Weekend Concert Calendar, 5/14/09

I am going to play around with the format of the concert calendar, I think. The one I did a couple of weeks ago ended up being a bit easier to read, even if it had less information, so I'm going to see how a variation on that works. Feedback about how you would like me to format the weekend concert calendar is welcome!

This weekend is very big for me. Anthology is having three concerts (actually, four - we had one yesterday evening as well) and these will be our last concerts until the fall. Vicky, one of our sopranos, is due to have a baby in about a week and a half (and we are crossing our fingers that the munchkin doesn't come too soon!) They are going to be very fun - we decided to do a concert of all fun and funny songs. So there will be Monty Python, dirty Renaissance rounds, numerous songs about food, PDQ Bach, Sesame Street, Broadway (complete with bowler hats), and of course a bit of Disney. ("Poor Unfortunate Souls" from The Little Mermaid, to be precise.) Please come! There is even a world premiere composed by one of us on the text "Don't Bump the Glump" by Shel Silverstein.

Here are the details:
Friday, May 15, 8pm - Shirley Meetinghouse, 41 Brown St, Shirley, MA
Saturday, May 16, 8pm - Center for Arts at the Armory Cafe, 191 Highland Ave, Somerville, MA
Sunday, May 17, 4pm - Central Congregational Church, 85 Seaverns Ave, Jamaica Plain, MA

I hope to see many of you there!

Friday:

• 8:00 pm: Anthology! "Cain't Say No," Shirley Meetinghouse
  
• 8:00 pm: Halalisa Singers, "Roots and Wings - Celebrating the Best of Halalisa," Unitarian Universalist Society of Wellesley Hills
• 8:00 pm: Arlington-Belmont Chamber Chorus, "Music for a Spring Evening," including J.S. Bach's Cantata No. 68, "Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt" and "Singing In Tongues" by Christopher Haynes, First Parish Unitarian-Universalist Church in Arlington

Saturday:

• 8:00 pm: Anthology! "Cain't Say No," Center for Arts at the Armory Cafe in Somerville
  
• 5:00 pm: Somerville Community Chorus, Spring Concert featuring songs of Peace and Love, including G.F. Handel's "The Anthem on the Peace," College Avenue United Methodist Church
• 7:30 pm: New England Classical Singers, "My Spirit Sang All day," an eclectic mix of music by American and British composers, First Calvary Baptist Church
• 8:00 pm: Back Bay Chorale, Brahms Requiem; Wachner's "Come My Dark Eyed One" (world premiere), Sanders Theater at Harvard
• 8:00 pm: Newburyport Choral Society and Orchestra, Bach's Mass in B Minor, Belleville Congregational Church
• 8:00 pm: Halalisa Singers, "Roots and Wings - Celebrating the Best of Halalisa," First Parish in Lexington
• 8:00 pm: Spectrum Singers, Mozart's Vesperae Solennes de Confessore and Coronation Mass, First Church Congregational in Cambridge
• 8:00 pm: Assabet Valley Master Singers, works by Corigliano and Thompson, Chapel of the Cross in Westborough
• 8:00 pm: Newton Choral Society, Poulenc's Mass in G and Duruflé's Requiem, The Second Church in Newton

Sunday:

• 4:00 pm: Anthology! "Cain't Say No," Central Congregational Church in Jamaica Plain
  
• 2:00 pm: In Choro Novo, "A Spring Rhapsody," Amazing Things Arts Center in Framingham
• 2:30 pm: Newburyport Choral Society and Orchestra, Bach's Mass in B Minor, Belleville Congregational Church
• 3:00 pm: Masterworks Chorale, Haydn’s Stabat Mater, Sanders Theater at Harvard
• 3:00 pm: Boston Secession, "Dolci Momenti," Gordon Chapel, Old South Church
• 3:00 pm: Cambridge Community Chorus, Brahms Schicksalslied and Cherubini's Requiem in C minor, Kresge Auditorium at MIT
• 4:00 pm: All Saints’ Choir of Men and Boy, Choral Evensong and Benediction, Parish of All Saints in Dorchester
• 4:00 pm: DeVaronistas, Music from Three Continents, Pleasant Street Congregational Church in Arlington
  
• 4:00 pm: Cantata Singers and students from the Boston Arts Academy, "I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Songs of Terezin Concentration Camp," the Vilna Shul in Boston
  
• 7:30 pm: Quincy Choral Society, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, Sacred Heart Church in North Quincy
• 7:30 pm: The Zamir Chorale of Boston, Koleinu, Kol Rinah and Shir Tsiyon, Jewish Choral Festival, The Fenway Center in Boston
• 7:30 pm: Concord Chorus, Fauré's Requiem, St. Matthew's United Methodist Church in Acton

Did I forget anything? Leave it in the comments!