It's time for your weekend concert calendar!
First off, I am singing in two concerts this weekend with Cappella Clausura. We are singing on this Friday, Oct. 24, 7:30 pm at Gordon Chapel, Old South Church (right in Copley Square.) We are also singing on Saturday, Oct. 25, 8:00 pm at The Episcopal Parish of the Messiah in Newton.
The concert is called “Before and After the Veil” and it features some really neat programming. In 1593 Vittoria Aleotti, a teenager at the time, published a book of madrigals. A few years later, Raffaella Aleotti, a nun in the convent of San Vito, published a book of motets. For a while historians thought they were sisters, but it is now believed (although not proved) that they were the same person, and that Vittoria took a new name upon entering the convent (as often happened.) The first half of the program is a selection of the motets, and the second half is a selection of the madrigals – you can decide for yourself if you think they were written by the same composer! The madrigals especially are a blast to sing, and for most of this concert, I'm the only person on my voice part, which is one of my favorite ways to sing.
So please come – it should be a very exciting concert!
Other choral events this weekend:
Friday:
Cappella Clausura! 7:30 pm! Gordon Chapel, Old South Church!
Blue Heron will be performing music from the Peterhouse Partbooks at 8:00 pm at First Church in Cambridge, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA.
This is not strictly choral, but I'm really sorry I'm going to miss it – maybe one of you can go and then tell me how fabulous it is. The Boston Opera Collaborative presents a Puccini double-bill of Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi. 7:30 pm at Christ the King Church, 99 Prospect St., Cambridge, MA. Also on Saturday.
Also not choral, but also too cool not to mention: Stephen Sondheim will be talking at Northeastern University at 8:00 pm (with a reception at 6:30 pm.) More info here.
Boston Baroque presents Handel's Xerxes. This will be at NEC's Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St., Boston, at 8:00 pm. Also on Saturday.
Saturday:
Cappella Clausura! 8:00 pm! Episcopal Parish of the Messiah!
At 4:00 pm, the Boston Conservatory Chorale and Women's Chorus will present works by Irving Fine, Brahms, and Rachmaninoff. This will be at Seully Hall, 4th floor, 8 The Fenway, Boston. And it's free!
Boston Baroque presents Handel's Xerxes. This will be at NEC's Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St., Boston, at 8:00 pm. Also on Friday.
The Boston Opera Collaborative presents a Puccini double-bill of Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi. 7:30 pm at Christ the King Church, 99 Prospect St., Cambridge, MA. Also on Friday.
Sunday:
The sixth annual Sing to Cure MS concert, to benefit the Accelerated Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis, will take place at 3:00 pm, Pleasant Street Congregational Church, 75 Pleasant Street, Arlington, MA. Many singers from different groups will be singing a broad variety of repertoire.
The King's Chapel Choir presents “In Praise of Music.” They will sing Pinkham's “In Praise of Music”; Schubert's “An die Musik”; Britten's “Hymn to St. Cecilia”; Purcell's “Music for a While”; and Vaughan Williams' “Serenade to Music.” This looks like a fantastic program to me. King's Chapel, downtown Boston, at 5:00 pm.
At 7:00 pm, the Northeastern University Chamber Chorus will join with the Zamir Chorale and the Jerusalem Academy Chamber Choir to present a program that will include Daniel Pinkham's Wedding Cantata, Yehezkel Braun's Song of Songs, and other works by American and Israeli composers. The Academy Choir frequently performs with the Israel Philharmonic and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra; this is the first stop on their American tour. 7:00 pm, The Fenway Center at Northeastern University, St. Stephen and Gainsborough Streets, Boston. More information is here.
Belmont Open Sings hosts an open reading of Mozart's Requiem. This will be at 7:30 pm at Payson Park Church, 365 Belmont Street, Belmont, MA.
Whew! It's a busy weekend.
There are also some exciting things happening next week.
On Tuesday, Oct. 28 at 8:00 pm, the BU Concert Choir and BU Women's Chorale will present works by Rorem, Mozart, and Duruflé. CFA Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston.
And also on Tuesday, at 7:30 pm, there will be a live broadcast of Bach's B Minor Mass from New York. One of my teachers (and one of the finest musicians I have ever had the chance to work with), Dr. Andrew Megill, will be conducting the choir of Trinity Church, Wall Street, and the Rebel Baroque Orchestra. If, like me, you will not be in New York that night, you can watch a live broadcast through the church's website...and if you are in your own house, you can sing along!
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