Thursday, March 12, 2009

Weekend Concert Calendar, 3/12/09

It's cabin-fever-almost-spring-next-snowstorm-is-probably-next-week time! Soothe your longings for spring with some choral music.

Anthology has a concert Friday (probably today, depending on when you are reading this.) I know, I know, didn't we just have a concert? But this one is completely different. We are sharing the stage with Vocaldente, an award-winning a cappella group from Germany! They are the winners of the national 2008 Harmony Sweepstakes A Cappella Festival. Check out their website if you would like to see snazzy videos of them performing. We are very excited to be their hosts for this concert, and we hope you can make the performance!

Details:
Friday, March 13th at 8pm
Third Life Studio, Somerville, MA
33 Union Square (Somerville Ave.)
For directions and parking: www.thirdlifestudio.com
(Do not use Mapquest!)
$15 admission, $10 students and seniors.

Friday:

Anthology! And Vocaldente! Together!

Blue Heron will perform works of Du Fay. Their publicity says, “Blue Heron winds up its 10th season with a program exploring connections between Guillaume Du Fay, the court of Savoy, an immense and entirely anonymous musical manuscript from the French court on Cyprus, and a wedding in 1434.” There will be a pre-concert lecture at 7:15 by Alenjandro Enrique Planchart (Professor Emeritus, University of California), one of the world’s leading scholars of Du Fay. This will be at 8 pm at First Church Congregational, 11 Garden St, Cambridge.

The Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum will present their spring concert “Reverence and Reflection,” featuring Frank Martin’s “Mass for Double Choir,” the New England premiere of Paul Moravec’s “Songs of Love and War” and the World premiere of “Oseh Shalom Bimromav” by Michael Schachter, class of 2009. This will be at 8:00 pm at Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St., Cambridge.

The Cantata Singers will present Beethoven’s Mass in C, Britten’s Orchestra Suite from Death in Venice, and Finzi’s Lo, the Full, Final Sacrifice. This will be at 8 pm at NEC’s Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston.

Saturday:

Chorus pro Musica, under the baton of guest conductor Michael Driscoll, will present music by Bach, Handel, and award-winning British composer Jonathan Dove. This will be at 8 pm at Church of the Covenant, Copley Square, Boston.

Cappella Clausura will be performing their program “From Bingen to Salzinnes” at the 9th Annual Women Composers Festival of Hartford. This will be at 7:30 pm at the Sisters of Saint Joseph, 27 Park Road, West Hartford, CT.

The Boston Gay Men’s Chorus
will present a concert including works by David Del Tredici, Ricky Ian Gordon and Rufus Wainwright. This will all be under the direction of Reuben M.Reynolds III at 8:00 pm at NEC’s Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St., Boston. This concert will be repeated on Sunday.

The Concord Chorus, under the direction of Michael McGaghie, will present a program of hymn tunes and folk songs from the American and British traditions, including works by Copland, Vaughan Williams, Thomson, Wilberg and others. This will be at 8 pm at the Concord Academy Chapel, 166 Main St., Concord.

Sunday:

The Quincy Choral Society will present a concert of spirituals and gospel. This is FREE! It will be at 2 pm at the Sacred Heart School, 370 Hancock Street, N. Quincy.

The Masterworks Chorale will present Mendelssohn’s opera Son and Stranger and Brahms’ Liebeslieder Waltzes. This will be at 3:00 pm at at Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St., Cambridge.

The Boston Gay Men’s Chorus will present a concert including works by David Del Tredici, Ricky Ian Gordon and Rufus Wainwright. This will all be under the direction of Reuben M.Reynolds III at 3:00 pm at NEC’s Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St., Boston.

The Boston Camerata will perform a program called "The Distant Haven: Voyage and Encounter in Medieval France." It will include music and poetry recounting legendary quests, spiritual pilgrimage, and chivalric adventure: beautiful chants, songs and lais of the troubadours and trouvères, the finest creative spirits of the 12th and 13th centuries, all under the direction of Anne Azéma. This will be at 3 pm at First Lutheran Church, 299 Berkeley Street, Boston.

The Paul Madore Chorale will present Debussy's "The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian," along with works by Faure and Ravel. This will be at 3 pm at St. Mary of the Annunciation, 14 Otis St., Danvers.

The Christ Church Choir will present a Lenten concert under the direction of Stuart Forster. This will be at 3 pm at Christ Church, Zero Garden St., Cambridge.

The Arlington-Belmont Chorale and The Arlington-Belmont Chamber Chorus will present an "Almost Spring" concert, including works by Pearsall, Brahms, Vaughan Williams, Chatman, and the world premiere of Singing in Tongues by Christopher Haynes. Barry Singer and Christopher Charig will conduct. This will be at 3 pm at First Parish Unitarian-Universalist Church, 630 Massachusetts Ave., Arlington.

Did I forget anything? Leave it in the comments!

1 comment:

  1. Cantus, a full-time professional men's ensemble from Minnesota, sings several concerts in New England this weekend. They are headlining at the MENC convention in Providence, singing in Westerly, RI on Saturday night, and in Westwood, MA on Sunday at 4 PM. Amazing ensemble!!!

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