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Piano soloist Erin Lindsey celebrates two of the piano repertoire’s greatest technicians combined into one spectacular evening.

Free and open to the public

Charles Ives: Set for Theatre Orchestra
Walter Zimmermann: The Paradoxes of Love
Vanessa Wheeler: Successions
Michael Finnissy: Recent Britain

FREE

“Vive la France”
Bernard Hoffer: Fanfare for Dick
George Gershwin: An American in Paris
Maurice Ravel: Pavane pour une infante defunte
David Poppe:r Hungarian Rhapsody
David Pashke, cello
Emmanuel Chabrie: Marche joyeuse
Leo Delibes: Prelude & Cortege de Bacchus from Sylvia
Jacque Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld
Medley of Gershwin tunes arr. by Billy VerPlanck
Marlene VerPlanck, soloist

Premier concert in C minor
Deuxieme concert in G major
Troisieme concert in A major
Quatrieme concert in B flat major
Cinquieme concert in D minor

Scott Metcalfe, violin
Emily Walhout, viola da gamba
Akiko Sato, harpsichord

Reception to follow

General Admission $20; Senior $15; Student $10; Children Under 17 Free

Mozart: Fantasie in D minor
Schumann: Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17
Liszt: Sonata in B Minor

Free

De Muevo: Voice of the Turtle in concert. Original Turtle members Lisle Kulbach
and Jay Rosenberg, joined by newest member Ian Pomerantz, will present an evening of Sephardic songs from throughout the diaspora.

Tickets: General Admission $15 (available at the door)

“Vive la France”
Bernard Hoffer: Fanfare for Dick
George Gershwin: An American in Paris
Maurice Ravel: Pavane pour une infante defunte
David Poppe:r Hungarian Rhapsody
David Pashke, cello
Emmanuel Chabrie: Marche joyeuse
Leo Delibes: Prelude & Cortege de Bacchus from Sylvia
Jacque Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld
Medley of Gershwin tunes arr. by Billy VerPlanck
Marlene VerPlanck, soloist

Christina Day Martinson, violins; Timothy Merton, cello; Maggie Cole, fortepiano

Program: Trios by Stephen Storace, Haydn & Beethoven.

$24, general admission / $20 seniors / $12 students with ID
FREE to children under 12 accompanied by an adult

In collaboration with the New World Chorale,
Holly Krafka, director

Nanie and Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny)
Symphony No. 1

Tickets $30 – $10

Works by Kassia, Sungji Hong
World Premières by Carson Cooman, Erin Huelskamp, Joshua Bornfield and Anita Kupriss

$20 for Adults, $12 for Students

Choral Music that Explores the Realm of Sleep

Works by: Whitacre, Ticheli, Lauridsen, Elgar, Saint-Saëns, Lassus, Ramsey

$45- $15

Dvorak’s ‘In Nature’, Hindemith’s ‘Six Chansons’, Schubert choruses including ‘Gott in der Natur’ for women and piano, three Elizabethan madrigals, and ‘Temple of Nature’, a new work by composer Patricia Van Ness and some of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces performed by pianist Eric Mazonson.

$23 with $5 discount for seniors and students

Chopin: Polonaise-Fantaisie in A-flat Major, Op. 61
. Chopin: Three Mazurkas, Op. 56
. Chopin: Andante spianato and Grande polonaise brillante, Op. 22
. Liszt: Misère du Trovatore de Verdi, S. 433
. Liszt: Après une lecture de Dante: Fantasia quasi sonata, S. 161/7

Farewell-to-Cambridge Concert
Andrew Clark, conductor

Tickets $20 $10 students/seniors

Christian Lane, Memorial Church, Harvard University

Free

Nun’s motets as published for mixed voices, solo, duo, tre voci e coro

Yuriy Kordonskiy, stage director
Sergei Khanukaev, conductor
Anna Kravets, choreographer
Boston Vocal Arts Studio Orchestra

Iolanta: Dina Kuznetsova; Count Vaudémont: Adam Klein tenor;Duke Robert: David Gvinianidze, baritone; King René: Elias Notus,bass; Dr. Ibn-Hakia: Alexander Prokhorov, bass-baritone; Marta: DanuteMileika, mezzo-soprano; Laura: Julia Jaffe Reaboir,mezzo-soprano; Brigitta: Olga Lisovskaya; Bertrand: David Wadden,bass; Alméric: Daniel Kamalic, tenor

Convivium offers a sample of works by this remarkable musician at the height of his creative powers.

Reception to follow

$20/$12 students and seniors

Yuriy Kordonskiy, stage director
Sergei Khanukaev, conductor
Anna Kravets, choreographer
Boston Vocal Arts Studio Orchestra

Iolanta: Zhanna Alkhazova; Count Vaudémont: Adam Klein tenor; Duke Robert: Kevin Kees, baritone; King René: Elias Notus, bass; Dr.Ibn-Hakia: Alexander Prokhorov, bass-baritone; Marta: Amy Oraftik,mezzo-soprano; Laura: Lidiya Yankovskaya, mezzo-soprano; Brigitta: Yelena Dudochkin; Bertrand: Arkady Zilberberg, bass; Alméric: Daniel Kamalic, tenor

The New England Conservatory’s Williams Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston

Works by Rachmaninoff, Glazunov and Arensky
Virtuoso Pianist Vassily Primakov
with Zoya Shereshkova, cello & Natalia Lavrova, piano

TICKETS $37 general admission, $27 seniors/students, $17 children 12 & younger
617-564-FEST (617-564-3378)
http://www.russianmusicfest.ru/events/rare-gems/

Highlights from the inimitable Opera, Carmen, featuring the CMCB Chamber Singers. Lecture by Dr. David Lapin.

