Saturday, June 1
Sarah Levy and the Ferocious Flutes
Newton Baroque: Mary Oleskiewicz and Christa Piehl Evans, flute; Andrus Madsen, harpsichord
'"Over the top" music from Sarah Levy's circle of brilliant composers, including works by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, and Johann Gottfried Graun.
7:30pm - Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St., West Newton MA
$30-10
http://NewtonBaroque.org
Newton Baroque: Mary Oleskiewicz and Christa Piehl Evans, flute; Andrus Madsen, harpsichord
'"Over the top" music from Sarah Levy's circle of brilliant composers, including works by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, and Johann Gottfried Graun.
7:30pm - Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St., West Newton MA
$30-10
http://NewtonBaroque.org
Musica Nova
Convivium Musicum (Michael Barrett, Music Director)
For over a century after the installation of Adrian Willaert as maestro di cappella at the Basilica of St. Mark in Venice in 1527, that city, and the cathedral itself, was home to musical ingenuity and boundary-pushing by composers highly regarded to this day, especially the Gabrielis and Monteverdi. Join Convivium Muscium as we explore music-making in Venice from the time of Willaert's monumental Musica Nova to the last gasps of the stile antico.
8pm - Trinity Lutheran Church, 73 Lancaster St, Worcester, MA 01609
$25 General Admission /$15 Seniors/Students/Limited Income
www.convivium.org
Convivium Musicum (Michael Barrett, Music Director)
For over a century after the installation of Adrian Willaert as maestro di cappella at the Basilica of St. Mark in Venice in 1527, that city, and the cathedral itself, was home to musical ingenuity and boundary-pushing by composers highly regarded to this day, especially the Gabrielis and Monteverdi. Join Convivium Muscium as we explore music-making in Venice from the time of Willaert's monumental Musica Nova to the last gasps of the stile antico.
8pm - Trinity Lutheran Church, 73 Lancaster St, Worcester, MA 01609
$25 General Admission /$15 Seniors/Students/Limited Income
www.convivium.org
Sunday, June 2
The Enchanted Island
St Mary Schola
The Enchanted Island features excerpts from Purcell’s masque The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, bringing to life the fate of usurping dukes tormented by fiery spirits, the commanding Prospero, the gentle spirit Ariel and the young lovers’ trials. The genius of Monteverdi’s mastery of the madrigals will feature sublime five part madrigals, later concerted madrigals and a final the toe tapping ballo: Tirsi e Clori. Join us for a special lecture (for all concert ticket holders) by Dr. Andrew R. Walkling: “The Tempest” and the Dramatick Opera in Purcell’s England
4pm - Episcopal Church of St. Mary, 43 Foreside Rd, Falmouth, ME
$20
stmaryschola.org
St Mary Schola
The Enchanted Island features excerpts from Purcell’s masque The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, bringing to life the fate of usurping dukes tormented by fiery spirits, the commanding Prospero, the gentle spirit Ariel and the young lovers’ trials. The genius of Monteverdi’s mastery of the madrigals will feature sublime five part madrigals, later concerted madrigals and a final the toe tapping ballo: Tirsi e Clori. Join us for a special lecture (for all concert ticket holders) by Dr. Andrew R. Walkling: “The Tempest” and the Dramatick Opera in Purcell’s England
4pm - Episcopal Church of St. Mary, 43 Foreside Rd, Falmouth, ME
$20
stmaryschola.org
Musica Nova
Convivium Musicum (Michael Barrett, Music Director)
For over a century after the installation of Adrian Willaert as maestro di cappella at the Basilica of St. Mark in Venice in 1527, that city, and the cathedral itself, was home to musical ingenuity and boundary-pushing by composers highly regarded to this day, especially the Gabrielis and Monteverdi. Join Convivium Muscium as we explore music-making in Venice from the time of Willaert's monumental Musica Nova to the last gasps of the stile antico.
4pm - United Parish in Brookline, 210 Harvard St, Brookline, MA 02446
$25 General Admission /$15 Seniors/Students/Limited Income
www.convivium.org
Convivium Musicum (Michael Barrett, Music Director)
For over a century after the installation of Adrian Willaert as maestro di cappella at the Basilica of St. Mark in Venice in 1527, that city, and the cathedral itself, was home to musical ingenuity and boundary-pushing by composers highly regarded to this day, especially the Gabrielis and Monteverdi. Join Convivium Muscium as we explore music-making in Venice from the time of Willaert's monumental Musica Nova to the last gasps of the stile antico.
