» Today:
Thursday, March 11, 2010 in Boston
at 12:00 pm
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» Today:
Thursday, March 11, 2010 in Boston
at 7:30 pm
- Boston Symphony presents
- Rafael Frubeck de Burgos, conductor; Hilary Hahn, violin
- Location: Symphony Hall Boston
- ALBÉNIZ: (orch. ARBÓS) Excerpts from Iberia
PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No. 1
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade
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» Today:
Thursday, March 11, 2010 in Medford
at 8:00 pm
- Tufts University presents
- Tufts Choruses
- Location: Granoff Music Center, Tufts University. MA
- Favorites: Tufts Choruses by Request
Tufts Chamber Singers
Cantique de Jean Racine — Gabriel Faure
Lay a Garland — Robert Pearsall
Sicut Cervus — Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
There Will Be Rest — Frank Ticheli
Let Me Fly — Spiritual (arr. Robert DeCormier)
Tufts Voice Students, Steven Morris, Pianist
Spanishces Liederspiel, op. 74 — R. Schumann
Tufts Concert Choir
Le Ballet des ombres — Hector Berlioz
Sleep — Eric Whitacre
As Torrents in Summer — Edward Elgar
Jesu Dulcis Memoria — T. L. de Victoria I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise — George Gershwin
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» Tomorow:
Friday, March 12, 2010 in Boston
at 7:30 pm
- Boston Lyric Opera presents
- Ariadne auf Naxos
- Location: Citi Performing Arts CenterSM Shubert Theatre
- CAST (In order of vocal appearance)
Music Master: Jake Gardner*
Komponist: Edyta Kulczak*
Zerbinetta: Rachele Gilmore*
Ariadne: Marjorie Owens*
Tanzmeister/Brighella: Julius Ahn*
Bacchus: Brandon Jovanovich
Naiad: Mara Bonde*
Dryad: Andrea Coleman
Echo: Joanna Mongiardo
Truffaldino: David Cushing
Harlekin: Jesse Blumberg*
Scaramuccio: Tracy Wise*
With BLO’s Orchestra.
* BLO Debut
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» Tomorow:
Friday, March 12, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
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» Tomorow:
Friday, March 12, 2010 in Lexington
at 8:00 pm
- Spindrift Music Company (L) presents
- Piano Quintets by Farrenc & Marshall
- Location: Follen Community Church, 755 Mass Ave
- Pamela Marshall: Quinteto sobre los Poemas de Carlos Pintado
Louise Farrenc: Piano Quinteto No. 2
Carmen Rodríguez-Peralta, piano; Abigail
Karr, violin; Sarah Darling, viola; Rafael Popper-Keizer, cello; Susan Hagen, double bass.
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» Tomorow:
Friday, March 12, 2010 in Medford
at 8:00 pm
- Tufts University presents
- Tufts Symphony Orchestra
- Location: Granoff Music Center, Tufts University. MA
- Frédéric Chopin – Variations on “La Ci Darem la Mano”, op. 2; featuring Donald Berman, piano
Joaquín Rodrigo – Cuatro Madrigales Amatorios; featuring Rebecca Baumwoll, soprano
Charles Gounod – Symphony No. 1
Georges Bizet – J’eux d’enfants
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» In 2 Days:
Saturday, March 13, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
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» In 2 Days:
Saturday, March 13, 2010 in Cambridge
at 8:00 pm
- Radius Ensemble presents
- Radius Ensemble
- Location: Killian Hall at MIT
- POULENC Sonata for clarinet and bassoon, Op. 32
EWAZEN Roaring Fork for wind quintet
BRAHMS Piano Quartet No. 2 in A, Op. 26
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» In 2 Days:
Saturday, March 13, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
- Boston Symphony presents
- Rafael Frubeck de Burgos, conductor; Hilary Hahn, violin
- Location: Symphony Hall Boston
- ALBÉNIZ: (orch. ARBÓS) Excerpts from Iberia
PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No. 1
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade
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» In 2 Days:
Saturday, March 13, 2010 in Wellesley
at 8:00 pm
- Wellesley College (J) presents
- Charles Fisk
- Location: Jewett Auditorium
- All-Chopin program with cellist David Russell: Nocturne in C minor, Ballade in A Flat, Op. 47, Sonata in G minor for cello and piano, Op. 65, Fantasy in F minor/A Flat Major, Op. 49, Polonaise- Fantasy in A Flat, Op. 61, and Polonaise in A Flat, Op. 53.
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» In 3 Days:
Sunday, March 14, 2010 in Boston
at 1:30 pm
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» In 3 Days:
Sunday, March 14, 2010 in Boston
at 3:00 pm
- Boston Lyric Opera presents
- Ariadne auf Naxos
- Location: Citi Performing Arts CenterSM Shubert Theatre
- CAST (In order of vocal appearance)
Music Master: Jake Gardner*
Komponist: Edyta Kulczak*
Zerbinetta: Rachele Gilmore*
Ariadne: Marjorie Owens*
Tanzmeister/Brighella: Julius Ahn*
Bacchus: Brandon Jovanovich
Naiad: Mara Bonde*
Dryad: Andrea Coleman
Echo: Joanna Mongiardo
Truffaldino: David Cushing
Harlekin: Jesse Blumberg*
Scaramuccio: Tracy Wise*
With BLO’s Orchestra.
