Saturday, November 3
VdGSNE Fall Workshop - This is the Record of Orlando: Verse Anthems & Consort Songs
Music Director: Sheila Beardslee; Coaches: Sheila Beardslee, Jay Lane, Carol Lewis, Sarah Mead, Alice Robbins
This workshop will include viols, singers and recorder players in an attempt to replicate the sounds that might have been heard in a musical home of the period, for anthems accompanied by viols were probably more appropriate for home use than for cathedral or royal chapel performance. Anthems calling for alternating solo voices and full choruses were written by, among others, Byrd, East, Tomkins, and Ward, as well as Gibbons. Consort songs on secular themes allow the singer to become part of
the viol consort as the imitative music moves from part to part. The workshop is open to viol and recorder players and singers. Pitch: A=415. There will be a beginners workshop offered.
9:30 am-4:15pm including a talk, 3 classes and large group anthem session
Slosberg Music Center, Brandeis University, Waltham MA
$70 Member, $85 non-Member (includes annual dues). It is expected that attendees be members of VdGSNE.
$40 reduced fee registration available; contact Sybil Kevy thebarbate@gmail.com
Register online at: http://vdgsne.org or see http://vdgsne.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Flyer-1811.pdf
DEADLINE TO REGISTER October 16.
Music Director: Sheila Beardslee; Coaches: Sheila Beardslee, Jay Lane, Carol Lewis, Sarah Mead, Alice Robbins
This workshop will include viols, singers and recorder players in an attempt to replicate the sounds that might have been heard in a musical home of the period, for anthems accompanied by viols were probably more appropriate for home use than for cathedral or royal chapel performance. Anthems calling for alternating solo voices and full choruses were written by, among others, Byrd, East, Tomkins, and Ward, as well as Gibbons. Consort songs on secular themes allow the singer to become part of
the viol consort as the imitative music moves from part to part. The workshop is open to viol and recorder players and singers. Pitch: A=415. There will be a beginners workshop offered.
9:30 am-4:15pm including a talk, 3 classes and large group anthem session
Slosberg Music Center, Brandeis University, Waltham MA
$70 Member, $85 non-Member (includes annual dues). It is expected that attendees be members of VdGSNE.
$40 reduced fee registration available; contact Sybil Kevy thebarbate@gmail.com
Register online at: http://vdgsne.org or see http://vdgsne.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Flyer-1811.pdf
DEADLINE TO REGISTER October 16.
Participatory Shape-Note Singing
Members of the greater Boston Sacred Harp (shape-note) community and friends (that's you!)
All are welcome to sing or listen at this participatory event. Four-part a cappella early American music will be sung from the Sacred Harp and the Norumbega Harmony tunebooks. Loaner books available, lunch included.
9:30am - Parish Hall, Church of the Redeemer, 379 Hammond St., Newton, MA 02459
FREE
norumbega@warbler.neomailbox.net
Members of the greater Boston Sacred Harp (shape-note) community and friends (that's you!)
All are welcome to sing or listen at this participatory event. Four-part a cappella early American music will be sung from the Sacred Harp and the Norumbega Harmony tunebooks. Loaner books available, lunch included.
9:30am - Parish Hall, Church of the Redeemer, 379 Hammond St., Newton, MA 02459
FREE
norumbega@warbler.neomailbox.net
Bach and More: James Bagwell conducts 12 Voices A Cappella in Baroque Songs of Praise
Berkshire Bach (James Bagwell, Conductor) Sarah Abigail Griffiths, Aine Hakamatsuka, Elizabeth Smith, Donna Breitzer, Michèle Eaton, Suzanne Schwing, Nathaniel Adams, Alex Guerrero, John Kawa, Blake Burroughs, Gregory Purnhagen, John Rose
Motets and madrigals by Isaac, Schütz, Monteverdi, and others (including a rarely-heard work by Francisco Lopez-Capillas, the first native-born chapel master in the New World) foreshadow J. S. Bach's compositional techniques, gloriously manifest in a performance of the motet "Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden," BWV 230.
