a Celtic/Classical jam session featuring the Rasa String Quartet and the X-tet from Boston Baroque, featuring various works, including “A Short While to be Here…,” a new piece for both ensembles by violinist and composer Colin Jacobsen. Among the selections, you’ll hear the Rasa Quartet playing the traditional “Willie Coleman’s Jig” and have a chance to compare it to a Baroque gigue – the very same dance – by 17th-century composer Heinrich Biber. The program will be moderated by Anthony Rudel, General Manager of GBH Music.

Nightingale is excited to partner with hybrid arts ensemble The Fourth Wall to explore playful, interdisciplinary pieces involving non-standard musical notation and creative engagement with audiences and physical performance spaces. and students’ original compositions.

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello*
Carlos SIMON New work
BLOCH Schelomo: Rhapsody Hébraïque, for cello and orchestra
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7

A tale of two people who are brought up as different genders from which they were born. With new lyrics by Jack Helbig and a new script by Gregg Opelka, this one hour romp takes a look at and pokes fun at society norms in a style not unlike a Marx Brothers movie.

Chamber music premieres by composer/pianist Ketty Nez

“far sight sun light” (flute and guitar)
“only the path remains” (violin, cello, piano)
“rumelian songs of love and rain” selections (voice and piano)
“5 fragments in 3” (saxophone, viola, piano)
“2 reflections” (2 pianos)

Performers: Matthew Lee (flute), Thatcher Harrison (guitar), Aija Reke (violin), Sara Wilkins (cello), Livia Racz (voice), Jennifer Bill (saxophone), Daniel Dona (viola), Victor Cayres (piano), Ketty Nez (piano)

Livetream HERE

FREE

popular music from 1650 up to the present; some are elegant, some rowdy, some romantic, some playful. English Country Dance is social, community dancing. The caller will teach all the dances; no experience is necessary.

Karen Burciaga, fiddle; Dan Meyers, winds, percussion; Josh Schreiber, bass viol; Matthew Wright, lute

$5-$15

Jean Sibelius: Romance
Florence Price: Clementine
Lisa Nardi: In This Heart
Elfrida Andrée: Andante Quasi Recitativo
Florence Price: Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes
Robert Edward Smith: Tangos
Astor Piazzolla: Oblivion
Michael Abels: Delights and Dances

concertos, including the performance of the 2022–2023 winner of the Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble Concerto Competition.

FREE

This riveting and heart-warming chamber opera is a coming of age story about a transgender woman. Mark Campbell and Kimberly Reed, Librettists
David Gately, Stage Director

Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, featuring Svens Scriveris, Kristin Barrett, Celeste di Meo, and Isabella Yee; Vivaldi’s concerto for viola and cello featuring Jayna Leach and Jean Taglia; William Grant Still’s Ennanga featuring Charles Overton (harp); and works by Jessie Montgomery and Kenji Bunch.

FREE

Josquin Desprez’s sunny mass based on the song Fortuna desperata and a group of six settings of Dido’s last words, Dulces exuvie, by Josquin, Marbriano De Orto, Alexander Agricola, Johannes Ghiselin, Jean Mouton, and anonymous.

Featuring young Newton pianist Laetitia Ji!
Prokofiev – Symphony No. 1 – Larghetto and Gavotte
Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 21 – Andante
Elgar – Salut d’amour
Martini – Plaisir d’amour

Plus various popular love songs across generations!

Lusitano: Motet for 6 Voices

Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria

Bach: Sinfonia No. 11, BWV 797 & Sinfonia No. 12, BWV 798 for 3 voices

Beethoven: Opus 74 Quartet
IV. Allegro con variazioni
Brahms: Op.18 Sextet in Bb Major

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello*
Carlos SIMON New work
BLOCH Schelomo: Rhapsody Hébraïque, for cello and orchestra
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7

Bach Es ist das Heil uns kommen her, BWV 9

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello*
Carlos SIMON New work
BLOCH Schelomo: Rhapsody Hébraïque, for cello and orchestra
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7

David Rivera Bozon, tenor, Leona Cheung, pianist, and our special guest Julimar Alejandra Alarcon, soprano, for “Let’s Celebrate! An International voice and piano performance celebrating Love, Friendship, Freedom, and Joy.”

Audience favorites and unique pieces by female, black, and Latino composers in Italian, English, German and Spanish.

