Friday, November 2
Rosalind
Salomé Gasselin, viola da gamba; Martin Bernstein, recorder
For a long time, we've had crossed interests and languages: speaking English and playing French music, reading French poems and listening to English songs. It made perfect sense then when we became enamored with this story, of a bilingual English girl, an unknown flutist and composer, and her journal signed only with the name "Rosalind du Bois." When in 1651, the king of England Charles II was forced to flee to France, he made sure to take a few hand-picked English musicians and composers with him. Our Rosalind quickly disguises herself as a boy and joins her teacher and the rest of the troupe. In her journal, she records her thoughts about the journey, the men she's with, and the experience of living in disguise - alongside of course, some of her compositions and arrangements: music inspired by English as well as the French composers that joined the troupe; music from and for those between places and languages.
7:30pm - First Baptist Church Medford, 34 Oakland St., Medford MA, 02155
Free ($15 suggested donation)
https://www.facebook.com/events/273531950164900/ or martinmbernstein@gmail.com
Salomé Gasselin, viola da gamba; Martin Bernstein, recorder
For a long time, we've had crossed interests and languages: speaking English and playing French music, reading French poems and listening to English songs. It made perfect sense then when we became enamored with this story, of a bilingual English girl, an unknown flutist and composer, and her journal signed only with the name "Rosalind du Bois." When in 1651, the king of England Charles II was forced to flee to France, he made sure to take a few hand-picked English musicians and composers with him. Our Rosalind quickly disguises herself as a boy and joins her teacher and the rest of the troupe. In her journal, she records her thoughts about the journey, the men she's with, and the experience of living in disguise - alongside of course, some of her compositions and arrangements: music inspired by English as well as the French composers that joined the troupe; music from and for those between places and languages.
7:30pm - First Baptist Church Medford, 34 Oakland St., Medford MA, 02155
Free ($15 suggested donation)
https://www.facebook.com/events/273531950164900/ or martinmbernstein@gmail.com
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
Martin Bernstein, recorder; Salomé Gasselin, viola da gamba; John McKean, harpsichord
Martin Bernstein, John McKean, and Salomé Gasselin from Paris will explore exquisite French keyboard music, split up and arranged for the trio. They'll look at 18th century experiments with this, including pieces by Antoine Forqueray and Jean-Philippe Rameau; they'll also play some of their own arrangements, of organ music from Jacques Boyvin, and harpsichord pieces of Louis Marchand, Marin Marais, and Louis Couperin.
7:30pm - Memorial Church at Harvard University, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138
Free (donations gratefully accepted)
https://www.facebook.com/events/1983872651707750/ or martinmbernstein@gmail.com
Martin Bernstein, John McKean, and Salomé Gasselin from Paris will explore exquisite French keyboard music, split up and arranged for the trio. They'll look at 18th century experiments with this, including pieces by Antoine Forqueray and Jean-Philippe Rameau; they'll also play some of their own arrangements, of organ music from Jacques Boyvin, and harpsichord pieces of Louis Marchand, Marin Marais, and Louis Couperin.
7:30pm - Memorial Church at Harvard University, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138
Free (donations gratefully accepted)
https://www.facebook.com/events/1983872651707750/ or martinmbernstein@gmail.com
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
Oh, Sweet Flutes
Jesse Lepkoff, flutes and recorders; Reinmar Seidler, baroque cello
The program will offer primarily solo unaccompanied pieces for flute, recorder, and cello, with one Corelli Sonata played together.
7:30pm - Atrium of Brooks House, 32 Main Street; Brattleboro, VT
Free to Public
jesselepkoff@gmail.com
Jesse Lepkoff, flutes and recorders; Reinmar Seidler, baroque cello
The program will offer primarily solo unaccompanied pieces for flute, recorder, and cello, with one Corelli Sonata played together.
