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NEC piano majors celebrate the Cage centennial

FREE

DEBUSSY: Estampes
FRANCK: Prelude, Chorale and Fugue
CAGE: The Seasons (1947)
RACHMANINOFF: Variations on a Theme by Corelli
LISZT: Two St. Francis Legends; Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

$10-15 (FREE to students with valid ID)

Conductor DAVID ANGUS
Stage Director TIM ALBERY*
Set and Costume Designer CAMELLIA KOO*
Lighting Designer THOMAS C. HASE

Sandy / Officer 1, tenor JOHN BELLEMER
Blazes / Officer 2, baritone CHRISTOPHER BURCHETT*

Arthur / Voice of the Cards / Officer 3, bass
DAVID CUSHING

Chamber Ensemble from the Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra

Mozart: Symphony No.35, K.385, D major (Haffner)
Beethoven: Piano Concerto, No.4, op.58, G major (soloist tba)
Shostakovich: Symphony No.1, op.10, F minor

FREE

Thomas James Wible, flutist, and Ayako Yoda, pianist

Eldin Burton: Sonatina for Flute and Piano
Michael Colquhoun: Charanga (1993)
Aaron Copland: Duo for Flute and Piano

Donations accepted

Works by Boston Conservatory student composers.

Lidiya Yankovskya, Music Director

Ravel: Piano Trio
Penderecki: String Trio
Brahms: Piano Trio Op. 8
Mendelssohn: String Quartet Op. 13

FREE

Erich Korngold Overture to Sea Hawk
Bernard Herrmann Three Scenes from Vertigo
Leonard Bernstein Suite from On the Waterfront
Erich Korngold Symphony in F-sharp, op. 40

FREE

The Harpsichord’s Golden Century: Music of Couperin, Blow, Froberger, and Purcell

Andrew Arceci:
Suite for gamba, strings and percussion
Andrew Arceci, gamba soloist
Antonio Vivaldi:
Nisi Dominus: Pslam 126 in Gminor RV608
Emily Marvosh, contralto
Francesco Bonporti:
Concerto Op11. No.2 a quattro for strings and basso continuo in B flat
Francesco Geminiani:
Concerto Grosso in D minor Op3. No.12: La Follia

$25 general $12 students/seniors

Featuring music from the 20th and 21st centuries
Rodney Lister, director

FREE

7 pm Symposium
8:30 pm Concert

The Music of Heinrich Schütz

At 7 pm, Brandeis Professor Eric Chafe, Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield, Professor of Music, and guests will present and discuss Schütz’ musical interpretation of texts from both Jewish and Christian perspectives.

At 8:30 pm, Brandeis students in the University Chorus, the Chamber Choir, and the Early Music Ensemble, under the direction of Professors Sarah Mead and James Olesen, will be joined by some of Boston’s remarkable professional early music singers and instrumentalists in a performance of Schütz cantatas featuring brass and strings

Free and open to the public

Conductor DAVID ANGUS
Stage Director TIM ALBERY*
Set and Costume Designer CAMELLIA KOO*
Lighting Designer THOMAS C. HASE

Sandy / Officer 1, tenor JOHN BELLEMER
Blazes / Officer 2, baritone CHRISTOPHER BURCHETT*

Arthur / Voice of the Cards / Officer 3, bass
DAVID CUSHING

Chamber Ensemble from the Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra

Anna Larsen: Symphony No. 1 (world premiere)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1, “Winter Dreams”
Schumann: Cello Concerto
Aaron Wolff, cello

Tickets $30 – $10

Joel Revzen conducts and Joshua Major directs all-student cast and orchestra.

Ticket Prices TBA

Handel: Sonata in F major
Brahms: Sonata in G major
Szymanowski: Three Myths
Debussy: Sonata in G minor

Tickets: $25, $15 students/seniors, at the door.

Works of Mozart, Schumann, and Liszt. Admission is free, and there are no reserved seats.

Marimba Magic, Michael Gandolfi, & Patrick Greene

Anna Larsen: Symphony No. 1 (world premiere)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1, “Winter Dreams”
Schumann: Cello Concerto
Aaron Wolff, cello

Tickets $30 – $10

Yevgeny Kutik – violin
Caleb van der Swaagh – cello
Bach, Suite No. 3 in C Major for Cello, BWV 1009
Bach, Largo for Sonata No. 3 in C Major for Violin, BWV 1005
Ysaye, Sonata No. 3 for Solo Violin Ballade
Beethoven, Duo No. 1 for Violin and Cello
Plus additional works to be announced

FREE

Christina Day Martinson, violin; Martin Pearlman, keyboards; Sarah Freiberg, cello; and Victor Coelho, theorbo.