Free and open to the public

To pay off his debt, a farmer invents a machine to slaughter his herd more quickly, but his activist daughter has other plans. This world-premiere chamber opera explores the nature of identity and the calculus of suffering. Libretto and Music by Rudolf Rojahn. Directed by Copeland Woodruff.
$10–$15

Museum of Modern Renaissance, 115 College Ave, Somerville

Music by N. Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky & Glinka

Maria Lyudko, soprano, Russia; Andrei Nemzer, counter-tenor,Russia, US 2012 National Council Auditions Grand Prize winner; Olga Lisovskaya, soprano, Sonja Bruzauskas, mezzo-soprano, AlexanderProkhorov, bass-baritone; Vassily Primakov, piano, prize-winning pianist; GeorgesDevdariani, clarinet, The Netherlands

$25 general admission, $20 seniors/students, $15 children 12 & younger
617-564-FEST (617-564-3378)
http://www.russianmusicfest.ru/events/vocal-jewels/

Robert Schumann: Sonata in a minor
Maurice Ravel: Sonata, Tzigane

FREE

Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church, 472 Massachusetts Ave., Acton

Filigree and Finery: Russian Chamber Music
Works of Handel, Tsem, Glick, Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi & Badelt
Würzburg Youth Orchestra, Würzburg, Germany,
Tatjana Masurova, director
Yulia Pirozhikhina, organ, Moscow

Free will donation
617-564-FEST (617-564-3378)
http://www.russianmusicfest.ru/events/filigree-and-finery/ directions here: http://www.mtcalvaryacton.org/service-times-

To pay off his debt, a farmer invents a machine to slaughter his herd more quickly, but his activist daughter has other plans. This world-premiere chamber opera explores the nature of identity and the calculus of suffering. Libretto and Music by Rudolf Rojahn. Directed by Copeland Woodruff.
$10–$15

To pay off his debt, a farmer invents a machine to slaughter his herd more quickly, but his activist daughter has other plans. This world-premiere chamber opera explores the nature of identity and the calculus of suffering. Libretto and Music by Rudolf Rojahn. Directed by Copeland Woodruff.
$10–$15

Glory! Russian Treasures: Gala Concert at Jordan Hall

Vocal and instrumental music of Rachmaninoff, Berezovsky, Tchaikovsky, Glinka, Nazaykinskaya and Russian folk songs.

Rachmaninoff Festival Choir and Festival Orchestra of America, Irina Shachneva, conductor
The Chorus Elegia, Moscow
Marina Alekseeva, director
Men’s Vocal Ensemble Kovcheg, St. Petersburg
Juventas New Music Ensemble, Boston
Lidiya Yankovskaya, director
Würzburg Youth Orchestra,
Tatjana Masurova, director
Vassily Primakov, piano, New York

and many singers

TICKETS $45, $35, $25 10% discount for seniors/students/children
617-564-FEST (617-564-3378)
Tickets will be on sale at the Jordan Hall Box Office, (617) 585-1260.

Wyatt Smith plays the C.B. Fisk Organ
Works by Bach & Ore

Suggested donation $3

2007 Tchaikovsky Gold Medalist
Sergey Antonov, cello
Ilya Kazantsev, piano
Maria Ferrante, soprano
Boston Chamber Orchestra
Yohei Sato, conductor
Program TBA

Tickets: $35, $20 (student); Gift of Music $210 (6 plus 1 free)

Q&A with orchestra musicians 6pm

Gounod – Petite Symphony
Bach – “Brandenburg” Concerto No. 3
Bartok – Romanian Folk Dances

$50, $40, $30, $20

Joseph Haydn, The Creation

Works commissioned by Dean Walter Hussey for Chichester Cathedral in England, including: Leonard Bernstein’s sensational Chichester Psalms; the stunning Chichester Mass by American composer William Albright; a setting of Psalm 23 by Lennox Berkeley; and canticle settings by Bryan Kelly and William Walton. In the spirit of Hussey’s adventurous commissioning, Chichester will also feature the world premiere of The Mountain Lion, for choir, organ, harp and percussion, which was composed for the Ensemble by the winner of the 2012 Fifth Annual Commission Competition, Stephen Feigenbaum.

suggested donation: $15

FESTIVAL GALA OPENING NIGHT
LEON FLEISHER, piano
BACH: “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” (arr. Myra Hess)
JENŐ TAKÁCS: Toccata & Fugue for the Left Hand
LEON KIRCHNER: For the Left Hand (1995)
J.S. BACH/BRAHMS: Chaconne for the Left Hand from
Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor BWV 1004
Includes presentation of the Academy Award nominated film on Fleisher’s life and career.
Tickets: $78 (limited availability).

