Events
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Van Halen
Presented by TD Garden at TD Garden March 11, 2012 Van Halen, Rock And Roll Hall of Fame inductees and one of the most important and influential rock bands of all time, announced their return to the live stage with an extraordinary 2012 North American tour. Known around the world for some of the most iconic live performances in music history, the legendary rock band will begin their tour on February 18. Kool & The Gang will join Van Halen for select tour dates. The tour will stop at the TD Garden on March 11.
In addition, Van...
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TD Garden |
03/11/12 |
TD Garden, Boston |
The Earth Stringband
Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 13, 2012 The Earth String Band combines bluegrass and old time Appalachian music with contemporary acoustic music, achieving synergy with soulful songwriting and musicianship. Fiery and improvisational, The Earth String Band creates pulsing earthy grooves and melodious hooks that form a unique, infective vibe.
http://www.earthstringband.com
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Club Passim |
03/13/12 |
Club Passim, Cambridge |
The Chieftains
Presented by Celebrity Series of Boston at Symphony Hall March 14, 2012 Six-time Grammy winners, The Chieftains are now recognized for bringing traditional Irish music to the world's attention. They have uncovered the wealth of great Irish music that has accumulated over the centuries, and made the music their own with a style that is as exhilarating as it is definitive. Don't miss the fun as Paddy Moloney and band return to Symphony Hall for a pre-St. Patrick's Day bash.
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Celebrity Series of Boston |
03/14/12 |
Symphony Hall, Boston |
Cabaret with Ann Marie King
Presented by Amazing Things Arts Center at Amazing Things Art Center March 14, 2012 Each month, performers bring dreams, voice, sheet music and persona and try them out on a friendly supportive audience. Host, soprano Leslie Holmes, adds vignettes about the songs and composers, based on her wealth of knowledge about the history of cabaret. Featuring Ann Marie King with Tom LaMark on piano
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Amazing Things Arts Center |
03/14/12 |
Amazing Things Art Center, Framingham |
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Duo Muratore/Cassan
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Boston College |
03/14/12 |
Boston College Gasson Hall, Room 100, Chestnut Hill |
Bruce Molsky and Ale Möller
Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 14, 2012 Bruce Molsky stands today as the premier old-time fiddler in the world, the defining virtuoso of Appalachia's timeless folk music traditions. That must feel odd for a former engineer from the Bronx, who didn't begin a music career until he was forty. But folded into those strange facts is the secret to his unique genius. In addition to a prolific solo career, performing on fiddle, guitar, and banjo, Molsky frequently joins genre-busting supergroups, like the Grammy-nominated Fiddlers Four,...
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Club Passim |
03/14/12 |
Club Passim, Cambridge |
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EMMANUEL MUSIC - Lindsey Chapel Series: Bach Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord - Concert 4
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Emmanuel Music |
03/15/12 |
Emmanuel Church, Boston, Boston |
Maeve Gilchrist and Matt & Shannon Heaton
Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 15, 2012 Non-members: $15/ Passim members $13
Based in New York City, Maeve Gilchrist is currently performing with her own duo and trio which blends her Scottish roots with the colors of jazz, creating a unique and multicultural sound. She performed regularly in the prestigious performance centre in shows such as Singers Showcase, The International Folk Festival, The Commencement concerts and The Stevie Wonder tribute show. The Irish Music Magazine says that, “Both as a singer and a harp...
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Club Passim |
03/15/12 |
Club Passim, Cambridge |
BSO Chamber Music Series: Bach, Beethoven and More
Presented by Boston Symphony Orchestra March 16, 2012 BSO Community Chamber Music Series at Northeastern’s Fenway Center
Hosted by the Music Department
Now in its fifteenth season, the series was previously held in a function room at Symphony Hall. The move to Northeastern allows a larger audience to attend the concerts, and takes advantage of the Fenway Center’s outstanding acoustics. Students and faculty in the Music Department at Northeastern’s College of Arts, Media and Design will take an active role in the...