Tickets $27 – $75

Anne Azéma, dir./
The Boston Camerata

$22 – $32 – $46, Seniors 20% off,
$10 students

In honor of John Cage’s centennial, Vicky Chow will perform John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano.
www.vickychow.com

Michelle LaCourse, viola
Martin Amlin, piano
Martin Amlin – Sonata for viola and piano AND premiere of new composition (title TBA)
Elliott Carter – Elegy for viola and piano
Richard Cornell – Duets for two violas (with Guest TBA)
George Rochberg – Sonata for viola and piano

FREE

Music of J.S. Bach, Delalande, Händel, and Rameau

FREE

Bayla Keyes, violin
Robert Merfeld, piano

CPE Bach: Sonata for Keyboard and Violin H 514 Wq 78 in c minor

Robert Merfeld: Tyger, Tyger and Ballade for Bayla

Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata for Solo Violin Opus 115 in D Major

Johannes Brahms: Sonata Opus 78 in G Major

FREE

Wolf: Italian Serenade
Haydn: Symphony No. 80 in d-minor
Bartok: Divertimento (1939)

Composers Eva Kendrick, Jeffrey Thomson and Stephen Yenger have written vocal music for selected poems by Elizabeth Bisho

Arias from several French operas including Amadis by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Carmen by Georges
Bizet and Manon by Jules Massenet.

With pianist Juliet Cunningham

Complimentary French wine will be served during the intermission.

Members: $10
General Admission: $15
RSVP required: 617.912.0400

Program TBA

FREE

Beethoven: Egmont Overture
Haydn: Symphony No. 48, Maria Theresia
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, Eroica

Jean-Marie Zeitouni,
conductor

Program to be announced.

Tickets: $19, $28, $34

Between House and Stage: Public and Private Music Making in the 18th Century”
“Mozart’s “ The Magic Flute” arranged for String Quartet [1797] and Beethoven’s Septet for winds and strings, opus 20 will be performed by Gabriela Diaz, Gabriel Boyers, Margaret Dyer, David Russell, Ben Seltzer, Anne Howarth, Adam Smith, David Goodchild. First and Early editions of the Magic Flute, including various chamber music arrangements, together with artifacts from early performances of the opera will be on display and discussed in the short talk at the start of the performance.

40th Anniversary Concert

Rachmaninoff: Vespers
Andrew Clark, conductor. Tickets: $20

RAVEL – Ma Mère l’Oye (Mother Goose) Suite
STRAVINSKY – Concerto for Piano and Winds w Peter Serkin
SHOSTAKOVICH – Symphony No. 5

Liszt: Sonata in B minor, S. 178
Chopin: 12 Etudes, Op. 25

Mark Dwyer, The Church of the Advent

Free

Jennifer Lester, director
Glenn Goda & Heinrich Christensen, organ
A 15th-Anniversary Celebration

Repertoire ranging from motets of Poulenc, Messiaen, and Milhaud to the massive “Messe Solennelle” for two organs and choir by Vierne and the “Messe en style ancien” by Langlais.

$20 general admission / $15 students & seniors

Schumann Dichterliebe, Op. 48

Bartok Duos, Berrio Duos, and Brahms F Major Quintet

G. Gabrieli: TBD
Philip Glass: Concerto for Saxophone Quartet (arr. Juan Ruiz)
Giacinto Scelsi: I Presagi per 10 strumenti
Schoenberg: Theme and Variations, Op. 43a

FREE

RAVEL – Ma Mère l’Oye (Mother Goose) Suite
STRAVINSKY – Concerto for Piano and Winds w Peter Serkin
SHOSTAKOVICH – Symphony No. 5

Ludwig van Beethoven, Leonore Overture No. 3
Witold Lutosławski, Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, Alexander Baillie, cello
Richard Strauss, Ein Heldenleben

BEETHOVEN – Missa Solemnis

A concert and reception in celebration of the renovation and reopening of Paine Hall

The Portland Quartet
John Knowles Paine: String Quartet in D Major, Op.5
Walter Piston: Quartet No. 1

FREE

BEETHOVEN – Missa Solemnis

after The Clandestine Marriage (1766) by George Colman the Elder and David Garrick
William Lumpkin, conductor

This farcical domestic comedy features arranged marriages, dowries, feuding sisters, tangled circumstances, banishment to convents, and misdirected romantic aspirations. Inspired in part by Hogarth’s painting series “Marriage-à-la-Mode,” it lives as a musical bridge between Mozart and Rossini, with lyrical melodies and brilliant, challenging ensembles. In Italian, with supertitles by Allison Voth.