4pm - United Parish in Brookline, 210 Harvard St, Brookline, MA 02446
$25 General Admission /$15 Seniors/Students/Limited Income
www.convivium.org
Tuesday, June 4
The Enchanted Island
St Mary Schola
The Enchanted Island features excerpts from Purcell’s masque The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, bringing to life the fate of usurping dukes tormented by fiery spirits, the commanding Prospero, the gentle spirit Ariel and the young lovers’ trials. The genius of Monteverdi’s mastery of the madrigals will feature sublime five part madrigals, later concerted madrigals and a final the toe tapping ballo: Tirsi e Clori. Join us for a special lecture (for all concert ticket holders) by Dr. Andrew R. Walkling: “The Tempest” and the Dramatick Opera in Purcell’s England
7:30pm - Sacred Heart Church, 326 Main St, Yarmouth, ME
$20
stmaryschola.org
St Mary Schola
The Enchanted Island features excerpts from Purcell’s masque The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, bringing to life the fate of usurping dukes tormented by fiery spirits, the commanding Prospero, the gentle spirit Ariel and the young lovers’ trials. The genius of Monteverdi’s mastery of the madrigals will feature sublime five part madrigals, later concerted madrigals and a final the toe tapping ballo: Tirsi e Clori. Join us for a special lecture (for all concert ticket holders) by Dr. Andrew R. Walkling: “The Tempest” and the Dramatick Opera in Purcell’s England
7:30pm - Sacred Heart Church, 326 Main St, Yarmouth, ME
$20
stmaryschola.org
June 9-16
Boston Early Music Festival
Amanda Forsythe, Aaron Sheehan, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Luca Guglielmi, Vittorio Ghielmi, Stefan Temmingh, Vox Luminis, ACRONYM Ensemble, Sequentia, The Boston Camerata, Stile Antico, Ensemble Clement Janequin, Doulce Memoire, Solamente Naturali, and many more
Immerse yourself in North America’s premier celebration of Early Music, with eight days of award-winning opera, celebrated concerts, the world-famous Exhibition, and more! Our 20th biennial Festival, featuring the theme of “Dreams & Madness,” brings the world of Early Music together in Boston for a week-long celebration. With a fully staged centerpiece opera, chamber opera 17 main-stage concerts, plus the world-famous Exhibition, lectures, masterclasses, and more, there's music from morning to midnight!
$10-$250
http://bemf.org/2019-festival/
Fringe Concert calendar
Amanda Forsythe, Aaron Sheehan, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Luca Guglielmi, Vittorio Ghielmi, Stefan Temmingh, Vox Luminis, ACRONYM Ensemble, Sequentia, The Boston Camerata, Stile Antico, Ensemble Clement Janequin, Doulce Memoire, Solamente Naturali, and many more
Immerse yourself in North America’s premier celebration of Early Music, with eight days of award-winning opera, celebrated concerts, the world-famous Exhibition, and more! Our 20th biennial Festival, featuring the theme of “Dreams & Madness,” brings the world of Early Music together in Boston for a week-long celebration. With a fully staged centerpiece opera, chamber opera 17 main-stage concerts, plus the world-famous Exhibition, lectures, masterclasses, and more, there's music from morning to midnight!
$10-$250
http://bemf.org/2019-festival/
Fringe Concert calendar
Sunday, June 9
Agostino Steffani's Orlando
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors; Gilbert Blin, Stage Director; starring Aaron Sheehan as Orlando and Amanda Forsythe as Angelica
Journey to a fantastical world of wizards and dragons in the fully staged North American premiere of Agostino Steffani's 1691 opera Orlando generoso. With enchanted castles, a luxurious foreign court, and winged beasts taking to the skies, this vivid entertainment comes alive to Boston audience with gorgeous, period inspired costumes, brilliant sets, and breathtaking flying machines.
3:30pm - Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
$30 - $250
http://bemf.org/2019-festival/festival-operas/centerpiece-opera/
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors; Gilbert Blin, Stage Director; starring Aaron Sheehan as Orlando and Amanda Forsythe as Angelica
Journey to a fantastical world of wizards and dragons in the fully staged North American premiere of Agostino Steffani's 1691 opera Orlando generoso. With enchanted castles, a luxurious foreign court, and winged beasts taking to the skies, this vivid entertainment comes alive to Boston audience with gorgeous, period inspired costumes, brilliant sets, and breathtaking flying machines.
3:30pm - Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
$30 - $250
http://bemf.org/2019-festival/festival-operas/centerpiece-opera/
Tuesday, June 11
Pilgrims’ Progress: Music of the Plimoth Colony Settlers
Seven Times Salt: Karen Burciaga, violin, treble viol, voice; Dan Meyers, recorders, flute, percussion, bagpipes, voice; Josh Schreiber Shalem, bass viol, voice; Matthew Wright, lute, voice; with Barbara Allen Hill, soprano, percussion
Our BEMF Fringe concert follows the Plimoth colonists from their homes in turbulent 1590s England to religious refuge in the Netherlands on onward to a challenging life on the shores of New England. The Plimoth settlers, or “Pilgrims” as they were later called, were a highly diverse group of Separatists and Anglicans, religious zealots and irreverent opportunists. They brought with them music experiences as varied as their reasons for coming to the New World, and the Plimoth Colony heard not just solemn English psalms, but also catches, ballads, part-songs, and dance tunes, to which we add music of the English court and fictional “diary entries" read in original pronunciation. Music of Morley and Ravenscroft, selections from the Dutch ‘t Uitnement Kabinet, Sternhold & Hopkins’ Whole Booke of Psalmes, and John Playford’s English Dancing Master.
12pm - Hunnewell Chapel at Arlington Street Church, 351 Boylston St. Boston, MA
$10 suggested donation
seventimessalt.com
Seven Times Salt: Karen Burciaga, violin, treble viol, voice; Dan Meyers, recorders, flute, percussion, bagpipes, voice; Josh Schreiber Shalem, bass viol, voice; Matthew Wright, lute, voice; with Barbara Allen Hill, soprano, percussion
Our BEMF Fringe concert follows the Plimoth colonists from their homes in turbulent 1590s England to religious refuge in the Netherlands on onward to a challenging life on the shores of New England. The Plimoth settlers, or “Pilgrims” as they were later called, were a highly diverse group of Separatists and Anglicans, religious zealots and irreverent opportunists. They brought with them music experiences as varied as their reasons for coming to the New World, and the Plimoth Colony heard not just solemn English psalms, but also catches, ballads, part-songs, and dance tunes, to which we add music of the English court and fictional “diary entries" read in original pronunciation. Music of Morley and Ravenscroft, selections from the Dutch ‘t Uitnement Kabinet, Sternhold & Hopkins’ Whole Booke of Psalmes, and John Playford’s English Dancing Master.
