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Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 11, e-minor
Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta

FREE

February

Symphonies #5-6
Yvonne Lee will perform the outstanding transcription by Franz Liszt of the 5th Symphony. Joshua Del Dotto and Stephen Yenger will perform the two piano version of the ‘Pastorale” 6th Symphony. FREE

1:30 – Introductory remarks: Lewis Lockwood, Anne C. Shreffler (Harvard University)
2:00 – Scholarly papers: Alan Gosman (University of Michigan), “The distant pianissimo in Beethoven’s Opus 18 Finales”;
Matthias Roeder (Harvard University) “The ‘Little Finale’ for Beethoven’s Opus 130: Stop-Gap or Serious Alternative?”
3:45 – Panel discussion: Joel Smirnoff, the Chiara String Quartet

Beethoven Cycle, concert 2 of 6
String Quartet in D Major, Op. 18 No. 3
String Quartet in E Minor, Op. 132
String Quartet in C Major, Op. 59 No. 3

Blodgett concerts are free but passes are required. Free passes available beginning two weeks prior to concert from Harvard Box Office in the Holyoke Center Arcade, Harvard Square. 617-496-2222.

Free parking for this concert available at Broadway garage, corner of Felton St. and Broadway.

Nancy Armstrong, soprano; Robert Honeysucker, baritone; Laura Jeppesen, viola da gamba; and Daniel Stepner, baroque violin

Songs of Sondheim, Gershwin, and others.

BERG: Three Pieces for Orchestra

STRAUSS: Four Last Songs

MAHLER: Symphony No. 4

(S)he’s just not that into you: love songs from the 17th-century English court.

Presenting: shepherds, Muses, and the trials and tribulations of love, set to the music of Lawes, Purcell, astello, Marini, and Falconieri.

The Romantic Cello, Part II
. Mendelssohn: Sonata in D Major, Op. 58
. Schumann: Fünf Stücke im Volkston,
Op. 102
. Mendelssohn: Songs without Words,
Op. 109
. Brahms: Sonata No. 2 in F Major, Op. 99

Monteverdi: “Altri canti d’amor” and “altri canto di marte”
Monteverdi: “Ecco mormora l’onde”
Marini: Echo Sonata
Monteverdi: “Lamento della ninfa”
Monteverdi: “Hor che’l ciel e la terra e ‘l vento tace”
John Bennet: “All creatures now”
John Wilbye: “Draw on sweet night”
Gesualdo: “Belta, poi che t’assenti”
Monteverdi: “T’amo mia vita”
Thomas Tomkins: “Oh yes! Has any found a lad?”
Thomas Vautor: “Sweet Suffolk Owl”
Merula: Ciaconna
Monteverdi: “Dolcissimo uscignolo”

Laurence Cummings, conductor
Handel and Haydn Society Chorus and Period Instrument Orchestra

Music and Lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM
Book by HUGH WHEELER

David Gram, director;
Emily Hindrichs, conductor

Suggested by a Film by Ingmar Bergman
Originally produced and directed on Broadway by Harold Prince

A Tribute to Doriot Anthony Dwyer

Debussy: Syrinx with Doriot Anthony Dwyer
Saint-Saens: Fantasie for Violin and Harp
Schulhoff: Concertino for flute, viola, double bass
Dvořák: Selections from Cypresses with Muir Qt.
Poulenc: Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano
Mozart: Flute Quartet in D, K285, with Doriot Anthony Dwyer and members of the Muir Qt.

The following artists will participate:
Lucia Lin, violin; Ann Hobson Pilot, harp; Elizabeth Ostling, flute; Edward Gazouleas, viola
Edwin Barker, double bass; John Ferrillo, oboe
Richard Ranti, bassoon; Martin Amlin, piano

Purchase tickets by contacting Emily Culler at 617-353-8995 or ecc@bu.edu

Tangos with Love
guest Geoffrey Shamu, cornet

Mozart’s Così fan tutte
Music by Wolfgang Amadé Mozart; Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte
William Lumpkin, conductor
Lawrence Edelson, guest stage director
In Italian with English supertitles by Allison Voth

Mozart’s Così fan tutte
Music by Wolfgang Amadé Mozart; Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte
William Lumpkin, conductor
Lawrence Edelson, guest stage director
In Italian with English supertitles by Allison Voth