FREE

“Gift”

Andrew Paul Jackson – Aphorism 8 for viola and soprano
Craig Pellet – Connections for horn and percussion
TBA – featuring a winner from our Call For Scores
Patrick Greene – Gift

- admission is free

Shostakovich Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a
Jones Double Concerto Boston premiere
Adams Shaker Loops

$27, $17 seniors, $7 students.

Ludwig van Beethoven, Leonore Overture No. 3
Witold Lutosławski, Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, Alexander Baillie, cello
Richard Strauss, Ein Heldenleben

John Harbison hosts Token Creek Mozart Marathon featuring “completions” by Robert Levin

Divertimento in Bb major for Horns and Strings, K.287; Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano, K. 442; ; Concerto in D Major, K. 537.
Performers:
Richard Menaul, horn; Rose Mary Harbison and Heidi Braun-Hill, violins; John Harbison, viola; Liz Foulser, bass; Rhonda Rider, cello; Robert Levin, piano.
FREE www.tokencreekfestival.org.

Ted Hearne – Cordavi and Fig
Timothy A. Davis – In Memoriam
Garrett Byrnes – Concerto for Piano and Chamber Orchestra
Mary Kouyoumdjian – Odaraganeen Sharagan (Stranger’s Song)
Oliver Knussen – Requiem: Songs for Sue (Boston premiere)

Erin M. Smith, soprano
Christina English, mezzo-soprano
Esther Ning Yau, piano soloist
Nathan Lofton, Music Director

$15 general / $10 students / Free admission under 18 or with Longy ID

with pre-concert talk with composers at 7:15 pm

after The Clandestine Marriage (1766) by George Colman the Elder and David Garrick
William Lumpkin, conductor

This farcical domestic comedy features arranged marriages, dowries, feuding sisters, tangled circumstances, banishment to convents, and misdirected romantic aspirations. Inspired in part by Hogarth’s painting series “Marriage-à-la-Mode,” it lives as a musical bridge between Mozart and Rossini, with lyrical melodies and brilliant, challenging ensembles. In Italian, with supertitles by Allison Voth.

FREE

Joélle Harvey as Jenifer
Peter Tantsits as Mark
Andrew Schroeder as King Fisher
Joyce Castle as Madame Sosostris
Deborah Selig as Bella
Bradford Gleim as He-Ancient
Matthew DiBattista as Jack
Glorivy Arroyo as She-Ancient

Conducted by Gil Rose
Directed by Daniel Pelzig

Boston Debut!

BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in F minor, Opus 95, “Serioso”

HAYDN: String Quartet in E-flat Major, Opus 33, no. 2, “The Joke”

MOZART: String Quartet in D Major, K. 575

Beethoven: Piano Trio in D major, Op. 70, No. 1, “Ghost”

Dahl: Concerto a tre for Clarinet, Violin and Cello

Fibich: Quintet for Violin, Clarinet, Horn, Cello and Piano, Op. 42 (1896)

James Campbell, clarinet; William Purvis, French horn; Mihae Lee, piano; Harumi Rhodes, violin Ronald Thomas, cello

$20 – $53 Seniors & WGBH members: $3 off; Students: $8

NEC piano majors celebrate the Cage centennial with world premiere of Cage’s “Music for Piano.”

FREE

Joélle Harvey as Jenifer
Peter Tantsits as Mark
Andrew Schroeder as King Fisher
Joyce Castle as Madame Sosostris
Deborah Selig as Bella
Bradford Gleim as He-Ancient
Matthew DiBattista as Jack
Glorivy Arroyo as She-Ancient

Conducted by Gil Rose
Directed by Daniel Pelzig

Daria Janssen (cello) and Paul Jacobs (piano) will perform works by Beethoven, Schumann and David C. Janssen.