* BLO Debut
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» In 3 Days:
Sunday, March 14, 2010 in Cambridge
at 3:00 pm
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» In 3 Days:
Sunday, March 14, 2010 in Boston
at 3:00 pm
- Boston Symphony presents
- Community Chamber Concerts: Members of the BSO
- Location: Symphony Hall Boston
- HAYDN: String Quartet No. 25 in C, Op. 20, No. 2
SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No. 9 in E-flat, Op. 117
WOLF: Italian Serenade for string quartet
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» In 3 Days:
Sunday, March 14, 2010 in Boston
at 3:00 pm
- Museum of Fine Arts presents
- Boston Museum Trio
- Location: Museum of Fine Arts
- Music of the Spanish Baroque
Eliot Fisk, guitar; John Gibbons, harpsichord; and Daniel Stepner, baroque violin
In celebration of the “Luis Melendez” exhibition, enjoy the music of Sor, Soler, Scarlatti, and Boccherini
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» In 3 Days:
Sunday, March 14, 2010 in Newton
at 3:00 pm
- Charles River Wind Ensemble presents
- Charles River Wind Ensemble
- Location: First Baptist Church, Newton, MA
- Eric Hewitt, conductor
* Smetana Fanfare – Karel Husa
* Serenade (Op. 7) – Richard Strauss
* Symphonic Metamorphosis – Paul Hindemith
* Carmen Symphony – Georges Bizet
* Fanfare from La Peri – Paul Dukas
FREE
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» In 3 Days:
Sunday, March 14, 2010 in Weston
at 4:00 pm
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» In 3 Days:
Sunday, March 14, 2010 in Cambridge
at 4:30 pm
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» In 3 Days:
Sunday, March 14, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
- New England Conservatory presents
- GYÖRGY KURTÁG’s KAFKA FRAGMENTS
- Location: Jordan Hall
- Kafka Fragments, György Kurtág’s monumental seventy-minute song cycle on texts of Franz Kafka will be the focus of an unusual performing collaboration by professional and student musicians, The concert will be the culmination of a weeklong workshop hosted by Yellow Barn Music School and Festival in partnership with NEC. Four pairs of outstanding student violinists and sopranos will coach the Kurtág work with Yellow Barn faculty members Violaine Melançon, violin, and Susan Narucki, soprano and then share the performing duties with those senior musicians.
Also presented Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 8:00 pm, Centre Congregational Church, Brattleboro, VT
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» In 5 Days:
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
- Goethe Institut presents
- Kalimba!
- Location: Goethe Institut, 170 Beacon Street
- Jennifer Hymer, kalimba
Introduction by Prof. Karlheinz Essl
Kalimba! presents an intriguing program for kalimba solo (and electronics) -with US premieres by Anthony De Ritis, Karlheinz Essl, Annie Gosfield, Lukas, Ligeti and Oliver Schneller alongside pieces by Sascha Lino Lemke, David
Lang and Manfred Stahnke. While frequently used in ethnic music, the kalimbais yet to be established as a vital new music instrument. The goal of this program is to anchor it more firmly in the new music repertoire as a solo instrument.
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» In 6 Days:
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 in Boston
at 12:00 pm
- Fisher Ensemble presents
- Fisher Ensemble
- Location: St. Paul’s Cathedral, 138 Tremont St.
- At the Hawk’s Well is one of five plays by Irish poet W. B. Yeats based on the mythological hero Cuchulain. In Fisher’s operatic version, the spirit Guardian will be performed by choreographer and dancer Christy Fisher. Other performers include: vocalists Jeremiah Cawley, Maria Mannisto Seattle), Kristen Ramer Liang; flutist Clifford Dunn (Seattle); 6-string fretted acoustic bass (Greg Bagley); Indian harmonium players Esther Sugai (Seattle) and Garrett Fisher (New York/Boston), and percussion and gong player Dean Moore. Music Direction is by Jeremiah
Cawley. Dramaturgy is by longtime collaborator Ken Cerniglia (New York-based dramaturg for Disney Theatrical, including Julie Taymor’s The Lion King).
