Events
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"It's My Party!" Cabaret
Presented by Boston Gay Men's Chorus at Club Cafe February 10-February 12, 2012 Come help us celebrate our 30th birthday at "It’s My Party!" The annual Boston Gay Men’s Chorus cabaret is always a sell-out and this year will be no exception. If you’ve been in the audience before, you’ll see some of the super talented guys you’ve loved in the past, along with some fantastic talent that is new to the BGMC. Held at Club Café, it’s a relaxed atmosphere with cocktails and discounted food available.
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Boston Gay Men's Chorus |
02/10/12 -
02/12/12 |
Club Cafe, Boston |
2012 Signature Series at Berklee
Presented by Berklee College of Music at Berklee Performance Center February 16-March 30, 2012 Boston, MA – The 2012 Signature Music Series at Berklee continues an extraordinary season with jazz, funk, and Middle Eastern music, and selections from the Great American Songbook. Performers include a cross-section of Berklee students, faculty, and alumni, and world-renowned, award-winning musicians. The concerts feature a wide range of sounds: George Clinton Meets Berklee (2/16), the Great American Songbook: The Music of Hoagy Carmichael and Johnny Mercer (2/26), Middle Eastern...
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Berklee College of Music |
02/16/12 -
03/30/12 |
Berklee Performance Center, Boston |
A Choral Festival - Orchestra of Indian Hill
Presented by Indian Hill Music at Littleton High School February 26, 2012 CHORAL SPECTACULAR
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2012 at 3:00pm
Stravinsky's passionate Symphony of Psalms and Haydn’s expressive Harmony Mass entice with the combined forces of Harvard Pro Musica and Nashoba Valley Chorale and guest soloists:
Susan Bonito, soprano
Gale Fuller, alto
Joseph Holmes, tenor
Aaron Engebreth, baritone
STRAVINSKY Symphony of Psalms
HAYDN Mass No. 14 in B flat major, Hob.XXII:14,...
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Indian Hill Music |
02/26/12 |
Littleton High School, Littleton |
A Romantic Valentine with the Borromeo String Quartet
Presented by Boston Classical Orchestra at Faneuil Hall February 12, 2012 Tchaikovsky/Takemitsu: Andante doloroso
Debussy: String Quartet
Tchaikovsky: "Souvenir de Florence"
The BCO presents the incomparable Borromeo String Quartet, playing Debussy's passionate and impressionistic quartet, a Takemitsu transcription of Tchaikovsky (joined by BCO music director Steven Lipsitt on clarinet), and Tchaikovsky's lush and lovely sextet "A Souvenir of Florence" (joined by BCO principal violist Kenneth Stalberg and principal...
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Boston Classical Orchestra |
02/12/12 |
Faneuil Hall, Boston |
A.R.T. Ever After Gala
Presented by American Repertory Theater at The Castle at Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers February 13, 2012 Princes and Princesses, proclaim your love for the A.R.T. with the 2nd Annual Valentine’s Gala, an enchanted fairytale evening of love potions and Grimm notions.
Featuring a unique cabaret performance by Broadway composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz, with Jared Bowen of WGBH as emcee, and a special A.R.T. Angel Award to longtime A.R.T. friend and community volunteer Joan Parker.
With a darkly romantic fairy tale theme, A.R.T. Ever After promises to be the...
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American Repertory Theater |
02/13/12 |
The Castle at Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers, Boston |
Acoustica Electronica
Presented by Oberon at Oberon February 10-February 17, 2012 AcousticaElectronica blends the virtuosity found in the classical concert hall with the infectious energy of the late-night dance club. The best of both worlds: artistic depth and irresistible appeal. It is sexy and classy, sensuous and stoic, irreverent and reverential. Bach meets a dance club back-beat, Chopin meets trance, Carmen’s habanera and Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata are blended with house music for a listening experience unlike anything you have ever heard before. ...
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Oberon |
02/10/12 -
02/17/12 |
Oberon, Cambridge |
AcousticaElectronica
Presented by toUch performance art at Oberon February 10-February 17, 2012 toUch performance art presents AcousticaElectronica at OBERON, bringing an exciting new addition to Boston’s nightlife. toUch also proudly presents five of Boston’s hottest DJ’s: The WIG, Mike Swells, David Day, George Vala, and Randy Deshaies playing pre-show and post-show sets.
AcousticaElectronica blends the virtuosity found in the classical concert hall with the infectious energy of the late-night dance club. The best of both worlds: artistic depth...
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toUch performance art |
02/10/12 -
02/17/12 |
Oberon, Cambridge |
AHA! Night (art, history and architecture)
Presented by AHA! (art. history and architecture) May 14, 2009 - Ongoing AHA! takes place every 2nd Thursday and is a FREE art and culture event that features exhibits, performances, live music, talks and tours in downtown New Bedford.
