a virtual journal and essential blog of the classical music scene in greater Boston

Meng-Chieh Liu, Faculty
Yeesun Kim, Faculty
Nicholas Kitchen, Faculty
Keisuki Wakao, oboe

Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata
Beethoven: Trio in E-flat for pf oboe, & cello
Schubert Trio D. 898

Preludes and Fugues by J.S. Bach, Shostakovich, Clara Schumann, Sergey Taneyev, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Saint-Saëns, David Diamond and others.

Free but tickets required

ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM
Symphony No. 4
Symphony No. 5

Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
Gilbert Blin, Stage Director

Shannon Mercer, Alcina
Colin Balzer, Ruggiero
Kelsey Lauritano, Melissa

Boston Early Music Festival Vocal & Chamber Ensembles

Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
Gilbert Blin, Stage Director

Shannon Mercer, Alcina
Colin Balzer, Ruggiero
Kelsey Lauritano, Melissa

Boston Early Music Festival Vocal & Chamber Ensembles

Michael Korn, Music Director
Worldwide Sparkle!

The Watch City Ukers
Soloist and Composer Ralph Iverson on Gadulka
Alexey Shabalin and Michael Korn, Violin

Fun for the Whole Family!

2:00 pm Reception
$30 Table for Ten $250

Heinrich Christensen plays the C.B. Fisk organ
“Toccata”
Five centuries of organ toccatas —
works of Bach, Frescobaldi, Pachelbel & Widor

$20 / $15 seniors/students

Nick Omiccioli: push/pull (2013.5) (2015)
John Harbison: Die Kurze (1970)
Melinda Wagner: Wick (2000)
First Boston performance
Jeffrey Mumford: a garden of flourishing paths
First Boston performance
John Harbison: The Seven Ages (2009)

With Rebecca Printz, Mezzo-Soprano

7pm pre-concert talk with the composers and music director, as well as a post-concert reception.

Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol
TBA

David Loebel, conductor
Mozart: Symphony No. 35
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

FREE but tickets required

Andris Nelsons, conductor
Carolyn Sampson, soprano
Christine Rice, mezzo-soprano
Sebastian Kohlhepp, tenor
Andrè Schuen, baritone
Tanglewood Festival Chorus,

J.S. BACH Christmas Oratorio

William Grant Still: Mother and Child
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 “Pastoral”

Free; no tickets required

Bernard Labadie, conductor
Lucy Crowe, soprano
Iestyn Davies, countertenor
James Gilchrist, tenor
Philippe Sly, bass-baritone
H+H Orchestra and Chorus

Shostakovich Two Pieces for String Quartet
Beethoven String Quartet in E Minor, Op.59 No.2
Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op.57 (with Orion Weiss)


Free but tickets required.

Schubert: Piano Trio in B-flat, D 898
Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor,
Weir: “O Viridissima” North American Premiere

Sharan Leventhal, violin; Jonathan Miller, cello; Randall Hodgkinson, piano

$30; $25 over 65; $10 Student with ID

Argento (2014), Seasons
Chilcott (2014): Gifts for the Child of Winter
Anon. (Sweden 1582), Sametz (2000): Gaudete
Anon. (England 15th c), Sametz (2000): There is no rose
Anon. (England 14th c), Daley (1997): Angelus ad virginem
Willaert (1545), Victoria (1572), Lauridsen (1994): O magnum mysterium
Anon. (Germany 1538), Bach (1765), Culloton (2012): In dulci jubilo

Bernard Labadie, conductor
Lucy Crowe, soprano
Iestyn Davies, countertenor
James Gilchrist, tenor
Philippe Sly, bass-baritone
H+H Orchestra and Chorus

A Lemony Snicket Mystery

Richard Pittman, conductor; Joyce Kulhawik, narrator; Westford Academy String Orchestra

David Diamond: Rounds for String Orchestra
Chabrier: Marche Joyeuse
Nathaniel Stookey: The Composer is Dead

