| Event Name | Organization | Dates | City | | Orpheus Singers present American ModernsPresented by The Orpheus Singers at Emmanuel Church, Boston February 18, 2012 The Orpheus Singers, James Olesen, music director present American Moderns Works by Elliott Carter, Aaron Copland, Irving Fine, Andrew Imbrie with Karen Harvey, Piano | The Orpheus Singers | 02/18/12 | Boston |
Either/Orchestra: The Collective UnconsciousPresented by Institute of Contemporary Art /Boston (ICA) at Institute of Contemporary Art /Boston (ICA) February 24, 2012 “One of the few bands around equally at home at the Vision Festival, the Roseland Ballroom, or CBGB.” —Will Friedwald, The Wall Street Journal
New England’s premier jazz ensemble, the ten-piece Either/ Orchestra returns with the Boston premiere of The Collected Unconscious, a new suite composed by band founder Russ Gershon. Inspired by the band’s tour of Ethiopia, the music is broad in its scope recalling Ethiopian rhythms alongside... | Institute of Contemporary Art /Boston (ICA) | 02/24/12 | Boston |
Are You Still There? music of voyage and remembrancePresented by The Boston New Music Intiative at Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall February 25, 2012 The Boston New Music Initiative will present Are You Still There? music of voyage and remembrance as part of its third concert season on Saturday, February 25, 2012 at Pickman Concert Hall, Longy School of Music, 27 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA. Featuring a chamber orchestra with soloists performing new works by living composers, Are You Still There? will showcase Ted Hearne’s Cordavi and Fig, Timothy A. Davis’s In Memoriam, Garrett Byrnes’s Concerto for Piano and... | The Boston New Music Intiative | 02/25/12 | Cambridge |
The Blue & The GrayPresented by Boston Metro Opera February 24-March 3, 2012 Come watch as history repeats itself in this double-bill of American one-act operas. Featuring the 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 the conflict.
Performances are:
February 24, 2012 | 7:00 PM
February 25, 2012 | 7:00 Pm
March 2, 2012 | 7:00 PM
March 3, 2012 | 7:00 PM | Boston Metro Opera | 02/24/12-
03/03/12 | Jamaica Plain |
Max Raabe & Palast OrchesterPresented by Celebrity Series of Boston at Symphony Hall March 4, 2012 Founded in 1986 by the charismatic baritone Max Raabe, Max Raabe and his stellar 12-member band, Palast Orchester, embody the high style and musical glory of the 20s and 30s. Raabe's art lies in revealing the enigmatic intelligence, ambiguity, universal power, and complexity of the German chansons from the turbulent Weimar Republic. With repertoire focused on German and American standards, they keenly remind us that between melancholy and irony, rebellion and resignation, elegy and farce... | Celebrity Series of Boston | 03/04/12 | Boston |
Libella Quartet presents Reincarnations - Contemporary Compositions for a-capella vocal quartetPresented by Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club. Inc at Loring-Greenough House March 4, 2012 On March 4, 2012, at 3:00 p.m., the Libella Quartet-- Lisa Lynch, soprano, Carola Emrich-Fisher, alto, Jason Sabol, tenor, Matt Wight, bass-- will present Reincarnations, a concert of contemporary compositions for a-capella vocal quartet, including works by Samuel Barber, Paul Hindemith, Kazumi Umeda, Igor Stravinsky, among others, at the historic Loring-Greenough House, 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain MA, as part of the Sunday Afternoon at the ‘Greenough House parlor concert series. ... | Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club. Inc | 03/04/12 | Boston |
"Spanish Suite" Rosa Torres-PardoPresented by Boston University Romance Studies Department at Tsai Performance Center March 5, 2012 "Suite Española", prestigious Spanish pianist Rosa Torres-Pardo
presents Spanish classics by Granados, Albéniz and Falla. Rosa
Torres-Pardo will be accompanied by the flamenco singer from Huelva, Spain,
Rocío Marquez.
Sponsored by Instituto Cervantes Boston and Voces Hispánicas/Hispanic
Voices, an initiative of the Department of Romance Studies,Boston
University, made possible by the generosity of Santander... | Boston University Romance Studies Department | 03/05/12 | Boston |
BCE presents Butterfly DreamsPresented by Boston Choral Ensemble at First Church in Cambridge, Congregational March 9, 2012 The Boston Choral Ensemble will explore the dream state with evocative music by Eric Whitacre (including Sleep and Leonardo dreams of his flying machine), Butterfly Dreams by John Tavener, Judith Weir’s a blue true dream of sky, and madrigals by Dowland and others. | Boston Choral Ensemble | 03/09/12 | Cambridge |
BCE presents Butterfly DreamsPresented by Boston Choral Ensemble at Old South Church, Boston March 11, 2012 The Boston Choral Ensemble will explore the dream state with evocative music by Eric Whitacre (including Sleep and Leonardo dreams of his flying machine), Butterfly Dreams by John Tavener, Judith Weir’s a blue true dream of sky, and madrigals by Dowland and others. | Boston Choral Ensemble | 03/11/12 | Boston |
Rainbow Tribe, Inc. presents 20iN2012 Presented by Rainbow Tribe. Inc. at Boston University Dance Theater March 9-March 11, 2012 A 20-year alumni celebration concert looking back on the founding, the bright present, and forward towards the exciting future of this ever-growing, ever-evolving Boston-based non-profit organization. Join Tribe, The Dance Company, Bside, Embrace, and organization alumni in celebrating this tremendous milestone by bringing your dancing shoes, and party attitude. You will laugh, you will cry, you will sing, and you will dance - most of all in your heart. This is one dance concert and...
Buy ½ price tickets at BosTix.org | Rainbow Tribe. Inc. | 03/09/12-
03/11/12 | Boston |
into unison with romantic spirit: Schumann, Mahler, Berg, Harbison, KorngoldPresented by Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston at First Church in Boston March 24, 2012 Pronounced a genius at the age of 10 by no less than Gustav Mahler, Erich Korngold was hailed as the very last breath of the Romantic spirit in Vienna. We are thrilled to keep that spirit alive with a rare performance of two rare works: Mahler's only piece of chamber music, and Korngold's astonishing Suite for piano left hand and strings.
with guest artist Elizabeth Keusch, soprano
Program
Robert Schumann, Romanzen for oboe & piano, Op.... | Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston | 03/24/12 | Boston |
MISTRESSPresented by Cappella Clausura at University Lutheran Church, Cambridge March 24, 2012 MISTRESS:a celebration of the 400th anniversary of the birth of America's first poet, Mistress Anne Bradstreet
Featuring the premiere of Contemplations (8, 9) composed by Hilary Tann especially for Cappella Clausura’s celebration of Anne Bradstreet’s quatricentennial. The piece will be played in tandem with Contemplations (21, 22), written in 2005 for the Radcliffe Choral Society.
In addition, we feature two works by Dorothy Crawford: A Protrait of Anne... | Cappella Clausura | 03/24/12 | Cambridge |
into unison with romantic spirit: Schumann, Mahler, Berg, Harbison, KorngoldPresented by Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston at Goethe-Institut Boston March 25, 2012 Pronounced a genius at the age of 10 by no less than Gustav Mahler, Erich Korngold was hailed as the very last breath of the Romantic spirit in Vienna. We are thrilled to keep that spirit alive with a rare performance of two rare works: Mahler's only piece of chamber music, and Korngold's astonishing Suite for piano left hand and strings.
with guest artist Elizabeth Keusch, soprano
Program
Robert Schumann, Romanzen for oboe & piano, Op.... | Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston | 03/25/12 | Boston |
MISTRESSPresented by Cappella Clausura March 25, 2012 MISTRESS:a celebration of the 400th anniversary of the birth of America's first poet, Mistress Anne Bradstreet
Featuring the premiere of Contemplations (8, 9) composed by Hilary Tann especially for Cappella Clausura’s celebration of Anne Bradstreet’s quatricentennial. The piece will be played in tandem with Contemplations (21, 22), written in 2005 for the Radcliffe Choral Society.
In addition, we feature two works by Dorothy Crawford: A Protrait of Anne... | Cappella Clausura | 03/25/12 | Boston |
Pianist Naoko Sugiyama plays Gershwin, Barber, and HarbisonPresented by Longy School of Music at Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall March 29, 2012 Longy Faculty Artist Recital:
Pianist Naoko Sugiyama performs an all-American program, featuring Gershwin's jazz-inspired classic "Rhapsody in Blue" and Samuel Barber's virtuoso sonata, famously championed by Horowitz, plus a suite based on Harbison's acclaimed opera commissioned by the Metropolitan.
Program:
Samuel Barber: Sonata for Piano Op.26
Samuel Barber: Souvenirs Op.28 (version for piano solo)
John... | Longy School of Music | 03/29/12 | Cambridge |
Classics IV Symphony of NaturePresented by Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra at Barnstable Performing Arts Center April 14-April 15, 2012 The Beautiful Sounds and Sights of Mother Earth
Jung-Ho Pak, Conductor - Irina Muresanu, Violin
The beauty of Nature portrayed in the mystical song of whales and the flight of a lark exquisitely personified by violinist Irina Muresanu.
COPLAND – HOVHANESS – WILLIAMS – ENESCU - BEETHOVEN
In nature’s sublime way, the majestic song of whales emerges like a giant mythical bird in Hovhaness’ And God Created Great Whales. ... | Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra | 04/14/12-
04/15/12 | Barnstable |
| Rafael Popper-Keizer, cello | Boston College | 04/17/12 | Chestnut Hill |
The Phat PolicePresented by Wheaton College April 24, 2012 Under the direction of Jeffrey Cashen, The Phat Police is a contemporary jazz ensemble playing a wide range of music from Wayne Shorter to Radiohead. | Wheaton College | 04/24/12 | Norton |
| Leonard Bernstein performed by University Wind Ensemble | Boston College | 04/27/12 | Chestnut Hill |
2012 Contemporary AmericanaFestivalPresented by Boston Metro Opera May 3-May 5, 2012 There's no music like new music, and our AmericanaFestival, a dedicated venue for new Classical vocal works, proves it! These three unique programs feature operas, art songs, and choral pieces submitted by composers world-wide.
Performances are:
May 3, 2012 | 7:00 PM (Choral Program)
May 4, 2012 | 7:00 PM (Vocal Program)
May 5, 2012 | 7:00 PM (Opera Program)
Free and open to the public. Ticket reservations recommended.
For more... | Boston Metro Opera | 05/03/12-
05/05/12 | Jamaica Plain |
Bees and HoneyPresented by New Gallery Concert Series at Community Music Center of Boston May 10, 2012 The program also includes 2 world premieres by John McDonald and music by Evan Ziporyn and Christine Southworth. Performers include Primary Duo, clarinetists Eran Egozy, Alicia Lee, Rane Moore, Evan Ziporyn, cellist Katherine Kayaian, soprano Jennifer Ashe and more.
HIVE by Evan Ziporyn
clarinetists Eran Egozy, Alicia Lee, Rane Moore, Evan Ziporyn
Honey Flyers for string quartet by Christine Southworth
(players tba)
WORLD PREMIERE for piano... | New Gallery Concert Series | 05/10/12 | Boston |
and told in song: Shostakovich, Enescu, Sirota, Weir, SchumannPresented by Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston at First Church in Boston May 12, 2012 A woman's life and love, a musical confession, and an instrumental opera about an 18th-century bagpiper, executed after his pipes were classified as a weapon…our season comes to a close with deeply personal, biographical works that offer glimpses into the inner lives of five remarkable composers.
with guest artists Elizabeth Keusch, soprano and Sergey Schepkin, piano
Program
Robert Schumann Frauenliebe und –leben for... | Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston | 05/12/12 | Boston |
and told in song: Shostakovich, Enescu, Sirota, Weir, SchumannPresented by Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston at Goethe-Institut Boston May 13, 2012 A woman's life and love, a musical confession, and an instrumental opera about an 18th-century bagpiper, executed after his pipes were classified as a weapon…our season comes to a close with deeply personal, biographical works that offer glimpses into the inner lives of five remarkable composers.
with guest artists Elizabeth Keusch, soprano and Sergey Schepkin, piano
Program
Robert Schumann Frauenliebe und –leben for... | Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston | 05/13/12 | Boston |
Invisible CitiesPresented by Boston Metro Opera June 22-June 30, 2012 Join Marco Polo on his extraordinary travels in this concert premiere: Christopher Cerrone’s Invisible Cities. Based on the acclaimed novella by Italo Calvini, this opera is a melting pot of musical styles, documenting Polo and his role in the rise and fall of Kublai Khan’s Mongolian empire.
Performances are:
June 22, 2012 | 7:00 PM
June 23, 2012 | 7:00 PM
June 29, 2012 | 7:00 PM
June 30, 2012 | 7:00 PM
Tickets are $10.00/per... | Boston Metro Opera | 06/22/12-
06/30/12 | Jamaica Plain |
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