Madrigals, Claudio Monteverdi; Act III of Dido and Aeneas, Henry Purcell; Highlights from The Triumph of Time and Truth, G.F. Handel; Brandenburg Concerto No. 1, J.S. Bach

Kristen Watson and Roberta Anderson, sopranos; Deborah Rentz-Moore, mezzo soprano; Lynn Torgove, alto; Frank Kelley and William Hite, tenors; David Ripley, baritone; Stephen Hammer, baroque oboe, recorder; Marc Schachman, baroque oboe; Priscilla Smith, baroque oboe, recorder; Andrew Schwartz, baroque bassoon; Richard Menaul, natural horn; Frederick Aldrich, natural horn; Daniel Stepner, baroque violin; Nancy Wilson, baroque violin; Jane Starkman, baroque violin; Clayton Hoener, baroque violin; Linda Quan, baroque violin; Laura Jeppesen, baroque viola; Loretta O’Sullivan, baroque cello; Anne Trout, violone; Peter Sykes, harpsichord/organ; Catherine Liddell, theorbo

Show music to Sousa marches to classical music. A different concert band play each hour.

11:00 AM, Upper Valley Community Band,
12:00 Noon, Middlesex Concert Band,
1:00 PM, Metropolitan Wind Symphony,
2:00 PM, Chelmsford Community Band,
3:00 PM, Classic Brass, Southern
4:00 PM, Seacoast Wind Ensemble,
5:00 PM, Air Force Band of Liberty, Hanscom

FREE

A revival of their program of 16th-century Spanish love songs and motets on texts from the Song of Songs

Program TBA

CENTENNIALS: SCHOENBERG PIERROT LUNAIRE (1912) & STRAVINSKY LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS (1913)
Randall Hodgkinson and Leslie Amper, pianos; Sharan Leventhal, violin and viola
Joshua Gordon, cello; Anne Bobo, flute
Gary Gorczyca, clarinets; Mary Mackenzie, soprano
Tickets: $35, $48, $59

The Final Round

Ensembles of all ages selected from all over the US and abroad will compete for the Gold, Silver and Bronze. The award ceremony will follow the performances. www.cmfone.org

FREE

Dorchester Park, adjacent to Lower Mills Campus at 2200 Dorchester Ave.

Orchestra’s Brass Ensemble will collaborate with Pope John Paul II Catholic Academy from Dorchester and Mattapan for a very special concert on June 11 at 6 pm in Dorchester Park. The Ensemble and 100 student violinists will perform “America the Beautiful” together. Another highlight will be the Pope John Paul II Catholic Academy Tin Whistle Program performing “This Land Is Your Land.” The brass ensemble’s performance will feature some of the best works created throughout history for these instruments from Vivaldi to Souza and more.

Free

Rain location: Pope John Paul II Catholic Academy gymnasium, 2200 Dorchester Avenue

A FAR CRY
with Andrés Cárdenes, violin & David Deveau, piano
GOLIJOV: Tenebrae
PIAZZOLLA: Invierno and Otoño from
The Four Seasons in Buenos Aires
VIVALDI: Concerto for Violin, Op. 4, No. 11 in D Major from
La Stravaganza
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 14 in E-flat, K. 449
BRITTEN: Variations on a Theme by Frank Bridge
Tickets: $45, $65, $78

Chopin Symposium

Program TBA

J. S. Bach: Concerto for Oboe and Strings
J. C. Bach: Lamento: “Ach, dass ich Wassers gnug hätte”
J. S Bach: Wedding Cantata

W. F. Bach: Duo for two violins
J. S. Bach: Goldberg Canons
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileras No. 5
Dominique Labelle, soprano; Stephen Hammer, baroque oboe; Daniel Stepner and Nancy Wilson, baroque violins; David Miller, baroque viola; Loretta O’Sullivan, baroque cello; Anne Trout, baroque bass; Catherine Liddell, theorbo

Special performance at St. Peter’s Church in Spencertown

Haydn: String Quartet in G minor, Opus 74, No. 3 (“Rider”)

Mendelssohn: String Quartet in E minor Opus 44, No. 2

Debussy : String Quartet in G minor, Opus 10

Richard Pittman, conductor, Krista River, mezzo-soprano
DAVID RAKOWSKI: Mikronomicon
PETER CHILD: Rilke Songs ( mezzo-soprano & ensemble)
NICHOLAS MAW: Ghost Dances
Tickets: $35, $48, $59

A reconstruction of the Parisian concert on February 20, 1842 with mezzo-soprano Victoria Avetisyan, cellist Ronald Lowry, and pianist Roberto Poli

F. Chopin: Andante and Ballade in A-flat Major, Op. 47
J. Dessauer: Felice Donzella
F. Chopin: Suite de Nocturne, Preludes et Etudes
F. Handel: Selected arias
Solo for Violoncello
F. Chopin: Suite de Nocturnes, Preludes, Mazurkas et Impromptus
P. Viardot: Le Chene et le Roseau

MOZART: String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K. 465 “Dissonance”
THOMAS ADES: Arcadianna
ANDREW NORMAN:
…toward sunrise and the prime of light…
MENDELSSOHN: Quartet in F minor, Op. 80
Tickets: $35, $48, $59

All Schubert
Duo for Violin and Piano in A Major, D.574
Laura Smukler,violin Seymour Lipkin, piano