FREE

STEPHEN DRURY, artistic director
Celebrating John Cage’s 100th, Part I

. John Cage: Apartment House 1776
. Earle Brown: Available Forms I
. John Zorn: For Your Eyes Only

New England premiere of George Andoniadis’ *Lincoln: A Poetic Opera* and the East Coast premiere of Terence J. O’Grady’s *The Final
Cause*, this program reexamines the American Civil War from both sides of

Pre-concert talk at 7:00 pm

Mozart, Concerto for Two Pianos in Eb, K. 365
Symphony No. 29 in A, K. 209
Symphony No. 36 in C (“Linz”), K. 425

Tickets $27 – $75

New England premiere of George Andoniadis’ *Lincoln: A Poetic Opera* and the East Coast premiere of Terence J. O’Grady’s *The Final
Cause*, this program reexamines the American Civil War from both sides of

RAVEL: Sonata for violin and cello

WARSHAW: Lone Conversation for clarinet solo

STRAVINSKY: Rite of Spring for wind quintet (arr. John Russell)

MARTINŮ: Fantasia for theremin, oboe, string quartet and piano

$16 for seniors, and $10 for students

Benjamin Britten: War Requiem
Sarah Pelletier, soprano
Frank Kelley, tenor
Sumner Thompson, baritone
Chorus Pro Musica, Betsy Burleigh, director
Providence Singers, Betsy Burleigh, director
Boston Children’s Choir, Anthony Trecak-King, director

A DAY AT THE ROYAL ABBEY OF MONTMARTRE

The women of Exsultemus featuring newly-published sacred music by Antoine Boesset and charming airs de cour

Federico Cortese, conductor

Junior Parents’ Weekend Concert
Puccini: Tosca, Acts 2 & 3

Tickets available at Harvard Box Office.

BERLIOZ – Overture to Benvenuto Cellini
RAVEL – Piano Concerto in G w Cédric Tiberghien
BERLIOZ – Symphonie fantastique

Sonatas, Part II
. Sonata No. 3 in AMajor, Op. 69
. Sonata No. 4 in CMajor,Op. 102,No. 1
. Sonata No. 5 in DMajor,Op. 102,No. 2

Hendrik Broekman, harpsichord; Olav Chris Henriksen, lute, cittern & Baroque guitar; and
Carol Lewis, viola da gamba.

17th-century Instrumental Music from the Netherlands by Schop, Sweelinck, Schildt, Schenck, van den Hove and others

$17 for the general public, $12 for students, seniors and museum members.

Baroque Byways with
Julie Leven, baroque violin; Laura Jeppesen, viola da gamba; and Catherine Liddell, theorbo.

Tickets $20 general public, $15 Seniors and Brandeis Community, $5 students

Sarita Kwok – violin: Julie Eskar – violin: Ettore Causa, viola; Alexandre Lecarme, cello

Mozart, String Duo No. 1 in G Major for Violin and Viola, KV 423
Schulhoff, Duo for Violin and Cello
Smetana, String Quartet No. 1 in E Minor From My Life

Free

“After Silence”: Works by John King, Steve Reich and Aleksandra Vrebalov

FREE

FREE

BEETHOVEN-LISZT: Symphony No. 5
CHOPIN: Etudes (selected)
DEBUSSY: Bells through the Leaves
RAVEL: Boat on the Ocean
PROKOFIEV: Toccata, op.11
PROKOFIEV-CHIU : 3 Movements from Lt. Kije Suite

$10-15 (FREE to students with valid ID)

Conductor JARI HÄMÄLÄINEN*
Stage Director DOUG VARONE*
Original Production CHRISTOPHER MATTALIANO
Set Designer ALLEN MOYER
Costume Designer JAMIE SCOTT*
Lighting Designer PAUL PALAZZO

Figaro, baritone JONATHAN BEYER*
Rosina, soprano SARAH COBURN*
Count Almaviva, tenor JOHN TESSIER*
Dr. Bartolo, bass-baritone STEVEN CONDY*
Basilio, bass DAVID CUSHING
Berta, soprano JUDITH CHRISTIN*
Fiorello, baritone GREGORY GERBRANDT

Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra and Chorus

The pairing of Walt Whitman’s poetry from Leaves of Grass with a visionary composition.

Robert Honeysucker, baritone and Dana Schnitzer, soprano

$30/25 Adults/Senior & Students

Boston-Area Premiere of Steve Reich’s 2×5
PLUS Clapping Music (performed by Reich) & Electric Counterpoint
Special Preview Performance of Bang on a Can’s Field Recordings with music by Tyondai Braxton, Florent Ghys, Nick Zammuto, Christian Marclay, Mira Calix, Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe, & Evan Ziporyn

Tickets: Gen. Adm. $30; non-MIT Students $10; MIT Faculty, Staff, and Students, Free.

