September 2013

Friday, September 20, 2013 @ 8pm (Talk Back)

Saturday, September 21, 2013 @ 2pm (Talk Back) & 8pm

Sunday, September 22, 2013 @ 2pm

$15.00/$10.00 seniors/FREE to all students with valid IDs

The Boston Conservatory Box Office

Guerilla Opera: ‘No Exit’

from the play by Jean-Paul Sartre; music by Andy Vores

“Hair-Raising… I can’t imagine anyone left the theater unshaken…”

Lloyd Schwartz, THE BOSTON PHOENIX

Online: http://www.bostonconservatory.edu/tickets

Phone: (617) 912-9222  LOCATION: The Zack Box Theater,

Boston Conservatory, 8 The Fenway, Boston, MA

Saaturday, September 21 – SeptemberFest

~~at 2 pm:

Creating Music: Performer/Composers

Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall, Longy School of Music, Cambridge

Compositions by conductors Esa-Pekka Salonen and Wilhelm Furtwängler; and pianists Artur Schnabel and Glenn Gould.

~~at 5 pm:

Creating Music: (Seemingly) Spontaneous

Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall, 5:00 pm

Improvised and ‘seemingly’ improvised works by Peter Cassino, Leo Blanco and Beethoven.

Peter Cassino   Portraits

Todd Brunel, bass clarinet; Peter Cassino, piano

Beethoven: Fantasy, Op. 77

Kai Ching Chang, piano (AD '09, MM '07)

Leo Blanco  Perú Landó; Tonada del Cabrestero; Roots & Effect

Marco Granados, flute

Leo Blanco, piano

Saturday, September 21, 2013 at 4 pm

St. John’s Church, Jamaica Plain

A Far Cry Music Ensemble

Jean Françaix   Six Preludes

Paul Hindemith   Fünf Stücke für Streichorchester

Edvard Grieg  Holberg Suite

Gioacchino Rossini  String Sonata No. 2, in A major

Arcangelo Corelli   Concerto Grosso No. 11

October 2013

Saturday, October 5, 2013, 8 PM

First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough Street

Sunday, October 6, 2013, 4 PM

Goethe-Institut, 170 Beacon Street, Boston

Chameleon Arts Ensemble

Frederic Chopin  Sonata in g minor for cello & piano, Op. 65

Aaron Copland   Nocturne for violin & piano

Morton Feldman  I Met Heine on the Rüe Furstenberg

Richard Rodney Bennett  Sonata After Syrinx for flute, viola & harp

Felix Mendelssohn  Piano Quartet No. 3 in b

with Deborah Boldin, flute; Gloria Chien, piano; Gary Gorczyca, clarinet;

Jessica Lee, violin; William Manley, percussion; Barbara Poeschl-Edrich, harp; Scott Woolweaver, viola; Rafael Popper-Keizer, cello. With guest artist Mary Mackenzie, soprano

October 3, 2013 10:30AM ~ October 3, 2013 8:00PM ~ October 4, 2013 1:30PM October 5, 2013 8:00PM ~  October 8, 2013 8:00PM

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Yo-Yo Ma, violoncello

Prokoviev  Suite from Love for Three Oranges

Shostakovich  Cello Concerto No. 1

R. Strauss  Ein Heldenbleden

Saturday, October 5, 2013 at 8 pm at the

Slosberg Recital Hall, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham

Dinosaur Annex

Emily Koh  New Work**

Phyllis Chen  Hush

John Liberatore   Nemo Sleeps

Chris Rogerson  Once

Ju Ri Seo  New Work for String Sextet ** (Commission for Young Performers)

* World premiere

** Dinosaur Annex Commission 

Saturday, October 5, 8pm

Boston Musica Viva: ‘Banned in Boston’

Tsai Performance Center, Boston University

Martin Brody  Scene from Bisclavret ~  world premiere

Gunther Schuller   Sonata Serenata

Robert X. Rodriguez  Tango

Frank Kelley, tenor

Saturday, October 5, 2013 at 8 pm

Pickman Hall, Longy School of Music, 27 Garden Street, Cambridge

Radius Ensemble:  ‘Evocation’

Nino Rota  Quintet for flute, oboe, viola, cello and harp (1945)

Astor Piazzolla  Histoire du Tango for flute and harp (1986)

Luna Pearl Woolf  Ten Images for clarinet and cello (2001)

Johannes Brahms  Trio in E-flat for horn, violin and piano, Op. 40 (1891)