6 Moments Musicaux
Sonatina in A minor, D. 385
Rondo for violin and piano in B minor, D. 895, Op. 70

Mozart: Kegelstatt Trio, for clarinet, viola and fortepiano
Franz Krommer: Quartet for Clarinet, violin, viola, cello
Mozart: Gran Partita (arr. Schwenke, for fortepiano, oboe and string trio)

Eric Hoeprich, classical clarinet; Stephen Hammer, classical oboe; Daniel Stepner, classical violin; David Miller, baroque viola; Loretta O’Sullivan, classical cello; Ilya Poletaev, fortepiano

Mozart: Kegelstatt Trio, for clarinet, viola and fortepiano
Franz Krommer: Quartet for Clarinet, violin, viola, cello
Mozart: Gran Partita (arr. Schwenke, for fortepiano, oboe and string trio)

Eric Hoeprich, classical clarinet; Stephen Hammer, classical oboe; Daniel Stepner, classical violin; David Miller, baroque viola; Loretta O’Sullivan, classical cello; Ilya Poletaev, fortepiano

with John Bruce Yeh, clarinet
BEN JOHNSTON: Quartet No. 4, Amazing Grace
BEETHOVEN: Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2
BRAHMS: Quintet for clarinet and strings in B minor,
Tickets: $35, $48, $59

Musical riches from the along the ancient trade routes with musicians from around the globe.

with David Deveau, piano
JANÁČEK: Mladi (Youth) for wind sextet
MARTINŮ: Sextet for piano and winds
BRAHMS: Trio in E-flat major for violin, horn and piano
Tickets: $45, $65, $78

Christopher Cerrone’s *Invisible Cities*. Based on the acclaimed novella by Italo Calvini, this opera is a melting pot of musical styles, documenting Polo and his role in the rise and fall of Kublai Khan’s Mongolian empire.

Debussy: Sonata for cello & piano
Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Quintet in g minor
Coleridge-Taylor: from Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast Op.16
Adelaide: Beethoven
John Cage: In a Landscape (1948)
Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge (1909)

Performers William Hite,tenor; New England Piano Quintet – Gregory Hayes,piano;Colleen Jennings and Kathy Andrew, violin; John Dunlap,cello

Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-flat, BWV 1051
Paul Neubauer, Karen Dreyfus, violas; David Ying, Amir Eldan, Keiko Ying, cellos; Kurt Muroki, double bass; Tao Lin, harpsichord

CLAUDE DEBUSSY
String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10
Ying Quartet

PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35
Ray Chen, violin
Bowdoin Festival Orchestra, Lewis Kaplan, conductor

Sonata “1000 Gulden” by Antonio Bertali
Three solo sonatas for harpsichord by Domenico Scarlatti
Trio sonata and three songs by Henry Purcell
Pimpinone (a comic intermezzo) by Telemann

Nancy Armstrong, soprano; David Ripley, baritone; Daniel Stepner, baroque violin; Julie Leven, baroque violin; Laura Jeppesen, baroque viola; Loretta O’Sullivan, classical cello; Anne Trout, violone; John Gibbons, harpsichord

Sonata “1000 Gulden” by Antonio Bertali
Three solo sonatas for harpsichord by Domenico Scarlatti
Trio sonata and three songs by Henry Purcell
Pimpinone (a comic intermezzo) by Telemann

Nancy Armstrong, soprano; David Ripley, baritone; Daniel Stepner, baroque violin; Julie Leven, baroque violin; Laura Jeppesen, baroque viola; Loretta O’Sullivan, classical cello; Anne Trout, violone; John Gibbons, harpsichord

Christopher Cerrone’s *Invisible Cities*. Based on the acclaimed novella by Italo Calvini, this opera is a melting pot of musical styles, documenting Polo and his role in the rise and fall of Kublai Khan’s Mongolian empire.

An Evening of Recorder Concertos

Aldo Abreu, recorder

Featuring Peter Sykes, Jane Starkman, Sarah Freiberg and other string players.

Program includes concertos by Bach, Telemann, and Vivaldi

FREE

“Duke Ellington, Paris and New Orleans”

Midori, violin

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Sonata for Solo Violin No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Sonata for Solo Violin No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Partita for Solo Violin No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004

Tanglewood Music Center Instrumental Fellows
String Quartet Marathon
One ticket provides admission to all three performances.

Tanglewood Music Center Instrumental Fellows
String Quartet Marathon
One ticket provides admission to all three performances.

MOZART Quartet No. 21 in D, K.575
ADÈS Four Quarters, for string quartet
BEETHOVEN Quartet No. 13 in B-flat, Op. 130,
with original Grosse Fuge finale

Fritz Kreisler:
from String Quartet in a minor (1922)
Caprice Viennois & Liebeslied
Old refrain and Cradle Song

Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Five songs
Mozart: String Quintet in g minor K.516 W.A.