12pm - Hunnewell Chapel at Arlington Street Church, 351 Boylston St. Boston, MA
$10 suggested donation
seventimessalt.com
Tuesday Recitals at Kings' Chapel
Quilisma Consort, voices and recorders
Music of Johannes Ciconia & Josquin Desprez. Recitals last about 35 minutes.
12:15pm - King's Chapel, 58 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
Suggested donation $5 given to the performers
617/277-2155 www.kings-chapel.org/tuesday-recitals.html
Quilisma Consort, voices and recorders
Music of Johannes Ciconia & Josquin Desprez. Recitals last about 35 minutes.
12:15pm - King's Chapel, 58 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
Suggested donation $5 given to the performers
617/277-2155 www.kings-chapel.org/tuesday-recitals.html
A Tour of Italy (BEMF Fringe)
L’Esprit Baroque performs cantatas and instrumental chamber music from across Italy! Bertali, Bononcini, Cesti, Carissimi, Scarlatti, Uccellini, Vivaldi, and more.
1pm - First Lutheran Church of Boston, 299 Berkeley Street, Boston, MA 02116
Suggested donation $20, none turned away
https://lespritbaroque.com/upcoming-concerts/june-2019-boston-early-music-festival-fringe/
L’Esprit Baroque performs cantatas and instrumental chamber music from across Italy! Bertali, Bononcini, Cesti, Carissimi, Scarlatti, Uccellini, Vivaldi, and more.
1pm - First Lutheran Church of Boston, 299 Berkeley Street, Boston, MA 02116
Suggested donation $20, none turned away
https://lespritbaroque.com/upcoming-concerts/june-2019-boston-early-music-festival-fringe/
Wednesday, June 12
Agostino Steffani's Orlando
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors; Gilbert Blin, Stage Director; starring Aaron Sheehan as Orlando and Amanda Forsythe as Angelica
Journey to a fantastical world of wizards and dragons in the fully staged North American premiere of Agostino Steffani's 1691 opera Orlando generoso. With enchanted castles, a luxurious foreign court, and winged beasts taking to the skies, this vivid entertainment comes alive to Boston audience with gorgeous, period inspired costumes, brilliant sets, and breathtaking flying machines.
7pm - Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
$30 - $250
http://bemf.org/2019-festival/festival-operas/centerpiece-opera/
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors; Gilbert Blin, Stage Director; starring Aaron Sheehan as Orlando and Amanda Forsythe as Angelica
Journey to a fantastical world of wizards and dragons in the fully staged North American premiere of Agostino Steffani's 1691 opera Orlando generoso. With enchanted castles, a luxurious foreign court, and winged beasts taking to the skies, this vivid entertainment comes alive to Boston audience with gorgeous, period inspired costumes, brilliant sets, and breathtaking flying machines.
7pm - Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
$30 - $250
http://bemf.org/2019-festival/festival-operas/centerpiece-opera/
Thursday, June 13
Un Concerto per Barberini
In Stile Moderno: Agnes Coakley Cox, soprano; Nathaniel Cox, cornetto and theorbo; Ben Katz, harpsichord
In the 1620s, Francesco Barberini was one of the most powerful men in Rome. At the age of 26 he was made a cardinal by his uncle, Pope Urban VIII, and he used his money and influence to become one of the leading art patrons of his day. Among the many artists in his employ were the harpsichordist Girolamo Frescobaldi and the theorbist Hieronymus Kapsberger. These two virtuosi were considered the leading performers on their respective instruments and were both skilled and innovative composers. In addition to solo music for harpsichord and theorbo, this program features instrumental canzone, sacred motets, and secular monody. In Stile Moderno is pleased to appear on the Boston Early Music Festival Fringe and proud to be part of Boston's thriving early music scene! Welcome, friends old and new!
2pm - Moseley Hall at the Church of the Advent, 30 Brimmer Street, Boston MA 02108
Suggested donation $20/$10
instilemoderno.com
In Stile Moderno: Agnes Coakley Cox, soprano; Nathaniel Cox, cornetto and theorbo; Ben Katz, harpsichord
In the 1620s, Francesco Barberini was one of the most powerful men in Rome. At the age of 26 he was made a cardinal by his uncle, Pope Urban VIII, and he used his money and influence to become one of the leading art patrons of his day. Among the many artists in his employ were the harpsichordist Girolamo Frescobaldi and the theorbist Hieronymus Kapsberger. These two virtuosi were considered the leading performers on their respective instruments and were both skilled and innovative composers. In addition to solo music for harpsichord and theorbo, this program features instrumental canzone, sacred motets, and secular monody. In Stile Moderno is pleased to appear on the Boston Early Music Festival Fringe and proud to be part of Boston's thriving early music scene! Welcome, friends old and new!
