Friday cat post!

There's a new Simon's Cat video out! Always cause for rejoicing.

Weekend Concert Calendar, 3/29/12

More music, more music!

By the way, I got some awesome anonymous help last week with listing some concerts that I missed. Feel free, as always, to leap in if there's anything I missed! And if you have a concert of yours coming up that's not strictly choral, you are always welcome to leave a comment about that too (instrumentalists, solo singers, a cappella groups, choruses from a little farther afield, I am looking at you!)

Friday:

• Blue Heron Choir, "Music for Three Sovereigns," 8 pm, Cambridge
• Handel and Haydn Society, Bach's St. Matthew Passion, 7:30 pm, Boston
  

Saturday:

• Sorellanza, "Sorellanza Songbird Concert," 7:30 pm, Gloucester
  
• Oriana Consort, "The Many Voices of Spring," 8 pm, Boston
• BEMF presents The Tallis Scholars, "The Field of the Cloth of Gold: Music of Jean Mouton and William Cornysh," 8 pm, Cambridge
• Wellesley College Choir with guest Cornell Glee Club, "The Baum Concert: Rachmaninoff’s Vesper," 8 pm, Wellesley

Sunday:

• Handel and Haydn Society, Bach's St. Matthew Passion, 3 pm, Boston
  
• Choir of Old North Church, "Lenten Choral Concert," 7 pm, Marblehead

Monday:

• BU Symphonic Chorus, "Requiem for a Generation," 8 pm, Boston

Did I forget anything? Leave it in the comments!

Monday links!

Jeremy Denk, one of the best music writers around, as well as the best pianists, talks about why he hates the Goldberg Variations.

And Emilie of the Public Emilie blog (I love that blog title) talks about how musicians are exploited and why we should get paid a living wage. If you do not make the bulk of your income by performing and/or teaching music, then this is required reading for you! (If you do, then you already know all this, but it's nice to be validated.) Key sentence: "Because music is [others'] hobby, I fear they assume it is mine." But really, go read the whole thing.

Weekend Concert Calendar, 3/22/12

Whoops, the beautiful weather made me forget about putting this together. This is an extremely incomplete calendar this week - please augment in the comments?

And - come hear me sing with the King's Chapel Choir on Sunday at 5 pm! We're doing a program called "Mysticism in Music." It will featuer the poetry by George Herbert and John Donne set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Thomas Bold, Howard Helvey, Eric Sawyer, Hilary Tann, and others. It's a great program, and a great ensemble, and there will be a great reception afterwards!

Saturday:

• Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum with the University of Cologne Chamber Choir, selections from Rachmaninoff’s Vespers, motets by Mendelssohn, and Barber’s Reincarnations, 8 pm, Brookline
• Cappella Clausura, "Mistress: A Celebration of the 400th Anniversary of the Birth of America's First Poet, Mistress Anne Bradstreet", 8 pm, Cambridge
  

Sunday:

• Coro Allegro, Handel's Dettingen Te Deum and Coronation Anthems and the presentation of the Fifth Annual Daniel Pinkham Award to Donald Teeters, 3 pm, Cambridge
• Cappella Clausura, "Mistress: A Celebration of the 400th Anniversary of the Birth of America's First Poet, Mistress Anne Bradstreet", 4 pm, Jamaica Plain
• King's Chapel Choir, "Mysticism in Music," 5 pm, Boston
  
• Oriana Consort, "The Many Voices of Spring," 5 pm, Cambridge
• The Apollo Club of Boston, Boston Saengerfest Men's Chorus, Highland Glee Club, "Brothers, Sing On!", 3 pm, Weston (mistakenly listed last week - oops!)
  

Did I miss anything? This week I know I did - leave it in the comments!

Monday link #2 - veggies!

Two Chinese brothers play musical instruments made entirely out of vegetables.

Monday link - an audition!

Want to be part of the area premiere of an a cappella opera? OperaHub is performing Michael Ching's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and information about auditions for leads and chorus is here.

Friday cat post!

Conspiracy Cat says:



Courtesy of my brother.

Weekend Concert Calendar, 3/15/12

Celebrate spring with a little choral music! Some good stuff in the suburbs this weekend; suburbanites be sure to check out the list!