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» In 6 Days:
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 in Wellesley
at 8:00 pm
- Wellesley College presents
- Cypress String Quartet
- Location: Houghton Chapel at Wellesley College
- Guest Artist, soprano Andrea Matthews
Elena Ruehr’s arrangements of vocal selections by Schubert, Barber, & Puccini
Elena Ruehr: “Bel Canto” string quartet East Coast Premiere)
Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, Death and the Maiden string quartet,
FREE
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» In 7 Days:
Thursday, March 18, 2010 in Boston
at 12:00 pm
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» In 7 Days:
Thursday, March 18, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
- Boston Symphony presents
- Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor
- Location: Symphony Hall Boston
- MENDELSSOHN: Overture and Incidental Music to
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
ROSSINI: Stabat Mater
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» In 7 Days:
Thursday, March 18, 2010 in Medford
at 8:00 pm
- Tufts University presents
- New Music Festival
- Location: Granoff Music Center, Tufts University. MA
- CADENZA!
Clarinetist Ray Jackendoff, guest faculty artist, performs guest composer Yehudi Wyner’s Cadenza! (1969) with John McDonald, piano. Also featuring Jackendoff in a virtuoso solo work entitled Sonata Surrealissima by Romanian composer Dan Dediu, alongside bravura ventures by Tufts composers Joshua Hahn (a piece for five piccolos) and Katie McNally (a solo fiddle set), and saxophonist Philipp Staeudlin performing Berio’s final Sequenza
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» In 8 Days:
Friday, March 19, 2010 in Boston
at 1:30 pm
- Boston Symphony presents
- Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor
- Location: Symphony Hall Boston
- MENDELSSOHN: Overture and Incidental Music to
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
ROSSINI: Stabat Mater
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» In 8 Days:
Friday, March 19, 2010 in Cambridge
at 8:00 pm
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» In 9 Days:
Saturday, March 20, 2010 in Cambridge
at 8:00 am
- Musica Sacra presents
- The Spirit Is Still Speaking: Sacred Choral Music of the Modern Era
- Location: First Church, Cambridge, MA
- A world première by Jan Sandström commissioned to celebrate our 50th anniversary
Britten: Sacred and Profane, op. 91;
Penman: Becoming
Netzer: Paths of Stone and Water, and other music honoring the sacred.
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» In 9 Days:
Saturday, March 20, 2010 in Boston
at 1:00 pm
- First Lutheran Church presents
- Boston Bach Birthday 325
- Location: 299 Berkeley Street
- Organists from around the world present 30 minute recitals of all-Bach programming (this is an open house, so audiences are invited to join the event throughout the day): Nancy Granert, Emmanuel Church, Boston (1:00); Frank Corbin, Assumption College, Worcester 1:45);Christopher Lane, Harvard Memorial Church, Cambridge (2:30); Mark Dwyer, Church of the Advent, Boston (3:15); Luca Massiglia, Torino, Italy (4:00); and Colin D. Lynch, Concord, NH (4:45).
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» In 9 Days:
Saturday, March 20, 2010 in Boston
at 5:30 pm
- First Lutheran Church presents
- Boston Bach Birthday 325
- Location: 299 Berkeley Street
- Organ Fireworks? showcases Bach?s most famous organ works. Presented by James David Christie, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Organ Department Chair Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and College of the Holy Cross, Worcester.
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» In 9 Days:
Saturday, March 20, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
- Boston Symphony presents
- Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor
- Location: Symphony Hall Boston
- MENDELSSOHN: Overture and Incidental Music to
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
ROSSINI: Stabat Mater
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» In 9 Days:
Saturday, March 20, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
- Emmanuel Music presents
- Boston Bach Birthday 325
- Location: Emmanuel Church of Boston
- Bach Cantata BWV 42 by the Emmanuel Music chorus and orchestra, with the Boston Children?s Chorus. A reception follows the performance in Emmanuel Church?s Parish Hall.
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» In 10 Days:
Sunday, March 21, 2010 in Boston
at 10:00 am
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» In 10 Days:
Sunday, March 21, 2010 in Boston
at 3:00 pm
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» In 10 Days:
Sunday, March 21, 2010 in Worcester
at 3:00 pm
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» In 10 Days:
Sunday, March 21, 2010 in Boston
at 3:00 pm
- The Seraphim Singers presents
- The Seraphim Singers
- Location: The Mission Church, 1545 Tremont Street
- Music in the New World from the Baroque to the Present.Exploring the new elements and fresh perspective Latin American composers have brought to European sacred music forms.
Works of Bermúdez, Zumaya, Villa-Lobos, and Ginastera.
