. III (2018)


Sunday, November 5, 2023 at 3:00 pm
in Newton
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Sunday, November 5, 2023 at 5:00 pm
in Brookline
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Sunday, November 5, 2023 at 7:00 pm
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  • Celebrity Series (S) ((617) 482-2595) presents
  • Alisa Weilerstein, cello
  • Location: Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy Street
  • Tickets: here
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  • FRAGMENTS 1 composers:

    Andy Akiho, Johann Sebastian Bach, Courtney Bryan, Chen Yi, Alan Fletcher, Gabriela Lena Frank, Osvaldo Golijov, Joseph Hallman, Gabriel Kahane, Daniel Kidane, Thomas Larcher, Tania Leon, Allison Loggins-Hull, Missy Mazzoli, Gerard McBurney, Jessie Montgomery, Reinaldo Moya, Jeffrey Mumford, Matthias Pintscher, Gity Razaz, Gili Schwarzman, Caroline Shaw, Carlos Simon, Gabriela Smith, Ana Sokolović, Joan Tower, Mathilde Wantenaar, and Paul Wiancko.


Monday, November 6, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Watertown
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  • Seven Times Salt presents
  • Harvest Time in Old England
  • Location: Church of the Good Shepherd, 9 Russell St.
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  • Celebrate Bonfire Night with autumnal tunes by Byrd, Baldwin, and Peerson, songs about Martinmas and Guy Fawkes, spirited selections from Henry VIII’s music book, and rousing ballads of hunting, harvest, and beer.

    Ari Nieh, bass-baritone; Karen Burciaga, violin, guitar; Dan Meyers, flute, recorders, bagpipes, percussion; Josh Schreiber, bass viol; Matthew Wright, lute, bandora

    $20 suggested


Monday, November 6, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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  • New England Conservatory presents
  • First Monday at Jordan Hall
  • Location: Jordan Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • Rachmaninoff Songs (TBA)
    Sari Gruber, soprano
    Cameron Stowe, piano
    Rachmaninoff: Trio Élégiaque No. 2 in D minor, Op. 9
    Alessio Bax, piano
    Maria Ioudenitch, violin
    Brannon Cho, cello
    FREE


Wednesday, November 8, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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Wednesday, November 8, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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Wednesday, November 8, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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  • New England Conservatory presents
  • NEC Philharmonia
  • Location: Jordan Hall
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  • with NEC Symphonic Choir

    Arvo Pärt | Fratres (1977)
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mass in C minor, K. 427

    FREE


Wednesday, November 8, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Lyric Opera (CM) presents
  • La Cenerentola
  • Location: Cutler Majestic Theater
  • Tickets: here
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  • Beautiful melodies, sparkling vocals, and Rossini’s energetic score weave this timeless Cinderella story, dispensing with the fairy dust for the wisdom of the human heart.


Thursday, November 9, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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  • New England Conservatory presents
  • Faculty Recital
  • Location: Jordan Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • Vivian Hornik Weilerstein, piano, Donald Weilerstein, violin, Cameron Stowe, piano, and guest artist Randall Scarlata, baritone,

    György Kurtág | from Játékok (Games) and Bach Transcriptions
    Schubert | Sei mir gegrüsst!
    Barber | Three Songs, op. 45
    Mieczysław Weinberg | Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 5
    FREE


Thursday, November 9, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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Friday, November 10, 2023 at 5:00 pm
in Boston
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in Boston
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Friday, November 10, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Lyric Opera (CM) presents
  • La Cenerentola
  • Location: Cutler Majestic Theater
  • Tickets: here
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  • Beautiful melodies, sparkling vocals, and Rossini’s energetic score weave this timeless Cinderella story, dispensing with the fairy dust for the wisdom of the human heart.