7:30pm - Atrium of Brooks House, 32 Main Street; Brattleboro, VT
Free to Public
jesselepkoff@gmail.com
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
Tuesday, November 6
Tuesday Recitals at King's Chapel
Alan Weiss, flute & Ann Rosandich, oboe with Heinrich Christensen, organ
works by Bach, Telemann, Vivaldi
12:15pm - King's Chapel, 58 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
Suggested donation $5 given to the performers. Recitals begin at 12:15 and last about 35 minutes
Info: 617/277-2155 http://www.kings-chapel.org/tuesday-recitals.html
Alan Weiss, flute & Ann Rosandich, oboe with Heinrich Christensen, organ
works by Bach, Telemann, Vivaldi
12:15pm - King's Chapel, 58 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
Suggested donation $5 given to the performers. Recitals begin at 12:15 and last about 35 minutes
Info: 617/277-2155 http://www.kings-chapel.org/tuesday-recitals.html
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
Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers of the Blessed Virgin
The Oratorio Chorale with soprano Molly Quinn, mezzo Virginia Warnken, tenors Lawrence Jones, Jason McStoots, and Eric Perry, and baritone Sumner Thompson.
A towering masterpiece of the early Baroque, Claudio Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers of the Blessed Virgin is at once intimate and resplendent, devotional and theatrical, pious and sensual. Don't miss this highlight of the classical music season.
7pm - Woodfords Congregational Church, 202 Woodford St, Portland, ME
Adults $25 in advance, $30 at the door. Students half price. Under 12 free.
https://www.oratoriochorale.org
The Oratorio Chorale with soprano Molly Quinn, mezzo Virginia Warnken, tenors Lawrence Jones, Jason McStoots, and Eric Perry, and baritone Sumner Thompson.
A towering masterpiece of the early Baroque, Claudio Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers of the Blessed Virgin is at once intimate and resplendent, devotional and theatrical, pious and sensual. Don't miss this highlight of the classical music season.
7pm - Woodfords Congregational Church, 202 Woodford St, Portland, ME
Adults $25 in advance, $30 at the door. Students half price. Under 12 free.
https://www.oratoriochorale.org
A Bash for François
Andrus Madsen - harpsichord, Alison Gangler - oboe
Newton Baroque will present a concert honoring the 350th anniversary of the Birth of François Couperin. Of course the concert will feature his celebrated works for harpsichord, including works from his 3rd and 8th Ordre as well as the incredibly beautiful Les Barricades Mystérieuses, all performed at the harpsichord by Andrus Madsen. Alison Gangler will also join Andrus Madsen on the oboe to present chamber pieces from Les goûts-réunis.
7:30pm - Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St, West Newton, MA
Adults - $30, Seniors - $25, Students - $10, Under 18 free admission
Website
Andrus Madsen - harpsichord, Alison Gangler - oboe
Newton Baroque will present a concert honoring the 350th anniversary of the Birth of François Couperin. Of course the concert will feature his celebrated works for harpsichord, including works from his 3rd and 8th Ordre as well as the incredibly beautiful Les Barricades Mystérieuses, all performed at the harpsichord by Andrus Madsen. Alison Gangler will also join Andrus Madsen on the oboe to present chamber pieces from Les goûts-réunis.
7:30pm - Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St, West Newton, MA
Adults - $30, Seniors - $25, Students - $10, Under 18 free admission
Website
Sunday, November 11
Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers of the Blessed Virgin
The Oratorio Chorale with soprano Molly Quinn, mezzo Virginia Warnken, tenors Lawrence Jones, Jason McStoots, and Eric Perry, and baritone Sumner Thompson.
A towering masterpiece of the early Baroque, Claudio Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers of the Blessed Virgin is at once intimate and resplendent, devotional and theatrical, pious and sensual. Don't miss this highlight of the classical music season.
3pm - St. John the Baptist Church, 39 Pleasant St, Brunswick, ME
Adults $25 in advance, $30 at the door. Students half price. Under 12 free.
https://www.oratoriochorale.org
The Oratorio Chorale with soprano Molly Quinn, mezzo Virginia Warnken, tenors Lawrence Jones, Jason McStoots, and Eric Perry, and baritone Sumner Thompson.
A towering masterpiece of the early Baroque, Claudio Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers of the Blessed Virgin is at once intimate and resplendent, devotional and theatrical, pious and sensual. Don't miss this highlight of the classical music season.