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AHA! (art. history and architecture) |
05/14/09 -
Ongoing |
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Aine Minogue Free Concert at Robbins Library in Arlington
Presented by The Arlington Cultural Arts Council February 22, 2012 Aine Minogue, Irish Harpist & Singer in concert at Robbins Library, Arlington MA Wednesday, February 22nd at 7:00 p.m. This event will be held in the Community Room at Robbins Library, 700 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington, MA (Parking in rear of library and on Mass Ave) This Concert will be a CD Release Show and Conversation for "Close Your Eyes, Love," an album of Celtic lullabies (a final album in a series on the Celtic life cycle) Admission is Free. No advance...
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The Arlington Cultural Arts Council |
02/22/12 |
Robbins Library Community Room, Arlington |
Air Force Band of Liberty's Liberty Jazz Band
Presented by Air Force Band of Liberty February 16, 2012 The Liberty Jazz Band will appear as guest performers at the Salem State University Jazz Festival. The festival performance begins at 7 pm with the Liberty Jazz Band taking the stage at 8:00. From the swingin’ sounds of Glenn Miller to the best of contemporary big band jazz, the United States Air Force Liberty Jazz Band plays it all with style and sophistication. Part of the United States Air Force Band of Liberty from Hanscom Air Force Base outside Boston, this stellar ensemble has...
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Air Force Band of Liberty |
02/16/12 |
Salem State University, Central Campus Recital Hall, Salem |
All-Beethoven Program
Presented by Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall February 23-February 25, 2012 Beethoven's Missa Solemnis is one of the most significant works by one of the greatest of all composers. This monolithic late work stands with the Ninth Symphony, the late string quartets, and the late piano sonatas as the culmination of Beethoven's transformation of music. Beethoven intended the Missa Solemnis celebration of the election of his patron Archduke Rudolph as Archbishop of Olmütz in 1820, but didn't complete it until 1822. German maestro Kurt Masur conducts, with the...
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Boston Symphony Orchestra |
02/23/12 -
02/25/12 |
Symphony Hall, Boston |
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Allstar Weekend
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House of Blues |
02/18/12 |
House of Blues, Boston |
American Music for Viola and Piano
Presented by Boston University College of Fine Arts at Tsai Performance Center February 13, 2012 Featuring works by Amlin, Carter, Cornell, and Rochberg. Michelle LaCourse, viola; Martin Amlin, piano Martin Amlin. Sonata for viola and piano and premiere of new composition. Elliott Carter, Elegy for viola and piano; Richard Cornell, Duets for two violas; George Rochberg, Sonata for viola and piano. Free and open to the public. Call 617-353-8724 for details. Presented by the Boston University College of Fine Arts.
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Boston University College of Fine Arts |
02/13/12 |
Tsai Performance Center, Boston |
Amy Black and Danielle Miaglia
Presented by Me and Thee Coffeehouse February 17, 2012 Come out for a full night of music with two powerful singer/songwriters. Amy will be there as a quartet (vocals, bass, acoustic, and electric guitars) and Danielle will rock the house with her one woman show.
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Me and Thee Coffeehouse |
02/17/12 |
Me and Thee Coffeehouse, Marblehead |
Anais Mitchell CD Release Show, Rachel Ries opens
Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 23, 2012 From her current home base in a 200-year-old farmhouse in rural Vermont, Anais (“uh-NAY-iss”) Mitchell writes songs that are as intimate as conversations and as rich in detail as short stories. She is the rare musician who is equally comfortable wielding an acoustic guitar alone onstage, sharing a disc’s worth of alt-country duets, or scripting a vast operatic journey into the underworld. She’s a fearless explorer, and her world just keeps getting larger....
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Club Passim |
02/23/12 |
Club Passim, Cambridge |
Anne Heaton CD Release
Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 25, 2012 Heaton grew up in Chicago, lived in New York and now lives in Somerville, MA, the home of Q Division Studios, which -- only a bike ride away from her home -- is where she now records most of her music including her sophomore release “Give In” produced by Mike Denneen (Aimee Mann and Fountains of Wayne). Both “Give In” (released on Q Division Records) and Heaton’s independent debut album “Black Notebook” received national critical acclaim. Performing...
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Club Passim |
02/25/12 |
Club Passim, Cambridge |
Are You Still There? music of voyage and remembrance
Presented 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...
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The Boston New Music Intiative |
02/25/12 |
Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall, Cambridge |
Barnaby Bright/Suzie Brown/Jenee Halstead
Presented by The Red Room @ Cafe 939 at The Red Room at Cafe 939 February 18, 2012 Brooklyn-based indie folk rock duo Barnaby Bright, have garnered high accolades for their lyrically captivating and impeccably balanced songwriting and sound. They have toured all over the US and Europe, dazzling fans with unique instrumentation, powerful harmonies, intelligent lyrics, and genuine warmth on stage. Inspired by literature, life, human behavior and a hint of fantasy, Barnaby Bright is a classic vision of timeless indie folk rock in all its glory.
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The Red Room @ Cafe 939 |
02/18/12 |
The Red Room at Cafe 939, Boston |
Bay State Winds Concert
Presented by First Church of Christ, Congregational February 15, 2012 First Church of Christ, Congregational, 25 The Great Road, Bedford will be hosting a special evening event in their Sanctuary featuring The Bay State Winds, the clarinet quartet of the Air Force Band of Liberty. Admission is free.