Friday, November 10, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Boston
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Saturday, November 11, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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Saturday, November 11, 2023 at 7:30 pm
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Saturday, November 11, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in East Cambridge
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Saturday, November 11, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Cambridge
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  • Radius Ensemble (L) (617.792.7234) presents
  • Locus
  • Location: Pickman Hall, Longy
  • Tickets: here
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  • SHAWN OKPEBHOLO – On a Poem by Miho Nonaka “Harvard Square” for solo flute
    CHEN YI – Tibetan Tunes for clarinet, cello, and piano
    LAVELL BLACKWELL – On the Impulse to Move for oboe, violin, viola and bassoon CO-COMMISSION
    MISSY MAZZOLI – Still Live with Avalanche for flutes, clarinets, violin, cello, piano, and percussion
    LUCIANO BERIO – Opus Number Zoo for wind quintet


Saturday, November 11, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Boston
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Sunday, November 12, 2023 at 1:30 pm
in Boston
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  • Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (617 278 5156) presents
  • SHEKU KANNEH-MASON, cello
  • Location: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, The Fenway
  • Tickets: here
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  • Bac:h Suite No. 2 in D minor for solo cello
    Gaspar Cassado Suite for solo cello (1926)
    Benjamin Britten Suite No. 1 for solo cello (1964)
    Edmund Finnis Five Preludes for solo cello (2021)
    Gwilym Simcock Prayer for the Senses (2022)
    Leo Brouwer Sonata No. 2 for solo cello (2023)


Sunday, November 12, 2023 at 2:00 pm
in Boston
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Sunday, November 12, 2023 at 3:00 pm
in Brookline
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  • Boston Artists Ensemble presents
  • Circle of Friends
  • Location: St. Paul’s Church, 15 St. Paul Street
  • Tickets: here
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  • Fanny Mendelssohn: String Quartet in E-flat
    Schuma: String Quartet No. 1 in A minor, Op. 41, No. 1
    Brahms: String Sextet No. 2 in G, Op. 36

    Lucia Lin, Julia Glenn– violins, Rebecca Gitter, Daniel Kim – violas, Jonathan Miller, Owen Young – cellos


Sunday, November 12, 2023 at 3:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Lyric Opera (CM) presents
  • La Cenerentola
  • Location: Cutler Majestic Theater
  • Tickets: here
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  • Beautiful melodies, sparkling vocals, and Rossini’s energetic score weave this timeless Cinderella story, dispensing with the fairy dust for the wisdom of the human heart.


Sunday, November 12, 2023 at 4:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Ashmont Hill Chamber Music presents
  • Chamber Music
  • Location: Peabody Hall, Parish of All Saints in Dorchester
  • Tickets: here
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  • Jordan Bak, viola
    JiYung Lee, piano

    Manuel De Falla, arr. Mateu and Zanetti : Siete canciones populares Españolas
    Tyson Gholston Davis, Tableau XII for Solo Viola
    Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti, ko’u inoa
    Robert Schumann, Fantasiestücke
    George Enescu : Concert Piece for Viola and Piano
    Arnold Bax, Viola Sonata


Sunday, November 12, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Cambridge
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  • Collage New Music (KH) presents
  • Concert
  • Location: Killian Hall, MIT
  • Tickets: here
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  • Lior Navok, Quicksand (2023)
    50th Anniversary Commission
    World Premiere
    Andrew Imbrie, Earplay Fantasy (1995)
    Yu-Hui Chang, Mind Stretch (2021)
    Richard Cornell, Diversion (2023)
    50th Anniversary Commission
    World Premiere
    Carlos Sanchez-Guiterez, Diaries II (2018)


Monday, November 13, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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  • New England Conservatory presents
  • Laurence Lesser 85th Birthday
  • Location: Jordan Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • Laurence Lesser, cello Minsoo Sohn, piano,

    Béla Bartók | Rhapsody no. 1 for cello and piano
    J. S. Bach | Suite no. 6 for solo cello in D Major
    Rachmaninoff | Sonata in G minor, for Cello and Piano

    FREE


Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Cambridge
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  • Celebrity Series (L) ((617) 482-2595) presents
  • Karim Sulayman, tenor and Sean Shibe, guitar
  • Location: Pickman Hall, Longy School of Music, 27 Garden St.
  • Tickets: here
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  • 16th- and 17th-century Italian and English works; traditional Sephardic and Arab-Andalusian songs; Benjamin Britten’s settings of translated poems, Songs from the Chinese; 20th-century and contemporary compositions; and more.


Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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  • New England Conservatory presents
  • 1923
  • Location: Jordan Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • including early recordings of Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, King Oliver and Sidney Bechet; the premiere of Stravinsky’s Les Noces; the beginnings of country music on record; the invention of an 80-string koto; tango legend Carlos Gardel taking Argentinian Citizenship; Henry Cowell going inside the piano wit Aeolian Harp; the first sound films; the first commercial radio; early fascination with technology; and major premieres of pieces by Varese, Prokofiev, Bartok, and Schoenberg.

    FREE


Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Boston
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  • New England Conservatory (Brn) (617-585-1260) presents
  • NEC New Music Ensemble
  • Location: Brown Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • György Ligeti | Six Bagatelles
    Yuan-Chen Li | Butterfly
    Igor Stravinsky | Octet
    Heitor Villa-Lobos | Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5
    Pierre Boulez | Messagesquisse
    Astor Piazzolla | Winter and Spring (mvts. 3 & 4) from The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
    FREE


Wednesday, November 15, 2023 at 3:00 pm
in Cambridge
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Wednesday, November 15, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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  • New England Conservatory presents
  • NEC Symphony
  • Location: Jordan Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • Paul Biss conductort

    Ellen Taaffe Zwilich | Jubilation (1996)
    Rachmaninoff | Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor
    Dvořák | Symphony No. 8 in G Major

    FREE


Wednesday, November 15, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Celebrity Series (SH) presents
  • Daniil Trifonov, piano
  • Location: Symphony Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • Jean-Philippe Rameau | Suite in A minor
    Mozart | Sonata No. 12, K. 332
    Mendelssohn | Variations sérieuses
    Beethoven | Piano Sonata No. 29, Op. 106, “Hammerklavier ”


Thursday, November 16, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston Area
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  • Nightingale Vocal Ensemble (V) presents
  • Journey of Seasons
  • Location: Various Boston-area locations
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  • Premieres of Andrew List’s vocal quartet, clarinet, and piano cycle titled “Journey of Seasons.” Featuring poetry by queer, Belgian-American writer May Sarton, “Journey of Seasons” uses the image of a garden as a metaphor for the self amidst life’s seasons. In tandem with the performance, we will invite a modern poetry scholar to present on Sarton and her impact on 20th-century American literature.


Thursday, November 16, 2023 at 7:30 pm
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in Boston
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Friday, November 17, 2023 at 1:30 pm
in Boston
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Friday, November 17, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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Friday, November 17, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Boston
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  • A Far Cry presents
  • Ménage à Trio
  • Location: Jordan Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • Beethoven | String Quartet in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1: I. Allegro con brio,
    Alvin Singleton | Time Past, Time Future
    Beethoven | String Quartet in F minor, Op. 95: III. Allegro assai vivace ma serioso,
    Jessie Montgomery | Rounds
    Beethoven | String Quartet in F Major, Op. 59, No. 1: II. Allegretto vivace e sempre scherzando,
    Paola Prestini | Code for String Orchestra,
    Beethoven | String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132: III. “Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der Lydischen Tonart.” Molto adagio – Andante,


Saturday, November 18, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Lexington
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Saturday, November 18, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Boston
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in Boston
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Saturday, November 18, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Boston (FC)
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  • Chameleon Arts Ensemble (617-427-8200) presents
  • As near as memory –
  • Location: First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough St
  • Tickets: here
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  • Puccini, Crisantemi for string quartet
    Charlotte Bray, Fire Burning in Snow for soprano, oboe, clarinet, violin & cello – US premiere
    Gordon Jacob, Sextet in B-flat Major for piano & winds,
    Rachmaninoff, Trio élégiaque No. 2 in d minor,


Sunday, November 19, 2023 at 1:30 pm
in Boston
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Sunday, November 19, 2023 at 3:00 pm
in Concord
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Sunday, November 19, 2023 at 3:00 pm
in Boston
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Sunday, November 19, 2023 at 4:00 pm
in Boston (FC)
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  • Chameleon Arts Ensemble (617-427-8200) presents
  • As near as memory –
  • Location: First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough St
  • Tickets: here
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  • Puccini, Crisantemi for string quartet
    Charlotte Bray, Fire Burning in Snow for soprano, oboe, clarinet, violin & cello – US premiere
    Gordon Jacob, Sextet in B-flat Major for piano & winds,
    Rachmaninoff, Trio élégiaque No. 2 in d minor,


Sunday, November 19, 2023 at 7:00 pm
in Cambridge
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  • Sarasa Chamber Music Ensemble (FMH) (617-429-0332) presents
  • Romantic Ethos
  • Location: Friends Meeting House
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  • Beethoven’s Cavatina Op. 130
    Haydn’s Op. 54 No. 2 Quarte
    Schubert’s Cello Quintet in C major.

