Saturday, November 3
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
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
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
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 celebrate Guy Fawkes Night and 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
$15 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
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 celebrate Guy Fawkes Night and 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
$15 suggested donation
www.seventimessalt.com
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