FRANZ SCHREKER Violin Sonata in F major: Allegretto Moderato
ERWIN SCHULHOFF Concertino for flute, viola, & bass.
FELIX MENDELSSOHN Songs for Mezzo soprano & piano
Neue Liebe from 6 songs Op. 19a no. 4
Andres Mainlied from 12 songs Op. 8 no. 8
DIMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH “Jewish Folk Poetry” Op. 79; Lullaby for Mezzo
ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY String Quartet No.1, Op.4 (with flute): Allegro con fuoco
KURT WEILL Songs for mezzo soprano & piano
Foolish Heart
One Life to Live
DIMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Trio No. 2: IV Allegretto
ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD (Marietta’s Lied from Die Tote Stadt), for piano, string quartet, & mezzo soprano

Hankus Netsky’s klezmer “Nonantum Bulgar” and Michael Gandolfi’s landmark “Vientos y Tangos” variations. The program also features singer/songwriter Delfina Cheb-Terrab, a CMA alum, and CMA vocalists in New England shape note singing as a prelude to William Schuman’s arrangements of “Chester” and “When Jesus Wept;’ and Thomas Duffy’s genre-crossing “Three Places in New Haven.”

Dr. Alexander Lingas conduct sworks in Greek from medieval Constantinople, followed by liturgical works by twentieth-century Greek American composers.
Associate Music Director John Michael Boyer, will feature the East Coast premiere of Heaven and Earth: A Song of Creation, a setting of Psalm 103.
by composers: Tikey Zes, +Richard Toensing, GRAMMY-nominee Kurt Sander,Alexander Khalil, John Michael Boyer, and Matthew Arndt

Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1, Classical
KHACHATURIAN Piano Concerto
RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances

Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-6,

Aisslinn Nosky and Ian Watson, co-directors
H+H Orchestra

Boston Conservatory students perform side-by-side with Silkroad artists Maeve Gilchrist and Edward Perez.

FREE

Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1, Classical
KHACHATURIAN Piano Concerto
RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances

Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-6,

Aisslinn Nosky and Ian Watson, co-directors
H+H Orchestra

James Diaz, New Work
Dai Wei, How the Stars Vanish
Laura Kaminsky, Uncover
Angélica Negrón, New Work
Sage Shurman, New Work

selections from Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas with contemporary compositions by Reena Esmail, Paul Wiancko, Samuel Adams, Du Yun, and the Boston premiere of new works by Salina Fisher and Angélica Negrón.

A Multimedia Piano Duo Concert & Exploration of French Fine Art

Tanya Blaich, Pianist
Leona Cheung, Pianist
Nancy Scott, Professor of Fine Arts

Piano Four Hands music by Claude Debussy and Cécile Chaminade

J.S. Bach, “Madrigals I” by George Crumb, Piano Trio in B Major by Johannes Brahms, and “Breathe” by Evan Williams, performed by Saul Bitran (violin), Joseph Holt (bass), Emily Siar (voice), Philipp Stäudlin (saxophone), Linda Toote (flute), Carlos Vargas (piano), and Owen Young (cello) and graduate students Kyoka Minami and Eric Puente.

Sung by mezzo-soprano Lori McCann, professor of voice at the Cali School of Music at Montclair University, the music will be backed by a wide variety of percussion instruments, piano, and imagery.

FREE

Bach Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12

Liz Lane’s “Linear Lines,”
Poulenc’s “Elegy,”
Amy Dunker’s “When There Are Nine,
Elizabeth Knudson’s “Alchemy,”
Barbara York’s “Every Day an Alleluia.”

Anne Howarth, horn, Julia Scott Carey, piano and Valerie Thompson, cello.

Free; no tickets required.

Bach’s Mass in B Minor

Celebng three Boston composers
King’s Chapel Choir
Heinrich Christensen, director
Tickets $25/20

Natasha Brofsky teams up with pianist Marija Stroke of the Apollo Trio to present a program of works featuring George Enescu, César Franck, Clara Schumann, and Ana Solovic.

Music of Samuel Pepys’ London

bustling, bewigged, and bawdy London to life with readings from Pepys’ diaries along with music by his many friends including Hume, Blagrave, Young, Locke, and others.

$20

Bruce Hangen leads Boston Conservatory Orchestra in an all-American program of music by Bernstein, Copland, and Gershwin, as well as Boston-based composer Thomas Oboe Lee’s Trumpet Concerto, with a solo Richard Kelly.

