MusicNowBoston
NOTE: In the cases of mixed programs, 20th and 21st century
composers are set in bold type. All the music groups' webpages
are linked at the bottom of this page, if you need more information.
Concerts!
Sunday, January 22 at 6:30, 7:30 (see below)
Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble
9th Annual Young Composers Concert
Goethe Institut-Boston, 170 Beacon Street, Boston
Zhou Jing / Stuck in the Middle
Gabriella Smith / New Work **
Davide Ianni / Transients
Michael Ippolito / Nocturne
Daniel Kohane / Obsession
Paul Kerekes / Hail
**Dinosaur Annex Commission
6:30 pm ‘Cross-Talk’ with Composers, concert at 7:30
Tickets $20 Students & Seniors $15
Thursday, January 26, 8pm
Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall
Faculty Artist Recital
Elizabeth Anker, Contralto
Donald Wilkinson, barinote
Francine Trester, violin
Scott Woolweaver, viola
John McDonald, piano
334 Bunnies (World Premiere)
Words and music by Francine Trester
A charming story about a woman who has too many bunnies and the officer of the law sent to shut her down. Their musical sparring touches upon a variety of themes: individual freedom, civil disobedience, and the nature of love itself. Appropriate for adults and children, approximately 1 hour long.
Friday, January 27 at 8 pm
Advent Library Concerts
30 Brimmer Street (Beacon Hill), Boston
Aaron Larget-Caplan, guitar
Ashley Addington, flute
Rachel Arnold, cello
Cancion de cuna* (2011) by Hayg Boyadjian (b. 1938)
Upward* (2011) by John McDonald
Lullaby in Three Voices* by Alan Fletcher
A Child Sings at Thanksgiving* (2010) by Demetrius Spaneas (1969)
Summertime by George Gerswhin /arr. Toru Takemitsu
Tracing a wheel on water (2003) by Kevin Siegfried (b. 1969)
Llef by Hilary Tann (1988)
Ancient Places by Charles Turner (2011)
I. What Province?
II. Some Horsemen
III. Women of Algiers
IV. Terpsichore
V. Cambodian Dancer
VI. Your Memory
*voice: Naomi Gurt Lind
Hacked by Matt Samolis (2011)
Mirrors by Kaija Saariaho (1997)
Verse I (Sea Nocturnes) Hafliði Hallgrímsson (b. 1941)
And the Vortex Other Dimension Ensemble
Todd Brunel, clarinets
Garrison Fewell, guitar
Friday, January 27 at 8 pm
Jordan Hall, NEC, Boston, MA
Boston Modern Orchestra Project – BMOP
Strange Bedfellows: Unexpected Concerti
Andrew Norman Air: Concerto for Theremin (2011)
Dalit Warshaw, theremin
Keeril Makan Dream Lightly: Electric Guitar Concerto (2008)
Seth Josel, electric guitar
Eric Chasalow Horn Concerto (2008)
Bruno Schneider, french horn
Avner Dorman Mandolin Concerto (2006)
Avi Avital, mandolin
Luciano Berio Chemins II su Sequenza VI (1967)
John Stulz, viola
Gil Rose, conductor
Sunday, January 29, 3:15pm
LilyPad, Inman Square, Cambridge, MA
Longy Laboratory
Flandrew Fleisenberg
Evans-Anti-Art-Ensemble (Peter J. Evans and Morgan Evans-Weiler)
February 2012
February 1, 2012 at 8 pm
ALEA III
Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
Boston University Composers Conduct Their Own Work
Martin Amlin | Invention and Pantoum
Richard Cornell | Scherzo and New Work
Joshua Fineberg | Tremors
Samuel Headrick | Music for Eight Double Basses
Rodney Lister | Songs from Delmore Schwartz
Ketty Nez | rumelian songs of love and rain
John H. Wallace | New work
Saturday, February 4 at 8 pm
Sunday, February 5 at 3 pm, both concerts at
Goethe Institut-Boston, 170 Beacon Street, Boston
Chameleon Arts Ensemble
‘by the north-wind sent’
Sibelius Four Pieces for ‘cello & piano, op. 76
Peter Maxwell Davies Voyage to Fair Isle for Piano Trio
Carl Nielsen Wind Quintet
Hilary Tann From the Song of Amergin,
for flute, viola and harp
Grieg Third Sonata for violin and piano
February 5, 2012 at 8 pm
Collage New Music
Pickman Concert Hall, Longy School of Music, Cambridge
Charles Fussell Marion, in memory**
Sydney Hodkinson Requiescant*
Andy Vores New work**
Edward Ross Moyer Scenes from the Movies**
Charles Fussell Pilgrim Voyage**
**World Premiere
*Boston Premiere
Christopher Krueger, flute
Robert Annis, clarinet Jason Snider, horn
Craig McNutt, percussion Christopher Oldfather, piano
Catherine French, violin Anne Black, viola
Joel Moerschel, cello David Hoose, conductor
Monday, February 6 at 7:30 pm
BMOP – Club Concert #`1
Club Oberon, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
Program to be announced
Friday, February 10, 8pm
Sanders Theater (Harvard University)
Longy Conservatory Orchestra
Julian Pellicano, conductor
Kenneth Radnofsky, Saxophone (Longy Faculty)
Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia
Yannatos: Concerto for Alto Saxophone (World Premiere)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 5
Friday, February 12 at 3 pm
Boston Musica Viva
Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue,
Boston University, Boston, MA
Michael Gandolfi The Piper's Tale
Patrick Greene The Tortoise and the Hare, Steve Aveson, narrator
Marimba Magic Ensemble
from The Rivers School Conservatory, Sarah Tenney, Director
Thursday, February 16, 8pm
Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall
Alumni Voices
Tsuyoshi Honjo, saxophone
Nadia Shpachenko, piano
Now Playing Ensemble (viola, percussion, and other instruments TBD)
Dave Kopplin: Variations on a Aukrainian Lullaby (2012)
Peter Yates: Story Time (2011)
Henry Cowell: The Banshee (1925)
Robert Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op. 16 for Solo Piano
This performance will feature a unique and exciting program of old and new, consisting of music inspired by literature, performed on a variety of unexpected instruments. It will feature two newly-written pieces for voice, toy piano, percussion and toy percussion by Dave Kopplin and Peter Yates.
February 24th at 8 pm
Advent Library Concerts
30 Brimmer Street (Beacon Hill), Boston
Painting White Shadows
-text generated performance art- with
Ellen Godena, movement
Steve Norton, reeds, celeste
Morgan Evans-Weiller, violin
Veronica Barron, Melanie Hedlund,
Jessica Newman, Troy Kidwell, voice
Tony Leva, prepared upright bass
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Lucio Menegon, singing bowls
February 24th at 8 pm
A Far Cry at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston
Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony
Jones: Double Concerto (premiere)
John Adams: Shaker Loops
March 2012
Saturday, March 3 at 8 pm
Radius Ensemble
Pickman Concert Hall, Longy School of Music, Cambridge
Maurice Ravel Sonata for Violin & ‘Cello
Dalit Warshaw Lone Conversation for Clarinet solo
Igor Stravinsky The Rite of Spring arranged for wind quintet (?!)
Bohuslav Martinu Fantasia for theremin, oboe, string quartet & piano
Monday, March 5 at 7:30 pm
BMOP – Club Concert #`2
Club Oberon, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
Music by Ken Ueno, Toru Takemitsu, Toshio Hosokawa
Saturday, March 24 at 8 pm
First Church, 88 Marlborough Street, Boston
Sunday, March 25 at 3 pm
Goethe Institut-Boston, 170 Beacon Street, Boston
Chameleon Arts Ensemble
Schumann Romanzen for oboe & piano
Mahler Piano Quartet in a minor
Alban Berg Adagio from Kammerkonzert
John Harbison Book of Hours & Seasons
for soprano, flute, ‘cello & piano
Korngold Suite for violins, cello, and left-hand piano
Sunday, March 25 at 8 pm
Collage New Music Ensemble
Pickman Concert Hall, Longy School of Music, Cambridge
Barbara White Learning to See
Martin Boykan Elegy
Andrew Imbrie Songs of Then and Now*
*Boston Premiere
Charlotte Dobbs, soprano
Members of the MIT Concert Choir and Chamber Chorus
William Cutter, conductor Christopher Krueger, flute
Robert Annis, clarinet Craig McNutt, percussion
Christopher Oldfather, piano Catherine French, violin
Anne Black, viola Joel Moerschel, cello
James Orleans, bass David Hoose, conductor
Monday, March 26 at 8 pm
ALEA III
ALEA Composers’ Workshop
Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
Participating Artists:
Ioannis Angelakis Anteo Fabris
Igor Iwanek Dylan Mattingly
Heather Stebbins Adria Stolk
Alexander Trampas Benjamin Warsaw
Theodore Antoniou, conductor
Friday, March 30, 2012 at 8 pm
Boston Modern Orchestra Project – BOMP
Paine Hall, Harvard University, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Charles Wuorinen Epithalamium (1997)
Gerard Grisey Jour, contre-jour (1978)
Jonathan Harvey Bhakti (1982)
Conducted by Gil Rose
Saturday, March 31 at 8 pm
Boston Modern Orchestra Project – BOMP at Paine Hall, Harvard University, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Kaija Saariaho lo (1987)
Alvin Lucier In Memoriam Jon Higgins (1985)
Michael Norsworthy, clarinet
Roger Reynolds Personae (1990)
Gabriela Diaz, violin
Charles Wuorinen Epithalamium (1997)
Conducted by Gil Rose
April 2012
Friday, April 6, 2012 at 8 pm
Jordan Hall, NEC, Boston, MA
Boston Modern Orchestra Project – BMOP
Tan Dun Water Passion after Saint Matthew (2000)
Wednesday, April 25th at 8 pm
ALEA III – International Salute to Roman Totenberg
An evening of music for strings to salute the great violinist, colleague and friend, Roman Totenberg.
Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston University
John Adams (USA) | Shaker Loops (I)
Federico Ermirio (Italy) | Ode 1959
Witold Lutoslawski (Poland) | Partita
Theodore Antoniou (Greece) | Celebration VII
Heitor Villa-Lobos (Brazil) | Suite for Strings (I&III)
Giya Kancheli (Georgia) | A Little Daneliade
Soloists:
Dana Mazurkevich, violin
Yegeny Kutik, violin
Timothy Bozarth, piano
with special guests ~ Boston University Strings, Andreas Tselikas, conductor
Friday, April 27, 2012 at 8 pm
Boston Musica Viva
Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston University
Origins: Music of Shirish Korde, Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann, Eitan Steinberg, and Ezra Sims.
Sunday, April 29th at 6:30, 7:30 (see below)
Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble
‘Alive and Kicking’
Goethe Institut-Boston, 170 Beacon Street, Boston
Jennifer Higdon / rapid.fire
Pierre Jalbert / Sonata for Piano
Howard Frazin / Some Thoughts on Good and Evil
Michael Gandolfi / Cable Ready
Michael Daugherty / Diamond in the Rough
Once considered obsolete by the modernists of the 20th century, tonal music continues to thrive with a heightened contemporary spirit. This program explores how some composers redefine tonal and diatonic musical language and materials.
6:30 pm ‘Cross-Talk’ with Composers, concert at 7:30
Tickets $20 Students & Seniors $15
Monday, April 30, 2012 at 7:30 pm
BMOP – Club Concert #3
Program to be announced
May 2012
Saturday, May 5 at 8 pm
Radius Ensemble
Pickman Concert Hall, Longy School of Music, Cambridge
Ned Rorem Bright Music, for flute, strings, and piano
Saint-Saens Tarantella for clarinet, flute, and piano
Beethoven Sextet in Eb for Horns and Strings
Plus a new work, the Radius Competition winner.
Saturday, May 12, 2012, 8 PM
Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston
First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough Street
Sunday, May 13, 2012, 3 PM
Goethe-Institut, Boston, 170 Beacon Street
with guest artists Sergey Schepkin, piano and Elizabeth Keusch, soprano
Schumann Frauenliebe und -leben for mezzo-soprano & piano
Robert Sirota A Sinner’s Diary for flute, 2 violas, cello, piano & percussion (2005)
Georges Enescu Impressions d’enfance for violin & piano
Judith Weir Sketches from a Bagpiper’s Album for clarinet & piano
Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 in e minor, Op. 67
A woman's life and love, a musical confession, and an instrumental opera about an 18th-century bagpiper, executed after his pipes were classified as a weapon…our season comes to a close with deeply personal, biographical works that offer glimpses into the inner lives of five remarkable composers.
Friday, May 18 at 8 pm
Jordan Hall, NEC, Boston, MA
Boston Modern Orchestra Project – BMOP
Nikos Skalkottas Greek Dances (1936)
Igor Stravinsky Apollon Musagete (1927-28, rev.1947)
William Bolcom Medusa (2002)
Janna Baty, mezzo-soprano
Lewis Spratlan Apollo & Daphne Variation (1987)
Gil Rose, conductor
Please email me info about your concert in the Boston area,
to greyfeeld@aol.com (or bonotto.robert@gmail.com ) to have it listed. Thanks!
The Groups (with links to their websites):
American Festival of Microtonal Music (based in NY, visits Boston)
Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP)
Harvard Music (including the Fromm Concerts) Calendar
Harvard Group for New Music: http://hgnm.org/hgnm-events/
Longy School of Music calendar
New England Conservatory (and click on "Concerts")
....and Outside Boston....