    With Zenas Hsu, Amy Galluzzo, violins; Marka Gustavsson, viola; Timothy Merton, Jennifer Morsches, cellos


Sunday, November 19, 2023 at 7:00 pm
in Waltham
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Sunday, November 19, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Various
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  • Music for Food (857-269-5587) presents
  • Parlando
  • Location: Various
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  • Brown Hall NEC

    Schoenberg’s thrilling Pierrot Lunaire, featuring Lucy Fitz-Gibbon, and a premiere by Ethan Chaves.


Monday, November 20, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Waltham
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  • Brandeis (ST) (781-736-3400.) presents
  • Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra
  • Location: Spingold Theater
  • Tickets: here
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  • Deborah Selig, Soprano
    Stephanie Kacoyanis, Alto
    Matthew Anderson, Tenor
    Daniel Brevik, Bass
    With the combined choruses of Brandeis University, Wellesley College, and the Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

    Hailstork, Fanfare on Amazing Grace
    Beethoven, Symphony No. 9


Tuesday, November 21, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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  • New England Conservatory presents
  • Gunther Schuller Legacy Concert
  • Location: Jordan Hall
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  • virtuoso performances by current students from across NEC’s departments will illuminate the words of those faculty member who will speak, either live or via recording, to their beginnings as new appointees of Gunther’s and what NEC was like for them
    FREE


Friday, November 24, 2023 at 1:30 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Symphony Orchestra presents
  • Earl Lee, conductor
  • Location: Symphony Hall Boston
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  • Steven Banks, saxophone*
    FRANCK Le Chasseur maudit
    TOMASI Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra
    TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4


Friday, November 24, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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  • Handel + Haydn (SH) presents
  • Handel: Messiah
  • Location: Symphony Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • Jonathan Cohen, conductor
    Joélle Harvey, soprano
    John Holiday, countertenor
    Stuart Jackson, tenor
    José Coca Loza, bass-baritone
    H+H Orchestra and Chorus


Friday, November 24, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Salem
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  • Boston Artists Ensemble (617.964.6553) presents
  • Circle of Friends
  • Location: Hamilton Hall, 9 Chestnut St
  • Tickets: here
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  • Fanny Mendelssohn: String Quartet in E-flat
    Schuma: String Quartet No. 1 in A minor, Op. 41, No. 1
    Brahms: String Sextet No. 2 in G, Op. 36

    Lucia Lin, Julia Glenn– violins, Rebecca Gitter, Daniel Kim – violas, Jonathan Miller, Owen Young – cellos


Saturday, November 25, 2023 at 3:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Handel + Haydn (SH) presents
  • Handel: Messiah
  • Location: Symphony Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • Jonathan Cohen, conductor
    Joélle Harvey, soprano
    John Holiday, countertenor
    Stuart Jackson, tenor
    José Coca Loza, bass-baritone
    H+H Orchestra and Chorus


Saturday, November 25, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Early Music Festival (JH) presents
  • ohn Frederick Lampe’s The Dragon of Wantley
  • Location: Jordan Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
    Gilbert Blin, Stage Director
    Robert Mealy, Concertmaster
    Melinda Sullivan, Dance Director


Saturday, November 25, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Symphony Orchestra presents
  • Earl Lee, conductor
  • Location: Symphony Hall Boston
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  • Steven Banks, saxophone*
    FRANCK Le Chasseur maudit
    TOMASI Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra
    TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4


Sunday, November 26, 2023 at 3:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Early Music Festival (JH) presents
  • ohn Frederick Lampe’s The Dragon of Wantley
  • Location: Jordan Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
    Gilbert Blin, Stage Director
    Robert Mealy, Concertmaster
    Melinda Sullivan, Dance Director