3pm - St. John the Baptist Church, 39 Pleasant St, Brunswick, ME
Adults $25 in advance, $30 at the door. Students half price. Under 12 free.
https://www.oratoriochorale.org
“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
De Triste Cuer: Two Lovers Lament
Teri Kowiak, director, voice; Karen Burciaga, vielle, voice; Barbara Allen Hill, voice; Jaya Lakshminarayanan, harp, voice; Dan Meyers, percussion, winds, voice; Ciaran Nagle, voice; Cathy Meyer Stein, voice, recorders.
Taking Machaut's "The Judgement of the King of Bohemia" as our inspiration, we'll explore tales of love lost and won, hearts ablaze and broken, and all the angsty pangs of courtly love, as set by Guillaume de Machaut himself.
4pm - Church of our Saviour, 25 Monmouth St, Brookline, MA
$15 - $20
http://www.meravelha.com/
Teri Kowiak, director, voice; Karen Burciaga, vielle, voice; Barbara Allen Hill, voice; Jaya Lakshminarayanan, harp, voice; Dan Meyers, percussion, winds, voice; Ciaran Nagle, voice; Cathy Meyer Stein, voice, recorders.
Taking Machaut's "The Judgement of the King of Bohemia" as our inspiration, we'll explore tales of love lost and won, hearts ablaze and broken, and all the angsty pangs of courtly love, as set by Guillaume de Machaut himself.
4pm - Church of our Saviour, 25 Monmouth St, Brookline, MA
$15 - $20
http://www.meravelha.com/
Night Song
Beneifcia lucis, the ensemble of men (Michael Raleigh, director) with Ben Schwendener, piano
Gregorian chant from the Liber Usualis; Tritone plainchant setting for compline by Daryl Bichel; Psalm 4, set by Bichel; Adjuva nos, Deus by Thomas Crequillon; Hymn: Te lucis ante terminum, set by Caroline Lesemann-Elliott; Salve Regina by William Byrd; instrumental improvisations
7:30pm - First Church in Cambridge, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA
Free
www.nightsong.org
Beneifcia lucis, the ensemble of men (Michael Raleigh, director) with Ben Schwendener, piano
Gregorian chant from the Liber Usualis; Tritone plainchant setting for compline by Daryl Bichel; Psalm 4, set by Bichel; Adjuva nos, Deus by Thomas Crequillon; Hymn: Te lucis ante terminum, set by Caroline Lesemann-Elliott; Salve Regina by William Byrd; instrumental improvisations
7:30pm - First Church in Cambridge, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA
Free
www.nightsong.org
Tuesday, November 13
De Triste Cuer: Two Lovers Lament
Teri Kowiak, director, voice; Karen Burciaga, vielle, voice; Barbara Allen Hill, voice; Jaya Lakshminarayanan, harp, voice; Dan Meyers, percussion, winds, voice; Ciaran Nagle, voice; Cathy Meyer Stein, voice, recorders.
Taking Machaut's "The Judgement of the King of Bohemia" as our inspiration, we'll explore tales of love lost and won, hearts ablaze and broken, and all the angsty pangs of courtly love, as set by Guillaume de Machaut himself.
7:30pm - Church of the Good Shepherd, 9 Russell Ave. Watertown, MA
$15 - $20
http://www.meravelha.com/
Teri Kowiak, director, voice; Karen Burciaga, vielle, voice; Barbara Allen Hill, voice; Jaya Lakshminarayanan, harp, voice; Dan Meyers, percussion, winds, voice; Ciaran Nagle, voice; Cathy Meyer Stein, voice, recorders.
Taking Machaut's "The Judgement of the King of Bohemia" as our inspiration, we'll explore tales of love lost and won, hearts ablaze and broken, and all the angsty pangs of courtly love, as set by Guillaume de Machaut himself.
