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- Foundation fo Chinese Performing Arts (ISGM) presents
- Evren Ozel, pianist
- Location: Gardner Museum, 25 Evans Way
- Tickets: here
- additional information
BACH : Partita No. 5 in G Major, BWV 829
BEETHOVEN : Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109CHOPIN:
Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35
Impromptu No. 2 in F-sharp Major, Op. 36
Polonaise-Fantaisie in A-flat Major, Op. 61Note: The very limited seating is already sold out.
- Music Monday (ST) presents
- Max Levinson, piano
- Location: Streaming
- Tickets: here
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J.S.Bach: Partita No. 4 in D major
Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 6 in A Major
Howard Arlen: Over the Rainbow (arr. Oscar Peterson)
- Boston Symphony Orchestra (Str) presents
- Music in Changing Times
- Location: Streaming
- Tickets: here
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Giancarlo Guerrero leads Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man and Appalachian Spring, Joan Tower’s Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No. 1, and Barber’s Adagio for Strings
- Celebrity Series (Str) presents
- Neighborhood Arts Cello Quartet
- Location: Streaming
- Tickets: here
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Global Inspirations
Soul Yatra Trio, Hub New Music, and Castle of our Skins, the members of the Neighborhood Arts Cello Quartet will pair music from J.S. Bach and tango master Astor Piazzolla with global folk-inspired originals drawn from Inca chant, West African music, Turkish music, and more.
FREE with rsvp
- Radius Ensemble (Str) presents
- Encore Concert
- Location: Streaming
- Tickets: here
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Composer Jonathan Bailey Holland explores his Clarity for Cold Air with Artistic Director Jennifer Montbach. Scored for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion, the work was commissioned and premiered in 2013. Complete encore performance from the live audio recording, with bespoke video by filmmaker Dick Bartlett, followed by a Q&A.
- Sarasa (HEp) presents
- Musick for a While
- Location: Harvard Epworth Church, 1555 Mass. Ave
- Tickets: here
- additional information
Countertenor Christopher Lowrey in mostly 17th-century songs and instrumental works for voice, lute and cello by Henry Purcell, Barbara Strozzi and Francesca Caccini. Other works by Merula, Colombi and Frescobaldi.
Christopher Lowrey, countertenor; Michael Leopold, lute; Jennifer Morsches, Baroque cello
Maximum of 25 audience members. Face masks are compulsory,
The concert will also be live-streamed.
- Sarasa (HEp) presents
- Musick for a While
- Location: Harvard Epworth Church, 1555 Mass. Ave
- Tickets: here
- additional information
Countertenor Christopher Lowrey in mostly 17th-century songs and instrumental works for voice, lute and cello by Henry Purcell, Barbara Strozzi and Francesca Caccini. Other works by Merula, Colombi and Frescobaldi.
Christopher Lowrey, countertenor; Michael Leopold, lute; Jennifer Morsches, Baroque cello
Maximum of 25 audience members. Face masks are compulsory,
The concert will also be live-streamed.
- Chameleon Arts Ensemble (Str) presents
- interrupted and in between
- Location: Streaming
- Tickets: here
- additional information
Kodály: Intermezzo for string trio
Birtwistle: Interrupted Endless Melody for oboe & piano
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Ballade for violin & piano,
Brahms, Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8available through December 12
- Convergence Ensembel (Str) presents
- Earl Kim: Then and Now
- Location: Streaming
- Tickets: here
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Live-stream of Earl Kim’s Now and Then, “a quiet, passionate protest against nuclear war”, Convergence ensemble members will be joined by activists Joseph Gerson and Ray Matsumiya Nagasaki.Ray Matsumiya and Joseph Gerson, artistic director Rachel Goodwin, mezzo-soprano D’Anna Fortunato, and poet Charles Coe.
- Longy School. of Music (ST) presents
- Salon Series
- Location: Streaming
- Tickets: here
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Finding What is Lost pairs contemporary works by Eric Nathan and Dale Trumbore, both composed in 2018 and premiered by the Neave Trio, with Glinka’s Trio Pathetique.