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» In 11 Days:
Monday, March 22, 2010 in Cambridge
at 8:00 pm
- Collage New Music presents
- David Hoose, conductor
- Location: Pickman Hall – Longy School of Music
- Andrea Coleman, mezzo soprano
David Hoose, conductor
JOHN HARBISON CHACONNE
DAVID MCMULLIN NEW WORK – World Premiere
DAVID LANG: DANCE/DROP -first Boston performance
JOHN AYLWARD: STILLNESS AND CHANGE
JOHN HARBISON: THE SEVEN AGES
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» In 12 Days:
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
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» In 14 Days:
Thursday, March 25, 2010 in Boston
at 12:00 pm
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» In 14 Days:
Thursday, March 25, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
- Boston Symphony presents
- James Levine, conductor; Gerald Finley, bass-baritone
- Location: Symphony Hall Boston
- DEBUSSY
Jeux
LIEBERSON:
Songs of Love and Sorrow, for baritone and orchestra (world premiere; BSO commission)
SCHUBERT:
Symphony in C, The Great
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» In 15 Days:
Friday, March 26, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
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» In 15 Days:
Friday, March 26, 2010 in Concord
at 8:00 pm
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» In 16 Days:
Saturday, March 27, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
- Musicians of the Old Post Road presents
- Virtuosi Italiani
- Location: Emmanuel Church of Boston
- Brilliant vocal and instrumental works, including motets and cantatas for solo soprano and strings by Vivaldi, flute concertos by Vivaldi and Nardini, and a string sinfonia by Locatelli. The ensemble will be joined by soprano Kristen Watson, who made her OPR debut last December to critical and audience acclaim.
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» In 16 Days:
Saturday, March 27, 2010 in Cambridge
at 8:00 pm
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» In 16 Days:
Saturday, March 27, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
- Boston Symphony presents
- James Levine, conductor; Gerald Finley, bass-baritone
- Location: Symphony Hall Boston
- DEBUSSY
Jeux
LIEBERSON:
Songs of Love and Sorrow, for baritone and orchestra (world premiere; BSO commission)
SCHUBERT:
Symphony in C, The Great
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» In 16 Days:
Saturday, March 27, 2010 in Cambridge
at 8:00 pm
- Longy School of Music presents
- Unique Voices Concert Series
- Location: Longy School of Music, Cambridge
- Colin Carr, cello
Thomas Sauer, piano
Mendelssohn: Sonata in D Major, Op. 58
Schumann: Funf Stucke im Volkston, Op. 102
Schumann: 3 Fantasiestücke, Op. 73
Brahms: Sonata No 2 in F Major, Op. 99
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» In 17 Days:
Sunday, March 28, 2010 in Boston
at 10:00 am
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» In 17 Days:
Sunday, March 28, 2010 in Concord
at 2:00 pm
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» In 17 Days:
Sunday, March 28, 2010 in Brookline
at 3:30 pm
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» In 17 Days:
Sunday, March 28, 2010 in Boston
at 5:00 pm
- King’s Chapel presents
- Music from the Court of Christian IV
- Location: Kings Chapel
- King’s Chapel Choir & Soloists,
Carol Lewis, viola da gamba
Olav Chris Henriksen, lute
Heinrich Christensen, director
Works by Dowland, Schütz, Schattenberg, Pedersøn and more
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» In 17 Days:
Sunday, March 28, 2010 in Cambridge
at 7:30 pm
- Boston Chamber Music Society (S) presents
- SIGNS OF SPRING A suite of early works by Viennese Masters
- Location: Sanders Theater, Harvard
- Mahler: Piano Quartet (1876)
Berg: Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 5
Schoenberg: Piece in D minor for Violin and Piano
Webern: Four Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op.7
Webern: Two pieces for Cello and Piano (1899)
Webern: Piano Quintet (1907)
R. Strauss: Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 13
Thomas Hill, clarinet Harumi Rhodes, violin
Marcus Thompson, viola Astrid Schween, cello Randall Hodgkinson, piano
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» In 18 Days:
Monday, March 29, 2010 in Concord
at 4:00 pm
- Walden Chamber Players presents
- Walden Chamber Players
- Location: Concord Academy Chapel, 166 Main Street
- Mozart | Two Preludes and Fugues for String Trio, K 404a
Davidovsky | Quartetto Nr. 2 for oboe and strings
Haydn | String Quartet tbd featuring a student from Concord Academy’s Chamber Music Workshop
Kodaly | Intermezzo for string trio
Shostakovich | String Quartet Nr. 8
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» In 21 Days:
Thursday, April 1, 2010 in Boston
at 12:15 pm
- Boston Athenaeum presents
- Free Noon Concert
- Location: Boston Athenaeum
- Fumito Nunoya: Exploration of Marimba
Music by Keiko Abe, Muramatsu Takatsugu, Astor Piazzolla and J.S. Bach.
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» In 21 Days:
Thursday, April 1, 2010 in Cambridge
at 8:00 pm
- Blodgett Distinguished Artist presents
- URSULA OPPENS, piano
- Location: John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Harvard
- Music of the 21st Century
John Corigliano Winging It (2008)
William Bolcom Ballade (2006)
Amy Williams Refined Art (2003) and Astoris (2003)
Charles Wuorinen New Work (world premiere)
Elliott Carter Three Tributes (2007-2008) and Two Thoughts About the Piano (2005-2006)
Tobias Picker Three Nocturnes for Ursula (2009)
Blodgett concerts are free but passes are required. Free passes available beginning two weeks prior to concert from Harvard Box Office in the Holyoke Center Arcade, Harvard Square. 617-496-2222.