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Boston Symphony Orchestra |
03/16/12 |
Northeastern’s Fenway Center, Boston |
McPeake
Presented by MASS MoCA March 16, 2012 Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day a day early with Belfast’s McPeake who carry on a family tradition of Irish folk music that goes back 100 years. Francis McPeake IV, the fourth generation of this musical dynasty, has revived the band with a new generation of young players who blend original Celtic compositions with contemporary rhythms and styles.
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MASS MoCA |
03/16/12 |
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The Stan Strickland "Be Here Now" Quartet
Presented by Amazing Things Arts Center at Amazing Things Art Center March 16, 2012 Singer, saxophonist, flutist, actor Stan Strickland has performed throughout the United States, Europe, Scandinavia, the Caribbean, New Zealand and the former Soviet Union. In addition to numerous radio and television appearances, Stan has performed in many clubs and concert halls, including Jordan and Symphony Halls in Boston, Carnegie Recital Hall and Town Hall in New York, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. His work has been featured on recordings by Bob Moses, Marty Erlich,...
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Amazing Things Arts Center |
03/16/12 |
Amazing Things Art Center, Framingham |
Recycled Percussion
Presented by The Hanover Theatre at The Hanover Theatre March 16, 2012 Justin Spencer formed Recycled Percussion in 1995 for a high school talent show. Justin was looking for a way to be as creative as possible and took the idea of playing buckets, which was introduced to him in the subways of New York City. Deciding to take the next step was Justin adding more and more instruments to the show and expanding on the New York style of street percussion. The band really started to take of in 1999 when they were featured on the cover of the USA TODAY. Recycled...
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The Hanover Theatre |
03/16/12 |
The Hanover Theatre, Worcester |
Tribute to the Clancy Brothers
Presented by Rockport Music at Shalin Liu Performance Center March 16, 2012 Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a night of Irish folk music from The Clancy Legacy, the next generation of the illustrious Irish folk music group, The Clancy Brothers. Since 2006, first cousins Robbie O’Connell -- who, as a member of the Clancy Brothers for three decades, earned international acclaim -- and Aoife (“Eefa”) Clancy – member of renowned “Cherish the Ladies,” soloist with The Boston Pops, and daughter of Bobby Clancy -- have performed at...
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Rockport Music |
03/16/12 |
Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport |
Boston Bhangra Classes
Presented by Boston Bhangra, Inc March 19, 2011-March 17, 2012 Bhangra! Bhangra! Bhangra! Bhangra is one of the fastest growing dance forms in the world! It is traditionally a folk dance based out of the Indian sub-continent. However, it is now being used in hip hop songs and ALL indian parties out there!
If you love dance, and want to try something that is new, fun, energetic and where you will get a great workout, check out this class!
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Boston Bhangra, Inc |
03/19/11 -
03/17/12 |
Brookline Ballet Studio, Brookline |
2011 Tchaikovsky Piano Competition Winner on Tour - A Special Evening
Presented by Music Worcester, Inc. at Mechanics Hall March 17, 2012 The iconic International Tchaikovsky Competition, every four years in Moscow, was first held in 1958. The winner of the first piano competition was Van Cliburn, who went on to achieve the status of an idol to world-wide audiences. Van Cliburn performed at the 102nd Worcester Music Festival in 1961 before a sold out house of 3,200 at the Memorial Auditorium.
30 pianists will compete in this year's International Tchaikovsky Competition to take place between June 14th and July...
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Music Worcester, Inc. |
03/17/12 |
Mechanics Hall, Worcester |
Bach: St. Matthew Passion
Presented by Freisinger Chamber Orchestra at Old South Church, Boston March 17, 2012 JS Bach: St. Matthew Passion (sung in German)
Season Finale!
Featuring:
sopranos Heidi Freimanis, Anna Ward, Ellen Allen;
altos Grace Allendorf, Shannon Rolbiecki, Yuan Zhou;
tenors Sean Lair (Evangelist), Brendan Daly, Martin Thomson;
basses RaShaun Campbell, Jeremy Collier
In this performance, the soloists form the chorus.