DUKAS: Fanfare “La Peri”
LAURIDSEN: O Magnum Mysterium
SCHULLER: Symphony for Brass and Percussion
BERNSTEIN (arr. Eric Crees): West Side Story Suite)

FREE

Mozart’s Così fan tutte
Music by Wolfgang Amadé Mozart; Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte
William Lumpkin, conductor
Lawrence Edelson, guest stage director
In Italian with English supertitles by Allison Voth

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 6, Pastoral

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 7

HWV 251b Handel: Chandos Anthem No. 6
As pants the hart

Mozart’s Così fan tutte
Music by Wolfgang Amadé Mozart; Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte
William Lumpkin, conductor
Lawrence Edelson, guest stage director
In Italian with English supertitles by Allison Voth

Works by Pavana Phillipi, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, William Inglott, John Bull, John Dowland, Heinrich Scheidemann, John Dowland, Johann Jakob Froberger and Louis Couperin

LEIPZIG: Schelle, Kuhnau & Bach

The Brass Rep Class, The Tuba Ensemble, James Sommerville, Gus Sebring and Toby Oft

Works by: Paul Dukas, Giovanni Gabrielli, Albert Oppenheimer, Anton Bruckner, Henri Tomasi, Norman Bolter, J. S. Bach, Zequinha Abreu, Nino Rota, Toby Oft, Ottorino Respighi

FREE

Shreker: Intermezzo, Op. 8
tba Haydn or Mozart symphony
Walton: Sonata for String Orchestra

FREE

Leslie Kwan Partita No. 3 in A Minor,
BWV 827

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor”
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7

Works by Alla Elena Cohen’s for string quintet, for string quartet, for two mixed quartets – one for flute, oboe, electric guitar and piano and another for trumpet, bassoon, chimes and piano. Other pieces are for duos for violin and cello and for flute and piano, and compositions each for cello solo and piano solo.

Music of Marais, Gallot, Forqueray, S. L. Weiss, Abel, and Lidl, illustrating the golden
age of these most expressive instruments.

Fully staged and costumed performance, sung in Italian with projected English translations. Channing Yu, Music Director; Michael Yashinsky ’11, Stage Director; Ryan Kichler, Producer. With the Lowell House Opera Orchestra and Chorus.

Mahler: Symphony No. 9

Bernard Hoffer: Symphony (Poussette-Dart) (world premiere)
Ronald Perera: Earthsongs
Simmons College Chorale (Danica Buckley, director)
Handel & Haydn Society Young Women’s Chorus (Lisa Graham, director)
William Schuman: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Danielle Maddon, violin
Johannes Brahms: Variations on a Theme of Haydn

Fully staged and costumed performance, sung in Italian with projected English translations. Channing Yu, Music Director; Michael Yashinsky ’11, Stage Director; Ryan Kichler, Producer. With the Lowell House Opera Orchestra and Chorus.

Young Artists Showcase—First Prize Winner, 2009 Young Concert Artists International Auditions
. Beethoven: Sonata No. 8 in G Major,
Op. 30, No. 3
. Corigliano: Sonata for violin and piano
. Saint-Saëns: Sonata No. 1 in D minor

Ying Huang as Madame White Snake
Michael Maniaci as Xiao Qing
John McVeigh as Xu Xian
Dong-Jian Gong as Abbot Fahai

Conducted by Gil Rose
Directed by Robert Woodruff

Music by Distler, Poulenc, and Brahms

Distler’s “Totentanz”, or “Death Dance”, evolved from a Medieval liturgical drama.

The third annual Daniel Pinkham Award will be presented to renowned former BSO flutist, Fenwick Smith.

with a Quartet from the King’s Chapel Choir

Johann Sebastian Bach: Clavierübung III

(”German Organ Mass”)

Baroque and traditional music from Scotland and Maritime Canada with Chris Norman, baroque flute, and David Greenberg, violin,

Chamber works for two instruments by Robert Schumann and his wife, the great pianist Clara Wieck will be performed. Featuring members of The Boston Conservatory faculty, including Lynn Chang, Irina Muresanu, Andrew Mark, Michael Norsworthy, Jungja Kim, Janice Weber, YaFei Chuang, Jonathan Bass and Max Levinson.

FREE

ALEA III celebrates the life and work of Lukas Foss, a great master, with an evening devoted to his music.