Andris Nelsons, conductor
Carolyn Sampson, soprano
Christine Rice, mezzo-soprano
Sebastian Kohlhepp, tenor
Andrè Schuen, baritone
Tanglewood Festival Chorus,

J.S. BACH Christmas Oratorio

JENNIFER HIGDON blue cathedral
DEBUSSY Nocturnes: 1. Nuages, 2. Fêtes
DEBUSSY Images pour orchestre
SIBELIUS Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47
SooBeen Lee, Violin

Stravinsky: Concertino for string quartet
Joan Tower: Petroushskates for flute, clarinet, violin, cello & piano
Saint-Saëns: Septet in E-flat Major for trumpet, string quartet, bass & piano, Op. 65
Stravinsky: L’Histoire du Soldat

A Shindig de Chambre includes Ladino songs from the Spanish and North African Sephardic tradition; Brazilian Choros (“Passarim” – Antonio Carlos Jobim, “Carinhoso” – Pixinguinha, “Nightclub 1960” from “History of the Tango” – Astor Piazzolla) and Baroque arias in honor of St. Cecilia by Handel and Hayes, “Fragmentos Nerudianos,” and Jorge Ibáñez’s new music for baroque flute with percussion.

Bernstein, “Benediction” from Concerto for Orchestra
Grażyna Bacewicz, Concerto for String Orchestra (1948)
Paul Moravec, Morph (2005)
Grieg (arr. A Far Cry), String Quartet in G minor
Jessie Montgomery, Source Code (2013)

Bernard Labadie, conductor
Lucy Crowe, soprano
Iestyn Davies, countertenor
James Gilchrist, tenor
Philippe Sly, bass-baritone
H+H Orchestra and Chorus

Ravel: Quartet in F Major
Schubert: Quartet no. 13 in A Minor, Rosamunde

FREE

Purcell’s Te Deum and Jubilate Deo

Barry Singer, Music Director

$15, Students/Seniors, $10, under 17, $5

Seasonal Works for Women’s Voices by Women Composers
“Jerusalem Luminosa” as a contrapuntal duet, ~ Wendell Berry’s poem “The Peace of Wild Things” “The Parting Glass” by Ruth Moody, new Ellen Gilson Voth setting to Sylvia Ross’s “Longest Shadow of the Year,” plus works by Undine Smith Moore, Emma Lou Diemer, ~Frances McCollin, Abbie Betinis, and, Linda Kachelmeier.

light reception follows

Rossini: Duo for Cello and Double Bass
ARTISTS
Blaise Déjardin, Cello
Edwin Barker, Bass
A capella work from the Renaissance
Verdi: String Quartet
Berio: Folk Songs
ARTISTS
Jaime Korkos, Voice
Cynthia Meyers, Flute
Michael Wayne, Clarinet
Kim Kashkashian, Viola
Blaise Déjardin, Cello
Jessica Zhou, Harp
To be announced, Percussion

Free but tickets required

Millennium celebration Melvin Lauf
Flourishes Kathy Farmer
Streaming Green Nancy Galbraith
The Heavens Declare Benedetto Marcello
Pastorale Charles Threatte
Rhumba Michael Coolen
Walk Like This Ian Clarke

Free; no tickets required

Choral music commemorating the end of the First World War and the death of the composer C.H.H. Parry

Parry: Songs of Farewell
Casulana: Cinta di fiore un giorno
Schütz: Das ist je gewißlich wahr & Canticum Simeonis
Campion: Never Weather-beaten Sail
Tomkins: Funeral Sentences & Nunc Dimittis
FREE

Featuring Kate Soper’s Cipher, along with awesome works by Jason Eckardt, Daniel Felsenfeld, Ashkan Behzadi and Bright Sheng.

Free with $$ solicited.

Facebook link HERE

OPEN HOUSE at 6:30 p.m.