Sooyun Kim, flute; Kristin Lee, violin
Paul Neubauer, viola; Nicholas Canellakis, cello
Bridget Kibbey, harp

. Tournier: Suite, Op. 34
. Jongen: Deux pièces en trio for flute,
cello, and harp, Op. 80
. Françaix: Quintet No. 1 for flute,
string trio, and harp
. Debussy: Sonata for flute, viola, and harp
. Roussel: Serenade, Op. 30

Conductor JARI HÄMÄLÄINEN*
Stage Director DOUG VARONE*
Original Production CHRISTOPHER MATTALIANO
Set Designer ALLEN MOYER
Costume Designer JAMIE SCOTT*
Lighting Designer PAUL PALAZZO

Figaro, baritone JONATHAN BEYER*
Rosina, soprano SARAH COBURN*
Count Almaviva, tenor JOHN TESSIER*
Dr. Bartolo, bass-baritone STEVEN CONDY*
Basilio, bass DAVID CUSHING
Berta, soprano JUDITH CHRISTIN*
Fiorello, baritone GREGORY GERBRANDT

Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra and Chorus

Schubert: 14 Waltzes (Suite compiled by Vassily Primakov)
R.Schumann: Grand Sonata No.3 in F minor, Op.14 (Concert Sans Orchestre)
Chopin: Scherzo No.1 in B minor, Op.20
Chopin: Mazurka in A minor, Op. 67
Chopin: Mazurka in C Major, Op. 24
Chopin: Mazurka in B-flat minor, Op. 24
Chopin: Scherzo No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 31
Chopin: Grande Valse Brilliante in A Minor, Op. 34-1
Chopin: Scherzo No.3 in C-sharp minor, Op. 39
Chopin: Scherzo No.4 in E Major, Op. 54

Tickets: $28, $38, $46

Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss (1825 – 1899).

Brandeis students, with the University Chorus, will sing the principal roles in a fully costumed and staged performance jointly directed by teachers in the Music Department’s voice training program, Pamela Wolfe, Pamela Dellal, and Jason McStoots, and University Chorus director, James Olesen.

Free and open to the public

With harpist Sivan Magen and flutist Marina Piccinini.

Jean-Phillippe Rameau: Pieces de clavecin en concert No. 5
Gyorgy Kurtag: Selections from Signs, Games and Messages
Sofia Gubaidulina: Garten Von Freuden Und Traurigkeiten
Yoshihisa Taira: Sublimation
Michael Colgrass: Wild Riot of the Shaman’s Dreams
Claude Debussy: Sonate pour flute, alto et harpe

FREE

Avant-garde avatar visits NEC.

FREE

BSO Youth Concerts: “THE BEAT GOES ON: A Musical Look at Perseverance, Pace, and Pulse in Music”

Hugh Wolf, conducting

Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
Ives: Three Places in New England, S.7
Copland: Symphony No. 3

FREE

BSO Youth Concerts: “THE BEAT GOES ON: A Musical Look at Perseverance, Pace, and Pulse in Music”

Mozart E Flat Piano Quartet, K493
Beethoven Cello Sonata in D, Opus 102 No.2. Franck Piano Quintet in F minor

David Coucheron, Julianne Lee, violins, Beth Guterman, viola, Jonathan Miller, cello, Randall Hodgkinson, piano.

$24 , $20 for Seniors and PEM members, students with I.D. half price

CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH

Four Motets, Wq 208
• Trost der Erlösung
• Der Kampf der Tugend
• Bitten
• Die Menschenliebe Jesu

JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH BACH
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

Sanctus in D minor, BWV 239
Motet No. 3: Jesu, meine Freude,
BWV 227
Motet No. 6: Lobet den Herrn alle
Heiden, BWV 230

Masterworks Chorale chorus & ensemble
Steven Karidoyanes, conducting

THE BEAT GOES ON – A Musical Look at Perseverance, Pace, and Pulse in Music
WILLIAMS – March from Raiders of the Lost Ark
FUCIK – Entrance of the Gladiators
BEETHOVEN – Presto (4th movement) from Symphony No. 7
PROKOFIEV – “Cinderella’s Dream&qout;, from the ballet Cinderella
ANDERSON – Fiddle-Faddle
NAUGHTIN – Amazon Journey
SOUSA – The Thunderer March
TCHAIKOVSKY – March (3rd movement) from Symphony No. 6, Pathetiqué
Kids under 18 are Free (limit four per family). To get free kids tickets, please place your order by phone, by calling SymphonyCharge (888-266-1200).