Free parking for this concert available at Broadway garage, corner of Felton St. and Broadway.
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» In 21 Days:
Thursday, April 1, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
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» In 22 Days:
Friday, April 2, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
- A Far Cry presents
- The Poet
- Location: Jordan Hall
- Honegger: Symphony No. 2
Frazin: title tba (world premiere)
War-era Jazz Standards with Dominique Eade and Richie Barshay
Strauss: Metamorphosen
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» In 22 Days:
Friday, April 2, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
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» In 23 Days:
Saturday, April 3, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
- Boston Conservatory (M) presents
- I Capuleti e i Montecchi
- Location: Midway Studios
- (The Capulets and the Montagues)
Music by Vincenzo Bellini
Bellini’s Italian opera (Ricordi edition) is a reworking of Romeo and Juliet, based on Italian sources rather than Shakespeare’s version. In Italian with English subtitles.
Beatrice Affron, conductor. Kirsten Z. Cairns, director.
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» In 24 Days:
Sunday, April 4, 2010 in Boston
at 2:00 am
- Boston Conservatory (S) presents
- I Capuleti e i Montecchi
- Location: Seully Hall
- (The Capulets and the Montagues)
Music by Vincenzo Bellini
Bellini’s Italian opera (Ricordi edition) is a reworking of Romeo and Juliet, based on Italian sources rather than Shakespeare’s version. In Italian with English subtitles.
Beatrice Affron, conductor. Kirsten Z. Cairns, director.
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» In 24 Days:
Sunday, April 4, 2010 in Boston
at 1:30 pm
- Gardner Musem presents
- Borromeo String Quartet
- Location: Gardner Museum, The Fenway
- The Complete Beethoven String Quartets,
Part I
. Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1
. Quartet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 18. No. 2
. Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 18, No. 3
. Quartet No. 4 in C minor, Op. 18. No. 4
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» In 25 Days:
Monday, April 5, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
- New England Conservatory presents
- First Monday at Jordan Hall
- Location: Jordan Hall
- G.B. Pergolesi: Sinfonia (arr. L. Lesser) Laurence Lesser, Carol Ou, cellos (300th birthday year)
Gyorgy Kurtag: Signs, Games and Messages. James Buswell, violin; Kim Kashkashian, viola; Carol Ou, cello
Bela Bartók: Violin Duos (arranged for viola). Kim Kashkashian, Dimitri Murrath, Roger Tapping, Marcus Thompson, violas.
Schubert: Trout Quintet. James Buswell, violin; Marcus Thompson, viola; Natasha Brofsky, cello; Donald Palma, double bass; Gabriel Chodos, piano
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» In 26 Days:
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
- Boston Conservatory (S) presents
- Piano Masters Series: Ya-Fei Chuang
- Location: Seully Hall
- MENDELSSOHN: 4 Songs Without Words
CHOPIN: the Four Scherzi
SCARLATTI: 3 Sonatas
WYNER: Towards the Center
RAVEL: La Valse
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» In 27 Days:
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
- Celebrity Series (S) presents
- NEC Philharmonia Hugh Wolff, conductor Narek Hakhnazaryan, cello soloist
- Location: Symphony Hall
- SCHUMANN Cello Concerto
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 10
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» In 28 Days:
Thursday, April 8, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
- Boston Symphony presents
- James Levine, conductor with Mira Wang, violin and Jan Vogler, cello
- Location: Symphony Hall Boston
- HARBISON
Double Concerto for violin and cello
(world premiere; BSO commission)
MAHLER
Symphony No. 7
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» In 29 Days:
Friday, April 9, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
- Handel and Haydn Society presents
- Beethoven’s Pastoral
- Location: Symphony Hall Boston
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, F Major, “Pastoral”
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4, B-flat Major
Sir Roger Norrington, conductor
Handel and Haydn Period Instrument Orchestra
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» In 29 Days:
Friday, April 9, 2010 in Cambridge
at 8:00 pm
- Blodgett Chamber Music Series presents
- The Chiara String Quartet
- Location: John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Harvard
- Beethoven Cycle, concert 3 of 6
String Quartet in F Major, Op. 18 No. 1
String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 95
String Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 127
Blodgett concerts are free but passes are required. Free passes available beginning two weeks prior to concert from Harvard Box Office in the Holyoke Center Arcade, Harvard Square. 617-496-2222.
Free parking for this concert available at Broadway garage, corner of Felton St. and Broadway.
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» In 29 Days:
Friday, April 9, 2010 in Cambridge
at 8:00 pm
- Arrt Without Borders presents
- Women Composers Spotlight: Flutes with Poetry
- Location: Democracy Center, 45 Mount Auburn St
- Flute solos, duos, sound collages, poetry. Deborah Boldin & Jessi Rosinski, flutes; Jodi
Hitzhusen, soprano; Rafael Popper-Keizer, cello.