Sunday, November 26, 2023 at 3:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Handel + Haydn (SH) presents
  • Handel: Messiah
  • Location: Symphony Hall
  • Tickets: here
  • additional information
  • Jonathan Cohen, conductor
    Joélle Harvey, soprano
    John Holiday, countertenor
    Stuart Jackson, tenor
    José Coca Loza, bass-baritone
    H+H Orchestra and Chorus


Sunday, November 26, 2023 at 5:00 pm
in Boston
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  • King’s Chapel presents
  • Heinrich Christensen, organ
  • Location: Kings Chapel
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  • Music, She Wrote (Part 1)
    from Andrée to Zeichler
    C.B. Fisk Organ
    $25/20


Sunday, November 26, 2023 at 7:00 pm
in Brookline
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Monday, November 27, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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Tuesday, November 28, 2023 at 7:00 pm
in Boston
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Wednesday, November 29, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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Wednesday, November 29, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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Thursday, November 30, 2023 at 3:00 pm
in West Newton
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Saturday, December 2, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Cambridge
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Sunday, December 3, 2023 at 1:30 pm
in Boston
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Sunday, December 3, 2023 at 3:00 pm
in Waltham
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Sunday, December 3, 2023 at 3:00 pm
in Rockport
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  • Rockport Music presents
  • VIENNA BOYS CHOIR
  • Location: Shalin Liu Performance Center, 37 Main Street
  • Tickets: here
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  • The angelic-voiced musicians of the Vienna Boys Choir celebrate the magic of the holiday season with a delightful program of Austrian folk songs, classical masterpieces, Christmas hymns, and holiday carols.


Sunday, December 3, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Baroque presents
  • Handel: Messiah
  • Location: Jordan Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • Amanda Forsythe, soprano
    Tamara Mumford, mezzo-soprano
    Karim Sulayman, tenor
    Roderick Williams, bass


Monday, December 4, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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  • New England Conservatory presents
  • First Monday at Jordan Hall
  • Location: Jordan Hall
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  • Mozart | String Quintet No. 2 in C minor, K. 406/516b
    Stephanie Zyzak, 1st violin
    Paul Biss, 2nd violin
    Nicholas Cords, 1st viola
    Marcus Thompson, 2nd viola
    Alex Hersh, cello
    Dmitri Shostakovich | Symphony No. 15, transcription by Viktor Derevianko
    Pei-Shan Lee, piano
    Korbinian Altenberger, violin
    Blaise Dejardin, cello
    Robert Schulz, Daniel Bauch, Jeffrey Means,
    FREE


Thursday, December 7, 2023 at 7:00 pm
in Chestnut Hill
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Thursday, December 7, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Cambridge
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  • Celebrity Series (L) ((617) 482-2595) presents
  • Diana Adamyan, violin
  • Location: Pickman Hall, Longy School of Music, 27 Garden St.
  • Tickets: here
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  • with Renana Gutman, piano
    Mozart | Sonata in B-flat Major, K. 378
    Sibelius | Humoresque No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 89
    Edvard Baghdasaryan | “Rhapsody” for violin and piano
    Saint-Saëns | Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 75


Friday, December 8, 2023 at 7:00 pm
in Rockport
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  • Rockport Music presents
  • Handel: Messiah
  • Location: Shalin Liu Performance Center, 37 Main Street
  • Tickets: here
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  • Handel’s iconic Messiah is a treasured holiday tradition that will be performed by the incomparable Handel & Haydn Society in a special chamber arrangement for 13-member chamber orchestra and chorus led by Associate Conductor Ian Watson.


Friday, December 8, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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  • New England Conservatory (CC) (617 585-1100) presents
  • An Evening of Lessons and Carols
  • Location: Church of the Covenant, 67 Newbury Street
  • Tickets: here
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  • NEC Symphonic Choir and Chamber Singers, with NEC brass and percussion ensembles and the Back Bay Ringers, present a traditional Anglican Advent service including repertoire from many countries and participatory carol singing.