7:30pm - First Congregational Church, 251 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA 01230
$30-$60 | Free for children & students w/ID &
https://berkshirebach.org/?page_id=5842
Berkshire Bach (James Bagwell, Conductor) Sarah Abigail Griffiths, Aine Hakamatsuka, Elizabeth Smith, Donna Breitzer, Michèle Eaton, Suzanne Schwing, Nathaniel Adams, Alex Guerrero, John Kawa, Blake Burroughs, Gregory Purnhagen, John Rose
Motets and madrigals by Isaac, Schütz, Monteverdi, and others (including a rarely-heard work by Francisco Lopez-Capillas, the first native-born chapel master in the New World) foreshadow J. S. Bach's compositional techniques, gloriously manifest in a performance of the motet "Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden," BWV 230.
7:30pm - First Congregational Church, 251 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA 01230
$30-$60 | Free for children & students w/ID &
https://berkshirebach.org/?page_id=5842
Jefferson in Paris
Musicians of the Old Post Road
Reveals composers from the lively Parisian musical scene that Thomas Jefferson experienced while Ambassador to France. Revolutionary inspirations!
7:30pm - First Parish, 327 Concord Road, Sudbury MA
$30-35
www.oldpostroad.org
Musicians of the Old Post Road
Reveals composers from the lively Parisian musical scene that Thomas Jefferson experienced while Ambassador to France. Revolutionary inspirations!
7:30pm - First Parish, 327 Concord Road, Sudbury MA
$30-35
www.oldpostroad.org
Cantata Singers presents Bach and Harbison
Cantata Singers' 55th season opens with music by J.S. Bach and John Harbison. Bach's exquisite Cantata BWV 140—Sleepers, awake—prepares the way for the first complete performance of John Harbison's Sacred Trilogy, which Cantata Singers presents in honor of the composer's 80th birthday. The three cantatas that form his Trilogy—The Flight Into Egypt (1986), But Mary Stood (2006), and The Supper at Emmaus (co-commission with Emmanuel Music, 2014)—are all works commissioned by, and composed for, Cantata Singers, but, until now, they have never been heard together in one concert. Composer John Harbison and composer and writer Robert Kirzinger will give the pre-concert talk, free to all ticketholders, at 7pm in Williams Hall. Following the performance, all are invited to attend a free post-concert reception.
8pm - NEC Jordans Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, MA
$25-$75
http://www.cantatasingers.org/November-2018
Cantata Singers' 55th season opens with music by J.S. Bach and John Harbison. Bach's exquisite Cantata BWV 140—Sleepers, awake—prepares the way for the first complete performance of John Harbison's Sacred Trilogy, which Cantata Singers presents in honor of the composer's 80th birthday. The three cantatas that form his Trilogy—The Flight Into Egypt (1986), But Mary Stood (2006), and The Supper at Emmaus (co-commission with Emmanuel Music, 2014)—are all works commissioned by, and composed for, Cantata Singers, but, until now, they have never been heard together in one concert. Composer John Harbison and composer and writer Robert Kirzinger will give the pre-concert talk, free to all ticketholders, at 7pm in Williams Hall. Following the performance, all are invited to attend a free post-concert reception.
8pm - NEC Jordans Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, MA
$25-$75
http://www.cantatasingers.org/November-2018
Divine Encounters
The Seraphim Singers
A voice out of the whirlwind or spoken by an angel, visions of God in and beyond nature, God incarnate and transfigured -- composers Christina Whitten Thomas, Vaughan Williams, Schumann, Ferko, Schein, Victoria and more explore the drama and mystery of encounters with the divine in the Bible and beyond.
8pm - Eliot Church of Newton, 474 Centre St., Newton, MA
$25
http://www.seraphimsingers.org
The Seraphim Singers
A voice out of the whirlwind or spoken by an angel, visions of God in and beyond nature, God incarnate and transfigured -- composers Christina Whitten Thomas, Vaughan Williams, Schumann, Ferko, Schein, Victoria and more explore the drama and mystery of encounters with the divine in the Bible and beyond.
8pm - Eliot Church of Newton, 474 Centre St., Newton, MA
$25
http://www.seraphimsingers.org
Sunday, November 4
Jefferson in Paris
Musicians of the Old Post Road
Reveals composers from the lively Parisian musical scene that Thomas Jefferson experienced while Ambassador to France. Revolutionary inspirations!