7:30pm - Church of the Good Shepherd, 9 Russell Ave. Watertown, MA
$15 - $20
http://www.meravelha.com/
Saturday, November 17
Latinas inFusion CD release
Daniela Tošić, Rosie Osser, voices; Job Salazar, violin; Fabiola Mendez, Puerto Rican cuatro; Diane Heffner, winds; Maurizio Fiore, Venezuelan cuatro; Kirsten Lamb, bass; Kera Washington, percussion; Eduardo Betancourt, harp; and Laury Gutiérrez, viola da gamba & guitars
In this concert La Donna Musicale (historical women composers) and Rumbarroco (Latin–Baroque Fusion) ensembles join forces to perform musical passages that create unexpected journeys through time, full of coincidences and surprises. With unique creative audacity, they venture to bring early European music together with popular and folkloric Latin American music. The result is a magical and unprecedented cornucopia of women composers, arrangers, and lyricists, including sixteenth-century Ibero-American "Cancioneros" infused with Latin rhythms, as well as recent compositions performed with instruments and techniques from the past.
4pm - Gordon Chapel, Old South Church, 645 Boylston St. Boston MA
Reserved Seats $35, General Admission $25, Low Income $5
https://rumbarroco.org/show/latinas-infusion/
Daniela Tošić, Rosie Osser, voices; Job Salazar, violin; Fabiola Mendez, Puerto Rican cuatro; Diane Heffner, winds; Maurizio Fiore, Venezuelan cuatro; Kirsten Lamb, bass; Kera Washington, percussion; Eduardo Betancourt, harp; and Laury Gutiérrez, viola da gamba & guitars
In this concert La Donna Musicale (historical women composers) and Rumbarroco (Latin–Baroque Fusion) ensembles join forces to perform musical passages that create unexpected journeys through time, full of coincidences and surprises. With unique creative audacity, they venture to bring early European music together with popular and folkloric Latin American music. The result is a magical and unprecedented cornucopia of women composers, arrangers, and lyricists, including sixteenth-century Ibero-American "Cancioneros" infused with Latin rhythms, as well as recent compositions performed with instruments and techniques from the past.
4pm - Gordon Chapel, Old South Church, 645 Boylston St. Boston MA
Reserved Seats $35, General Admission $25, Low Income $5
https://rumbarroco.org/show/latinas-infusion/
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
The Musik of Christmastide in Olde New England
A Joyful Noyse
How Christmas survived the harsh puritanical climate of New England. An early music concert exploring music composed, published, or performed in the New England area between 1620 and 1868, with an emphasis on the music of Christmastide.
2pm - Hancock Church, 1912 Mass. Ave., Lexington, MA
$15 donation to support the Hancock Music Program
https://www.hancockchurch.org/the-musik-of-christmastide-in-olde-new-england/
A Joyful Noyse
How Christmas survived the harsh puritanical climate of New England. An early music concert exploring music composed, published, or performed in the New England area between 1620 and 1868, with an emphasis on the music of Christmastide.
2pm - Hancock Church, 1912 Mass. Ave., Lexington, MA
$15 donation to support the Hancock Music Program
https://www.hancockchurch.org/the-musik-of-christmastide-in-olde-new-england/
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
Tuesday, November 20
Tuesday Recitals at King's Chapel
Patrick Hawkins plays the C.B. Fisk Organ
works by Bach, Lübeck, and more
12:15pm - King's Chapel, 58 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
Suggested donation $5 given to the performers. Recitals begin at 12:15 and last about 35 minutes
Info: 617/277-2155 http://www.kings-chapel.org/tuesday-recitals.html
Patrick Hawkins plays the C.B. Fisk Organ
works by Bach, Lübeck, and more
12:15pm - King's Chapel, 58 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
Suggested donation $5 given to the performers. Recitals begin at 12:15 and last about 35 minutes
Info: 617/277-2155 http://www.kings-chapel.org/tuesday-recitals.html
Saturday, November 24
Handel's Messiah Sing
Berkshire Bach (Frank Nemhauser, Director) Cindy Ogulnick, Miriam Shapiro, violin; Eric Martin, viola; Lucy Bardo, cello; Allan Dean, trumpet; Anne Voglewede Green, piano
Berkshire Bach Society’s annual Messiah Sing, always held on Thanksgiving weekend, is the Society’s gift to the community and heralds the beginning of the holiday season. Join Choral conductor Frank Nemhauser, accompanied by the Berkshire Bach Players, a seasoned instrumental ensemble of professional musicians.Bring your own score, or borrow or buy one at the door.