2pm - Moseley Hall at the Church of the Advent, 30 Brimmer Street, Boston MA 02108
Suggested donation $20/$10
instilemoderno.com
Arie delle donne: Barbara Strozzi & Maria Teresa Agnesi
Daniela Tošić & Cassandra Extavour, voice; Laura Gulley & Guan-Ting Ku, violin; Jane Starkman, viola; Motomi Igarashi, bass;
Fernando Cardoso, keyboards; Laury Gutiérrez, viola da gamba
We are celebrating the 400th birthday of Venetian composer Barbara Strozzi, with her dazzling secular and sacred arias, and anticipating the 300th birthday in 2020 of Milanese composer Maria Teresa Agnesi. Her virtuosic pastoral arias as well as arias of unrequited love are full of vitality, intense emotional mannerisms and expression, stemming from her skillful use of harmony and sometimes unusual use of the semitone. These 17th- and 18th-century Italian arias are delightfully memorable, dramatically moving, and elegantly virtuosic, all interspersed with striking instrumental music. La Donna Musicale is a non-profit research, education, and performance organization devoted to the discovery, preservation, and promotion of sacred and secular music by women composers. Combining stirring performances with groundbreaking scholarship, the internationally acclaimed and award-winning ensemble ensemble uses period instruments and historically-informed performance practice to showcase the work of women composers from the Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical periods, as well as contemporary works. Based in Boston, MA,
La Donna Musicale performs throughout the U.S. and internationally.
3pm - Old South Church, Gordon Chapel, 645 Boylston St, Boston MA 02116
$5-$35
www.ladm.org
Daniela Tošić & Cassandra Extavour, voice; Laura Gulley & Guan-Ting Ku, violin; Jane Starkman, viola; Motomi Igarashi, bass;
Fernando Cardoso, keyboards; Laury Gutiérrez, viola da gamba
We are celebrating the 400th birthday of Venetian composer Barbara Strozzi, with her dazzling secular and sacred arias, and anticipating the 300th birthday in 2020 of Milanese composer Maria Teresa Agnesi. Her virtuosic pastoral arias as well as arias of unrequited love are full of vitality, intense emotional mannerisms and expression, stemming from her skillful use of harmony and sometimes unusual use of the semitone. These 17th- and 18th-century Italian arias are delightfully memorable, dramatically moving, and elegantly virtuosic, all interspersed with striking instrumental music. La Donna Musicale is a non-profit research, education, and performance organization devoted to the discovery, preservation, and promotion of sacred and secular music by women composers. Combining stirring performances with groundbreaking scholarship, the internationally acclaimed and award-winning ensemble ensemble uses period instruments and historically-informed performance practice to showcase the work of women composers from the Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical periods, as well as contemporary works. Based in Boston, MA,
La Donna Musicale performs throughout the U.S. and internationally.
3pm - Old South Church, Gordon Chapel, 645 Boylston St, Boston MA 02116
$5-$35
www.ladm.org
Friday, June 14
ARS Recorder Relay Recitals (BEMF Fringe)
The 20-minute vignette recitals feature soloists, chamber ensembles, and Boston's own recorder orchestra performing music from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. Performers include Aldo Abreu, Steven Lundahl, Sarah Cantor, John Tyson, Emily O'Brien, Sheila Beardslee, Teresa Deskur, Beth Hilgartner, Mathilde Sundaram, and Eric Haas. Following the Relay Recitals, ARS hosts an Award Ceremony and Reception for Distinguished Achievement Award winner Tom Prescott and Presidential Special Honor Award winner Eric Haas.
10am - Chipman Hall, 88 Tremont Street, 6th Floor, Boston MA
FREE
844-509-1422 or americanrecorder.org
The 20-minute vignette recitals feature soloists, chamber ensembles, and Boston's own recorder orchestra performing music from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. Performers include Aldo Abreu, Steven Lundahl, Sarah Cantor, John Tyson, Emily O'Brien, Sheila Beardslee, Teresa Deskur, Beth Hilgartner, Mathilde Sundaram, and Eric Haas. Following the Relay Recitals, ARS hosts an Award Ceremony and Reception for Distinguished Achievement Award winner Tom Prescott and Presidential Special Honor Award winner Eric Haas.
10am - Chipman Hall, 88 Tremont Street, 6th Floor, Boston MA
FREE
844-509-1422 or americanrecorder.org
Gamba Gamut (BEMF Fringe Event)
Join us for a showcase of short performances featuring the viola da gamba by performers from across the nation, sponsored by the Viola da Gamba Society of America. This is an "open house" event - please feel free to drop in at any time during the Gamut!
Gordon Chapel at Old South Church, 645 Boylston St. Boston, MA
$10 suggested donation
11:30am Long & Away: Karen Burciaga, Hannah Davidson, Carol Lewis, Jane Hershey, Zarina Irkaeva, viols; Olav Chris Henriksen, lute; Elise Groves, Hilary Anne Walker, Michael Barrett, Stephan Griffin, voices
Cleare or Cloudie: Music of Dowland for Voices, Viols and Lute Masterful consorts from Lachrimae, songs from his last published work A Pilgrimes Solace, and upbeat, dance-inspired tunes to celebrate summer.
12:10pm The Harper and the Minstrel: Jay and Abby Michaels
A program featuring tenor viol with flute, recorder, hammered dulcimer and voice including Riu Riu Chiu, Cantiga 353, Torch Bransle, Staines Morris, La Montovana and more.
12:50pm Viola da Gamba Dojo with Sarah Pillow, soprano
Madrigals by Verdelot, Cipriano da Rore, and Monteverdi. The madrigals set texts from great epic poems of of Tasso and Ariosto, the most famous renditions of the tales of the great knight, Orlando, the hero of Steffani’s opera staged at BEMF this week.