Echoi
For Toru
Elegy for Anne Frank
For Aaron

Plus

Eightenen Epigrams- a new work written by Lukas Foss’ students:

Apostolos Paraskevas, Panos Liaropoulos, Michalis Economou, Jakov Jakoulov, Mark Berger,
Frank Wallace, Ronald G. Vigue, Julian Wachner, Jeremy Van Buskirk, Mauricio Pauly, Matt Van Brink, Ivana Lisak, Ramon Castillo, Pedro Malpica,
Paul Vash, Po-Chun Wang, Margaret McAllister, Sunggone Hwang.

Soloist for the evening:

Kathleen Boyd, flute
Yukiko Shimazaki, piano
Theodore Antoniou, conductor

FREE

KHACHATURIAN: Gayane : Sabre Dance

MOZART: Overture to The Impressario

ROSSINI: Overture to William Tell

TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake : Introduction

KHACHATURIAN: Masquerade: Galop

BIZET: Farandole

DVO?ÁK: Slavonic Dance, Op.46, No.1

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 4: Finale

Walton: Portsmouth Point: An Overture
Violin Concerto with student soloist tba
Brahms: Serenade No. 1, Op. 11

FREE

KHACHATURIAN: Gayane : Sabre Dance

MOZART: Overture to The Impressario

ROSSINI: Overture to William Tell

TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake : Introduction

KHACHATURIAN: Masquerade: Galop

BIZET: Farandole

DVO?ÁK: Slavonic Dance, Op.46, No.1

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 4: Finale

KHACHATURIAN: Gayane : Sabre Dance

MOZART: Overture to The Impressario

ROSSINI: Overture to William Tell

TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake : Introduction

KHACHATURIAN: Masquerade: Galop

BIZET: Farandole

DVO?ÁK: Slavonic Dance, Op.46, No.1

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 4: Finale

BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 2 in G Major, Opus 18, No. 2
BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Opus 95, “Serioso”
BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Opus 132

Fully staged and costumed performance, sung in Italian with projected English translations. Channing Yu, Music Director; Michael Yashinsky ’11, Stage Director; Ryan Kichler, Producer. With the Lowell House Opera Orchestra and Chorus.

KHACHATURIAN: Gayane : Sabre Dance

MOZART: Overture to The Impressario

ROSSINI: Overture to William Tell

TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake : Introduction

KHACHATURIAN: Masquerade: Galop

BIZET: Farandole

DVO?ÁK: Slavonic Dance, Op.46, No.1

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 4: Finale

Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria
Anton Bruckner: Locus Iste
Os Justi
Ave Maria
Virga Jesse Floruit
Benjamin Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb
Heinrich Christensen, organ; Orchestra and favorite vocal soloists

Junior Parents Weekend Concert with the
Radcliffe Choral Society. Repertoire will include selections from the early Renaissance through modern compositions, folk songs, and other favorites.

Bach Cantata:
BWV 163 Nur jedem das Seine!

Rossini L’Italiana in Algiers Overture
+
Paganini – Cantabile for Violin

Thomas Oboe Lee – Violin Concerto – for Irina World Premiere!
Irina Muresanu, violin

Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 5, Op. 64 in E Minor

NIELSEN: Helios Overture
RAUTAVAARA: Cantus Arcticus
SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 5

Program TBA

International Rostropovich Competition top-prize winner Wendy Warner will perform with Boston Conservatory composition faculty member, Dalit Warshaw.
DALIT WARSHAW: Desert Call
BEETHOVEN: g minor Sonata
SCHUMANN: Fantasy Pieces
BRAHMS: e minor Sonata

In June 2005, Kobrin was awarded the prestigious Gold Medal at the Twelfth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
“The pianist commanded the keyboard with such songful purpose that not a single phrase escaped his fingers without expression and thoughtfulness.” –The Washington Post
HAYDN: Sonatas in D Major and B minor
CHOPIN: the Four Impromptus
RACHMANINOFF: Four Moments-Musicaux and Variations on a Theme by Corelli.

Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem
Bruckner: Symphony No. 5

FREE

ALBÉNIZ: (orch. ARBÓS) Excerpts from Iberia

PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No. 1

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade

CAST (In order of vocal appearance)
Music Master: Jake Gardner*
Komponist: Edyta Kulczak*
Zerbinetta: Rachele Gilmore*
Ariadne: Marjorie Owens*
Tanzmeister/Brighella: Julius Ahn*
Bacchus: Brandon Jovanovich
Naiad: Mara Bonde*
Dryad: Andrea Coleman
Echo: Joanna Mongiardo
Truffaldino: David Cushing
Harlekin: Jesse Blumberg*
Scaramuccio: Tracy Wise*

With BLO’s Orchestra.
* BLO Debut

Mozart’s Don Giovanni with DongWon Kim ‘11 A.D. in title role

John Greer conducting

Marciem Bazell, guest director

Settings of Latin texts from the Song of Songs, and secular love songs in Spanish, all from 16th-century Spain, for singers accompanied by harp, organ, and bajón (the Renaissance predecessor of the bassoon).
Presented with support from the Spanish Government (Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States Universities).