- Musicians of Post Road (ST) presents
- Christmas Potpourri
- Location: Streaming
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Festive seasonal rediscoveries from composers across two continents, including instrumental French Noël settings, Baroque arias from Italy, Mexico, and England, and Leopold Mozart’s playful “Musical Sleigh Ride.” With soprano Jessica Petrus.
Zoom reception to follow.
- A Far Cry (Str) presents
- Amazonita
- Location: Streaming
- Tickets: here
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Gabriela Lena Frank | Milagros
Jacqueline Nova | Creación de la Tierra
Paulinho Nogueira | Bachianinhas No. 1 & 2 (arranged by A Far Cry)
Clarice Assad | Obrigado for Mandolin and String Quartet
- Eureka Ensemble (Str) presents
- Messiah for Our Time
- Location: Streaming
- Tickets: here
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an abridged Spanish version of Part 1 & the Hallelujah Chorus of Handel’s Messiah, along with traditional and beloved Spanish carols.
- Blue Heron (Str) presents
- A Blue Heron Christmas Special
- Location: Streaming
- Tickets: here
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Featuring highlights from English and French Christmas programs, new Spanish repertoire, members of Dark Horse Consort, and a new work by Kevin Allen, Puer nobis nascitur, commissioned by Blue Heron and dedicated to Dorrie Parini and Paul LaFerriere for their generous support. Live pre-concert talk at 6:30 PM by Scott Metcalfe with composer Kevin Allen
- Foundation fo Chinese Performing Arts (ISGM) presents
- Marc Ponthus, pianist
- Location: Gardner Museum, 25 Evans Way
- Tickets: here
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Beethoven: Sonata No. 29 . 106, Hammerklavier
Stockhausen: Klavierstück XVery limited seats sold out. The entire concert video will post one week after the performance
- Handel + Haydn (ST) presents
- Baroque Christmas
- Location: Streaming
- Tickets: here
- additional information
H+H Principal Keyboard and Associate Conductor Ian Watson will bring music fit for the season. from members of the H+H Orchestra and from Boston’s beautiful St. Cecilia Parish
- Handel + Haydn (ST) presents
- Messiah for Our Time
- Location: Streaming
- Tickets: here
- additional information
Handel: Messiah, Part I and “Hallelujah” Chorus
Ian Watson, conductor
Joélle Harvey, soprano
Reginald Mobley, countertenor
Aaron Sheehan, tenor
Sumner Thompson, baritone
Members of the H+H Orchestra and Chorusavailable through holiday season
- Seven Times Salt (Str) presents
- Banish Misfortune: A Solstice Celebration
- Location: Streaming
- Tickets: here
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A musical tour of the British Isles including wintry English dances, rousing wassails, familiar carols, and tunes for Scottish lute, Irish pipes, Shetland fiddle, and readings. Filmed at Aldworth Manor.
$10 suggested
Karen Burciaga, violin, harp;
Dan Meyers, recorders, flute, uilleann pipes, percussion;
Josh Schreiber Shalem, bass viol;
Matthew Wright, lute, bandora;
with Matthew Leese, baritone
- Handel + Haydn (ST) presents
- Baroque Christmas
- Location: Streaming
- Tickets: here
- additional information
H+H Principal Keyboard and Associate Conductor Ian Watson will bring music fit for the season. from members of the H+H Orchestra and from Boston’s beautiful St. Cecilia Parish
- Eureka Ensemble (Str) presents
- Messiah for Our Time
- Location: Streaming
- Tickets: here
- additional information
an abridged Spanish version of Part 1 & the Hallelujah Chorus of Handel’s Messiah, along with traditional and beloved Spanish carols.
- Placeholder presents
- Hoped-for Result
- Location: Nowhere
- additional information
- Foundation fo Chinese Performing Arts (ISGM) presents
- Brannon Cho, cellist and Eric Lu, pianist
- Location: Gardner Museum, 25 Evans Way
- Tickets: here
- additional information
Schumann: Adagio and Allegro in A-flat Major, Op. 70
Beethoven: Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69
Rachmaninoff: Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor Op. 19Free Admission. Donation appreciated. Registration required. Masks and social distancing mandated.
Children under 6 NOT admitted