Maria Ferrante, soprano; Estela Olevsky, piano; Masako Yanagita, and Joel Pitchon, violin; Ronald Gorevic, and Peggy McAdams,viola; Volcy Pelletier, cello

Hindemith: Sonata for viola and piano, Op. 11, No. 4 Lederer, Lipkin

Beethoven: Piano trio Op. 70, No. 1 (Ghost Trio) Smukler, Krosnick, Coop

Bartók: Sonata for violin and piano, No. 2
Smukler, Coop

Brahms: Piano trio, No. 3 in C minor, Op. 101
Feeney, Mallow, Lipkin

Antonio Vivaldi:
Concerto in D Minor from “L’estro armonico” for two violins, cello, strings and continuo
Concerto in C Major for violin, two cellos, strings and continuo
Concerto in B Minor 580 from “L’estro armonico” for four violins

Johann Sebastian Bach:
Concerto A Minor, for violin, strings and continuo
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major
Concerto in D Major for three violins, strings and continuo

Stanley Ritchie, founding violinist of Aston Magna; Daniel Stepner, violinist and Artistic Director; Julie Leven, baroque violin; Nancy Wilson, baroque violin; Kelsey Hudson, baroque violin; Valerie Weber, baroque violin; Valerie Gordon, baroque violin; Stephanie Raby, baroque violin; David Miller, baroque viola; Laura Jeppesen, baroque viola; Loretta O’Sullivan, classical cello; Guy Fishman, baroque cello; Sarah Freiberg, baroque cello; Anne Trout, violone

Antonio Vivaldi:
Concerto in D Minor from “L’estro armonico” for two violins, cello, strings and continuo
Concerto in C Major for violin, two cellos, strings and continuo
Concerto in B Minor 580 from “L’estro armonico” for four violins

Johann Sebastian Bach:
Concerto A Minor, for violin, strings and continuo
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major
Concerto in D Major for three violins, strings and continuo

Stanley Ritchie, founding violinist of Aston Magna; Daniel Stepner, violinist and Artistic Director; Julie Leven, baroque violin; Nancy Wilson, baroque violin; Kelsey Hudson, baroque violin; Valerie Weber, baroque violin; Valerie Gordon, baroque violin; Stephanie Raby, baroque violin; David Miller, baroque viola; Laura Jeppesen, baroque viola; Loretta O’Sullivan, classical cello; Guy Fishman, baroque cello; Sarah Freiberg, baroque cello; Anne Trout, violone

Joshua Bell, violin
Edgar Meyer, double bass
BARBER Overture to The School for Scandal
TCHAIKOVSKY Meditation, for violin and orchestra
MEYER Double Concerto for violin, double bass,
and orchestra (world premiere)
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4⁺

with Pedja Muzijevic, piano
Mozart: String Quartet in B Flat Major,
“The Hunt”
Ravel: String Quartet in F Major
Schumann: Piano Quintet in E flat Major, Op. 44

3 pm: Prelude: Pedja Muzijevic, piano
Franck: Prelude, Chorale and Fugue

Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor
Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Fellows
RESPIGHI Fontane di Roma
SCHULLER Dreamscape (world premiere; commissioned
by the TMC)
DVOŘÁK In Nature’s Realm, Op. 91
PROKOFIEV Selections from Romeo and Juliet
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4

Deering Community Church

Guest Artists: Irina Muresanu (violin), Rob Auler (piano)

Johannes Brahms – Scherzo
Virgil Thomson – Waltz
Virgil Thomson – Five Ladies
Ludwig van Beethoven – “Kreutzer” Sonata
Franz Liszt – Mephisto-Waltz
Virgil Thomson – Sonata
William Bolcom – Graceful Ghost
Griforas Dinicu – Skylark

Village Concert, voluntary admission.

GRANADOS: Andaluza – Danza Española No. 5
GERÓNIMO GIMÉNEZ: Intermedio
TOMÁS BRETÓN: Seguidillas (La Verbena de la Paloma)
BACH: Toccata and Fugue in D minor
HANDEL: Water Music Suite
FATS WALLER: Handful of Keys
Additional works by Spanish composers, such as Nino Rota, Ramón Cardo, and De Cai Pascual Piqueras.
Tickets: $35, $48, $59

(Campbell and Johnson) together with the Afiara String Quartet.

Mozart: Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, K. 581
Schubert: String Quintet in C Major, D. 956

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Trio in C Major, K. 548
Daniel Crockett – Night Scenes
Johannes Brahms – Trio in B Major, Op. 8

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D, BWV 1050
Randy Bowman, flute; Lewis Kaplan, Maria Schleuning, Laura Lutzke, violins; TBA, viola; David Ying, cello; Kurt Muroki, double bass; Ray Cornils, harpsichord

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
ARRANGED FOR PIANO BY FERRUCCIO BUSONI
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor for Organ, BWV 565
Emma Tahmiziàn, piano

MAURICE RAVEL
Miroirs
Boris Slutsky, piano

CÉSAR FRANCK
Piano Quintet in F Minor
Mikhail Kopelman, Laura Lutzke, violins; Rami Solomonow, viola; Keiko Ying, cello; Elizaveta Kopelman, piano

ALL-MOZART PROGRAM
Violin Concerto No. 2 in D, K.211
Violin Concerto No. 3 in G, K.216
Violin Concerto No. 5 in A, K.219

A French Connection for Bastille Day
Milhaud: Chants négresses and Three Rags-Caprices Songs
and more – announced from the stage

Bolcom: Monsterpieces for young students
The Mad Monster, The Sad Monster
The Bad Mister, The Glad Mister

Paul Huang, violin and Jessica Osborne, piano

Schubert: Rondo Brilliant, Opus 70
Ottorino Respigh: Sonata in B minor, for violin and piano