BRAHMS: Spring
CHADWICK: Serenade in F
VIVALDI: “The Four Seasons” Violin Concerto (Daniel Stepner)

Eric Whitacre: Lux Aurumque
Frank Martin: Ode à la Musique
Joshua Hummell: Novum Decus Oritur
Jean Martinon: Trois Chansons, op. 20
David Del Tredici: Acrostic Song from Final Alice

Miriam Fried, violin; Tessa Lark, violin
Ayane Kozasa, viola; Deborah Pae, cello
Nathan Vickery, cello; Adam Golka, piano

. Beethoven: Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 11
. Bernard Rands: String Quartet No. 2
. Schubert: String Quintet in C Major, D. 956

Conductor JARI HÄMÄLÄINEN*
Stage Director DOUG VARONE*
Original Production CHRISTOPHER MATTALIANO
Set Designer ALLEN MOYER
Costume Designer JAMIE SCOTT*
Lighting Designer PAUL PALAZZO

Figaro, baritone JONATHAN BEYER*
Rosina, soprano SARAH COBURN*
Count Almaviva, tenor JOHN TESSIER*
Dr. Bartolo, bass-baritone STEVEN CONDY*
Basilio, bass DAVID CUSHING
Berta, soprano JUDITH CHRISTIN*
Fiorello, baritone GREGORY GERBRANDT

Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra and Chorus

Quartet in F-Major, Op. 18, No. 1
by Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet No. 2 in D-minor, Op. 26
by Ferruccio Busoni
Quartet No. 1
by Béla Bartók

Sarita Kwok – violin
Lucas Wong – piano

Beethoven:Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Major Op. 30, No. 3
Bresnick: Bird as Prophet for Violin and Piano
Faure: Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major, Op. 13

Free

Janacek: Violin Sonata
Ravel: Violin Sonata in G Major
Grieg: Violin Sonata No.2 in G Major
Chausson: Poeme
Ravel: Tsigane

Price: $67, $57, $47.

KODÁLY – Dances of Galánta
DVOŘÁK – Violin Concerto w Frank Peter Zimmerman
MENDELSSOHN – Symphony No. 3, Scottish

Franz Liszt Les preludes
Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 4 in E minor
Concerto by winner of the Young Artist Competition

with Michael Schade, tenor; Justus Zeyen, piano

Songs and Duets of Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms and others

Robert Schumann: Romanzen for oboe & piano, Op. 94

Gustav Mahler: Piano Quartet in a minor

Alban Berg: Adagio from Kammerkonzert for clarinet, violin & piano

John Harbison: Book of Hours & Seasons, Goethe Settings for soprano, flute, cello & piano

Erich Korngold: Suite for 2 violins, cello & piano left hand, Op. 23

Music of Hilary Tann & Dorothy Crawford to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Mistress Anne Bradstreet’s birth.

KODÁLY – Dances of Galánta
DVOŘÁK – Violin Concerto w Frank Peter Zimmerman
MENDELSSOHN – Symphony No. 3, Scottish

Robert Schumann: Romanzen for oboe & piano, Op. 94

Gustav Mahler: Piano Quartet in a minor

Alban Berg: Adagio from Kammerkonzert for clarinet, violin & piano

John Harbison: Book of Hours & Seasons, Goethe Settings for soprano, flute, cello & piano

Erich Korngold: Suite for 2 violins, cello & piano left hand, Op. 23

Federico Cortese, Conductor and Music Director

BRAHMS Ein deutsches Requiem
With Back Bay Chorale

Sarita Kwok – violin
Alexandre Lecarme – cello

Mozart: String Duo for Violin and Cello No. 2
Gliere: Eight pieces for Violin and Cello, Op. 39
Schulhoff, Duo for Violin and Cello (1925)

Free

King’s Chapel Choir with Christian Lane, organ
Heinrich Christensen, director
Mystery in Music
Choral settings of poetry by John Donne & George Herbert, including “Five Mystical Songs” by Ralph Vaughan Williams & works by Bold, Helwey, Sawyer, Tann

$15 suggested donation, $10 seniors & students

Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581

Copland: Sextet for Clarinet, String Quartet and Piano

Franck: Piano Quintet in F minor

Paul Green, clarinet Ida Levin, Yura Lee, violins
Marcus Thompson, viola Ronald Thomas, cello Randall Hodgkinson, piano

$20 – $53 Seniors & WGBH members: $3 off; Students: $8

Theodore Antoniou, conductor

A 10-month long project leading to rehearsals and a public performance of new works by talented young composers from around the world, written for ALEA III.