Free pre-concert talk at 7:15 by Michael Noone (Boston College)

George Frideric Handel’s “Israel in Egypt”
Concerto Grosso in F major, Op. 3, no. 4

Teresa Wakim, soprano
Brenna Wells, soprano
Brad Fugate, alto
Matthew Anderson, tenor
Sumner Thompson, baritone
Graham T. Wright, bass

Violin Concerto, Opus 14 Samuel Barber
Tai Murray, violin

Ollantay, Opus 17 Alberto Ginistera

La Mer Claude Debussy

Mozart’s Don Giovanni with DongWon Kim ‘11 A.D. in title role

John Greer conducting

Marciem Bazell, guest director

Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l’enfant Jésus

CAST (In order of vocal appearance)
Music Master: Jake Gardner*
Komponist: Edyta Kulczak*
Zerbinetta: Rachele Gilmore*
Ariadne: Marjorie Owens*
Tanzmeister/Brighella: Julius Ahn*
Bacchus: Brandon Jovanovich
Naiad: Mara Bonde*
Dryad: Andrea Coleman
Echo: Joanna Mongiardo
Truffaldino: David Cushing
Harlekin: Jesse Blumberg*
Scaramuccio: Tracy Wise*

With BLO’s Orchestra.
* BLO Debut

Verdi’s “Requiem”

Steven Karidoyanes, conductor
Eleni Calenos, soprano
Joanna Porackova, mezzo-soprano
Jason McStoots, tenor
Tom O’Toole, bass-baritone

HAYDN: String Quartet No. 25 in C, Op. 20, No. 2

SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No. 9 in E-flat, Op. 117

WOLF: Italian Serenade for string quartet

Music of the Spanish Baroque

Eliot Fisk, guitar; John Gibbons, harpsichord; and Daniel Stepner, baroque violin

In celebration of the “Luis Melendez” exhibition, enjoy the music of Sor, Soler, Scarlatti, and Boccherini

Hungarian Dances No. 1, 3 and 10 Johannes Brahms

Tragic Overture, op. 81 Johannes Brahms

Symphony No. 2, op. 74 in D major Johannes Brahms

ALBÉNIZ: (orch. ARBÓS) Excerpts from Iberia

PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No. 1

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade

CAST (In order of vocal appearance)
Music Master: Jake Gardner*
Komponist: Edyta Kulczak*
Zerbinetta: Rachele Gilmore*
Ariadne: Marjorie Owens*
Tanzmeister/Brighella: Julius Ahn*
Bacchus: Brandon Jovanovich
Naiad: Mara Bonde*
Dryad: Andrea Coleman
Echo: Joanna Mongiardo
Truffaldino: David Cushing
Harlekin: Jesse Blumberg*
Scaramuccio: Tracy Wise*

With BLO’s Orchestra.
* BLO Debut

MENDELSSOHN: Overture and Incidental Music to
A Midsummer Night’s Dream

ROSSINI: Stabat Mater

OPEN REHEARSAL

The Callithumpian Consort
Stephen Drury, Artistic Director
Gabriela Diaz, violin Rane Moore, clarinet
Ethan Wood, violin Yukiko Takagi, piano
Karina Fox, viola Jeffrey Means, percussion
Benjamin Schwartz, cello Nick Tolle, percussion
Jessi Rosinki, flute
Special guest Christian Wolff

Join us for a world premiere written for the
Callithumpian Consort by Christian Wolff—
Songs from Brecht: The Exception and the Rule—
co-presented with the New England Conservatory
Christian Wolff Festival (March 15-17, 2010), along with works by Ives, Cardew, and Cowell. After the performance, join Wolff and the performers alongside the courtyard for an informal post-concert reception.

MENDELSSOHN: Overture and Incidental Music to
A Midsummer Night’s Dream

ROSSINI: Stabat Mater

Music of the great Parisian masters under Louis XV, with works by Leclair,Barrière, and Royer for violin, ‘cello, and harpsichord.