October 10, 2013 10:30AM ~ October 10, 2013 8:00PM~  October 11, 2013 8:00PM October 11, 2013 8:00PM  ~ October 12, 2013 8:00PM

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Felix Mendelssohn  Overture, The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave)     

Thomas Ades  Polaris   

Charles Ives  Orchestral Set No. 2 

Friday, October 11^th, 2013 at 8:00 pm

Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall, Longy School of Music, Cambridge

The Horszowski Trio      

     Rieko Aizawa, piano;  Jesse Mills, violin; Raman Ramakrishnan, cello

F. J. Haydn  Trio in C major, Hob XV:27

John Harbison  Trio No. 2 “Short Stories”

Antonin Dvořák  Trio in F minor, Op. 65

October 24, 2013 8:00PM~ October 25, 2013 1:30PM~ October 26, 2013 8:00PM

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Mark-Anthony Turnage  Speranza (American premiere; BSO co-commission)   

Gustav Mahler   Das Lied von der Erde 

Sunday, October 27th, 2013 at 3pm

All Saints Parish, 1773 Beacon Street Brookline, MA

Brookline Symphony Orchestra

George W. Chadwick  Hobgoblin

Darius Milhaud  Le Creation du Monde

F. J. Haydn  from the Symphony #60 ‘Il Distratto’

Richard Strauss  Till Eulenspiegel

October 27, 2013 at 8 pm

Collage New Music Ensemble

Pickman Concert Hall, Longy School of Music, Cambridge. Program TBA.

October 28, 2013 at 8 pm – Free

Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston

Henry Brant  Angels and Devils

Benjamin Britten  String Quartet No. 3

John Harbison  Milosz Songs ~ Bridget Haile, soprano; Patricia Au, piano

John Heiss  Mosaics and Fanfare

Gyorgy Ligeti   Ten Pieces for Woodwind Quintet

November 2013

Saturday, November 2, 2013, 8 PM

First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough Street

Sunday, November 3, 2013, 4 PM

First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough Street

Chameleon Arts Ensemble

From quintessential Romantic character pieces and a satirical reference book, to impressions of the great American sculptor Alexander Calder’s wire circus figures and works recalling teachers and mentors, these musical portraits offer glimpses into worlds of memory and invention, fairy tales and fantasy. 

Robert Schumann  Märchenerzählungen for clarinet, viola & piano,

Op. 132 “Fairy Tales”

Gary Kulesha  Bagatelles from The Devil’s Dictionary for wind quintet

Laura Schwendinger  High Wire Act for flute, violin, viola, cello & piano

Francis Poulenc  Trio for oboe, bassoon & piano

Anton Arensky  Piano Trio No. 1 in d

with Deborah Boldin, flute; Vivian Chang-Freiheit, piano; Nancy Dimock, oboe;

Whitacre Hill, French horn; Tessa Lark, violin; Kelli O'Connor, clarinet;

Margaret Phillips, bassoon; Rafael Popper-Keizer, cello; Elizabeth Schumann, piano;  Scott Woolweaver, viola

November 15 & 16, 2013

Boston University Dance Theater

915 Commonwealth Ave. Boston (Theater entrance on Buick Street)

Juventas New Music

Peter van Zandt Lane's HackPolitik, a new ballet based on the global hacktivist group known as Anonymous, sets the politics and drama of cyberspace to the stage. The piece is a surrealist exploration, through music and dance, of how platforms like twitter, facebook and blogs have affected discourse in the 21st century, blurring the lines between activism and anarchy.

Saturday, November 16, 2013 / 8:00 pm ~ Pre-concert talk at 7:00 pm

Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP)

Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory

A concert performance of Virgil Thomson’s opera

Four Saints in Three Acts

Saturday, November 16, 8pm

Boston Musica Viva: ‘Trials of Youth’

Pickman Hall at Longy School of Music, Cambridge

Andy Vores   Fabrication 15: Amplification  ~ world premiere

Charles Zoll   Bailes encima del escritorio de nuestra juventúd

Rapido!   ~winner, northeast premiere

Thea Musgrave  The Mocking-Bird

David Kravitz, baritone

Saturday, November 23, 2013 at 8 pm

Pickman Hall, Longy School of Music, 27 Garden Street

Radius Ensemble: ‘Fusion’

Bohuslav Martinů  Madrigals for reed trio (1937)

David Amram  Blues and Variations for Monk for solo horn (1982)

Jonathan Holland  The Clarity of Cold Air for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion (2013) ~ world premiere

Antonin Dvorak   Piano quintet No. 2 in A, Op. 81 (1887)

December 2013

Saturday December 7, 4pm

St. John’s Church, Jamaica Plain

A Far Cry Music Ensemble

A Far Cry continues its proudly accidental tradition of performing entirely non-holiday-themed concerts during December with Melting Pot. Join us in this celebration of the diversity of the American experience, featuring a world premiere commission and Dvořák’s beloved “American” quintet.