Messiaen: Thème et variations (1932)
Maurice Rave: Pièce en forme de Habanera
Debussy: La plus que lente Beau soir
Franz Waxman: Fantasy on Georges Bizet’s opera

Wilton Center Unitarian Church

Ludwig van Beethoven – Sonata in F Major for Horn and Piano Op. 17
Arnold Bax – Clarinet Sonata in Bb Major
George Antheil – Sonata for Trumpet and Piano
Stjepan Sulek – Sonata for Trombone and Piano
Johannes Brahms – Sonata for Viola and Piano in F Minor
Virgil Thomson – Sonata da Chiesa for Clarinet, Horn, Trumpet, Trombone & Viola

Village Concert, voluntary admission

BACH: The complete works for unaccompanied violin
Tickets: $35, $48, $59

Schubert: String trio in B-flat (in one movement) D. 47 Feeney, Lederer, Krosnick

Brahms: Sonata for violin and piano, No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108 Feeney, Lipkin

Shulamit Ran: String duo (world premiere)
Smukler, Krosnick,

Goetz: Piano quartet in E major, Op. 6
Feeney, Lederer, Mallow, Coop

with David Deveau, piano
MOZART: Quartet in E-flat, K. 428
RAVEL: String Quartet in F
DVOŘÁK: Piano Quintet in A, Op. 81
Tickets: $35, $48, $59

Keene Ahavas Achim Synagogue

Guest Artists: Evan Hirsch, Sally Pinkas (pianos),
Jonathan Hess, Robert Schulz (percussion)

Johannes Brahms – Variation on a Theme by Haydn for Two Pianos
Bela Bartok – Bartok Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion
John Bergamo – Piru Bowle
Stewart Wallace – Gorilla In a Cage *MacDowell Colony Fellow

Village Concert, voluntary admission.

Shmuel Ashkenasi and David Ehrlich, violins; Kirsten Johnson and Beth Chu, violas; Marc Johnson, cello.

Mendelssohn: String Quintet No. 1 in A Major, Op. 18
Mendelssohn: String Quintet No. 2 in Bb Major, Op. 87

Domenico Scarlatti – 4 Sonatas
Frederic Chopin – Andante Spinato and Grande Polonaise, 3 Etudes
Franz Schubert – Impromptu Op. 90 #3
Mauricio Kagel – An Tasten
Franz Schubert – Wanderer Fantasy

Bach: 2 Canons from the Art of the Fugue
Smukler, Krosnick

Brahms: Sonata for cello and piano in F major, Op. 99 Krosnick, Coop

George Walker: Sonata for violin and piano, No.1 Feeney, Lipkin

Mendelssohn: String quintet No. 1 in A major, Op. 18 Smukler, Feeney, Lederer, Weller, Mallow

Dan Zhu, violin**
BERNSTEIN Serenade (after Plato’s Symposium) for violin
and orchestra
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6, Pathétique

ALL-WAGNER PROGRAM⁺
Overture to Rienzi
Prelude and Love-death from Tristan und Isolde
Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre
Forest Murmurs from Siegfried
Prelude to Parsifal
Overture to Tannhäuser
⁺Program of August 12, 1937

Francestown Old Meeting House

Michael Gandolfi – Preludes
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Five Divertimenti for Winds in Bb Major
Samuel Barber – Summer Music
Gunther Schulller – Suite for Woodwind Quintet
Heitor Villa-Lobos – Quinteto em forma de chôros
John Harbison – Wind Quintet

Village Concert, voluntary admission.

Bach: 2 Canons from the Art of the Fugue
Smukler, Krosnick

Brahms: Sonata for cello and piano in F major, Op. 99 Krosnick, Coop

George Walker: Sonata for violin and piano, No.1 Feeney, Lipkin

Mendelssohn: String quintet No. 1 in A major, Op. 18 Smukler, Feeney, Lederer, Weller, Mallow

Emanuel Ax, piano
TanglewoodMusic Center Conducting Fellows
IVES Three Places in New England
SCHONBERG Piano Concerto, Op 42
STRAVINSKY Petrushka (1911 version)

Temple Community Church

Johann Sebastian Bach – “Zurücke, zurücke, geflügelten Winde” from Cantata 205
Georg Frideric Handel – Suite in D major
Georg Phillip Telemann – Concerto in D major
David MacDonald – Voices * MacDowell Colony Fellow
Petr Eben – Okna
Franz Josef Haydn – Concerto in Eb Major

Village Concert, voluntary admission.

Sullivan Congregational Church

Guest Artists: F. A. E. Duo, Nicholas DiEugenio (violin), Chi-Chen Wu (fortepiano)

Ludwig van Beethoven – Sonata for Piano and Violin in D major, op. 12, no. 1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Sonata in E-flat major, K. 282
Franz Schubert – Sonata for Violin and Piano in D major D. 384
Ludwig van Beethoven – Sonata for Piano and Violin op. 30, no. 2

Village Concert, voluntary admission.