Program TBA

HOLLAND – The Stone and the Milkweed for horn, viola, piano and narrator
GARDNER – The Way of Ideas for flute, clarinet, violin and cello
WOOLF – String Trio (Prueraria Lobata)
POULENC – Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano

Korngold, Suite from Much Ado About Nothing for violin & piano
Vaughan Williams, Six Studies in English Folk Song for English horn & piano
David Matthews, Terrible Beauty for soprano, flute, clarinet, harp & string quartet,
Thomas Adès, Court Studies from The Tempest for clarinet, violin, cello & piano
Elgar, Piano Quintet in a minor, Op. 84

Led by conductor Adam Grossman, and accompanied by Eric Mazonson, the program will include: two works by Fanny (Mendelssohn) Hensel, choral piece “Gartenlieder” and piano solo “März” from Das Jahr; Brahms’ “Zigeunerlieder”; and three works by Schubert: “An die Sonne”, “Lebenslust” and “Der Tanz”.

Beethoven:
Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109
Sonata No. 31 in A-flat Major, Op. 110
Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111

North Bennet Street School, Boston

Showcasing the lyra viol, complete with sympathetic strings and its relationship to different contexts of music making.

Ashley Mulcahy, mezzo-soprano; James Perretta, viol; Sarah Mead, viol

Songs of Sacred Contemplation

Selections from Telemann’s sacred solo cantatas and Passion Oratorios

Donations to support the Hancock Music Program are welcome.

Korngold, Suite from Much Ado About Nothing for violin & piano
Vaughan Williams, Six Studies in English Folk Song for English horn & piano
David Matthews, Terrible Beauty for soprano, flute, clarinet, harp & string quartet,
Thomas Adès, Court Studies from The Tempest for clarinet, violin, cello & piano
Elgar, Piano Quintet in a minor, Op. 84

Music of C.P.E. Bach, Haydn, Marianne Martinez, and Mozart

General Admission $20
Free to students with ID

Well-known romanzas and ensembles of the Zarzuela repertoire.

Gift Anyagwochu, Herman Díaz, Tatevik Kocharyan, Eliana Osorio, Lucia Panizza, David Rivera Bozon, and Noriko Yasuda.

Andrew Sheranian, Organist and Master of Choristers at All Saints Church, Ashmont is the Artistic Director of the Bach Project.

TBA

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Ballade in A Minor
Duke Ellington’s River Suite
Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet Suite.

Kristo Kondacki, conductor

Robert Mealy & Julie Andrijeski, directors
The (very) First Viennese School

Beethoven: Piano Trio No.5 in D, Op.70, No. 1, “Ghost”
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op.57
???????: Mystery Piece — Guess the composer and win tickets
Ayano Ninomiya, Sharan Leventhal – violins, Daniel Kim – viola, Jonathan Miller – cello, Randall Hodgkinson – piano

Tillis: Spiritual Fantasy No. 12 for String Quartet
Prokofiev: String Quartet No. 2 in F Major, Op. 92
Dvořák: String Quartet No. 14

Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 3–6 (1721)
Mrs. Philharmonica: Two Trio Sonatas (c. 1715)

Lili Boulange: D’un soir triste
Gounod: Juliette’s Waltz
A. Kos-Anatolsky: Solovyiny Romans
Bernstein: litter and be Gay
Olga Lisovskaya, soprano soloist
Franck: Symphony in d minor

Sibelius – Finlandia op. 26
Kodály – Háry János Suite
Dawson – Negro Folk Symphony

Jihyun Kim: Once Upon a Time… (2018)
Boston Premiere
Richard Festinger: New Work (2023)
50th Anniversary Commission
World Premiere
Marti Epstein: New Work (2023)
50th Anniversary Commission
World Premiere
James Primosch: A Sibyl (2017)
2017 Commission and Premiere
Mary Mackenzie, soprano

talk at 7:00

guest conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto
Debussy | Nuages and Fêtes from Nocturnes, L. 98
Gabriela Ortiz | Téenek – Invenciones de Territorio
Copland | Third Symphony

Aleksandra Kurzak, soprano*
Lorelei Ensemble
Beth Willer, conductor
GÓRECKI Symphony No. 3, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
Julia WOLFE Her Story, for vocal ensemble and orchestra (BSO co-commission)

Michael Ching’s short children’s opera, Three Little Pigs Remix, an exciting retelling of the classic story of the three little pigs and the big, bad wolf. In this remix, three important themes are explored—interpretation, cooperation, and habitation.