1:30pm Lyracle: Ashley Mulcahy, mezzo-soprano and James Perretta, viola da gamba
Voice and Viol: History's Forgotten Dynamic Duo Dynamic 17th-century works for voice and viol by Caccini, Hume, and Jones.
2:10pm Aquila di Guerra (Pedro Funes, director)
Past and Present This consort from Oak Ridge High School (TX) performs music spanning the 16th-20th centuries including madrigals, dances, improvisations on la Folia, Elgar's "Nimrod" and even a Disney soundtrack!
2:50pm Arnie Tanimoto, viola da gamba
Music of the most beloved viola da gamba virtuoso of the 18th century: Marin Marais. Marais spent his entire career at Versailles working under Louis XIV; there he published his five monumental volumes of viola da gamba suites.
Join us for a showcase of short performances featuring the viola da gamba by performers from across the nation, sponsored by the Viola da Gamba Society of America. This is an "open house" event - please feel free to drop in at any time during the Gamut!
Gordon Chapel at Old South Church, 645 Boylston St. Boston, MA
$10 suggested donation
11:30am Long & Away: Karen Burciaga, Hannah Davidson, Carol Lewis, Jane Hershey, Zarina Irkaeva, viols; Olav Chris Henriksen, lute; Elise Groves, Hilary Anne Walker, Michael Barrett, Stephan Griffin, voices
Cleare or Cloudie: Music of Dowland for Voices, Viols and Lute Masterful consorts from Lachrimae, songs from his last published work A Pilgrimes Solace, and upbeat, dance-inspired tunes to celebrate summer.
12:10pm The Harper and the Minstrel: Jay and Abby Michaels
A program featuring tenor viol with flute, recorder, hammered dulcimer and voice including Riu Riu Chiu, Cantiga 353, Torch Bransle, Staines Morris, La Montovana and more.
12:50pm Viola da Gamba Dojo with Sarah Pillow, soprano
Madrigals by Verdelot, Cipriano da Rore, and Monteverdi. The madrigals set texts from great epic poems of of Tasso and Ariosto, the most famous renditions of the tales of the great knight, Orlando, the hero of Steffani’s opera staged at BEMF this week.
1:30pm Lyracle: Ashley Mulcahy, mezzo-soprano and James Perretta, viola da gamba
Voice and Viol: History's Forgotten Dynamic Duo Dynamic 17th-century works for voice and viol by Caccini, Hume, and Jones.
2:10pm Aquila di Guerra (Pedro Funes, director)
Past and Present This consort from Oak Ridge High School (TX) performs music spanning the 16th-20th centuries including madrigals, dances, improvisations on la Folia, Elgar's "Nimrod" and even a Disney soundtrack!
2:50pm Arnie Tanimoto, viola da gamba
Music of the most beloved viola da gamba virtuoso of the 18th century: Marin Marais. Marais spent his entire career at Versailles working under Louis XIV; there he published his five monumental volumes of viola da gamba suites.
Agostino Steffani's Orlando
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors; Gilbert Blin, Stage Director; starring Aaron Sheehan as Orlando and Amanda Forsythe as Angelica
Journey to a fantastical world of wizards and dragons in the fully staged North American premiere of Agostino Steffani's 1691 opera Orlando generoso. With enchanted castles, a luxurious foreign court, and winged beasts taking to the skies, this vivid entertainment comes alive to Boston audience with gorgeous, period inspired costumes, brilliant sets, and breathtaking flying machines.
7pm - Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
$30 - $250
http://bemf.org/2019-festival/festival-operas/centerpiece-opera/
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors; Gilbert Blin, Stage Director; starring Aaron Sheehan as Orlando and Amanda Forsythe as Angelica
Journey to a fantastical world of wizards and dragons in the fully staged North American premiere of Agostino Steffani's 1691 opera Orlando generoso. With enchanted castles, a luxurious foreign court, and winged beasts taking to the skies, this vivid entertainment comes alive to Boston audience with gorgeous, period inspired costumes, brilliant sets, and breathtaking flying machines.
7pm - Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
$30 - $250
http://bemf.org/2019-festival/festival-operas/centerpiece-opera/
Saturday, June 15
Flights of Fancy
Circa Harmonie: Alison Gangler, Ellen Exner, oboe; Diane Heffner, Richard Shaughnessy, clarinet; John Aubrey, Elisabeth Axtell, horn; Sally Merriman, Marilyn Boenau, bassoon
This Boston Early Music Festival Fringe Concert presents a fanciful program of period opera arrangements and wind octet music of Mozart, Sacchini, Wranitsky, and others. Explore the rich history and repertoire of Harmonie music from the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
12pm - Cambridge Friends Meeting House, 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge, MA
$20 suggested donation
https://bemf.org/2019-festival/fringe-concerts/
Circa Harmonie: Alison Gangler, Ellen Exner, oboe; Diane Heffner, Richard Shaughnessy, clarinet; John Aubrey, Elisabeth Axtell, horn; Sally Merriman, Marilyn Boenau, bassoon
This Boston Early Music Festival Fringe Concert presents a fanciful program of period opera arrangements and wind octet music of Mozart, Sacchini, Wranitsky, and others. Explore the rich history and repertoire of Harmonie music from the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
12pm - Cambridge Friends Meeting House, 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge, MA
$20 suggested donation
https://bemf.org/2019-festival/fringe-concerts/
Peter Sykes Plays Bach, Couperin and Byrd
Peter Sykes, organ
The Cambridge Society for Early Music will present a free one hour noon concert performed by Peter Sykes, harpsichord, celebrating Art, Life, and Nature. The program honors the memory of John Lewis and includes J.S. Bach, Prelude, Fugue & Allegro, BWV 998, and music that evokes Nature, by François Couperin and William Byrd. Flemish double harpsichord by William Dowd. Reception follows. Read about Peter Sykes at https://www.firstchurchcambridge.org/people/79.