4pm - First Congregational Church, 251 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA 01230
Free! (But donations are welcome to help pay the amazing musicians!)
https://berkshirebach.org/?page_id=5853
Berkshire Bach (Frank Nemhauser, Director) Cindy Ogulnick, Miriam Shapiro, violin; Eric Martin, viola; Lucy Bardo, cello; Allan Dean, trumpet; Anne Voglewede Green, piano
Berkshire Bach Society’s annual Messiah Sing, always held on Thanksgiving weekend, is the Society’s gift to the community and heralds the beginning of the holiday season. Join Choral conductor Frank Nemhauser, accompanied by the Berkshire Bach Players, a seasoned instrumental ensemble of professional musicians.Bring your own score, or borrow or buy one at the door.
4pm - First Congregational Church, 251 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA 01230
Free! (But donations are welcome to help pay the amazing musicians!)
https://berkshirebach.org/?page_id=5853
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
Solemn High Mass
The Choir of the Church of the Advent
Jean Langlais: Suite Médiévale - V. Acclamations (Christus vincit)
Tomás Luis de Victoria: Missa “Salve Regina”
Orlando Gibbons: O clap your hands together
Henry Purcell: The Lord is King, Z 69
11:15am - The Church of the Advent, 30 Brimmer St., Boston, MA
Free!
http://www.theadventboston.org
The Choir of the Church of the Advent
Jean Langlais: Suite Médiévale - V. Acclamations (Christus vincit)
Tomás Luis de Victoria: Missa “Salve Regina”
Orlando Gibbons: O clap your hands together
Henry Purcell: The Lord is King, Z 69
11:15am - The Church of the Advent, 30 Brimmer St., Boston, MA
Free!
http://www.theadventboston.org
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
Friday, November 30
Mad Dog: Elizabethan Music for the Lute by Holborne, Dowland, Johnson & Byrd
Hopkinson Smith, lute
Elizabethan England was an era in which music offered profound solace as well as merry diversion, and it is the first destination in CSEM's concert season "Great Escapes!" Queen Elizabeth I attracted musicians and poets of distinction to her court, and she herself played the harpsichord and the lute, which was favored above all other instruments. It is a fitting tribute to her love of music that our first concert will present the superb lutenist Hopkinson Smith in "Mad Dog." John Dowland, the leading English lute composer of the day, wrote at times in a sprightly and humorous vein, but it is melancholy moods that most captured his imagination. Two English lutenists who preceded Dowland also showed great invention, including moments of tormented yearning that led to music of extraordinary depth: John Johnson and Anthony Holborne. Both were virtuosos of the highest caliber, as the daring of their diminution techniques attests. Their works include rhapsodic pavans, rich in harmony, spirited galliards, striking character pieces (one of which is entitled "Mad Dog") and elaborate variations.
8pm - Congregational Church of Weston, 130 Newton St., Weston, MA
$35| $30 seniors | $10 students | subscription available ($5 discount)
http:www.csem.org | 617-489-2062
Hopkinson Smith, lute
Elizabethan England was an era in which music offered profound solace as well as merry diversion, and it is the first destination in CSEM's concert season "Great Escapes!" Queen Elizabeth I attracted musicians and poets of distinction to her court, and she herself played the harpsichord and the lute, which was favored above all other instruments. It is a fitting tribute to her love of music that our first concert will present the superb lutenist Hopkinson Smith in "Mad Dog." John Dowland, the leading English lute composer of the day, wrote at times in a sprightly and humorous vein, but it is melancholy moods that most captured his imagination. Two English lutenists who preceded Dowland also showed great invention, including moments of tormented yearning that led to music of extraordinary depth: John Johnson and Anthony Holborne. Both were virtuosos of the highest caliber, as the daring of their diminution techniques attests. Their works include rhapsodic pavans, rich in harmony, spirited galliards, striking character pieces (one of which is entitled "Mad Dog") and elaborate variations.
8pm - Congregational Church of Weston, 130 Newton St., Weston, MA
$35| $30 seniors | $10 students | subscription available ($5 discount)
http:www.csem.org | 617-489-2062