Matthew Locke Fantasy from Suite No. 5 in G minor from “Consort of Fower Parts”
Dvorak Songs my Mother Taught Me
Fanny Mendelssohn String Quartet in E-flat Major,
Mahler Kindertotenlieder (arr. for soprano and string quartet by Ivo Bauer)
Gershwin Lullaby for string quartet

Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté | Tegere Tulon*
Angélica Negrón | Marejada*
Jessie Montgomery | Break Away
Wu Man | Two Chinese Paintings*
Reena Esmail | Ragamala
Aeryn J. Santillan | Recall

Benjamin Wright, Trumpet

BOULANGER: D’un matin de printemps
SIMON The Block
HAYDN Trumpet Concerto in Eb
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2

Aleksandra Kurzak, soprano*
Lorelei Ensemble
Beth Willer, conductor
GÓRECKI Symphony No. 3, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
Julia WOLFE Her Story, for vocal ensemble and orchestra (BSO co-commission)

JOTARO NAKANO, CONDUCTOR & MUSIC DIRECTOR FINALIST
BENJAMIN WRIGHT, TRUMPET

BOULANGER: (Of a Spring Morning)
SIMON : The Block
HAYDN : Trumpet Concerto in Eb
SIBELIUS : Symphony No. 2

Jotaro Nakano, conductor

Szymanowk: Mythes, Op. 30 (1915)
Stravinsk: Divertimento (after The Fairy’s Kiss) (1934)
Erkki-Sven Tüü: Conversio (1994)

Berton: Nouvelle Chaconne in E Minor
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5, “Reformation”
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17

Matthew Locke Fantasy from Suite No. 5 in G minor from “Consort of Fower Parts”
Dvorak Songs my Mother Taught Me
Fanny Mendelssohn String Quartet in E-flat Major,
Mahler Kindertotenlieder (arr. for soprano and string quartet by Ivo Bauer)
Gershwin Lullaby for string quartet

Béla Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle
Alma Mahler’s Four Songs,

Edgaras Montvidas, tenor
Danielle DeNiese, narrator*
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
Children’s Choir
James Burton, conductor
STRAVINSKY Perséphone
Thomas ADÈS Inferno Suite
Thomas ADÈS Paradiso

Béla Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle
Alma Mahler’s Four Songs,

Béla Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle
Alma Mahler’s Four Songs,

Shades of Minor: Beethoven, Schubert, and Mendelssohn

Bach Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, BWV 39

BACH: Partita No.1 in B-flat major
BARTOK: Suite Op.14
LISZT: Funerailles
SCRIABIN: 5 Preludes, Op.16
SCHUMANN: Symphonic Etudes, Op.13

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves
Elgar: Serenade
Britten: Temporal Variations for Oboe (John Ferrillo)
Britten: Serenade (Matthew DiBattista, tenor; Rachel Childers, horn)
Holst: St. Paul’s Suite

new piece by Natacha Diels
David Sanford’s Dearest One, Thou Art My Star. plus works by Satie, Stravinsky, Boulanger, and Ravel

Haydn | String Quartet in F Major, op. 74 no. 1
Bartók | String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor

Soo Yeon Lyuh, Yessori (Sound from the Past)
Beethoven, String Quartet in Bb major, Op. 130 (w/ Große Fuge)

SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata in A minor, D. 784,
BARTOK: Piano Sonata, BB 88, Sz. 80 
CHOPIN: Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58 

Gala with Groton Hill

In collaboration with the New World Chorale and Organist Mitchell Crawford, Boston Conservatory Brass Ensemble presents a concert of music by De Lassus, Dupre, Hindemith, and Respighi.

FREE

Debussy, Première rhapsodie for clarinet & piano,
Helen Grime, Pierrot Miniatures for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello & piano
Fauré, Cinq mélodies “de Venise” for soprano & piano
Andrea Clearfield, Unremembered Wings for oboe & piano
Mendelssohn, Sextet for piano, violin, 2 violas, cello & double bass

Beethoven: Andante con variazioni and Presto
(arr. for string orchestra by Rubén Regel)
Villa-Lobo: Bachianas No. 9 (1945)
Jessie Montgomer: Strum (2006/2012)
Carlos Simon: B: Prayer for our Times
Valerie Coleman: Tracing Visions
Jessie Montgomery: Divided
Ricardo Herz: Sísifo na Cidade Grande

Antonio Bononcini: Stabat Mater
J.S. Bach: Easter Oratorio, BWV 249

Performances for mixed brass ensemble as well as from our horn, trumpet, trombone and tuba classes. In addition, the event concludes with a mass brass choir, featuring all of our students in Strauss’s Feierlicher Aufzug.