12pm - Margaret Jewett Hall, First Church Congregational in Cambridge, 11 Garden St., Cambridge, MA
Free
www.csem.org
Peter Sykes, organ
The Cambridge Society for Early Music will present a free one hour noon concert performed by Peter Sykes, harpsichord, celebrating Art, Life, and Nature. The program honors the memory of John Lewis and includes J.S. Bach, Prelude, Fugue & Allegro, BWV 998, and music that evokes Nature, by François Couperin and William Byrd. Flemish double harpsichord by William Dowd. Reception follows. Read about Peter Sykes at https://www.firstchurchcambridge.org/people/79.
12pm - Margaret Jewett Hall, First Church Congregational in Cambridge, 11 Garden St., Cambridge, MA
Free
www.csem.org
Fandangos, Joropos, and other Folias: from Old Iberia and the New World
Rumbarroco: Daniela Tosic & Cassandra Extavour, voice; Lisa Brooke, violin; Eduardo Bentacourt, harp; Maurizio Fiori, cuatro; William Good, theorbo; Kera Washington, percussion; Kirsten Lamb, bass; Fernando Cardoso, harpsichord; Laury Gutiérrez, viola da gamba
This program features Ibero-American dances and song-dances, including folias, jácaras, and fandangos, from the Renaissance to the present. The music spans from the early "Spanish Cancioneros" (songbooks) in old Iberia to contemporary folk and popular music from Venezuela and Mexico. Included are dances such as "joropo" from Venezuela and Colombia and "fandanguito" from Mexico. Performers will switch from the European viola da gamba and Renaissance guitar to the Venezuelan "cuatro" and harp, in order to illustrate the similar yet distinctively different sonorities and rhythmic and harmonic connections between the two continents. Music by Anonymous, Ortiz, Soler, Murcia, Machado, Castellanos, and others.
4:30pm - Old South Church, Gordon Chapel, 645 Boylston St, Boston MA 02116
5$-35$
www.rumbarroco.org
Rumbarroco: Daniela Tosic & Cassandra Extavour, voice; Lisa Brooke, violin; Eduardo Bentacourt, harp; Maurizio Fiori, cuatro; William Good, theorbo; Kera Washington, percussion; Kirsten Lamb, bass; Fernando Cardoso, harpsichord; Laury Gutiérrez, viola da gamba
This program features Ibero-American dances and song-dances, including folias, jácaras, and fandangos, from the Renaissance to the present. The music spans from the early "Spanish Cancioneros" (songbooks) in old Iberia to contemporary folk and popular music from Venezuela and Mexico. Included are dances such as "joropo" from Venezuela and Colombia and "fandanguito" from Mexico. Performers will switch from the European viola da gamba and Renaissance guitar to the Venezuelan "cuatro" and harp, in order to illustrate the similar yet distinctively different sonorities and rhythmic and harmonic connections between the two continents. Music by Anonymous, Ortiz, Soler, Murcia, Machado, Castellanos, and others.
4:30pm - Old South Church, Gordon Chapel, 645 Boylston St, Boston MA 02116
5$-35$
www.rumbarroco.org
Versailles: Portrait of a Royal Domain
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors; Gilbert Blin, Stage Director; the BEMF Vocal & Chamber Ensembles, and the BEMF Dance Company
Experience a musical feast inspired by the splendor and majesty of Versailles at the height of Louis XIV's reign! The BEMF Chamber Opera Series returns with an encore performance of our November 2016 production featuring two chamber operas - Charpentier's Les Plaisirs de Versailles and Lalande's Les Fontaines de Versailles - exalting the palace and its gardens, alongside divertissements from Lully's Atys.
8pm - Jordan Hall at New England Conservatory, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, MA
$25 - $105
http://bemf.org/2019-festival/chamber-opera/
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors; Gilbert Blin, Stage Director; the BEMF Vocal & Chamber Ensembles, and the BEMF Dance Company
Experience a musical feast inspired by the splendor and majesty of Versailles at the height of Louis XIV's reign! The BEMF Chamber Opera Series returns with an encore performance of our November 2016 production featuring two chamber operas - Charpentier's Les Plaisirs de Versailles and Lalande's Les Fontaines de Versailles - exalting the palace and its gardens, alongside divertissements from Lully's Atys.
8pm - Jordan Hall at New England Conservatory, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, MA
$25 - $105
http://bemf.org/2019-festival/chamber-opera/
Sunday, June 16
Agostino Steffani's Orlando
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors; Gilbert Blin, Stage Director; starring Aaron Sheehan as Orlando and Amanda Forsythe as Angelica
Journey to a fantastical world of wizards and dragons in the fully staged North American premiere of Agostino Steffani's 1691 opera Orlando generoso. With enchanted castles, a luxurious foreign court, and winged beasts taking to the skies, this vivid entertainment comes alive to Boston audience with gorgeous, period inspired costumes, brilliant sets, and breathtaking flying machines.
