Thursday, December 17, 2009

Weekend Concert Calendar, 12/17/09

Ah, the last big performance weekend of the year!

I would like to highlight the fact that Cappella Clausura, one of my groups (although I'm not singing with them this year due to scheduling difficulties) is coming to my church, First Parish Cohasset, for a big huge concert at 4 pm on Sunday. If you are anywhere in the area, please come and check out some beautiful Baroque and Renaissance music, as well as dancers, giant puppets, and costumes!

Friday:

7:30 pm: First Parish Congregational Wakefield; Annual Messiah Sing; First Parish Congregational, Wakefield.

8:00 pm: Masterworks Chorale; Annual Messiah Sing; Cary Hall, Lexington.

8:00 pm: Chorus pro Musica; Annual Holiday Concert; Old South Church, Copley Sq., Boston.

8:00 pm: The Oriana Consort; “New Songs for Midwinter," choral music for Advent and Nativity from the 16th, 17th, 18th, 20th, and 21st centuries; First Lutheran Church, Boston.

8:00 pm: Boston Gay Men's Chorus; "Our Home for the Holidays"; Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston.

Saturday:

2:00 pm: Concord Women's Chorus; "In the Glow of the Moon"; Trinity Episcopal Church, Concord.

8:00 pm: Masterworks Chorale; Annual Messiah Sing; Cary Hall, Lexington.

8:00 pm: Boston Gay Men's Chorus; "Our Home for the Holidays"; Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston.

8:00 pm: Back Bay Chorale; "A Venetian Christmas"; Marsh Chapel, Boston University, Boston.

8:00 pm: The Boston Camerata, in collaboration with the SHARQ Arabic Music Ensemble; "A Mediterranean Christmas"; First Parish Church, Newbury.

8:00 pm: Blue Heron Renaissance Choir; "Christmas in Medieval England"; First Church Congregational, Cambridge.

Sunday:

2:00 pm: Friends of the Performing Arts in Concord (FOPAC); 4th Annual Messiah Sing; 51 Walden, Concord.

3:00 pm: Back Bay Chorale; "A Venetian Christmas"; Marsh Chapel, Boston University, Boston.

3:00 pm: Nashoba Valley Chorale; Handel's Messiah; St. Anne's Church, Littleton.

3:00 pm: The Boston Camerata, in collaboration with the SHARQ Arabic Music Ensemble; "A Mediterranean Christmas"; First Lutheran Church, Boston.

3:30 pm: Assabet Valley Mastersingers; Annual Messiah Sing; First Congregational Church, Shrewsbury.

4:00 pm: Cappella Clausura; "Gloria: A Renaissance Christmas"; First Parish Cohasset. Features Creationdance, giant puppets, and costumes! I'm hosting!

4:00 pm: Youth Pro Musica; Annual Winter Concert; First Unitarian Society in Newton.

4:00 pm: Pilgrim Festival Chorus; Messiah sing; Church of the Pilgrimage, Plymouth.

4:00 pm: Youth pro Musica; Annual Winter Concert, including Vivaldi's Gloria; First Unitarian Society in Newton, West Newton.

5:00 pm: Harvard Unitarian Church; Annual Messiah Sing; Harvard Unitarian Church in Harvard, MA.

7:30 pm: Belmont Open Sings; Messiah Sing; Payson Park Church, Belmont. (Weather make-up date is 12/21.)

8:00 pm: Boston Gay Men's Chorus; "Our Home for the Holidays"; Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston.

Did I miss anything? Leave it in the comments!

2 comments:

  1. I know there are a few Lessons and Carols happening this weekend too (like, ahem, the three Candelight Carols performances at Trinity - and no, I'm not singing for those, but they'll be lovely), but are those too church-service-ish to get listed?

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  2. @ Abby:

    Hi! Yes, I have some rather arbitrary guidelines about the calendar to keep me from going crazy. One of those is that I don't list religious services of any kind (saves me from writing up everything that happens at Emmanuel, among other things.) The one time I feel kind of bad about this is at this time of year w/ Lessons and Carols, but the list gets so long in December anyways that I decided to keep leaving them out.

    I think I am going to post up my internal guidelines at the beginning of next year so people know what they are. And then I can also encourage people to leave comments about the types of things I don't have energy to list myself.

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