A world première by Jan Sandström commissioned to celebrate our 50th anniversary

Britten: Sacred and Profane, op. 91;
Penman: Becoming
Netzer: Paths of Stone and Water, and other music honoring the sacred.

Organists from around the world present 30 minute recitals of all-Bach programming (this is an open house, so audiences are invited to join the event throughout the day): Nancy Granert, Emmanuel Church, Boston (1:00); Frank Corbin, Assumption College, Worcester 1:45);Christopher Lane, Harvard Memorial Church, Cambridge (2:30); Mark Dwyer, Church of the Advent, Boston (3:15); Luca Massiglia, Torino, Italy (4:00); and Colin D. Lynch, Concord, NH (4:45).

Organ Fireworks’ showcases Bach’s most famous organ works. Presented by James David Christie, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Organ Department Chair Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and College of the Holy Cross, Worcester.

MENDELSSOHN: Overture and Incidental Music to
A Midsummer Night’s Dream

ROSSINI: Stabat Mater

Bach Cantata BWV 42 by the Emmanuel Music chorus and orchestra, with the Boston Children’s Chorus. A reception follows the performance in Emmanuel Church’s Parish Hall.

Paula Robison, flute Bella Hristova, violin
Stephen Taylor, oboe Andreas Brantelid, cello
Ani Kavafian, violin John Gibbons, harpsichord
Lily Francis, violin
. Purcell: Trio Sonata No. 10 for two violins
and continuo in D Major
. Bach: Gamba Sonata in G Major, BWV 1027
. Bach: Trio Sonata for flute, oboe, and
continuo in G Major BWV 1039
. Bach: Trio Sonata for flute, violin, and
continuo in C minor, from Musical Offering,
BWV 1079
. Telemann: Gulliver Suite for two violins
. Pachelbel: Canon and Gigue in D Major
. Vivaldi: Sonata in D minor for two violins
and continuo, RV 63, “La Follia”
. Telemann: Concert in A minor for flute,
oboe, violin, and continuo

Mozart: Trio for Piano, Viola, and Clarinet in E flat Major KV 498 (Andante)
Viotti: Duo for Double Bass and Violin
Schubert: “Die Forelle” (In einem Bächlein helle), song for voice and piano, D. 550 (Op. 32)
Novello: “Thy Mighty Force” for soprano, piano and double bass obligato
Rossini: Duetto for Double Bass and Cello
Schubert: “Trout Quintet” D. 667 (Op. post 114)

Rob Nairn, leader/bass
Susan Consoli, soprano
Handel and Haydn Society Period Instrument Orchestra

Ensemble-in-residence of the NEC Preparatory School comprised of Irina Muresanu, violin; Heng-jin Park, piano; Allison Eldredge, cello

FREE

CAST (In order of vocal appearance)
Music Master: Jake Gardner*
Komponist: Edyta Kulczak*
Zerbinetta: Rachele Gilmore*
Ariadne: Marjorie Owens*
Tanzmeister/Brighella: Julius Ahn*
Bacchus: Brandon Jovanovich
Naiad: Mara Bonde*
Dryad: Andrea Coleman
Echo: Joanna Mongiardo
Truffaldino: David Cushing
Harlekin: Jesse Blumberg*
Scaramuccio: Tracy Wise*

With BLO’s Orchestra.
* BLO Debut

DEBUSSY
Jeux

LIEBERSON:
Songs of Love and Sorrow, for baritone and orchestra (world premiere; BSO commission)

SCHUBERT:
Symphony in C, The Great

Joyride in a Time Machine: Beethoven’s Grosse Fugue

In this multimedia program, violinist Nicholas Kitchen leads an exploration of the genesis and structure of Beethoven’s Grosse Fugue. The renowned Borromeo String Quartet illustrates the
discussion with musical excerpts and concludes the evening with a powerful performance of the entire work. The musical score and a collage of images, projected throughout the program, fuse imagery with sound as we see and hear the music of Beethoven as never before.
Followed by a wine reception around the courtyard.

Presented in conjunction with the Borromeo String Quartet’s performance on Sunday, April 4th, 2010 at 1:30pm.