Beethoven:

Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, Op. 24 Piano Sonata No. 14 in c# minor, Op. 27, No. 2 (“Moonlight Sonata”)
Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47 (“Kreutzer Sonata”)

Beethoven: String trio
Copes, Murdock, Hampton

Prokofiev: Sonata for violin and piano No.1 in F minor, Op. 80 Keyes, Bjerken

Dvorák: String sextet in A major, Op. 48
Smukler, Copes, Murdock, Weller, Hampton, Grossman

The Serge and Olga Koussevitzky Memorial Concert
Nelson Freire, piano
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K.466
VILLA-LOBOS Momoprecoce, Fantasy for piano and orchestra
MUSSORGSKY (orch. RAVEL) Pictures at an Exhibition

Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano (Marguerite)
Paul Groves, tenor (Faust)*
Sir WillardWhite, baritone* (Méphistophélès)
Christopher Feigum, bass-baritone** (Brander)
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
JPALS Children’s Chorus
BERLIOZ La Damnation de Faust
Sung in French with English supertitles

Keene Colonial Theatre

Guest Artists: Heather Buck (soprano), James Maddalena (baritone), Frank Kelley (tenor), Aaron Engebreth (baritone); directed and conducted by Gil Rose

Dominick Argento – A Water Bird Talk
Dominick Argento – The Boor

Beethoven: String trio
Copes, Murdock, Hampton

Prokofiev: Sonata for violin and piano No.1 in F minor, Op. 80 Keyes, Bjerken

Dvorák: String sextet in A major, Op. 48
Smukler, Copes, Murdock, Weller, Hampton, Grossman

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Suite for Lute in C Minor, BWV 997
Ricardo Iznaola, guitar

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Sonata in C Minor, BWV 1017
Janet Sung, violin; Tao Lin, piano

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Seven Variations in E-flat Major on the Theme “Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen,” from Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte,” for Piano and Violoncello, WoO. 46
David Requiro, cello; Yong Hi Moon, piano

MAURICE RAVEL
Sonata for Violin and Piano
Frank Huang, violin; Constance Moore, piano

with Todd Crow, piano

Beethoven: String Quartet in F minor, Op.95 (“Serioso”)
Smetana: String Quartet in E minor
(“From My Life”)
Foote: Piano Quintet in A minor, Op.38

Hancock Congregational Church
with Krista River

Kate Moore – Red Flame, Blue Flame *MacDowell Colony Fellow
Virgil Thomson – Four Songs to the Poems of Thomas Campion
Luciano Berio – Chamber Music
Paul Ben-Haim – Chamber Music
Arthur Berger – Words for Music, Perhaps: Three Poems of Yeats
Frank Martin – Quatre Sonnets a Cassandre
Claude Debussy – Trio for Flute, Viola & Harp

Village Concert, voluntary admission.

Washington Congregational Church

Ben Hjertmann – Bhyxe *MacDowell Colony Fellow
Franz Danzi – Trio in E Minor
Ingolf Dahl – Concerto a Tre
Zoltan Kodaly- Duo for Violin & Cello

Village Concert, voluntary admission.

Sospiro Winds and the Brubecks

Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Beethoven: Quintet in Eb Major, Op. 4
Brubeck: Vignettes for Nonet, for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, French horn, Bassoon and Jazz Quartet

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G, BWV 1048
Renee Jolles, Frank Huang, Janet Sung, violins; Dimitri Murrath, Caroline Coade, Jesús Gonzáles, violas; Andre Emelianoff, Yehuda Hanani, David Requiro, cellos; Kurt Muroki, double bass; Tao Lin, harpsichord

CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Danses
June Han, harp; Shangahi Quartet

PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 23
Ben Kim, piano
Bowdoin Festival Orchestra, Lewis Kaplan, conductor

Franz Schubert – Winterreise

Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
GANDOLFI Night Train to Perugia (world premiere; BSO commission)
SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concerto No. 5, Egyptian
BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique

with Yizhak Schotten, viola;
Robert deMaine, cello;
Nancy Allen Lundy, soprano
Debussy: String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10
Russell Platt: “Transport to Summer” for soprano and string sextet (2010)
Tchaikovsky: “Souvenir de Florence” for string sextet, Op. 70

3 pm: PRE-CONCERT TALK with Russell Platt and Musicians

Mozart: Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello in C Major, K. 548Shepherd: Trio (2012) (Commissioned for the Claremont Trio in honor of the new concert hall at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston)
Brahms: Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello in B Major, Opus 8

Tanglewood on Parade
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Boston Pops Orchestra
TanglewoodMusic Center Orchestra
Stéphane Denève*, Keith Lockhart, Lorin Maazel,
Christoph von Dohnányi, and JohnWilliams, conductors
Program to include
BEETHOVEN Egmont Overture
STRAVINSKY Suite from The Firebird (1919 version)
Recent film scores by John WILLIAMS
TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture
Fireworks to follow the concert

BEDFORD Or Voit Tout En Aventure
BIRTWISTLE Cantus Iambeus
CASTIGLIONI Quickly
SEAN SHEPHERD These Particular Circumstances

Vivaldi:
Concerto for 2 Cellos in G minor, RV 531
The Four Seasons Concerti

Diane Walsh, piano;

Haydn: Quartet No. 30 in E-flat Major, Opus 33 No. 2; Hob. III:38 (‘The Joke’)
Bartok: Quartet No. 1 in A Minor, BB52; Sz.40 (1909)
Franck: Quintet in F Minor for Piano and Strings, M.7

Mendelssohn: Sonata for cello and piano No. 2 in D major, Op. 58 Hampton, Lipkin

Ravel: Piano trio in A minor
Smukler, Hampton, Bjerken

Dvorák: Piano quintet No. 2 in A major, Op. 81
Copes, Keyes, Murdock, Grossman, Lipkin

Jon Klibonoff, piano

Admission is free for all young people under 16. Adults pay $5 each.