Works of J.S. Bach, A. Adams, and J. Rutter
with arrangements by J. Rutter (solos, trios, and quartet with piano)

A Renaissance Christmas: Music of Palestrina, Byrd, and more

Elena Ruehr: String Quartet No. 3
Ruth Crawford: String Quartet
John Harbison: String Quartet No. 3

Jonathan Wessler, organ
Kevin Leong & John Sullivan, conductors

Heavenly works for the season by Palestrina, Bach, Brahms, Barber, Thompson, Lauridsen and favorite carols.

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

Solo and quartet performances of songs by Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, Josef Rheinberger, and Johannes Brahms.

Nicole Estima soprano
Shiba Nemat-Nasser alto
Tomas Osterling tenor
Matthew Stansfield bass
Andrus Madsen piano

$30, Seniors – $25, Students – $10, Under 18 free

Mark Berger, viola with Robyn Bollinger, violin

Duos by Mozart, Kurt Rohde, and more.

Students: $5; Seniors & Brandeis Community: $15; General Public: $20

“Mad Dog”: Elizabethan Music for the Lute

Music of Holborne, Dowland, Byrd, John Johnson, Hewet, and Holborne

$35, $30 seniors, $10 students.

BWV 61 Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland I

Trinity Church Choirs

Messiah (Christmas/Advent portions)
Bach: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (BWV 62)
Corelli: Christmas Concerto, Op. 6/8 in G minor

$15-$55

Adrianne Pieczonka, soprano & Brian Zeger, piano

Songs of the New Silk Road

Schiller Boston Community Chorus and tenor, Brian Landry, contralto, Ana Maria Ugarte

Music by Brahms, Handel, also, Chinese traditional and classical music, Russian, African-American Spirituals

FREE

Nino Rota – Sinfonia sopra una canzona d’amore
Robert Shaw – The Many Moods of Christmas, Suite 1
Charles Gounod – St. Cecilia Mass

Barry Singer & Orlando Cela, Music Directors

$15, Students/Seniors, $10, under 17, $5

Featuring the NEC Chamber Singers, NEC Symphonic Winds, and Navy Band Northeast. Led by conductors Erica Washburn, Bill Drury, and Lt. Joel Borrelli-Boudreau.

Carol of the Bells, arr. Peter J. Wilhousky
Winter Wonderland, arr. Paul Ayres
Jingle Bells, arr. Ben Parry | Li Min Huang ‘19 MM, graduate conductor
Deck the Hall, arr. John Rutter
Christmas Time Is Here, arr. Michele Weir
The Twelve Days of Christmas, arr. Geoffrey Keating

FREE

Philippe Hersant – 8 Duos and Duo Sephardim
Sofia Gubaidulina – Quasi Hoquetus
Mischa Salkind-Pearl – a human textile pattern to stop you for yawning
Anna Griffis, viola
Jensen Ling, bassoon
Sarah Bob, piano
$10, free with student ID

Ian Watson, director
Amanda Forsythe, soprano
Aisslinn Nosky, violin
H+H Orchestra
Vocal Arts Program Concert Choir

C. Graupner: Overture in D Major,
Dall’Abaco: Sinfonia in D Major, Op. 6, No. 12
Vivaldi: “Winter” from The Four Seasons
Bach: Cantata 51, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen
Corelli: Concerto Grosso in G Minor, Christmas
A. Scarlatti: Cantata pastorale per la natività di nostro Signore Gesu Cristo

CELEBRATE THE SEASON WITH FRANCISCO NOYA AND THE CIVIC AS WE BRING YOU THE MOST FAMILY-FRIENDLY HOLIDAY POPS IN NEW ENGLAND.

Including Britten’s “Ceremony of Carols” in the version for full choir and harp. The concert will be preceded by an organ recital starting at 2:30 PM.

“Christmas Concert for the Community” features some of the area’s finest singers performing a program of beautiful and beloved music for Christmas from around the world plus an audience sing-along of favorite songs and carols.
$15 for adults, $10 for seniors, students, and members of St. John’s, and kids under 12 free.

BWV 136 Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz

Ian Watson, director
Amanda Forsythe, soprano
Aisslinn Nosky, violin
H+H Orchestra
Vocal Arts Program Concert Choir

C. Graupner: Overture in D Major,
Dall’Abaco: Sinfonia in D Major, Op. 6, No. 12
Vivaldi: “Winter” from The Four Seasons
Bach: Cantata 51, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen
Corelli: Concerto Grosso in G Minor, Christmas
A. Scarlatti: Cantata pastorale per la natività di nostro Signore Gesu Cristo

Bach: The six Sonatas for violin and keyboard
Robyn Bollinger, violin
Sergey Schepkin, piano

Scott Allen Jarrett conducts this beloved Chorale tradition in Copley Square’s beautiful Old South Church. Join the singing of new and traditional carols of the season in an evening celebrating the joy, mystery, and glory of the holidays.

Scott Allen Jarrett conducts this beloved Chorale tradition in Copley Square’s beautiful Old South Church. Join the singing of new and traditional carols of the season in an evening celebrating the joy, mystery, and glory of the holidays.

Britten Op. 28 Ceremony of Carols

Mozart: String Quintet No. 5 in D, K 593
Dvořák: String Quintet in E-flat, Opus 97
Peter Zazofsky, Bayla Keyes, violins; BethGuterman Chu, Jonathan Chu, violas;
Jonathan Miller, cello

$30; $25 over 65; $10 Student with ID

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

Baroque nuns again!12 singers, with the Clerici Quartet

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

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

Paul Huang黃俊文, violin
Helen Huang 黃海倫, piano

DVORAK: Sonatina, Op. 100
PROKOFIEV: Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 80
YSAŸE: Rêve d’enfant, Op. 14
FRANCK: Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major

$15-$50. Students free online, under 6 not admitted

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

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

Resistance and Patriotism

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

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

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

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

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

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

ROBERT LEVIN, PIANO

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

With four-piece ensemble, she will perform a broad range of improvisation-forward musical styles – ranging from Italian old-style art songs to jazz across centuries and genres

Masterworks Chorale
Ross Wood, organ
Kevin Leong, conductor

Ralph Vaughan Williams: O Clap Your Hands
Randall Thompson: The Lord Is My Shepherd
Henry Purcell: Funeral Music for Queen Mary
Dominick Argento: Sanctus & Gloria (from The Masque of Angels)
Hubert Parry: I Was Glad
Charles Villiers Stanford: Beati quorum via
Steven Sametz: Munus (A Gift) (from Amo!)
John Rutter: Gloria

Tickets: $50, 35, 20

ROSSINI Overture from William Tell
HAYDN Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Hob. VIIb/1
Amit Peled, Cello
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 3 “Rhenish”

Showcases enterprising creativity in 18th-century Vienna in outstanding works by Mozart and the musical friends around him. Celebrate the rise of the individual and equality of musical voices in Classical chamber music.

$35 preferred / $30 general / $10 students
7-17 are admitted FREE with adult.

Beethoven:
Duo for viola & cello in E flat major (“With two eyeglasses obbligato”), WoO 32
String Trio in G Major, Op. 9, No.1

Marti Epstein: New Song for the Spirit
Erno Dohnányi: Serenade

Gabriela Díaz, violin
Roberto Díaz, viola
Manuel Díaz, viola
Andrés Díaz, cello
Betty Anne Díaz, piano

Samuel Barber – Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Florence Price – Mississippi Suite
Grace Williams – Fairest of Stars (Jessica Jacobs, soprano)
Samuel Barber – Essay No. 2 op. 17

Ravel: Pavane de la belle au bois dormant
Dowland/Sweelinck: Paduana Lachrymae
Dowland/Byrd: Pavana Lachrimae
Dowland/Farnaby: Lachrimae Pavan
Bach: Fantasia and Fugue in A minor, BWV 904
Trapani: Pavane (Standing Still) for violin and piano
Louis Couperin: Pavanne
Fauré: Pavane for violin and piano
Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte
Ravel: Sonata for violin and piano
Jason Horowitz, violin
Sergey Schepkin, piano and harpsichord

Schubert Quartet in A minor, D. 804, “Rosamunde”
Webern Five Movements for String Quartet, Opus 5
Beethoven Quartet in C-sharp minor, Opus 131

Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor, Christian Tetzlaff, violin

M. Tilson Thomas Agnegram
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, Opus 64
Beethoven Symphony No. 3 “Eroica”

Hiob
Lobegesang
Oratorium nach Bildung der Bibel (“The Cholera Cantata”

16 core singer/soloists and orchestra, Guiomar Turgeon, Concert Mistress and Clerici Quartet, principals

$40/Adults, $35/Seniors, $25/Students

Alone Together: new works, classics, and pop favorites that reflect on connection, longing, and acceptance, including the Boston Premiere of a new work by Libby Larsen

Matthew Aucoin, New Work for Hub New Music
Agocs, New Work for Hub New Music
Yevgeniy Sharlat, Divertissiment (2006)

The Agocs was commissioned by Ashmont Hill Chamber Music for Hub New Music.

Bach The Art of Fugue: Contrapunctus I – IV
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 12 in A Major, K.414 with Paul Lewis
Beethoven String Quartet, Opus 130 (arr. for string orchestra)
Beethoven Grosse fuge, Opus 133 (arr. for string orchestra)

Boccherini : String Quintet No. 75 in D, G 313
Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 2 in A minor,
Arensky: Quartet No. 2 for Violin, Viola and two Cellos,

Lucy Chapman, Bayla Keyes, violins; Jessica Bodner, viola; Marcy Rosen, Jonathan Miller,celli

$30; $25 over 65; $10 Student with ID

David Coll – *world premiere* for soprano, clarinet, viola, transducers and projectors [New Commission]

Matthew Schumaker – *world premiere* for clarinet and electronics [New Commission]

Patricia Alessandrini – Collaborative work with live instruments, transducers and sheet metal

MIT composition seminar students –new works inspired by this themed event
– Admission Free –

Mozart Violin Sonata TBD
Brahms Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major
Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Major, “Kreutzer”

Anna Bradford, oboe
Natalie Zemba, bassoon
Stephanie Mao, piano

Jenni Brandon: The Wildflower Trio
Øivind Westby: Portrait of a Family
arranged by Natalie Zemba
André Previn: Trio for oboe, bassoon, and piano

$10 suggested

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

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

A deliciously heady and high quality cocktail of classical, jazz, klezmer, Latin, and pop music

Rarely-heard chamber works by cutting-edge scientist-musicians along with Baroque music inspired by gazing at the sky. Astronomical imaginations!

$35 preferred / $30 general / $10 students
7-17 are admitted FREE with adult.

ASSAD : A Brazilian Journey
Winner of the BPYO Concerto Competition
DVORAK: Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”

Margaret Lias, mezzo-soprano
Jason McStoots, tenor
Sumner Thompson, baritone
with professional period orchestra
Kevin Leong, conductor

Antonio Lotti: Crucifixus [a 8]
Bach: Der Gerechte kommt um, BC C 8
Handel: I Will Magnify Thee, O God, HWV 250b
Purcell: O Sing unto the Lord, Z 44
Handel: Jubilate (“Utrecht”), HWV 279

Tickets: $50, 35, 20

Concord Chorus
Deborah Selig, soprano
Sumner Thompson, baritone
with professional orchestra
Kevin Leong, conductor

Mendelssohn: Vom Himmel hoch, MWV 10 A
Mendelssohn: Psalm 42, Op. 42
Fauré: Requiem , Op. 48

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

Bach: Arrangement with Peggy Pearson
Robert Schumann: Pedal piano pieces
Bach: Gamba Sonata in D major (arr. Moore)
Glass: Pendulum for violin and piano

Simone Dinnerstein, piano
Peggy Pearson, oboe
Gabriela Díaz, violin
Rane Moore, clarinet
Rafael Popper-Keizer, cello