3pm - Old south Church, 645 Boylston Street, Boston MA
$30-35
www.oldpostroad.org
Musicians of the Old Post Road
Reveals composers from the lively Parisian musical scene that Thomas Jefferson experienced while Ambassador to France. Revolutionary inspirations!
3pm - Old south Church, 645 Boylston Street, Boston MA
$30-35
www.oldpostroad.org
Divine Encounters
The Seraphim Singers
A voice out of the whirlwind or spoken by an angel, visions of God in and beyond nature, God incarnate and transfigured -- composers Christina Whitten Thomas, Vaughan Williams, Schumann, Ferko, Schein, Victoria and more explore the drama and mystery of encounters with the divine in the Bible and beyond.
3pm - First Church of Cambridge, 11 Garden St. Cambridge MA
$25
http://www.seraphimsingers.org
The Seraphim Singers
A voice out of the whirlwind or spoken by an angel, visions of God in and beyond nature, God incarnate and transfigured -- composers Christina Whitten Thomas, Vaughan Williams, Schumann, Ferko, Schein, Victoria and more explore the drama and mystery of encounters with the divine in the Bible and beyond.
3pm - First Church of Cambridge, 11 Garden St. Cambridge MA
$25
http://www.seraphimsingers.org
Monday, November 5
Pilgrims’ Progress: Music of the Plimoth Colony Settlers
Seven Times Salt: Karen Burciaga, violin, guitar, voice; Dan Meyers, recorders, flute, percussion, bagpipes, voice; Josh Schreiber Shalem, bass viol, voice; Matthew Wright, lute, voice; with Agnes Coakley Cox, Barbara Allen Hill, Shelley Otis, Letitia Stevens, voices & percussion
Join us for a Bonfire Night concert! The Plimoth colonists, or “Pilgrims” as they were later called, were a 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, and dance tunes, to which we add instrumental music of the English court and countryside. We'll mark Guy Fawkes Night and celebrate our brand-new CD with music of Morley, Peerson and Ravenscroft, autumnal tunes for harvest time, plus a ballad about the ill-fated Gunpowder Plot.
7:30pm - Church of the Good Shepherd, 9 Russell Ave. Watertown, MA
$20 suggested donation
www.seventimessalt.com
Seven Times Salt: Karen Burciaga, violin, guitar, voice; Dan Meyers, recorders, flute, percussion, bagpipes, voice; Josh Schreiber Shalem, bass viol, voice; Matthew Wright, lute, voice; with Agnes Coakley Cox, Barbara Allen Hill, Shelley Otis, Letitia Stevens, voices & percussion
Join us for a Bonfire Night concert! The Plimoth colonists, or “Pilgrims” as they were later called, were a 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, and dance tunes, to which we add instrumental music of the English court and countryside. We'll mark Guy Fawkes Night and celebrate our brand-new CD with music of Morley, Peerson and Ravenscroft, autumnal tunes for harvest time, plus a ballad about the ill-fated Gunpowder Plot.
7:30pm - Church of the Good Shepherd, 9 Russell Ave. Watertown, MA
$20 suggested donation
www.seventimessalt.com
Saturday, November 10
“The Sound of the Trumpet” Celebrating Life in England and New England
The Crescendo Chorus and Vocal Ensemble will be joined by soloists including internationally- renowned countertenor Nicholas Tamagna, period brass, strings, basso continuo and organ. Christine Gevert conducts. This program features two “Requiems” and two “Jubilates” of different eras. From the 17th century: Henry Purcell’s “Funeral Sentences and Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary” and Purcell’s “Jubilate Deo,” also written for Queen Mary the year before her death. From the 20th and 21st centuries: composer Scott Perkins’ “A New England Requiem,” his “Jubilate Deo,” and Sir John Taverner’s “A Song for Athene,” that was performed at Lady Diana’s funeral.