Prelude Concert
An all-Charles Ives program, prepared and conducted by Gunther Schuller, including little-known, rarely played gems in an amazing variety of styles and genre

Yo-Yo Ma, cello
PREVIN Music for Boston (world premiere; BSO commission)
ELGAR Cello Concerto
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5

Paul Lewis, piano
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 4
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K.488
STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks

Beethoven, Schubert TBA

The performance will take place at the Tannery on the grounds of Darrow School.

Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival Gala: Cultural Center of Cape Cod, 307 Old Main Street, South Yarmouth;

Special Program: Buffet dinner and performances by Festival artistic directors: Jon Nakamatsu, piano, and Jon Manasse, clarinet.

Stravinsky: Three Pieces for String Quartet (1914)
Brewbaker: Piece TBA, commissioned by and written for The Borromeo String Quartet
Schubert: Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, d. 810 (Death and the Maiden)

Stravinsky: Three Pieces for String Quartet (1914)
Brewbaker: Piece TBA, commissioned by and written for The Borromeo String Quartet
Schubert: Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, d. 810 (Death and the Maiden)

MOZART Quartet No. 15 in D minor, K.421
TCHAIKOVSKY Quartet No. 1 in D, Op. 11
Jazz improvisations, arranged by the Ébène Quartet

with Stephen Prutsman, piano

Haydn: Piano Trio in eb minor; (Jacob’s Dream), Hob XV:31
Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in d minor, Op. 40
Faure: Piano Quartet No.1 in c minor, Op.15

Beethoven Sonatas for Vn and Pf
Op. 30, No. 1 in A major
Op. 12, No. 3 in E-flat major
Op. 96 in G major
Copes, Lipkin

JAZZ AT THE MAVERICK

An Evening of Jazz, celebrating their recent CD, FICTION

Boston Pops Orchestra
Keith Lockhart, Leonard Slatkin, and
Shi-Yeon Sung, conductors
withJessye Norman, soprano; Gil Shaham, violin; Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Gabriela Montero, piano*
Anthony McGill, clarinet; Surprise guests

The Boston Pops Orchestra presents a very specialconcert honoring the 80th birthday year of Laureate Conductor John Williams.

Matthew Dine, oboe; Jon Manasse, clarinet; Pamela Greitzer-Manasse, cello; Jon Nakamatsu, piano.

Bach: Sonata in G Minor for Oboe, Keyboard and Continuo, BWV 1030b
Bruch: Kol Neidrei, Opus 47
Beethoven: Trio in B-flat Major for Piano, Clarinet and Cello, Opus 11
Liebermann: Elegy (composed in memory of Gus Manasse)
Schumann: Carnaval, Opus 9

Beethoven Sonatas for Vn and Pf

Op. 12, No. 2 in A major
Op. 30, No. 3 in G major
Op. 47 in A major (Kreutzer)
Copes, Lipkin

Karina Gauvin, soprano*
FOSS For Aaron
J.S. BACH Cantata No. 209, Non sa che sia dolore
HINDEMITH Kleine Kammermusik, Op. 24, No. 2, for wind quintet
BRUCH Kol nidrei, Op. 47, for double bass and piano
MOZART Divertimento in E-flat, K.289

Dvorak:
Terzetto in C Major for two Violins and Viola, Op. 74
Quintet in a minor for two Violins, two Violas and Cello, Op. 1
Quintet in Eb Major for String Quartet and Bass, Op. 97

Program TBA

Nancy Fabiola Herrera, mezzo-soprano (Salud); Cristina Faus, mezzo-soprano (Grandmother)
Cátia Moreso, mezzo-soprano** (Carmela)
Pablo Sáinz Villegas, guitar**
ALBÉNIZ (arr. FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS) Suite española
FALLA La vida breve
Sung in Spanish with English supertitles

with Andrew Russo, piano

Debussy/arranged by Ravel: Two Nocturnes
Debussy/Debussy: “Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune”
Philip Glass: “Four Movements for Two Pianos”
Gershwin: “An American in Paris”
Ravel: “La Valse”

CURTIS ON TOUR MEETS FIRST CHAIR ALL STARS

Mozart: Serenade No. 10 for winds in Bb Major, K. 361 “Gran Partita

Dvorak: Serenade for Wind instruments, Cello and Double-bass in d minor, Op. 44

Todd Palmer, Elizabeth Futral, Ran Dank

Schubert: Piano Sonata in A minor, D. 784
Three Songs

Ricky Ian Gordon: Orpheus and Euridice (2005) (A Song Cycle in two Acts)

CONCERT FOR FRIENDS OF THE MAVERICK
Tim Fain, violin

Bach: Partita No. 3 in E Major
Glass: Partita for Solo Violin (2010)
Ysaÿe: Violin Sonata in D Minor, Op. 27, No. 3, “Ballade”

Haydn; String Quartet in D minor, Opus 42
Bartók: String Quartet IV (1927)
Beethoven: String Quartet in B flat major, Opus 130