    FREE


Friday, December 8, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Lexington
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  • Boston Camerata (FC) presents
  • A Medieval Christmas
  • Location: Follen Church, Lexington
  • Tickets: here
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  • A Medieval Christmas: Hodie Christus Natus Est features songs to the Virgin Mary, processionals from Saint Martial of Limoges, hymns, lyrics, and miracle ballads, sung in Latin, Old French, Old Provençal, and Saxon, interlaced with Medieval English texts of the Nativity.


Friday, December 8, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Cambridge
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Saturday, December 9, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Celebrity Series (JH) presents
  • Jeremy Denk, pianist
  • Location: Jordan Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • Works by Louise Farrenc and Clara Schumann, French Romantic holdout Cécile Chaminade, American pianist and composer Amy Beach, and modernist-turned-folk-revivalist Ruth Crawford Seeger sit alongside works by acclaimed contemporary composers Tania León, Meredith Monk, Phyllis Chen, and Missy Mazzoli.


Sunday, December 10, 2023 at 3:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Cathedral of the Holy Cross (617/542-5682) presents
  • Christmas with The Copley Singers
  • Location: 1400 Washington Street
  • Tickets: here
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  • The group has released its Christmas Recording, “I Wonder as I Wander” on the Gothic Records label, featuring an appealing and eclectic range of Christmas music.


Sunday, December 10, 2023 at 3:00 pm
in Boston
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Sunday, December 10, 2023 at 3:00 pm
in Waltham
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Sunday, December 10, 2023 at 4:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Camerata (OSC) presents
  • A Medieval Christmas
  • Location: Old South Church, 645 Boylston St
  • Tickets: here
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  • A Medieval Christmas: Hodie Christus Natus Est features songs to the Virgin Mary, processionals from Saint Martial of Limoges, hymns, lyrics, and miracle ballads, sung in Latin, Old French, Old Provençal, and Saxon, interlaced with Medieval English texts of the Nativity.


Sunday, December 10, 2023 at 4:00 pm
in Brookline
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Sunday, December 10, 2023 at 4:30 pm
in Cambridge
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  • Joshua Peckins (FCC) presents
  • Under a Tree, We Wander
  • Location: Lindsay Chapel at First Church
  • Tickets: here
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  • Bach: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor, BWV 1003
    Paganini: Caprice No. 10 in G minor
    Du Yun: Under a Tree, an Udatta for Violin and Tape
    Shirish Korde: Svara Yantra (2006)
    Wolfgang von Schweinitz: Plainsound Etude (2013-14)


Monday, December 11, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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  • New England Conservatory presents
  • Holiday Music
  • Location: Jordan Hall
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  • festive evening featuring the NEC Chamber Singers, NEC Symphonic Winds, and Navy Band Northeast, led by conductors Erica J. Washburn, William Drury, and Lt. Matthew Shea.

    FREE


Tuesday, December 12, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Boston
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Wednesday, December 13, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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  • New England Conservatory presents
  • NEC Philharmonia
  • Location: Jordan Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • Hugh Wolff conductor,
    Gabriela Lena Frank’s Escaramuza,
    Lutosławski’s Concerto with cello soloist Leland Ko Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances.
    FREE


Thursday, December 14, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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  • Handel and Haydn Society (JH) (617 266 3605) presents
  • BAROQUE CHRISTMAS
  • Location: Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory
  • Tickets: here
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  • Bach: “Herr, ein Mitleid, dein Erbarmen” from Christmas Oratorio
    Bach: “Nur ein Wink von seinen Händen” from Christmas Oratorio
    Bach: “Grosser Herr” from Christmas Oratorio
    Charpentier: Noels pour les instruments
    Scarlatti: Cantata pastorale per la Nativita do Signore Gesu Christo
    Corelli: Christmas Concerto
    Telemann: Trumpet Sonata in D Major

    Ian Watson, director
    Teresa Wakim, soprano
    David McFerrin, baritone
    H+H Orchestra


Friday, December 15, 2023 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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  • Back Bay Chorale (OSC) (617.648.3885) presents
  • A Boston Christmas
  • Location: Old South Church, 645 Boylston St.
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  • Holiday music from around the world and—of course—the city’s best opportunity for carol sing-alongs!