DEBUSSY
Jeux

LIEBERSON:
Songs of Love and Sorrow, for baritone and orchestra (world premiere; BSO commission)

SCHUBERT:
Symphony in C, The Great

Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum with professional orchestra
Jameson Marvin, conductor

Ludwig van Beethoven: Quintet in E-flat Major for piano & winds, Op. 16

Johannes Brahms: Sonata for viola & piano No. 2 in E -flat major, Op. 120

Arnold Schoenberg: Kammersymphonie No. 1, Op. 9 (1906) arranged by Anton Webern for flute, clarinet, violin, cello & piano

Songs of the Second Viennese School

Leon Kirchner: Piano Trio II

BRAHMS: Serenade No. 1
STRAVINSKY: Pulcinella (complete))

FREE

Bach Cantata:
BWV 159 Sehet! Wir gehn hinauf gen Jerusalem

Program TBA

Haydn: Sonatas
Schoenberg: Suites
Russell Sherman, piano

Mahler: Piano Quartet (1876)
Berg: Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 5
Schoenberg: Piece in D minor for Violin and Piano
Webern: Four Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op.7
Webern: Two pieces for Cello and Piano (1899)
Webern: Piano Quintet (1907)
R. Strauss: Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 13

Thomas Hill, clarinet Harumi Rhodes, violin
Marcus Thompson, viola Astrid Schween, cello Randall Hodgkinson, piano

Mozart | Two Preludes and Fugues for String Trio, K 404a
Davidovsky | Quartetto Nr. 2 for oboe and strings
Haydn | String Quartet tbd featuring a student from Concord Academy’s Chamber Music Workshop
Kodaly | Intermezzo for string trio
Shostakovich | String Quartet Nr. 8

Beethoven Cycle, concert 3 of 6
String Quartet in F Major, Op. 18 No. 1
String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 95
String Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 127

Blodgett concerts are free but passes are required. Free passes available beginning two weeks prior to concert from Harvard Box Office in the Holyoke Center Arcade, Harvard Square. 617-496-2222.

Free parking for this concert available at Broadway garage, corner of Felton St. and Broadway.

(The Capulets and the Montagues)

Music by Vincenzo Bellini
Bellini’s Italian opera (Ricordi edition) is a reworking of Romeo and Juliet, based on Italian sources rather than Shakespeare’s version. In Italian with English subtitles.
Beatrice Affron, conductor. Kirsten Z. Cairns, director.

SWV 479 Good Friday Service at Noon
Schütz: St. Luke Passion

(The Capulets and the Montagues)

Music by Vincenzo Bellini
Bellini’s Italian opera (Ricordi edition) is a reworking of Romeo and Juliet, based on Italian sources rather than Shakespeare’s version. In Italian with English subtitles.
Beatrice Affron, conductor. Kirsten Z. Cairns, director.

Honegger: Symphony No. 2
Frazin: title tba (world premiere)
War-era Jazz Standards with Dominique Eade and Richie Barshay
Strauss: Metamorphosen

MENDELSSOHN
Elijah (Sung in German)

Bach Cantata:
BWV 67 Halt im Gedächtnis Jesum Christ

G.B. Pergolesi: Sinfonia (arr. L. Lesser) Laurence Lesser, Carol Ou, cellos (300th birthday year)

Gyorgy Kurtag: Signs, Games and Messages. James Buswell, violin; Kim Kashkashian, viola; Carol Ou, cello

Bela Bartók: Violin Duos (arranged for viola). Kim Kashkashian, Dimitri Murrath, Roger Tapping, Marcus Thompson, violas.

Schubert: Trout Quintet. James Buswell, violin; Marcus Thompson, viola; Natasha Brofsky, cello; Donald Palma, double bass; Gabriel Chodos, piano

MENDELSSOHN: 4 Songs Without Words
CHOPIN: the Four Scherzi
SCARLATTI: 3 Sonatas
WYNER: Towards the Center
RAVEL: La Valse

HARBISON
Double Concerto for violin and cello
(world premiere; BSO commission)

MAHLER
Symphony No. 7

OPEN REHEARSAL

HARBISON
Double Concerto for violin and cello
(world premiere; BSO commission)

MAHLER
Symphony No. 7

HAYDN String Quartet in E-flat Major, Opus 9, No. 2
JOHN ADAMS String Quartet (Boston premiere)
DVORÁK String Quartet No. 13 in G Major, Opus 106

Nico MUHLY: So to Speak
Tolga YAYALAR: Tuba Concerto (world premiere)
with Nathan Turner, tuba soloist
HOLST: Hammersmith, Mars and Jupiter from The Planets)