Participating Artists

Ioannis Angelakis
Anteo Fabris
Igor Iwanek
Dylan Mattingly
Heather Stebbins
Adria Stolk
Alexander Trampas
Benjamin Warsaw

FREE

Motets for the Emperor Maximilian I and songs for his daughter Marguerite, including settings of the last
words of Dido, Queen of Carthage, from the Aeneid; music by Josquin, Isaac, Senfl, and others

J.S. BACH – Concerto in D minor for violin, strings, and continuo, BWV 1052
LUTOSŁAWSKI – Musique funèbre for strings
BEETHOVEN – Symphony No. 4

J.S. BACH – Concerto in D minor for violin, strings, and continuo, BWV 1052
LUTOSŁAWSKI – Musique funèbre for strings
BEETHOVEN – Symphony No. 4

Motets for the Emperor Maximilian I and songs for his daughter Marguerite, including settings of the last
words of Dido, Queen of Carthage, from the Aeneid; music by Josquin, Isaac, Senfl, and others

Sung in Italian with English surtitles. Andrew Altenbach, music director and conductor. Johnathon Pape, director

$10-$25

Schmelzer: Balletto a 4 “Fechtschule” in G
Berg: Three Pieces from ‘Lyric Suite’
Mozart: Piano Concerto #13 in C
featuring Markus Schirmer, piano
Schoenberg: Suite for String Orchestra

Celebrating Irving Gifford Fine

The University Chorus and Chamber Choir present music of Irving Fine (1914 – 1962)

Three Choruses from Alice in Wonderland and Old American Songs for chorus and piano.

Free and open to the public

Sung in Italian with English surtitles. Andrew Altenbach, music director and conductor. Johnathon Pape, director

$10-$25

Schmelzer: Balletto a 4 “Fechtschule” in G
Berg: Three Pieces from ‘Lyric Suite’
Mozart: Piano Concerto #13 in C
featuring Markus Schirmer, piano
Schoenberg: Suite for String Orchestra

Sung in Italian with English surtitles. Andrew Altenbach, music director and conductor. Johnathon Pape, director

$10-$25

Beethoven: Quartet in A-Major, Op. 18, No. 5
Osvaldo Golijov: New work (St. Lawrence String Quartet commission)
Dvorak: String Quartet No. 14 in A-flat Major, Op. 105

Ticket Prices: $39, $48, $58

Lila Brown, viola, with Judith Gordon, piano

Works by DARIUS MILHAUD, MORTON FELDMAN and REBECCA CLARK.

$10–$15

Laurence Lesser realizes a fond project: a chamber version of Leon Kirchner’s opera “Lily.”

Program to include excerpts from Leon Kirchner’s opera, Lily (a musical adaptation of Saul Bellow’s novel Henderson, the Rain King), in a version for chamber ensemble of 11 players, voice, and electronics. Performers include Diana Hoagland, the soprano who sang on the 1973 recording, plus flutist Paula Robison and three instrumentalist from the recording: James Buswell, violin; Laurence Lesser, cello; and Richard Stoltzman, clarinet
FREE

FREE

NEC piano chair Bruce Brubaker and guest Ursula Oppens perform. The program also includes works originally written for other instrumentation that Brubaker has transcribed for two pianos, four hands.

FREE

BRAHMS – A German Requiem

BRAHMS – A German Requiem

Program TBA

$10-15 (FREE to students with valid ID)

Eric Hewitt, conductor

WAGNER: Siegfried Idyll

SALKIND-PEARL: It Has Been Many Years Since I First Anticipated This Stage of My Life, During a Hurricane, With My Parents, Surrounded by Strangers

SCHOENBERG: Chamber Symphony, op.