Program TBA

Beethoven | Sonata No. 1, Op. 12
Prokofiev | Sonata No. 1 in F minor
Franck | Sonata in A Major

Eric Lu, piano*
Unsuk CHIN subito con forza
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K.466
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 2

Eric Lu, piano*
Unsuk CHIN subito con forza
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K.466
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 2

Bach Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden,

Greek pianist and conductor Dimitri Toufexis.

Gautier Capuçon, cello
RAVEL Alborada del gracioso
Thierry ESCAICH Cello Concerto (American premiere; BSO co-commission)
RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 2

open rehearsal

a gorgeous physical production borrowed from the Maryland Lyric Opera.

a gorgeous physical production borrowed from the Maryland Lyric Opera.

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor | Fantasiestucke
Avril Coleridge-Taylor | Selection of Songs,
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson | String Quartet No. 1
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson | Louisiana Blues Strut (“A Cakewalk”)

Gautier Capuçon, cello
RAVEL Alborada del gracioso
Thierry ESCAICH Cello Concerto (American premiere; BSO co-commission)
RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 2

a gorgeous physical production borrowed from the Maryland Lyric Opera.

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade & 1001 Arabian Nights (World Premiere performance arranged for 13 players!)
GRIEG: Peer Gynt Suite
FAURÉ: Pelleas & Mélisande
RAVEL: Mother Goose Suite

original works composed and performed by students

FREE

Led by stage director Mo Zhou, the production stars Metropolitan Opera star Wendy Bryn Harmer in her role debut as Iphigénie, William Burden as Pylade, Jesse Blumberg as Oreste, and David McFerrin as Thoas.

new cantata commissioned from Nell Shaw Cohen for chorus, string quartet, and soloists. There will be a talk 45 minutes prior to the concert.

Led by stage director Mo Zhou, the production stars Metropolitan Opera star Wendy Bryn Harmer in her role debut as Iphigénie, William Burden as Pylade, Jesse Blumberg as Oreste, and David McFerrin as Thoas.

Chamber Series presents works by Sergei Rachmaninoff, John Heiss, Marta Kowalczuk, Jacques Ibert, Ludwig van Beethoven, and others, performed by renowned Boston Conservatory at Berklee faculty members Saul Bitran (violin), Ann Bobo (flute), Anne Howarth (horn), Michael Lewin (piano), Andrew Mark (cello), Marcus Rojas (tuba), and Nancy Zeltsman (marimba).

Complicated time and advanced harmony are a focus of the Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble, featuring works by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Igor Stravinsky, Magnus Lindberg, and Cindy McTee

FREE

Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
Golda Schultz, soprano*
SIBELIUS Luonnotar
Thomas ADÈS Air, for violin and orchestra (American premiere; BSO co-commission)
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5

Bach Ich bin ein guter Hirt, BWV 85

Eric NATHAN Just a Moment for Two Oboes
MOZART Divertimento in E-flat major for String Trio,
MOZART Serenade in C minor for Wind Octet, K. 388

George Walker: Lyric for Strings
Haydn: Concertino in C major for harpsichord and orchestra (Tracy Richardson)

Mark Hagerty: New work for harpsichord and orchestra (Tracy Richardson)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4

J. S. Bach | Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue
Mozart | Sonata No. 9 in D Major, K.311
Debussy | Estampes
Rachmaninoff:
Prelude in A minor, Op. 32, no. 8
Prelude in G-flat Major, Op. 23, no. 10
Eight Études-tableaux, Op. 33

Composer David Ibbett has sonified the light of black hole galaxies as musical notes and chords, woven into a dramatic electro-symphonic score set to immersive 3-D visuals from the Charles Hayden Planetarium.

Tines invites listeners to recontextualize Bach arias, Caroline Shaw’s Mass, and religious ritual. Woven into this are arrangements of spirituals by Tyshawn Sorey, Moses Hogan, and Margaret Bonds, as well as Julius Eastman’s powerful a cappella work, Prelude to the Holy Presence of Joan d ’Arc.

with pianist Adam Nielsen

Seong-Jin Cho, piano
Caroline SHAW Punctum (April 29 only)
RAVEL Piano Concerto in G
STRAVINSKY Petrushka (1947 version)

Britten: Phaedra, Serenade, and Les Illuminations – the orchestra and soloists of Emmanuel Music will guide you from the heights of Greek melodrama to the libertine Bacchanalias of Arthur Rimbaud, in an expression of the everlasting theme of intemperate and unrestrained love.