FREE

Evan Johnson, violin
Peggy Spencer, violin
Mark Rike, viola
Loretta O’Sullivan, violoncello

William Bolcom: Violin Sonata No. 2
Aaron Copland: Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
Charles Ives: Piano Trio
and in the daring spirit, a world premier, tba
with alumna Sarah Pelletier, soprano
More info: (781) 283-2176

HWV 252 Handel: Chandos Anthem No. 7
My song shall be alway

Herschel Garfein: Music from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
are Dead (based on the play by Tom Stoppard)
Schumann: Symphony No. 2

Progam TBA

Haydn: Sonatas
Schoenberg: Suites
Russell Sherman, piano

LIGETI
Concert Românesc

SHOSTAKOVICH
Piano Concerto No. 1

TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 2, Little Russian

LIGETI
Concert Românesc

SHOSTAKOVICH
Piano Concerto No. 1

TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 2, Little Russian

Progam TBA

Susannah, by Carlisle Floyd

William Lumpkin, conductor

Sharon Daniels, stage director

Benjamin Britten: Simple Symphony, op. 4

Antonio Vivaldi: Stabat Mater, RV 621, hymn for mezzo-soprano, strings, and continuo in F minor

George Benjamin: Upon Silence, for mezzo-soprano and seven strings

Sir Michael Tippett: Concerto for Double String Orchestra

HWV 256 Handel: Chandos Anthem No. 11
Let God arise

Susannah, by Carlisle Floyd

William Lumpkin, conductor

Sharon Daniels, stage director

Mozart: Piano Quartet in E-flat major, K. 493
Röntgen: Lyrische Gänge, for Voice, Viola and Piano
Mendelssohn: String Quintet in B-flat major, Op. 87

Ida Levin, violin; Harumi Rhodes, violin Jennifer Frautschi, violin; Roger Tapping, viola; Wilhelmina Smith, cello; Randall Hodgkinson, piano

Mozart Piano Quartet in E-flat major, K. 493
Röntgen
Lyrische Gänge, for Voice, Viola and Piano

Mendelssohn
String Quintet in B-flat major, Op. 87

Beethoven Quartets in C Minor, op. 18 # 4;
F Major, op. 135 and E Minor, op. 59 # 2

STRAUSS
Suite from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

MOZART
Violin Concerto No. 5 in A

MOZART
Symphony No. 35 in D, K.385, Haffner

Shirish Korde Phoolan Devi: The Bandit Queen (world premiere)
full-length chamber opera
Lynn Kremer, stage director

STRAUSS
Suite from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

MOZART
Violin Concerto No. 5 in A

MOZART
Symphony No. 35 in D, K.385, Haffner

Revueltas: Sensemayá
Ginastera: Harp Concerto
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

One of Rameau’s Piéces de clavecin, a Paris quartet by Telemann, a quartet by Guillemain, and a French cantata.

Suzanne Stumpf, traverso, Sarah Darling, violin, Daniel Ryan, cello, Michael Bahmann, harpsichord, Laura Jeppeson, viola da gamba, Aaron Engebreth, baritone.

Bach Cantata:
BWV 97 In allem meinen Taten

CAST (In order of vocal appearance)
Ilia: Camille Zamora*
Idamante: Sandra Piques Eddy
Elettra: Caroline Worra*
Idomeneo: Jason Collins*
Arbace: Steven Sanders

With BLO’s Orchestra and Chorus.
* BLO Debut

All-Chopin Program!

Haydn: Sonatas
Schoenberg: Suites
Russell Sherman, piano

Cesar Franck: Prelude, Fugue and Variation, Op. 18, arr. Dewey Owens
John Thomas: Grand Duet for Two Harps
Maurice Ravel: Suite from Mother Goose, arr. M. Anraku and J. Zhou
Additional Works, TBA

CAST (In order of vocal appearance)
Ilia: Camille Zamora*
Idamante: Sandra Piques Eddy
Elettra: Caroline Worra*
Idomeneo: Jason Collins*
Arbace: Steven Sanders

With BLO’s Orchestra and Chorus.
* BLO Debut

Works of unusual instrumentation, featuring 18 saxophones and 9 French horns

Pierre Boulez: Dialogue de l’ ombre douible
Theodore Antoniou: Music for Nine
Gunther Schuller: Perpetuum mobile
Sofia Gubaidulina: Duo
Georgia Spiropoulos: Rotations
Eric Hewitt: la grenouille