    Music Director Finalist and Guest Conductor
    Stephen Spinelli


Saturday, December 16, 2023 at 4:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Back Bay Chorale (OSC) (617.648.3885) presents
  • A Boston Christmas
  • Location: Old South Church, 645 Boylston St.
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  • Holiday music from around the world and—of course—the city’s best opportunity for carol sing-alongs!

    Music Director Finalist and Guest Conductor
    Stephen Spinelli


Saturday, December 16, 2023 at 4:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Back Bay Chorale (OSC) (617.648.3885) presents
  • A Boston Christmas: Bright Star
  • Location: Old South Church, 645 Boylston St.
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  • music of Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Telemann, Christoph Graupner, Florence Price, William Grant Still, Margaret Bonds, Eriks Esenvalds, and John Tavener—plus carol sing-along.


Saturday, December 16, 2023 at 4:00 pm
in Jamaica Plain
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Sunday, December 17, 2023 at 3:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Handel and Haydn Society (JH) (617 266 3605) presents
  • BAROQUE CHRISTMAS
  • Location: Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory
  • Tickets: here
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  • Bach: “Herr, ein Mitleid, dein Erbarmen” from Christmas Oratorio
    Bach: “Nur ein Wink von seinen Händen” from Christmas Oratorio
    Bach: “Grosser Herr” from Christmas Oratorio
    Charpentier: Noels pour les instruments
    Scarlatti: Cantata pastorale per la Nativita do Signore Gesu Christo
    Corelli: Christmas Concerto
    Telemann: Trumpet Sonata in D Major

    Ian Watson, director
    Teresa Wakim, soprano
    David McFerrin, baritone
    H+H Orchestra


Thursday, December 21, 2023 at 8:00 pm
in Cambridge
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Saturday, January 27, 2024 at 8:00 pm
in Boston Area
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  • Nightingale Vocal Ensemble (V) presents
  • Photoplay
  • Location: Various Boston-area locations
  • Tickets: here
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  • The Lilypad |1353 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

    Nine singers will create fully-improvised soundtracks to a curated collection of silent films, as well as the winners of Nightingale’s 2024 Short Film Contest. The films range in style from avant-garde animation to absurd comedy, and Nightingale singers will provide atmosphere, commentary, and playful interaction, taking inspiration from the visuals in real time to spontaneously generate visceral soundscapes.


Sunday, January 28, 2024 at 3:00 pm
in Chestnut HIll
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Sunday, March 3, 2024 at 3:00 pm
in Boston
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Sunday, March 3, 2024 at 3:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Civic Symphony presents
  • Francis Noya, conductor
  • Location: Jordan Hall
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  • Young Artist Concerto Competition
    Debussy – Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
    Nielsen: Symphony Nº 4 Op. 29 Inextinguishable


Sunday, March 24, 2024 at 3:00 pm
in Chestnut HIll
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Sunday, April 28, 2024 at 3:00 pm
in Boston
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  • New England Philharmonic (JH) presents
  • A Messiah for Our Time
  • Location: Jordan Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • Sven-David Sandström: Messiah (2009)
    Cantata Singers
    Noah Horn, Music Director (co-conductor)
    Four vocal soloists TBD


Sunday, May 5, 2024 at 5:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Camerata (CC) presents
  • Celestial Visions
  • Location: Church of the Covenant
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  • Wind player and composer Mara Winter will lead Camerata through musings on humankind’s relationship to the universe, the mystery of creation, and the magic of the natural world, sung in all three of medieval Britain’s literary languages: Latin, English and French.


Sunday, May 12, 2024 at 3:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Civic Symphony presents
  • Francis Noya, conductor
  • Location: Jordan Hall
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  • Florence Price – String Quartet No. 1 in G Major
    Movement II – Andante Moderato
    (arr. by Peter Stanley Martin 2020
    Golijov – Azul
    Allison Eldridge, Cello Soloist
    Respighi – Pines of Rome


Saturday, May 18, 2024 at 6:30 pm
in Boston Area
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Sunday, May 19, 2024 at 6:30 pm
in Boston Area
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Sunday, June 2, 2024 at 3:00 pm
in Chestnut HIll
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