6pm - Saint James Place, 352 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA
Youth: $10.00 General: $35.00 Premium: $60.00
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3583579
The Crescendo Chorus and Vocal Ensemble will be joined by soloists including internationally- renowned countertenor Nicholas Tamagna, period brass, strings, basso continuo and organ. Christine Gevert conducts. This program features two “Requiems” and two “Jubilates” of different eras. From the 17th century: Henry Purcell’s “Funeral Sentences and Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary” and Purcell’s “Jubilate Deo,” also written for Queen Mary the year before her death. From the 20th and 21st centuries: composer Scott Perkins’ “A New England Requiem,” his “Jubilate Deo,” and Sir John Taverner’s “A Song for Athene,” that was performed at Lady Diana’s funeral.
6pm - Saint James Place, 352 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA
Youth: $10.00 General: $35.00 Premium: $60.00
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3583579
Sunday, November 11
“The Sound of the Trumpet” Celebrating Life in England and New England
The Crescendo Chorus and Vocal Ensemble will be joined by soloists including internationally- renowned countertenor Nicholas Tamagna, period brass, strings, basso continuo and organ. Christine Gevert conducts. This program features two “Requiems” and two “Jubilates” of different eras. From the 17th century: Henry Purcell’s “Funeral Sentences and Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary” and Purcell’s “Jubilate Deo,” also written for Queen Mary the year before her death. From the 20th and 21st centuries: composer Scott Perkins’ “A New England Requiem,” his “Jubilate Deo,” and Sir John Taverner’s “A Song for Athene,” that was performed at Lady Diana’s funeral.
4pm - Trinity Lime Rock, 484 Lime Rock Road, Lakeville, CT 06039
Youth: $10.00 General: $35.00 Premium: $60.00
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3583579
The Crescendo Chorus and Vocal Ensemble will be joined by soloists including internationally- renowned countertenor Nicholas Tamagna, period brass, strings, basso continuo and organ. Christine Gevert conducts. This program features two “Requiems” and two “Jubilates” of different eras. From the 17th century: Henry Purcell’s “Funeral Sentences and Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary” and Purcell’s “Jubilate Deo,” also written for Queen Mary the year before her death. From the 20th and 21st centuries: composer Scott Perkins’ “A New England Requiem,” his “Jubilate Deo,” and Sir John Taverner’s “A Song for Athene,” that was performed at Lady Diana’s funeral.
4pm - Trinity Lime Rock, 484 Lime Rock Road, Lakeville, CT 06039
Youth: $10.00 General: $35.00 Premium: $60.00
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3583579
Saturday, November 17
Palestrina Revisited
Convivium Musicum (Michael Barrett, Artistic Director)
At times venerated, at times dismissed, the music of Palestrina has always held a special, complicated place in the history of music performance and theory. Whatever your opinion, you'll love our program, demonstrating Palestrina's talent in a variety of compositional styles and methods.
8pm - Harvard-Epworth Church, 1555 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138
$25/$15
www.convivium.org
Convivium Musicum (Michael Barrett, Artistic Director)
At times venerated, at times dismissed, the music of Palestrina has always held a special, complicated place in the history of music performance and theory. Whatever your opinion, you'll love our program, demonstrating Palestrina's talent in a variety of compositional styles and methods.
8pm - Harvard-Epworth Church, 1555 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138
$25/$15
www.convivium.org
Sunday, November 18
Palestrina Revisited
Convivium Musicum (Michael Barrett, Artistic Director)
At times venerated, at times dismissed, the music of Palestrina has always held a special, complicated place in the history of music performance and theory. Whatever your opinion, you'll love our program, demonstrating Palestrina's talent in a variety of compositional styles and methods.
4pm - Christ Church, 25 Central St, Andover, MA 01810
$25/$15
www.convivium.org
Convivium Musicum (Michael Barrett, Artistic Director)
At times venerated, at times dismissed, the music of Palestrina has always held a special, complicated place in the history of music performance and theory. Whatever your opinion, you'll love our program, demonstrating Palestrina's talent in a variety of compositional styles and methods.