Friday:

• Masterworks Chorale with special guests Treble Chorus of New England, "J.S. Bach and Sons, Inc.: A Celebration of Motets!", 8 pm, Cambridge

Saturday:

• Freisinger Chamber Orchestra, Bach's St. Matthew Passion, 1:30 pm, Boston
• Ladysmith Black Mambazo, presented by World Music/CRASHarts, 8 pm, Cambridge
  
• The Spectrum Singers, "A 20th Century Choral Kaleidoscope", 8 pm, Cambridge
• Cappella Clausura, "Mistress: A Celebration of the 400th Anniversary of the Birth of America's First Poet, Mistress Anne Bradstreet", 8 pm, Newton

Sunday:

• Cantata Singers, "The Passion: works of Brahms, Liszt, Demantius, and Bach", 3 pm, Boston
• The Apollo Club of Boston, Boston Saengerfest Men's Chorus, Highland Glee Club, "Brothers, Sing On!", 3 pm, Weston
• The Oriana Consort, "The Many Voices of Spring", 3 pm, Waltham
  
• Emmanuel Music, "The Splendour of the Baroque", 3 pm, Rockport

And next Thursday at 5:30 pm, the Amherst College Madrigal Singers will be at St. John the Evangelist in Boston.

Did I miss anything? Want to promote your own concert? Leave it in the comments!

Monday link - opera!

How about a little exciting opera for a Monday? Andy Ihnatko lays it all out for us. First we get to hear a show-stopping aria by a wonderful Met soprano, Kathleen Kim - then, when she gets sick in the middle of the run, by her understudy Rachele Gilmore who, as Ihnatko puts it, "doesn’t necessarily need to protect her voice for the next two weeks of performances." It's all here!

Friday cat post!

Cat gets stuck in organ in Connecticut. But she's fine now!

Weekend Concert Calendar, 3/8/12

It's a good choral weekend!

Friday:

• MLK Morehouse Glee Club, "MoreJazz Scholarship Weekend Concert," 7 pm, Boston
  
• Metropolitan Chorale of Brookline, Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony, 8 pm, Cambridge
• Boston Choral Ensemble, "Butterfly Dreams," 8 pm, Cambridge
  

Saturday:

• Choral Art Society, "Celtic Cabaret!", 6 pm, Hingham
• Back Bay Chorale, Bach's St. John Passion, 8 pm, Cambridge
• Labyrinth Choir, "We Who Believe in Freedom," 7:30 pm, Lexington
  
• Musica Sacra, "Piteous Beauty - Vaughan Williams' Mass in g minor and Scarlatti's Stabat Mater"; 8 pm, Cambridge

Sunday:

• Quincy Choral Society, "Love is in the Air," 2 pm, Quincy
• Zamir Chorale and Trinity Choirs, works of Bernstein, Rossi, Lewandowski, Mendelssohn, Milhaud, and more; 3 pm, Boston
  
• Arlington-Belmont Chorale and the Arlington-Belmont Chamber Chorus, "Almost Spring: American Composers, American Authors," 3 pm, Arlington
• Boston Choral Ensemble, "Butterfly Dreams," 3 pm, Boston
• Boston Boy Choir, adult choir from St. Paul's and the All Saints (Ashmont) Choir of Men and Boys, Parsons' Ave Maria and Howells' Collegium Regale Magnificat, 3 pm, Cambridge
  
• Assabet Valley Mastersingers, Beethoven's Mass in C and Rutter's Mass of the Children, 3:30 pm, Southborough
  
  

Did I miss anything? Leave it in the comments!

Friday cat post!

Hero cat!

Weekend Concert Calendar, 3/1/12

You have an opportunity this weekend that does not come along very often, and that is to hear a performance of the Britten War Requiem. It is an extremely powerful piece, and because of the forces a performance must gather together, it is not as easy to put together as a Mozart or a Verdi or a Brahms. Do yourself a favor and go see it!

You have ANOTHER opportunity as well, and that is to see Anthology premiere a new program! 3 pm at the Beacon Hill Friends' House on Sunday, March 4 - don't miss it! We're doing a program of wedding music, so if someone you know is getting married, you should definitely come check it out.

Saturday:

• Chorus pro Musica, the Providence Singers, and the Boston Children's Chorus (with the New England Philharmonic), Britten's War Requiem, 8 pm, Cathedral of the Holy Cross, South End, Boston
• Mystic Chorale, Annual Gospel Concert, 8 pm, Boston
• Master Singers of Lexington, "The Art of the State: Songs and Choruses from These United States," 8 pm, Lexington
• New England Classical Singers, "Eternal Light: A Musical Meditation," 7 pm, North Andover
• Chorus North Shore, "“Bravo! Encore! Favorites from Chorus North Shore: 80 Years of Choral Performances," 8 pm, Ipswitch

Sunday:

• Anthology, "Songs from the Heart", 3 pm, Beacon Hill Friends' House, Boston
  
• Mystic Chorale, Annual Gospel Concert, 3:30 pm, Boston
• Chorus North Shore, "“Bravo! Encore! Favorites from Chorus North Shore: 80 Years of Choral Performances," 3 pm, Gloucester

Did I miss anything? Leave it in the comments!