Seong-Jin Cho, piano
Caroline SHAW Punctum (April 29 only)
RAVEL Piano Concerto in G
STRAVINSKY Petrushka (1947 version)

Isabella Ensemble, the Olmsted Quartet, and special guests with conductor Julius Williams explore the relationship among landscape, landscape architecture, and music through a collaboration among George Steel, Abrams Curator of Music, and Charles Waldheim, Ruettgers Curator of Landscape and professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Alone Together
Don MacDonald: When the Earth Stands Still
Arcade Fire: Deep Blue
David Lang: Manifesto

Ingrid Michaelson: Twitter Song
Saint-Saëns: Calme Des Nuit
Joni Mitchell: River
Libby Larsen: You III. You, know … who, are
Simon and Garfunkel: A Most Peculiar Man
Camina Siempre Adelante – Alberto Cortez
Pasek and Paul: Disappear/You Will Be Found
Steven Stametz: We Two –
Beethoven/Matthews: Gesang der Gravedigger
Lennon and McCartney: She’s Leaving Home

The Harvard Choruses, conducted by Andy Clark, and Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, conducted by Federico Cortese, perform Verdi Requiem.

Suzanne Stumpf and Rachel Carpentier, traversi; Sarah Darling and Jesse Irons, violin; Marcia Cassidy, viola; Daniel Ryan, cello; Michael Sponseller, harpsichord

Christoph Graupner: Concerto in E Minor for two traversi, strings, and continuo
Johann Fasch: Sonata a quattro for traverso, two violas, and continuo
Count Ernst-Louis: Suite for strings and continuo
Georg Philipp Telemann: Quartet for strings and continuo
Graupner: Trio Sonata in B Minor for traverso, violin, and continuo
Graupner: Sonata in G Major for traverso and obbligato harpsichord

Matt Sharrock leads Boston Conservatory Composers Performance Ensemble in a concert featuring chamber music from the standard repertoire, as well as new works by Boston Conservatory composition students.

FREE

selection of contemporary and classic works co-directed by Matt Smallcomb and Sam Solomon.

FREE

Mahler: Symphony No. 2
Maria Brea, soprano
Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo

Augustin Hadelich, violin
Ildar Abdrazakov, bass*
Men of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus
James Burton, conductor
BRITTEN Violin Concerto
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 13, Babi Yar

Omar, a new biographical opera with a luminous score composed by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels.

Augustin Hadelich, violin
Ildar Abdrazakov, bass*
Men of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus
James Burton, conductor
BRITTEN Violin Concerto
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 13, Babi Yar

Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano Renée Tatum returns to delight and inspire the Needham Concert Society audience with a program of art songs and opera selections with pianist Eileen Downey/

Omar, a new biographical opera with a luminous score composed by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels.

Geneva Lewis, violin
Evren Ozel, piano

Fazil Say, Sonata, Op. 7
Beethoven, Violin sonata No. 10 in G major,
Douglas Lilburn, Sonata (1950)
Bartok, Violin sonata no. 1, Sz. 75

Kevin Harris: Pulse” is a large, compelling chamber composition combining improvised and fully notated music.
Bach’s organ prelude “Nun komm’ der Heiden Heiland.” This deeply personal piece keeps the listener moving through an ever changing musical landscape. The next piece, “Joy Boy” by Julius Eastman

Bach Höchsterwünschtes Freudenfest, BWV 194

STILL Can’t You Line ‘Em
GRIFFES Poem for Flute and Orchestra
CHAMINADE Concertino for Flute
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5

Anthony Trionfo, flute

Florence Price, Fantasie No. 1 in g minor for violin & piano
Hindemith, Kleine Kammermusik
John Musto, Divertimento for flute, clarinet, viola, Schubert, Octet in F Major

Mykola Lysenko: verture to Taras Bulba
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1
Tatiana Dimitriades, violin soloist
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

Florence Price, Fantasie No. 1 in g minor for violin & piano
Hindemith, Kleine Kammermusik
John Musto, Divertimento for flute, clarinet, viola, Schubert, Octet in F Major

Spirituals
Handel: Selections from Chandos Anthems

Anthony Trecek-King, conductor and co-creator
Reginald Mobley, countertenor and co-creator
Regie Gibson, narrator
H + H Orchestra and Chorus

Spirituals
Handel: Selections from Chandos Anthems

Anthony Trecek-King, conductor and co-creator
Reginald Mobley, countertenor and co-creator
Regie Gibson, narrator
H + H Orchestra and Chorus