FREE

RAVEL – Le Tombeau de Couperin
SALONEN – Violin Concerto w Leila Josefowicz
STRAVINSKY – The Firebird (Complete)

(Pre-Concert Conversation at 7:00 PM)

Beethoven Leonore Overture No. 2
Salonen Mania for Cello and Chamber Orchestra
Kacy Clopton, cello
Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Mozart Symphony No. 39

El Dorado Ensemble (Carol Lewis, Janet Haas, Mai-Lan Broekman, Paul Johnson & Alice
Mroszczyk, violas da gamba; Olav Chris Henriksen, archlute & theorbo),

17th-century Musical Journey. Music by Italian musicians who traveled to Austria & Poland, and Polish & Austrian musicians who made their way toItaly, including Ferro, Neri, Farina, Waesich, Cato, Kapsberger & others.

$22 for the general public, $17 for students, seniors and low income.

Palestrina Missa Ut Re Mi Fa Sol La
and works of Monteverdi

$25 General, $20 Seniors, $7 Students

A Late Fifteenth-Century Treasury

Singers from Exsultemus:
Shannon Canavin, soprano; Martin Near, counter-tenor; Jason McStoots, tenor; Owen McIntosh, tenor; Sumner Thompson, baritone; Paul Guttry, bass

$30 $25 Students w/ID & Children under 18 free

The Orchestra and Chorus of Emmanuel Music
Ryan Turner, conductor

Pre-Concert Talk at 7:00 PM by John Harbison

With Frank Worner, bass-baritone

Free and open to all.

A Late Fifteenth-Century Treasury

Singers from Exsultemus:
Shannon Canavin, soprano; Martin Near, counter-tenor; Jason McStoots, tenor; Owen McIntosh, tenor; Sumner Thompson, baritone; Paul Guttry, bass

$30 $25 Students w/ID & Children under 18 free

The Complete Beethoven String
Quartets, Part V
. Quartet No. 13 in B-flat Major, Op. 130
. Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131
. Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132

Stephen Lord, Director of Opera Studies, conducts his first mainstage production at NEC. James Robinson directs.

Ticket prices tba

A Late Fifteenth-Century Treasury

Singers from Exsultemus:
Shannon Canavin, soprano; Martin Near, counter-tenor; Jason McStoots, tenor; Owen McIntosh, tenor; Sumner Thompson, baritone; Paul Guttry, bass

$30 $25 Students w/ID & Children under 18 free

With Max Levinson, piano

MIASKOVSKY: Sonata No. 2 in A Major, op. 81 for cello and piano
SHOSTAKOVICH: Sonata in d minor, op. 40 for cello and piano
RACHMANINOFF: Sonata in g minor, op. 19 for cello and piano

$10–$15

A Late Fifteenth-Century Treasury

Singers from Exsultemus:
Shannon Canavin, soprano; Martin Near, counter-tenor; Jason McStoots, tenor; Owen McIntosh, tenor; Sumner Thompson, baritone; Paul Guttry, bass

$30 $25 Students w/ID & Children under 18 free

Bartok Duos, Brahms B Flat Major Sextet, and Surprise!

Stephen Lord, Director of Opera Studies, conducts his first mainstage production at NEC. James Robinson directs.

Ticket prices tba

music depicting the sea + Brahms

Ticket prices tba

BEETHOVEN – Symphony No. 1
MENDELSSOHN – Overture and Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Conductor DAVID ANGUS
Stage Director LEON MAJOR
Set Designer ERHARD ROM
Costume Designer DAVID O. ROBERTS
Lighting Designer JANE COX

Mayor Fazzobaldi, baritone JAKE GARDNER
Sarelda, mezzo-soprano VICTORIA LIVENGOOD*
Beatrice, soprano MEREDITH HANSEN
Tancredi, tenor NEAL FERREIRA
Malacorpa, mezzo-soprano DOROTHY BYRNE
Cosimo, baritone DAVID KRAVITZ
Adolfo, bass DAVID CUSHING
Padre Ruffiano, tenor JULIUS AHN
Agrippa, soprano MICHELLE TRAINOR*
Bobachino, mezzo-soprano NICOLE RODIN*

Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra

Schubert: Mass in A-flat
Kevin Leong, conductor, with orchestra
Deborah Selig, soprano
Tania Mandzy, mezzo-soprano
Charles Blandy, tenor
Thomas Jones, baritone

Tickets: $20 $10 student/senior

Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor
Yefim Bronfman, piano soloist

COPLAND: An Outdoor Overture
LISZT: Piano Concerto No. 2
RICHARD STRAUSS: An Alpine Symphony

Music by Francis Poulenc
Libretto by Francis Poulenc and Emmet Lavery
From the drama by Georges Bernanos, based on the novel by Gertrude von Le Fort
William Lumpkin, conductor
Sharon Daniels, stage director