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Sun, Mar 1, 3:00pm
Handel and Haydn Society, Paul Goodwin, guest conductor |
Baroque Grand Tour. Experience a musical journey through Baroque Europe led by period-instrument specialist Paul Goodwin. Travel to Germany with Bach's extraordinary Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, to England with the expressive delights of Purcell, and to France with the instrumental poetry of Couperin. Couperin: Concert dans le goût théâtrical;
Purcell: Funeral Sentences;
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3;
Purcell: The Masque from Dioclesian. NEC's Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street.
Boston, MA 02115, Accessible from Symphony on the "E" Green Line, Hynes Convention Center on the "A" "B "C" Green Line, and Massachusetts Ave on the Orange Line. Tickets from $35-$70. For more information call 617-266-4048 or visit www.handelandhaydn.org
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Sun, Mar 15, 3:00 PM
Masterworks Chorale, Steven Karidoyanes, Conductor |
The Chorale’s 69th season continues with MENDELSSOHN’s opera “Son and Stranger.” Felix wrote an opera (!) and it will be presented in concert-opera fashion. 2009 is the 200th anniversary year of Mendelssohn's birth. Sanders Theatre, Harvard University. Also on the program are the BRAHMS “Liebeslieder Waltzes” in the composer’s own sparkling settings for chorus and orchestra. For more information call (781) 235-6210 or visit www.MasterworksChorale.org |
Fri, Mar 20, 8:00pm
Handel and Haydn Society,
Grant Llewellyn, Principal Conductor |
| Romantic Brahms. Join Principal Conductor Grant Llewellyn as he explores the Romantic era with Brahms' Symphony No. 1. Brahms spent 20 years perfecting this masterpiece to honor the legacy of Beethoven and Haydn. The program also features Mendelssohn's lyric Violin Concerto and a world premiere of a new choral tribute to Handel. Brahms: Symphony No. 1;
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto;
Vignieri: Fanfare of Voices; Ilya Gringolts, Violin. Symphony Hall, 301 Massachusetts Ave, Boston, MA. Acessible from the Symphony stop on the "E" Green Line, the Hynes Convention Center stop on the "A" "B" "C" Green Line, and Massachusetts Ave on the Orange Line. Tickets from $15-$70. Call 617-266-4048 or visit www.HandelandHaydn.org for further information. |
Sun, March 22, 2009, 3:00 pm
Boston Secession, Jane Ring Frank, Artistic Director |
Testimony of Witnesses, with guest soloists Jayne West, soprano, Pamela Dellal, mezzo-soprano, and Frank Kelley, tenor. Join us for the world premiere of Testimony of Witnesses, an oratorio based on the poetry of Holocaust victims and survivors by Boston Secession's composer-in-residence Ruth Lomon. In this extraordinary testament, scored for chorus, orchestra, and soloists, Lomon's hauntingly beautiful settings illuminate the personal experience of eighteen writers. The texts -- in seven languages -- reflect the deeply personal impact of the Holocaust, as well as the sweeping international repercussions of one of the defining events of the twentieth century. Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge. Tickets $45 to $75. Visit www.bostonsecession.org or call 617-499-4860 for more information.
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Sun, Mar 22, 8:00pm
Handel and Haydn Society,
Grant Llewellyn, Principal Conductor |
| Romantic Brahms. Join Principal Conductor Grant Llewellyn as he explores the Romantic era with Brahms' Symphony No. 1. Brahms spent 20 years perfecting this masterpiece to honor the legacy of Beethoven and Haydn. The program also features Mendelssohn's lyric Violin Concerto and a world premiere of a new choral tribute to Handel. Brahms: Symphony No. 1;
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto;
Vignieri: Fanfare of Voices; Ilya Gringolts, Violin. Symphony Hall, 301 Massachusetts Ave, Boston, MA. Acessible from the Symphony stop on the "E" Green Line, the Hynes Convention Center stop on the "A" "B" "C" Green Line, and Massachusetts Ave on the Orange Line. Tickets from $15-$70. Call 617-266-4048 or visit www.HandelandHaydn.org for further information. |
Sun, Mar 29, 5:00 pm
King's Chapel Concert Series, Heinrich Christensen, director |
| A Bach Celebration; King's Chapel Choir, Soloists, and Orchestra. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata 21, part I: Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis; Motet: Fürchte dich nicht; Mass in G Major; King's Chapel, corner of Tremont and School Sts., Boston, MA. Suggested donation $12/8 T: Park Street, Government Center, State Street Validated oncert parking at One Beacon Street garage. www.kings-chapel.org |
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