3:30pm - Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
$30 - $250
http://bemf.org/2019-festival/festival-operas/centerpiece-opera/
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors; Gilbert Blin, Stage Director; starring Aaron Sheehan as Orlando and Amanda Forsythe as Angelica
Journey to a fantastical world of wizards and dragons in the fully staged North American premiere of Agostino Steffani's 1691 opera Orlando generoso. With enchanted castles, a luxurious foreign court, and winged beasts taking to the skies, this vivid entertainment comes alive to Boston audience with gorgeous, period inspired costumes, brilliant sets, and breathtaking flying machines.
3:30pm - Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
$30 - $250
http://bemf.org/2019-festival/festival-operas/centerpiece-opera/
Tuesday, June 18
Tuesday Recitals at Kings' Chapel
Xuan He plays the C.B. Fisk Organ
Works by Bach & others
12:15pm - King's Chapel, 58 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
Suggested donation $5 given to the performers
617/277-2155 www.kings-chapel.org/tuesday-recitals.html
Xuan He plays the C.B. Fisk Organ
Works by Bach & others
12:15pm - King's Chapel, 58 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
Suggested donation $5 given to the performers
617/277-2155 www.kings-chapel.org/tuesday-recitals.html
Tea-Time Recital at Trinity (Concord)
enChanted (women's vocal ensemble)
Sacred & secular medieval works from the 11th-15th centuries by Hildegard von Bingen and Landini, anonymous works from Italy, Portugal and Spain, and England's Worcester Cathedral. enChanted will also sing a contemporary piece by Cambridge-based composer Patricia Van Ness. Refreshments and conversation follow this program.
4pm - Trinity Episcopal Church, 81 Elm Street in Concord MA
FREE. Donations welcomed
978-369-3715 http://trinityconcord.org/tuesday-teatime-recitals/
enChanted (women's vocal ensemble)
Sacred & secular medieval works from the 11th-15th centuries by Hildegard von Bingen and Landini, anonymous works from Italy, Portugal and Spain, and England's Worcester Cathedral. enChanted will also sing a contemporary piece by Cambridge-based composer Patricia Van Ness. Refreshments and conversation follow this program.
4pm - Trinity Episcopal Church, 81 Elm Street in Concord MA
FREE. Donations welcomed
978-369-3715 http://trinityconcord.org/tuesday-teatime-recitals/
Friday, June 21
Versailles: Portrait of a Royal Domain
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors; Gilbert Blin, Stage Director; the BEMF Vocal & Chamber Ensembles, and the BEMF Dance Company
Experience a musical feast inspired by the splendor and majesty of Versailles at the height of Louis XIV's reign! The BEMF Chamber Opera Series returns with an encore performance of our November 2016 production featuring two chamber operas - Charpentier's Les Plaisirs de Versailles and Lalande's Les Fontaines de Versailles - exalting the palace and its gardens, alongside divertissements from Lully's Atys.
8pm - Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA
$25-$85
http://bemf.org/2019-festival/chamber-opera/
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors; Gilbert Blin, Stage Director; the BEMF Vocal & Chamber Ensembles, and the BEMF Dance Company
Experience a musical feast inspired by the splendor and majesty of Versailles at the height of Louis XIV's reign! The BEMF Chamber Opera Series returns with an encore performance of our November 2016 production featuring two chamber operas - Charpentier's Les Plaisirs de Versailles and Lalande's Les Fontaines de Versailles - exalting the palace and its gardens, alongside divertissements from Lully's Atys.
8pm - Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA
$25-$85
http://bemf.org/2019-festival/chamber-opera/
Saturday, June 22
Versailles: Portrait of a Royal Domain
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors; Gilbert Blin, Stage Director; the BEMF Vocal & Chamber Ensembles, and the BEMF Dance Company
Experience a musical feast inspired by the splendor and majesty of Versailles at the height of Louis XIV's reign! The BEMF Chamber Opera Series returns with an encore performance of our November 2016 production featuring two chamber operas - Charpentier's Les Plaisirs de Versailles and Lalande's Les Fontaines de Versailles - exalting the palace and its gardens, alongside divertissements from Lully's Atys.
3pm - Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA
$25-$85
http://bemf.org/2019-festival/chamber-opera/
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors; Gilbert Blin, Stage Director; the BEMF Vocal & Chamber Ensembles, and the BEMF Dance Company
Experience a musical feast inspired by the splendor and majesty of Versailles at the height of Louis XIV's reign! The BEMF Chamber Opera Series returns with an encore performance of our November 2016 production featuring two chamber operas - Charpentier's Les Plaisirs de Versailles and Lalande's Les Fontaines de Versailles - exalting the palace and its gardens, alongside divertissements from Lully's Atys.
3pm - Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA
$25-$85
http://bemf.org/2019-festival/chamber-opera/
Tuesday, June 25
Tuesday Recitals at Kings' Chapel
Fairfield County Children’s Choir (Jon Noyes, director)
Biebl, Vivaldi, and much more
12:15pm - King's Chapel, 58 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
Suggested donation $5 given to the performers
617/277-2155 www.kings-chapel.org/tuesday-recitals.html
Fairfield County Children’s Choir (Jon Noyes, director)
Biebl, Vivaldi, and much more
12:15pm - King's Chapel, 58 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
Suggested donation $5 given to the performers
617/277-2155 www.kings-chapel.org/tuesday-recitals.html
SoHIP 2019: In Their Own Words
Serafina: Kate Lucander, Amy Miner, Stephanie Weil and Katie Sucha, voices; Aaron Tan, organ
In this program, we hear from early female composers such as Hildegard von Bingen, Sulpitia Cesis, and Caterina Assandra writing about women. It includes philosophical meditations on the divine nature of women. It includes the praise of feminine beauty and the complexity of love. The music is interspersed with brief readings taken from letters, diaries, and scholarly writings by the composers and their contemporaries.