4pm - Christ Church, 25 Central St, Andover, MA 01810
$25/$15
www.convivium.org
Saturday, November 24
Francesca Caccini's Alcina
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors; Gilbert Blin, Stage Director; Shannon Mercer, Alcina; Colin Balzer, Ruggiero; Kelsey Lauritano, Melissa; The BEMF Vocal and Chamber Ensembles
Francesca Caccini was one of the most important musical figures in Florence in the 1620s, creating the first opera by a woman composer, La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina. The the center of this brilliant, witty entertainment is a struggle of illusion and destiny as the sorceress Alcina stands between the valiant magician Melissa and her quest to save the warrior Ruggiero.
8pm - New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, MA
$25-$125
http://www.bemf.org/pages/concerts/18-19/alcina.htm
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors; Gilbert Blin, Stage Director; Shannon Mercer, Alcina; Colin Balzer, Ruggiero; Kelsey Lauritano, Melissa; The BEMF Vocal and Chamber Ensembles
Francesca Caccini was one of the most important musical figures in Florence in the 1620s, creating the first opera by a woman composer, La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina. The the center of this brilliant, witty entertainment is a struggle of illusion and destiny as the sorceress Alcina stands between the valiant magician Melissa and her quest to save the warrior Ruggiero.
8pm - New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, MA
$25-$125
http://www.bemf.org/pages/concerts/18-19/alcina.htm
Sunday, November 25
Francesca Caccini's Alcina
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors; Gilbert Blin, Stage Director; Shannon Mercer, Alcina; Colin Balzer, Ruggiero; Kelsey Lauritano, Melissa; The BEMF Vocal and Chamber Ensembles
Francesca Caccini was one of the most important musical figures in Florence in the 1620s, creating the first opera by a woman composer, La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina. The the center of this brilliant, witty entertainment is a struggle of illusion and destiny as the sorceress Alcina stands between the valiant magician Melissa and her quest to save the warrior Ruggiero.
3pm - New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, MA
$25-$125
http://www.bemf.org/pages/concerts/18-19/alcina.htm
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors; Gilbert Blin, Stage Director; Shannon Mercer, Alcina; Colin Balzer, Ruggiero; Kelsey Lauritano, Melissa; The BEMF Vocal and Chamber Ensembles
Francesca Caccini was one of the most important musical figures in Florence in the 1620s, creating the first opera by a woman composer, La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina. The the center of this brilliant, witty entertainment is a struggle of illusion and destiny as the sorceress Alcina stands between the valiant magician Melissa and her quest to save the warrior Ruggiero.
3pm - New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, MA
$25-$125
http://www.bemf.org/pages/concerts/18-19/alcina.htm
The Bach Project at Ashmont Hill Chamber Music
The Bach Project at Ashmont Hill Chamber Music is delighted to announce its second season of concerts after its sold-out debut in 2017. Under the direction of Andrew Sheranian, this ensemble of professional singers and instrumentalists, drawn from the Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, Emmanuel Music, Trinity Church in Copley Square, and the Church of the Advent, will perform organ, instrumental, and choral music of Johann Sebastian Bach, including BWV 159 Anh. Motet: Ich lasse dich nicht, BWV 1056: Violin Concerto in G minor, BWV 548: Fugue in E minor “The Wedge”, BWV 234. Mass in A major. They will be joined by the All Saints' Boys Choir.
4pm - The Parish of All Saints - Ashmont, 209 Ashmont Street, Dorchester, MA 02124
$18-$25
http://www.ahchambermusic.org/concerts
The Bach Project at Ashmont Hill Chamber Music is delighted to announce its second season of concerts after its sold-out debut in 2017. Under the direction of Andrew Sheranian, this ensemble of professional singers and instrumentalists, drawn from the Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, Emmanuel Music, Trinity Church in Copley Square, and the Church of the Advent, will perform organ, instrumental, and choral music of Johann Sebastian Bach, including BWV 159 Anh. Motet: Ich lasse dich nicht, BWV 1056: Violin Concerto in G minor, BWV 548: Fugue in E minor “The Wedge”, BWV 234. Mass in A major. They will be joined by the All Saints' Boys Choir.
4pm - The Parish of All Saints - Ashmont, 209 Ashmont Street, Dorchester, MA 02124
$18-$25
http://www.ahchambermusic.org/concerts