Charles Ives  Largo and Scherzo from “3 short pieces”

George Gershwin  Lullaby

Erik Nielsen  New Work (world premiere)

Ljova  Vjola Suite

Antonín Dvořák   String Quintet #3, American, arranged by AFC

January 2014

Saturday January 11, 8pm

Jordan Hall,  New England Conservatory, Boston

A Far Cry Music Ensemble

A Far Cry invites Urbanity Dance to share the stage of Jordan Hall, realizing a long-held dream to explore the chemistry between dancers and Criers. Betsi Graves’s probing, athletic choreography will transform the great music of Bach and Stravinsky and lift the human spirit right out of the January doldrums.

Featuring: Urbanity Dance

Original Choreography: Betsi Graves

Johann Sebastian Bach   Various Dances, arr. Nathan

Igor Stravinsky  Apollon Musagète

Friday, January 17, 2014 / 8:00 pm

Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP)

Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory

Elena Ruehr  Summer Days  (2013) ~ world premiere

Ken Ueno  Concerto for Two Bow Cello  (2013) ~ world premiere

David Rakowski  Piano Concerto No. 2  (2011) ~ world premiere

Pre-concert talk at 7:00 pm, sponsored by The Score Board. The Score Board is a group of New England-based composers serving as BMOP's vanguard of composer-advocates through volunteerism, direct support and activities, community-building, and curating BMOP's annual Club Concert series.

Friday, January 31, 2014 at the Pickman Concert Hall, Longy School

of Music, 27 Garden Street, Cambridge

Dinosaur Annex: ‘Shaken, Stirred, and Straight Up’

Jeffrey Roberts  Twelve Landscape Views, III*

Kati Agocs  Versprechen

Libby Larsen  Dancing Solo

John Mackey  Wrong-Mountain Stomp

Kevin Patton  New Work**

* World premiere    ** Dinosaur Annex Commission 

February 2014

Saturday, February 1 at 8 PM

First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough Street

Sunday, February 2  at 4 PM

Goethe-Institut, Boston, 170 Beacon Street

Chameleon Arts Ensemble

Britten revives the Elizabethan world of John Dowland, Beethoven borrows from Handel to liberate the cello's expressive spirit, and two of today’s most arresting voices respond to the music of Marin Marais and Johannes Ockeghem.

Ludwig van Beethoven  Variations for cello & piano on

See the conqu’ring hero comes, WoO 45

Benjamin Britten  Lachrymae for viola & piano, Op. 48

Philippe Hersant  Piano Trio: Variations sur la Sonnerie de

Sainte-Geneviève-du- Mont de Marin Marais

Judith Shatin  Ockeghem Variations for wind quintet & piano

Camille Saint-Saens  Violin Sonata No. 1 in d

with Deborah Boldin, flute; Vivian Choi, piano ; Nancy Dimock, oboe

Gary Gorczyca, clarinet; Whitacre Hill, French horn; Kristin Lee, violin

Kelli O'Connor, clarinet; Margaret Phillips, bassoon ; Rafael Popper-Keizer, cello; Elizabeth Schumann, piano; Scott Woolweaver, viola

Sunday, February 9  at 3pm 

Boston Musica Viva: Pinocchio and King Midas

Tsai Performance Center, Boston University

Michael Gandolfi  Pinocchio's Adventures in Funland

Kathryn Salfelder  Gold's Fool: A Tale of King Midas

and the Golden Touch   ~ world premiere

Featuring PALS Children's Chorus

March 2014

Saturday, March 8, 2014 at 8 pm

Pickman Hall, Longy School of Music, 27 Garden Street, Cambridge

Radius Ensemble: ‘Zephyr’

W. A. Mozart   Quartet for flute and strings No. 1 in D, K.285 (1778)

Chen Yi   Feng for wind quintet (1998)

Bela Bartok  Contrasts for clarinet, violin and piano (1938)

Plus a world premiere piano trio by the winner of the

Pappalardo Composition Competition

Saturday, March 22, 2014, 8 PM

First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough Street

Sunday, March 23, 2014, 4 PM

Goethe-Institut, Boston, 170 Beacon Street

Chameleon Arts Ensemble

There are few things as extraordinary as the late works of master composers – intoxicating music that is intimate and personal, highly expressive, and rich with the patina of experience. Enescu composed his second Piano Quartet at the height of World War II, combining folk inflections with late Romantic harmony and impeccable craft to create a supreme masterpiece, wholly unique and deeply affecting.

Johannes Brahms  Sonata No. 1 in f for clarinet & piano

Maurice Ravel  Chansons Madécasses for mezzo-soprano, flute, cello & piano

Charles Ives  Sunrise for voice, violin & piano

Harrison Birtwistle  An Interrupted Endless Melody for oboe & piano

Georges Enescu  Piano Quartet No. 2 in d*

with Deborah Boldin, flute; Vivian Chang-Freiheit, piano; Vivian Choi, piano; Nancy Dimock, oboe; Gary Gorczyca, clarinet; Tessa Lark, violin; Rafael Popper-Keizer, cello; Scott Woolweaver, viola - with guest artist Rachel Calloway, mezzo-soprano

*{{ This is an exceptional work.  –Robert B. }}

Thursday, March 6, 2013 at 8:00 pm

Dinosaur Annex at the Davis Square Theatre (enter through The Saloon

Restaurant in Davis Square.

Concert details to be announced (see their link below).

Friday, March 28, 2014 / 8:00 pm ~ Pre-concert talk at 7:00 pm

Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP)

Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory

Donald Crockett  Blue Earth  (2002)

Steven Stuckey  Concerto for Orchestra  (1987) Pre-concert talk at 7:00 pm

April 2014

Friday, March 28, 2014 / 8:00 pm ~ Pre-concert talk at 7:00 pm

Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP)

Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory

Wayne Peterson  The Face of the Night, The Heart of the Dark  (1991)

Leon Kirchner  Music for Orchestra  (1969)

Bernard Rands  Chains Like the Sea  (2008)

Donald Martino  Concerto for Orchestra  (2009) ~ world premiere

May 2014

Saturday, May 3, 2014 at 8 pm

Pickman Hall, Longy School of Music, 27 Garden Street

Radius Ensemble: ‘Compass’

Claude Debussy  Piano Trio (1880)

John Fonville  Music for Sarah for flute and dancer (1981)

Evan Ziporyn  Be-In for clarinet and strings (1990)

Lalo Schifrin  La Nouvelle Orleans for wind quintet (1987)

Saturday, May 10, 8pm | Pickman Hall at Longy School of Music, Cambridge

Boston Musica Viva:  Light, Wind and Sound

William Kraft  A new work (title TBD)   world premiere

Sean Shepherd  Lumens

Brian Robison  A Field Guide to North American Car Alarms

Theo Loevendie  6 Turkish Folk Poems ~ Sarah Pelletier, soprano

Julie Rohwein Borne on the Wind

Saturday, May 17, 2014, 8 PM

First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough Street

Sunday, May 18, 2014, 4 PM

First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough Street

Chameleon Arts Ensemble

Closing the 16th season with a program inspired by the wonders of nature, including Shih-Hui Chen’s lustrous settings of 10th-century Japanese poetry, Beethoven’s joyful, elegant “Spring” sonata, and a rare performance of Anton Bruckner’s expansive String Quintet.

Ludwig van Beethoven  Sonata No. 5 in F for violin & piano, Op. 24 “Spring”

Shih-Hui Chen  66 Times: The Voice of Pines & Cedars for soprano & chamber ensemble

Alan Hovhaness  Upon Enchanted Ground for flute, cello, harp & giant tam tam

Anton Bruckner  String Quintet in F Major, WAB 112

with Deborah Boldin, flute;  Vivian Chang-Freiheit, piano; Jessica Lee, violin;

Mary Mackenzie, soprano; William Manley, percussion; Kelli O'Connor, clarinet;

Rafael Popper-Keizer, cello; Anna Reinersman, harp; Peter Sulski, viola;

Scott Woolweaver, viola

May, 2014: Specific date to be announced:
Guerilla Opera of Boston: ‘Gallo’ by Ken Ueno

The Zack Box Theatre at The Boston Conservatory

8 The Fenway, Boston, MA

June 2014

July 2014