8pm - St. Anne's in-the-Fields, 147 Concord Road, Lincoln, MA
$20-25
https://sohipboston.squarespace.com/2019-season
Serafina: Kate Lucander, Amy Miner, Stephanie Weil and Katie Sucha, voices; Aaron Tan, organ
In this program, we hear from early female composers such as Hildegard von Bingen, Sulpitia Cesis, and Caterina Assandra writing about women. It includes philosophical meditations on the divine nature of women. It includes the praise of feminine beauty and the complexity of love. The music is interspersed with brief readings taken from letters, diaries, and scholarly writings by the composers and their contemporaries.
8pm - St. Anne's in-the-Fields, 147 Concord Road, Lincoln, MA
$20-25
https://sohipboston.squarespace.com/2019-season
Wednesday, June 26
SoHIP 2019: In Their Own Words
Serafina: Kate Lucander, Amy Miner, Stephanie Weil and Katie Sucha, voices; Aaron Tan, organ
In this program, we hear from early female composers such as Hildegard von Bingen, Sulpitia Cesis, and Caterina Assandra writing about women. It includes philosophical meditations on the divine nature of women. It includes the praise of feminine beauty and the complexity of love. The music is interspersed with brief readings taken from letters, diaries, and scholarly writings by the composers and their contemporaries.
8pm - Chapel at West Parish, 210 Lowell Street, Andover, MA
$20-25
https://sohipboston.squarespace.com/2019-season
Serafina: Kate Lucander, Amy Miner, Stephanie Weil and Katie Sucha, voices; Aaron Tan, organ
In this program, we hear from early female composers such as Hildegard von Bingen, Sulpitia Cesis, and Caterina Assandra writing about women. It includes philosophical meditations on the divine nature of women. It includes the praise of feminine beauty and the complexity of love. The music is interspersed with brief readings taken from letters, diaries, and scholarly writings by the composers and their contemporaries.
8pm - Chapel at West Parish, 210 Lowell Street, Andover, MA
$20-25
https://sohipboston.squarespace.com/2019-season
Thursday, June 27
Aston Magna: The Birth of the String Quartet
Daniel Stepner and Julie Leven, violins; Jason Fisher, viola; Jacques Lee Wood, cello.
Featuring the music of Castello, Caldara, Purcell, Telemann, Richter, Mozart and Haydn.
7pm - Slosberg Music Center at Brandeis University, 415 South Street Waltham, MA 02453
$40 advance/$45 day of
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Daniel Stepner and Julie Leven, violins; Jason Fisher, viola; Jacques Lee Wood, cello.
Featuring the music of Castello, Caldara, Purcell, Telemann, Richter, Mozart and Haydn.
7pm - Slosberg Music Center at Brandeis University, 415 South Street Waltham, MA 02453
$40 advance/$45 day of
Website
SoHIP 2019: In Their Own Words
Serafina: Kate Lucander, Amy Miner, Stephanie Weil and Katie Sucha, voices; Aaron Tan, organ
In this program, we hear from early female composers such as Hildegard von Bingen, Sulpitia Cesis, and Caterina Assandra writing about women. It includes philosophical meditations on the divine nature of women. It includes the praise of feminine beauty and the complexity of love. The music is interspersed with brief readings taken from letters, diaries, and scholarly writings by the composers and their contemporaries.
8pm - University Lutheran, 66 Winthrop Street, Cambridge, MA
$20-25
https://sohipboston.squarespace.com/2019-season
Serafina: Kate Lucander, Amy Miner, Stephanie Weil and Katie Sucha, voices; Aaron Tan, organ
In this program, we hear from early female composers such as Hildegard von Bingen, Sulpitia Cesis, and Caterina Assandra writing about women. It includes philosophical meditations on the divine nature of women. It includes the praise of feminine beauty and the complexity of love. The music is interspersed with brief readings taken from letters, diaries, and scholarly writings by the composers and their contemporaries.
8pm - University Lutheran, 66 Winthrop Street, Cambridge, MA
$20-25
https://sohipboston.squarespace.com/2019-season
Saturday, June 29
Winchendon Music Festival
Randall Scotting, countertenor; Andrew Arceci, viola da gamba; and WMF artists
A baroque program featuring works by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), Nicolà Porpora (1686-1768), Johann Adolph Hasse (1699-1783), and others.
7pm - Winchendon History & Cultural Center (Murdock-Whitney House), 151 Front St. Winchendon, MA 01475
FREE, with general seating.
Information or call Winchendon History & Cultural Center: 978.297.2142
Randall Scotting, countertenor; Andrew Arceci, viola da gamba; and WMF artists
A baroque program featuring works by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), Nicolà Porpora (1686-1768), Johann Adolph Hasse (1699-1783), and others.
7pm - Winchendon History & Cultural Center (Murdock-Whitney House), 151 Front St. Winchendon, MA 01475
FREE, with general seating.
Information or call Winchendon History & Cultural Center: 978.297.2142