Musicians for the evening include:
Eric Ruske, horn
Tsuyoshi Honjo, Eric Hewitt and Jared Sims, saxophones

Special guest: Radnofksy Saxophone Ensemble

Eric Hewitt, conductor

FREE

BEETHOVEN
Leonore Overture No. 2

BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4

BARTÓK
Concerto for Orchestra

Stephanie Blyth as La Grande-Duchesse

Conducted by Gil Rose
Directed by David Kneuss

Harvard Glee Club joins with Radcliffe Choral Society, the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, a professional orchestra and professional soloists to celebrate the career of our conductor, Dr. Jameson Marvin.

Program includes the premiere of ‘Song of Awakening’ by Robert Kyr.

Free Family Concert
Featuring Radius Ensemble’s string players and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons

Rodrigo: Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra
Eliot Fisk, guitar

Ravel:Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 2

BEETHOVEN
Leonore Overture No. 2

BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4

BARTÓK
Concerto for Orchestra

Verdi – Manzoni Requiem
With Guest Artists, The Newton Choral Society, David Carrier, Music Director

Patrice Tiedemann, soprano
Joanna Porackova, alto
Ethan Bremner, tenor
Colman Reaboi, bass

Stephanie Blyth as La Grande-Duchesse

Conducted by Gil Rose
Directed by David Kneuss

Program TBA

Hugo Wolf: Italian Serenade. Borromeo String Quartet. (150th birth year anniversary)

Beethoven: Octet, Opus 103. Thomas Martin, Michael Wayne, clarinets,; John Ferrillo, Laura Ahlbeck, oboes; Eli Epstein, Jason Snider, French horns; Richard Ranti, Gregory Henegar, bassoons

Gunther Schuller: Octet. Borromeo String Quartet; Eli Epstein, French horn; Michael Wayne, clarinet; Richard Ranti, bassoon; James Orleans, double bass

Stephanie Blyth as La Grande-Duchesse

Conducted by Gil Rose
Directed by David Kneuss

MICHAEL MANIACI, male soprano
arias from Lucio Silla, Idomeneo, and La Clemenza di Tito, Exsultate, Jubilate.

“Haffner” Symphony

MICHAEL MANIACI, male soprano
arias from Lucio Silla, Idomeneo, and La Clemenza di Tito, Exsultate, Jubilate.

“Haffner” Symphony

Barber: Knoxville Summer 0f 1915
Gershwin: Summertime
Kodaly: Summer Evening and Hungarian Rondo

Heinrich Schütz:
Opus ultimum – Schwanengesang
Psalm 119
Psalm 100
Deutsches Magnificat

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791):
Litaniae de BMV (Lauretanae), K. 109 (1771)
Church Sonata in F. K. 192 (1774)
Missa Brevis in F, K. 145 (1774)
György Ligeti (b. 1923): Evening, Morning (1955)
Charles Ives (1874-1954): 67th Psalm (1894)
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897):
Geistlisches Lied (1856)
Der Gang zum Liebchen (1863)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Magnificat in D, BWV 243
Two cantatas from The Christmas Oratorio,
BWV 248:
No. 3 – Herrscher des Himmels, erhöre das Lallen
No. 6 – Herr, wenn der stolzen Feinde schnauben
Heinrich Schütz: Deutsches Magnificat, SWV 494
Cantate Domino, SWV 81
Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck: Hodie Christus Natus Est
Kendra Colton, soprano, Thea Lobo, mezzo-soprano, Charles Blandy, tenor,
Donald Wilkinson, bass, with The Orchestra of Emmanuel Music
Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria
Anton Bruckner: Locus Iste
Os Justi
Ave Maria
Virga Jesse Floruit
Benjamin Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb
Heinrich Christensen, organ; Orchestra and favorite vocal soloists
Béla Bartók (1881-1945):
Four Slovak Folk Songs (1917)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828): Gondelfahrer (1824)
Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672):
Three Italian Madrigals (pub. 1611)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750):
Lobet den Herrn, BWV 230 (an early work, date unknown)
James Barkovic, organ and piano;

Steven Karidoyanes, conductor

BARBER: Sure on This Shining Night; Reincarnations
BERNSTEIN: Incidental music to “The Lark”
COPLAND: Choruses from “The Tender Land”
GERSHWIN: Music from the film “Damsels in Distress”
IVES: Psalm 67