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First Church of Christ, Congregational |
02/15/12 |
First Church of Christ, Congregational, Bedford |
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BC bOp! Pre-Festival Performance
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Boston College Bands |
02/20/12 |
Boston College Gasson Hall, Room 100, Chestnut Hill |
BCMFest Celtic Music Monday
Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 13, 2012 Neil Pearlman (innovative Scottish/Cape Breton-style keyboardist) and Friends. More details TBA
http://www.bcmfest.com/
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Club Passim |
02/13/12 |
Club Passim, Cambridge |
BeauSoleil Avec Michael Doucet & Marcia Ball
Presented by World Music/CRASHarts at Somerville Theatre February 26, 2012 BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet “One of the most colorful roots bands on the scene. Bon temps, every time they play.”—The New York Times
Marcia Ball "A sensational, saucy singer and superb pianist . . . where Texas stomp-rock and Louisiana blues-swamp meet."—USA Today
BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet and Marcia Ball present a heart-racing musical tour of the American South and Gulf Coast. With a celebrated 35-year career, BeauSoleil...
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World Music/CRASHarts |
02/26/12 |
Somerville Theatre, Somerville |
Beethoven, Dahl and Fibich
Presented by Boston Chamber Music Society at Sanders Theatre February 26, 2012 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
Harumi Rhodes, violin Ronald Thomas, cello Mihae Lee, piano
Beethoven’s “Ghost” Trio for piano, violin and cello takes its name from the uncanny atmosphere produced by...
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Boston Chamber Music Society |
02/26/12 |
Sanders Theatre, Cambridge |
Beethoven: "Eroica"
Presented by Handel and Haydn Society at Symphony Hall February 17-February 19, 2012 “[Zeitouni is] quite accomplished at communicating via an athletic, sometimes flamboyant style at the front of the ensemble.” –The Columbus Dispatch
Jean-Marie Zeitouni conducts Beethoven’s groundbreaking Eroica symphony. The program also features Haydn’s Symphony No. 48, composed for a visit by the Holy Roman Empress, Maria Theresia.
Program:
* Beethoven: Egmont Overture
* Haydn: Symphony No. 48, Maria Theresia
* Beethoven:...
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Handel and Haydn Society |
02/17/12 -
02/19/12 |
Symphony Hall, Boston |
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Between Two Worlds: An Ottoman Musical Tapestry
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Boston College |
02/23/12 |
Boston College Gasson Hall, Room 100, Chestnut Hill |
Biber’s Mystery Sonatas for Violin, Part I - Christina Day Martinson, violin
Presented by Boston Baroque at First Church in Cambridge, Congregational February 12, 2012 Concertmaster Christina Day Martinson gives a tour de force performance of one of the pinnacles of the virtuoso violin repertoire—playing multiple violins tuned differently—to resonate differently for each sonata. Each of these sonatas depicts one of the mysteries of the rosary, and, as a set, they take us on a remarkable musical journey. With Boston Baroque players Christina Day Martinson, violin; Martin Pearlman, keyboards; Sarah Freiberg, cello; and Victor Coelho, theorbo.
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Boston Baroque |
02/12/12 |
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, Cambridge |
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Big Gigantic with Adventure Club
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Bowery Presents |
02/16/12 |
Royale, Boston |
Black History Month Jazz Band Concert
Presented by Wheaton College February 17, 2012 Under the direction of Rick Britto, the ensemble performs the music of Charlie "Bird" Parker, John Coltrane and other jazz masters.
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Wheaton College |
02/17/12 |
Kresge Experimental Theatre, Watson Fine Arts, Norton |
Blast
Presented by CityStage & Symphony Hall at Symphony Hall - Springfield February 12, 2012 FAMILY FUN! Ages 5 and up!
Winner of the 2001 Tony® Award for "Best Special Theatrical Event" and the 2001 Emmy® Award for "Best Choreography". Born on athletic fields across the nation, steeped in the tradition of military and outdoor pageantry, drum corps, bands, and color guards have a long history in America. Often rehearsing twelve hours a day through heat, cold, dust and rain, they create thrilling performances where athleticism, musical talent,...
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CityStage & Symphony Hall |
02/12/12 |
Symphony Hall - Springfield, Springfield |
Blue Man Group
Presented by Blue Man Group at The Charles Playhouse May 14, 2002 - Ongoing It’s new. It’s cool. BLUE MAN GROUP has updated the wildly popular theatrical show in Boston! Taking a closer look at the technology that both surrounds and isolates us, BLUE MAN GROUP showcases technogeek ingenuity while uniting the audience in primal, collective exhilaration. Signature BLUE MAN GROUP moments combine with breathtakingly fun new pieces for an explosive evening of entertainment.
*Blue Man Group is on an open run at the Charles Playhouse.
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Blue Man Group |
05/14/02 -
Ongoing |
The Charles Playhouse, Boston |