Ursula Mamlok: Haiku for soprano & flute/alto flute
Pamela J Marshall: High Flight, Communing With Birds, both for solo flute
Terry Winter Owens: Supernova for flute and reader
Shulamit Ran: East Wind for solo flute, Sonatina for two flutes
Alex Shapiro: Re:pair for two flutes
Hilary Tann: Llef for flute and cello
Sabrina Pena Young: Origins – sound collage, A Glass of Water Lights the World for cello
Pamela Z: NEMIZ – sound collage
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» In 30 Days:
Saturday, April 10, 2010 in Concord
at 7:30 pm
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» In 30 Days:
Saturday, April 10, 2010 in Wellesley
at 8:00 pm
- Wellesley College presents
- From Roots to Blossoms: The Flowering of Modernity Nourished by the Romantic Spirit
- Location: Houghton Chapel at Wellesley College
- William Bolcom: Violin Sonata No. 2
Aaron Copland: Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
Charles Ives: Piano Trio
and in the daring spirit, a world premier, tba
with alumna Sarah Pelletier, soprano
More info: (781) 283-2176
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» In 31 Days:
Sunday, April 11, 2010 in Boston
at 10:00 am
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» In 31 Days:
Sunday, April 11, 2010 in Boston
at 3:00 pm
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» In 31 Days:
Sunday, April 11, 2010 in Boston
at 3:00 pm
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» In 31 Days:
Sunday, April 11, 2010 in Boston
at 4:00 pm
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» In 33 Days:
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 in Boston
at 12:15 pm
- King’s Chapel presents
- BRIDGEWATER STATE COLLEGE CHAMBER SINGERS
- Location: Kings Chapel
- “Barber & Beyond” – Works by Barber, Harris, Hogan, Mulholland, Pärt & others
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» In 35 Days:
Thursday, April 15, 2010 in Boston
at 7:30 pm
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» In 36 Days:
Friday, April 16, 2010 in Boston
at 1:30 pm
- Boston Symphony presents
- Julien Juerti, conductor; Mark-Andre Hamelin, piano
- Location: Symphony Hall Boston
- LIGETI
Concert Românesc
SHOSTAKOVICH
Piano Concerto No. 1
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 2, Little Russian
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» In 36 Days:
Friday, April 16, 2010 in Brookline
at 8:00 pm
- Boston Cecilia presents
- When Britten met Haydn
- Location: All Saints Church, Brookline
- Haydn: Missa brevis St. Joannis de Deo (Little Organ Mass); Salve Regina in g minor
Britten: Cantata Misericordium
Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
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» In 37 Days:
Saturday, April 17, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
- Emmanuel Music presents
- Reinventing Vienna
- Location: Emmanuel Church of Boston
- Schoenberg: Accompaniment to a Cinematographic (Film) Scene, Op. 34
Haydn: Symphony Concertante
arr. Schoenberg: Five Pieces for Orchestra
Haydn: Symphony No. 70
Soloists:
Danielle Maddon, violin;
Rafael Popper-Keizer, violoncello;
Peggy Pearson, oboe;
Thomas Stephenson, bassoon
The Orchestra of Emmanuel Music
John Harbison and Michael Beattie, conductors
Pre-concert lecture/discussion at 7:00 PM
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» In 37 Days:
Saturday, April 17, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
- Boston Symphony presents
- Julien Juerti, conductor; Mark-Andre Hamelin, piano
- Location: Symphony Hall Boston
- LIGETI
Concert Românesc
SHOSTAKOVICH
Piano Concerto No. 1
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 2, Little Russian
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» In 38 Days:
Sunday, April 18, 2010 in Boston
at 10:00 am
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» In 38 Days:
Sunday, April 18, 2010 in Boston
at 2:00 pm
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» In 38 Days:
Sunday, April 18, 2010 in Boston
at 5:30 pm
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» In 38 Days:
Sunday, April 18, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
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» In 40 Days:
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 in Boston
at 7:00 pm
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» In 42 Days:
Thursday, April 22, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
- Boston Symphony presents
- Bernard Haitink, conductor; Leonidas Kavakos, violin
- Location: Symphony Hall Boston
- STRAUSS
Suite from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
MOZART
Violin Concerto No. 5 in A
MOZART
Symphony No. 35 in D, K.385, Haffner
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» In 43 Days:
Friday, April 23, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
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» In 43 Days:
Friday, April 23, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
- Boston Symphony presents
- Bernard Haitink, conductor; Leonidas Kavakos, violin
- Location: Symphony Hall Boston
- STRAUSS
Suite from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
MOZART
Violin Concerto No. 5 in A
MOZART
Symphony No. 35 in D, K.385, Haffner
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» In 44 Days:
Saturday, April 24, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
- Boston Philharmonic presents
- Gwyneth Wentink, harp; Benjamin Zander, conductor
- Location: Jordan Hall
- Revueltas: Sensemayá
Ginastera: Harp Concerto
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
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» In 44 Days:
Saturday, April 24, 2010 in Wellesley
at 8:00 pm
- Musicians of the Old Post Road presents
- Conversations Galantes: Music of the French Baroque
- Location: Houghton Chapel at Wellesley College
- One of Rameau’s Piéces de clavecin, a Paris quartet by Telemann, a quartet by Guillemain, and a French cantata.
Suzanne Stumpf, traverso, Sarah Darling, violin, Daniel Ryan, cello, Michael Bahmann, harpsichord, Laura Jeppeson, viola da gamba, Aaron Engebreth, baritone.
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» In 45 Days:
Sunday, April 25, 2010 in Boston
at 10:00 am
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» In 45 Days:
Sunday, April 25, 2010 in Boston
at 3:00 pm
- Boston Lyric Opera presents
- Idomeneo, re di Creta (Idomeneo, King of Crete)
- Location: Citi Performing Arts CenterSM Shubert Theatre
- CAST (In order of vocal appearance)
Ilia: Camille Zamora*
Idamante: Sandra Piques Eddy
Elettra: Caroline Worra*
Idomeneo: Jason Collins*
Arbace: Steven Sanders
With BLO’s Orchestra and Chorus.
* BLO Debut
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» In 45 Days:
Sunday, April 25, 2010 in Boston
at 3:00 pm
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» In 45 Days:
Sunday, April 25, 2010 in Boston
at 4:00 pm
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» In 45 Days:
Sunday, April 25, 2010 in Cambridge
at 8:00 pm
- Pro Musicis presents
- Nancy Allen, Mariko Anraku, Jessica Zhou-Three Harps
- Location: PICKMAN HALL AT LONGY SCHOOL OF MUSIC
- Cesar Franck: Prelude, Fugue and Variation, Op. 18, arr. Dewey Owens
John Thomas: Grand Duet for Two Harps
Maurice Ravel: Suite from Mother Goose, arr. M. Anraku and J. Zhou
Additional Works, TBA
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» In 47 Days:
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
- Boston Symphony presents
- Bernard Haitink, conductor; Leonidas Kavakos, violin
- Location: Symphony Hall Boston
- STRAUSS
Suite from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
MOZART
Violin Concerto No. 5 in A
MOZART
Symphony No. 35 in D, K.385, Haffner
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» In 48 Days:
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 in Boston
at 7:30 pm
- Boston Lyric Opera presents
- Idomeneo, re di Creta (Idomeneo, King of Crete)
- Location: Citi Performing Arts CenterSM Shubert Theatre
- CAST (In order of vocal appearance)
Ilia: Camille Zamora*
Idamante: Sandra Piques Eddy
Elettra: Caroline Worra*
Idomeneo: Jason Collins*
Arbace: Steven Sanders
With BLO’s Orchestra and Chorus.
* BLO Debut
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» In 48 Days:
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
- Boston Conservatory (F) presents
- Hemenway Strings East Meets West
- Location: Fenway Studios
- Lynn Chang directs the string honors ensemble.
MOZART: Diverimento in D
BACH: Brandenberg Concerto No 6
CHEN YI: Sprout for Strings
CHEN YI: Romance and Dance of the Hsiao and Ch’in
BLOCH: Concerto Grosso)
FREE
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» In 50 Days:
Friday, April 30, 2010 in Boston
at 1:30 pm
- Boston Symphony presents
- Bernard Haitink, conductor; Emmanuel Ax, piano
- Location: Symphony Hall Boston
- BEETHOVEN
Leonore Overture No. 2
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4
BARTÓK
Concerto for Orchestra
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» In 50 Days:
Friday, April 30, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
- Handel and Haydn Society presents
- Bach Portraits
- Location: Symphony Hall Boston
- Bach: “Singet dem Herrn”
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, BWV 1050, D Major
Bach: Cantata No. 50, “Nun ist das heil” for St. Michael’s Day
Bach: “Der Gesit hilft”
Bach: Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins, BWV 1043
Bach: Cantata No. 29, “Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir”
Harry Christophers, conductor
Handel and Haydn Chorus and Period Instrument Orchestra
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» In 50 Days:
Friday, April 30, 2010 in Cambridge
at 8:00 pm
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» In 51 Days:
Saturday, May 1, 2010 in Cambridge
at 8:00 pm
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» In 51 Days:
Saturday, May 1, 2010 in Newton
at 8:00 pm
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» In 51 Days:
Saturday, May 1, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
- Boston Symphony presents
- Bernard Haitink, conductor; Emmanuel Ax, piano
- Location: Symphony Hall Boston
- BEETHOVEN
Leonore Overture No. 2
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4
BARTÓK
Concerto for Orchestra
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» In 52 Days:
Sunday, May 2, 2010 in Boston
at 2:00 pm
- Boston Civic Symphony presents
- Verdi – Manzoni Requiem
- Location: Jordan Hall
- Verdi – Manzoni Requiem
With Guest Artists, The Newton Choral Society, David Carrier, Music Director
Patrice Tiedemann, soprano
Joanna Porackova, alto
Ethan Bremner, tenor
Colman Reaboi, bass
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» In 52 Days:
Sunday, May 2, 2010 in Boston
at 3:00 pm
- Opera Boston presents
- La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein by Jacques Offenbach
- Location: The Cutler Majestic Theatre
- Stephanie Blyth as La Grande-Duchesse
Conducted by Gil Rose
Directed by David Kneuss
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» In 52 Days:
Sunday, May 2, 2010 in Boston
at 3:00 pm
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» In 53 Days:
Monday, May 3, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
- New England Conservatory presents
- First Monday at Jordan Hall
- Location: Jordan Hall
- Hugo Wolf: Italian Serenade. Borromeo String Quartet. (150th birth year anniversary)
Beethoven: Octet, Opus 103. Thomas Martin, Michael Wayne, clarinets,; John Ferrillo, Laura Ahlbeck, oboes; Eli Epstein, Jason Snider, French horns; Richard Ranti, Gregory Henegar, bassoons
Gunther Schuller: Octet. Borromeo String Quartet; Eli Epstein, French horn; Michael Wayne, clarinet; Richard Ranti, bassoon; James Orleans, double bass
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» In 54 Days:
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 in Boston
at 7:30 pm
- Opera Boston presents
- La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein by Jacques Offenbach
- Location: The Cutler Majestic Theatre
- Stephanie Blyth as La Grande-Duchesse
Conducted by Gil Rose
Directed by David Kneuss
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» In 56 Days:
Thursday, May 6, 2010 in Boston
at 12:15 pm
- Boston Athenaeum presents
- Free Noon Concert
- Location: Boston Athenaeum
- Ensemble Chanterelle: Orpheus Old and New
Sally Sanford, soprano; Catherine Liddell, theorbo; and Brent Wissick, viola da gamba
Italian monodies by Claudio Monteverdi, Carlo Milanuzzi;
songs from Henry Purcell’s Orpheus Britannicus
Boston premiere of James Blachley’s “O komm und geh” on a text from Ranier Maria Rilke’s Orpheus Sonnets.
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» In 57 Days:
Friday, May 7, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
- Boston Baroque presents
- All Mozart
- Location: Jordan Hall
- MICHAEL MANIACI, male soprano
arias from Lucio Silla, Idomeneo, and La Clemenza di Tito, Exsultate, Jubilate.
“Haffner” Symphony
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» In 58 Days:
Saturday, May 8, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
- Boston Baroque presents
- All Mozart
- Location: Jordan Hall
- MICHAEL MANIACI, male soprano
arias from Lucio Silla, Idomeneo, and La Clemenza di Tito, Exsultate, Jubilate.
“Haffner” Symphony
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» In 59 Days:
Sunday, May 9, 2010 in Cambridge
at 3:00 pm
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» In 64 Days:
Friday, May 14, 2010 in Boston
at 8:00 pm
- Cantata Singers presents
- Cantata Singers
- Location: Jordan Hall
- Heinrich Schütz:
Opus ultimum – Schwanengesang
Psalm 119
Psalm 100
Deutsches Magnificat
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» In 65 Days:
Saturday, May 15, 2010 in Cambridge
at 8:00 pm
- The Spectrum Singers presents
- Rising Stars!
- Location: First Church Congregational, 11 Garden St, Cambridge
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791):
Litaniae de BMV (Lauretanae), K. 109 (1771)
Church Sonata in F. K. 192 (1774)
Missa Brevis in F, K. 145 (1774)
György Ligeti (b. 1923): Evening, Morning (1955)
Charles Ives (1874-1954): 67th Psalm (1894)
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897):
Geistlisches Lied (1856)
Der Gang zum Liebchen (1863)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Magnificat in D, BWV 243
Two cantatas from The Christmas Oratorio,
BWV 248:
No. 3 – Herrscher des Himmels, erhöre das Lallen
No. 6 – Herr, wenn der stolzen Feinde schnauben
Heinrich Schütz: Deutsches Magnificat, SWV 494
Cantate Domino, SWV 81
Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck: Hodie Christus Natus Est
Kendra Colton, soprano, Thea Lobo, mezzo-soprano, Charles Blandy, tenor,
Donald Wilkinson, bass, with The Orchestra of Emmanuel Music
Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria
Anton Bruckner: Locus Iste
Os Justi
Ave Maria
Virga Jesse Floruit
Benjamin Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb
Heinrich Christensen, organ; Orchestra and favorite vocal soloists
Béla Bartók (1881-1945):
Four Slovak Folk Songs (1917)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828): Gondelfahrer (1824)
Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672):
Three Italian Madrigals (pub. 1611)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750):
Lobet den Herrn, BWV 230 (an early work, date unknown)
James Barkovic, organ and piano;
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» In 66 Days:
Sunday, May 16, 2010 in Lexington
at 2:00 pm
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