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Freisinger Chamber Orchestra |
03/17/12 |
Old South Church, Boston, Boston |
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Presented by World Music/CRASHarts at Sanders Theatre March 17, 2012 With the power of gospel and the precision of Broadway, Ladysmith Black Mambazo is the undisputed king of mbube, South African a cappella singing. The group came together in the early 1960s and continues to thrill audiences around the world with its strong, proud melodies, harmonized in layers of call and response.
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World Music/CRASHarts |
03/17/12 |
Sanders Theatre, Cambridge |
The Prodigal Son
Presented by La Donna Musicale at Emmanuel Church, Boston March 17, 2012 Combining stirring performances with groundbreaking scholarship, award-winning ensemble La Donna Musicale, led by Laury Gutiérrez (2009 Radcliffe Institute Fellow and Brandeis University WSRC Scholar), expands to a chamber string orchestra and vocal quartet for
the modern world premiere of this powerful oratorio, composed in 1709.
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La Donna Musicale |
03/17/12 |
Emmanuel Church, Boston, Boston |
Longwood Symphony Orchestra - Liszt & Beethoven
Presented by Longwood Symphony Orchestra at NEC's Jordan Hall March 17, 2012 The mission of Longwood Symphony Orchestra, the orchestra of Boston's medical community, is to perform concerts of musical diversity and excellence, while supporting health-related nonprofit organizations. This concert coincides with the one-year anniversary of the tragic earthquake and tsunami in Japan and benefits the Japanese Disaster Relief Fund-Boston.
The LSO is proud to be a part of a 35-orchestra consortium that commissioned "Sidereus" (Starry Messenger) by...
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Longwood Symphony Orchestra |
03/17/12 |
NEC's Jordan Hall, Boston |
George Winston
Presented by TCAN - The Center for Arts in Natick at The Center for Arts in Natick March 16-March 17, 2012 George Winston launched a new musical genre over 30 years ago with a recording of piano solos called Autumn. With a unique "folk piano" style blending traditional American folk music with New Orleans R&B, George’s hypnotic pieces suggest the play of color and light and the quiet melancholy and icy clarity of winter. George will also play from his latest release, "Love Will Come – The Music of Vince Guaraldi, Vol. 2." Please support the Natick Service...
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TCAN - The Center for Arts in Natick |
03/16/12 -
03/17/12 |
The Center for Arts in Natick, Natick |
Musical Tales: A Family Concert - Hudson
Presented by Symphony Pro Musica at Hudson High School March 17, 2012 Popper
Hungarian Rhapsody - Feat12 year-old Zlatomir Fung of Westborough, cello
Lees
The Trumpet of the Swan
Rimsky-Korsakov:
Scheherazade
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Symphony Pro Musica |
03/17/12 |
Hudson High School, Hudson |
Paul Kelly
Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 16-March 17, 2012 Paul Kelly has recorded seventeen studio albums as well as several film soundtracks (Lantana and the Cannes 2006 highlight, Jindabyne) and live albums, in an influential career spanning more than thirty years. He was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 199. Songs From The South, a selection of his popular songs first assembled in 1997 and expanded to a double album in 2008,contains many of his songs now lodged deep in the Australian psyche.
http://www.paulkelly.com.au/
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Club Passim |
03/16/12 -
03/17/12 |
Club Passim, Cambridge |
MISTRESS
Presented by Cappella Clausura at Episcopal Parish of the Messiah - Newton March 17, 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...
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Cappella Clausura |
03/17/12 |
Episcopal Parish of the Messiah - Newton, Newton |
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Winton Marsalis
Presented by Celebrity Series of Boston at Symphony Hall March 18, 2012 Led by trumpet giant Wynton Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center's 15-member resident orchestra is a tight, swinging ensemble made up of some of the most formidable jazz musicians around. In this band, everyone is a steadfast ensemble player and a virtuosic soloist. When they lock in on a groove and turn their horns loose, lookout!
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Celebrity Series of Boston |
03/18/12 |
Symphony Hall, Boston |
Daniel Stepner plays "The Four Seasons"
Presented by Boston Classical Orchestra March 17-March 18, 2012 Brahms: Der Frühling (transcribed for string orchestra)
Chadwick: Serenade in F
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (with Daniel Stepner)
Daniel Stepner, one of North America's preeminent Baroque violinists, leads the BCO in Vivaldi's vivid musical traversal "The Four Seasons". Complementing this iconic masterpiece are works by other nature-inspired composers: Brahms' blooming invocation of Spring, and George Chadwick's neo-Romantic Serenade, a bucolic...
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Boston Classical Orchestra |
03/17/12 -
03/18/12 |
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THE BARBER OF SEVILLE by Gioachino Rossini
Presented by Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) at Citi Shubert Theatre March 9-March 18, 2012 Sung in Italian with projected English translation
Music by Gioachino Rossini- Libretto by Cesare Sterbini
Figaro, Figaro, Figaro! Rossini is undoubtedly the top dog of comic opera and The Barber of Seville is his undisputed masterpiece. Rossini generously stamps every moment with his own unique and irresistible mixture of manic madness and soaring lyricism. Patter songs, love duets, serenades, a shaving scene out of Max Sennett, a foiled elopement, a happy ending, even a...
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Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) |
03/09/12 -
03/18/12 |
Citi Shubert Theatre, Boston |
The Passion
Presented by Cantata Singers & Ensemble at NEC's Jordan Hall March 18, 2012 The Journey
48 Years of Adventure
Johannes Brahms: Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Mühseligen
Franz Liszt: Via crucis, les 14 stations de la croix
Christoph Demantius: Weissagung des Leidens un Sterbens Jesu Christi
J.S. Bach: Cantata BWV 4, "Christ lag in Todesbanden"
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Cantata Singers & Ensemble |
03/18/12 |
NEC's Jordan Hall, Boston |
Vadim Repin, violin
Presented by Maestro Artist Management at NEC's Jordan Hall March 18, 2012 Virtuoso violinist Vadim Repin and pianist Itamar Golan are ranked among the most admired and prominent classical musicians in the world today. Repin is a virtuoso of many voices, and his astonishing ability to draw a rich palette of sound from his instrument, together with his dazzling technique, has enthralled audiences around the globe. Fiery passion with impeccable technique, poetry, and sensitivity are Repin’s trademarks. If you have not heard Vadim Repin in recent years, prepare...
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Maestro Artist Management |
03/18/12 |
NEC's Jordan Hall, Boston |
Guitar Festival - Orchestra of Indian Hill
Presented by Indian Hill Music at Littleton High School March 18, 2012 FESTIVAL FOR GUITAR
SUNDAY, MARCH 18, 2012 at 3:00pm
The guitar is the star! A mix of Spanish music and classics come alive with
world-renowned guest artists Eliot Fisk and Zaira Meneses.
MOZART Symphony No. 29
FALLA El Amor Brujo with Krista River, mezzo-soprano
RODRIGO Concierto de Aranjuez
VIVALDI Concerto for Two Guitars
Eliot Fisk & Zaira Meneses, guitars
Pre-concert talk at 2:15pm with Maestro...
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Indian Hill Music |
03/18/12 |
Littleton High School, Littleton |
Emmanuel Music: The Splendour of the Baroque
Presented by Rockport Music at Shalin Liu Performance Center March 18, 2012 Acclaimed for its interpretations of cantatas by J.S. Bach, Emmanuel Music’s ensemble features many of Boston’s leading singers and instrumentalists. Music Director Ryan Turner conducts this beloved ensemble in its Rockport Music debut, offering audiences the chance to enjoy gorgeous Baroque gems in the “superb acoustics” (Boston Globe) of the Shalin Liu Performance Center.
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Rockport Music |
03/18/12 |
Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport |