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BANK OF AMERICA CELEBRITY SERIES
20 Park Plaza, Suite 1032, Boston, MA (map)
617.482.2595
info@celebrityseries.org
http://www.celebrityseries.org

Performances are at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, except as noted. Various subscription packages are available.

OCT 20 at 8 pm in Symphony Hall, the NHK Symphony Orchestra featuring Hélène Grimaud, piano. Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor OCT 29 at 2 pm in the Tsai Performance Center, Trick or Treat! Family Music with Rob Kapilow and the New England Philharmonic NOV 4 at 8 pm, Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio NOV 5 at 3 pm, Gidon Kremer, violin, and Krystian Zimerman, piano NOV 9 THROUGH 12 Thurs at 7:30 pm, Fri at 8 pm, Sat at 2 and 8 pm, and Sun at 3 pm in the Wang Theatre, the Kirov Ballet and Orchestra performs Swan Lake NOV 11 at 8 pm, Sérgio and Odair Assad guitar duo NOV 14 at 8 pm in Symphony Hall, Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin NOV 19 at 3 pm, What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow and Christòpheren Nomura, baritone DEC 1 at 8 pm, Barbara Bonney, soprano, with Angelika Kirchschlager, mezzo-soprano DEC 3 at 3 pm, Guarneri String Quartet DEC 8 at 8 pm in Symphony Hall, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir. Ton Koopman, Conductor DEC 8, 9, and 10 Fri at 7:30 pm, Sat at 8 pm, and Sun at 3 pm, in the Shubert Theatre, Pilobolus DEC 10 at 3 pm, Vienna Choir Boys

BOSTON BAROQUE
68 Leonard St, Belmont, MA (map)
617.484.9200
boxoffice@bostonbaroque.org
http://www.bostonbaroque.org

Performances are at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, Boston.

OCT 13 AND 14 at 7:30 pm, opera introduction at 6:30 pm, Mozart’s Don Giovanni DEC 8 AND 9 at 7:30 pm, Handel’s Messiah

BOSTON CAMERATA
145 Essex St, Haverhill, MA (map)
617.262.2092
info@bostoncamerata.org
http://www.bostoncamerata.org

Joel Cohen, music director. Call for ticket information.

OCT 20 AND 21 at 8 pm, on Fri at the Church of the Covenant, 67 Newbury St, Boston, and on Sat at the Trinity Episcopal Church, 11 Homer St, Newton Centre; Gothic Pleasures DEC 20 THROUGH 23 at 8 pm, on Wed at the First Parish Church, 20 High Rd, Newbury; on Thurs at the Hancock United Church of Christ, 1912 Mass Ave, Lexington; on Fri at the First Church in Cambridge, 11 Garden St, Cambridge; and on Sat at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, 775 Harrison Ave, Boston; Nöel! Nöel! A French Christmas DEC 8 at 8 pm, Church of the Immaculate Conception, A Mediterranean Christmas

BOSTON CECILIA
1773 Beacon St, Brookline, MA (map)
617.232.4540
info@bostoncecilia.org
http://www.bostoncecilia.org

Tickets are $15 to $60. Subscriptions available.

OCT 13 AND 15 Fri at 8 pm and Sun at 3 pm, Faneuil Hall, Baroque Splendor: Bach’s Festive Choruses Cantatas BWV 50, 69, 190, and Wedding Cantata BWV 202 and 51, as well as Handel’s Royal Fireworks Music and Final chorus from Ode to St. Cecilia. Featuring the Boston Cecilia Chorus and Barbara Quintiliani as guests of Boston Classical Orchestra. Steven Lipsitt, conductor DEC 8, 9, AND 10 Fri and Sat at 8 pm, Sun at 3 pm, on Fri at the Church of the Advent, 30 Brimmer St, Boston; and on Sat and Sun at the All Saints Church, 1773 Beacon St, Brookline. “A European Christmas”: Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols, Francis Poulenc’s Gloria, John Tavener and more

BOSTON CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY
60 Gore St, Cambridge, MA (map)
617.349.0086
info@bostonchambermusic.org
http://www.bostonchambermusic.org

Tickets $17 to $47. Subscriptions available. Concerts begin at 7:30 pm unless otherwise noted. Fri concerts are in NEC’s Jordan Hall. Sun concerts are in Sanders Theatre in Harvard’s Memorial Hall.

OCT 20 AND 22 Haydn’s Flute Trio in D major, XV: 16; Rebecca Clarke’s Viola Sonata (1919), and Brahms’s String Sextet in G major. Featuring Fenwick Smith, flute; Ida Levin and Harumi Rhodes, violins; Marcus Thompson and Cynthia Phelps, violas; Ronald Thomas and Wilhelmina Smith, cellos; and Mihae Lee, piano NOV 17 AND 19 Kodaly’s Serenade, John Harbison’s Variations for Violin, Clarinet and Piano (1982) and Dvorák’s Piano Quartet in E-flat major. Featuring Thomas Hill, clarinet; Ida Levin and Harumi Rhodes, violins; Marcus Thompson, viola; Wilhelmina Smith, cello; and Randall Hodgkinson, piano DEC 17 at 2 pm, Beethoven’s Cello Sonata in A major, Op. 69, Piano Sonata in F minor, Appassionata, and Violin Sonata in A major, Kreutzer. Featuring Ani Kavafian, violin; Ronald Thomas, cello; and Randall Hodgkinson and Mihae Lee, pianos

BOSTON CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA
Faneuil Hall, Boston, MA (map)
617.423.3883
info@bostonclassicalorchestra.org
http://www.bostonclassicalorchestra.org

Concerts are on Fri at 8 pm and on Sun at 3 pm at Faneuil Hall, Boston. Pre-concert lectures one hour before each concert with MaryAnn Nichols. Music director and conductor, Steven Lipsitt. Tickets $32 to $57. Subscriptions available.

Sep 15 AND 17 Evocations of Time & Place: Grieg’s From Holberg’s Time, Harbison’s Snow Country, Barlow’s Rhapsody for Oboe The Winter’s Passed, Respighi’s Ancient Airs and Dances set three, and Bach’s Concerto for Violin and Oboe. Featuring Boston Symphony principal John Ferrillo, oboe, and Sandra Stecher Kott, violin Oct 13 AND 15 Baroque Splendor: Bach’s Festive choruses Cantatas BWV 50, 69, 190, and Wedding Cantata BWV 202 and 51, as well as Handel’s Royal Fireworks Music and Final chorus from Ode to St. Cecilia, featuring soprano Barbara Quintiliani, the Boston Cecilia. Steven Lipsitt, Conductor Nov 17 AND 19 Bravo Beethoven! Beethoven’s Zapfenstreich March, Triple Concerto, and Symphony No. 4. Featuring the Boston Trio: Irina Muresanu, violin; Allison Eldredge, cello; and Heng-Jin Park, piano

THE BOSTON CONSERVATORY
8 the Fenway, Boston, MA (map)
617.536.6340
http://www.bostonconservatory.edu

All performances start at 8 pm in Seully Hall and tickets are free, except as noted. Call for additional details.

SEP 20 Hemenway Strings, “Bach to the Future:” Britten’s Simple Symphony, Bruckener’s Quintet in F Major, and Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3. Lynn Chang, Artistic Director SEP 21 at the Boston Conservatory Theater, Wind Ensemble, “America”: Stravinsky’s Circus Polka, Ingolf Dahl’s Saxophone Concerto featuring Kent O’Doherty on saxophone, Gunther Schuller’s Double Quintet, and Bernard Rands’s Ceremonial. Eric Hewitt, Conductor SEP 24 at 4 pm Faculty Recital Series, featuring Thomas Gregg, tenor; James Javore, baritone; and Brian Moll, piano. Quite Heavenly Duets and Songs: Victorian duet by Wilson, operatic duets by Puccini, Rossini, and Bizet, and solo songs by Tchaikovsky and Dresel OCT 3 Piano Masters Series, featuring Craig Sheppard: Bach’s Partita No. 6 in E minor; Beethoven’s Sonata in E, op. 109, Debussy’s Estampes, and Chopin’s Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Opus 58. Call 617.912.9222 for free tickets OCT 8 at 2 pm in Sanders Theatre, tickets $5 to $12, the Boston Conservatory Orchestra: Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, Sibelius’s Swan of Tuonela, and Stravinsky’s The Firebird Suite (1919). Bruce Hangen, Conductor. Call 617.496.2222 for tickets OCT 10 in the Boston Conservatory Theater, the Boston Conservatory Percussion Ensemble. Sam Solomon, coach OCT 13 Composer’s Chamber Concert. Andy Vores, coordinator OCT 14 the Boston Conservatory Brass Ensemble: Paul Dukas’s La Peri, Eric Culver’s Two Pieces in Time, Mozart and Vernon Taranto’s Ave Verum Corpus, Ingolf Dahl’s Music for Brass, Samuel Barber’s Mutations from Bach, Gustave Holst and Ken Singleton’s Mars from The Planets. Larry Isaacson, Conductor OCT 15 at 4 pm, Faculty Recital Series, “Boston Meets Brahms”: trios of Andy Vores, Leon Kirchner, and Johannes Brahms. Featuring Andrew Mark, cellos Sharan Leventhal, violins and Karl Paulnack, piano OCT 21 at noon and 2 pm, Children’s Opera, The Billy Goats Gruff: music by Mozart, Donizetti, and Rossini. Story adaptation by John Davies. Kirsten Z. Cairns, Director OCT 22 at 10:30 am in the Coolidge Corner Theatre, tickets $5, The Billy Goats Gruff, Children’s Opera, music by Mozart, Donizetti, and Rossini; story adaptation by John Davies. Kirsten Z. Cairns, director OCT 24 String Masters Series, The Fischer Duo: Beethoven’s Sonata in C Major, Opus 102, No. 1, Chopin’s Polonaise, Opus 3, Liszt’s Zweite Elegies, suite 131; and Poulenc’s Sonata for Cello and Piano. Featuring Norman Fischer, cello, and Jeanne Kierman, piano. Call 617.912.9222 to reserve free tickets OCT 28 4 to 6 pm, the Boston Conservatory Chorale and Women’s Chorus Parents’ Weekend concert: Bach’s Cantata No. 109; Sigismund Neukomm’s Mass in F; Mendelssohn’s 1. Veni Domine, from Drei Motetten, Opus 39. Dr. William Cutter and Miguel Felipe, Conductors NOV 3 in the Concert Room, tickets $5 to $12, Florestan Recital Project: Wolf’s Italiänisches Liederbuch. Featuring Alison d’Amato, piano; Martha Guth, soprano; and Jesse Clark, baritone NOV 4 String Masters Series, featuring Ilya Kaler, violin, and Janice Weber, piano: Beethoven’s Sonata No. 3 in E flat, Sonata No. 5 in F Spring, and Sonata No. 7 in C NOV 7 Piano Masters Series, featuring Janice Weber: Haydn’s Variations in F minor, Schumann’s Sonata No. 2 in G minor. Call 617.912.9222 to reserve free tickets NOV 10 at Sanders Theatre, tickets $5 to $12, the Boston Conservatory Orchestra: Milhaud’s La Creation du monde; Martinu’s Concerto da Camera, featuring soloists Irina Muresanu, violin, and Michael Lewin, piano, Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin and Dauphnis and Chloë, No. 2. Bruce Hangen, Conductor. Call 617.496.2222 for tickets NOV 10 and 11 Opera, A Woman in Her Bedroom, featuring Act II of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. Beatrice Jona Affron, Conductor NOV 15 at 4 pm, Jean and Kenneth Wentworth Piano Duo presents Mozart’s complete work for piano, four hands NOV 18 and 19 9 am to 11 pm, New Music Festival NOV 28 Piano Masters Series, featuring Anton Kuerti: Schubert’s Three Impromptus, Op. 90; Schumann’s Fantasy in C Major, Opus 15, and Toccata in C Major, Opus 7. Call 617.912.9222 to reserve free tickets DEC 6 at St. Cecilia’s Church, the Boston Conservatory Chorale and Women’s Chorus present Vaughan Wililiams’s Dona nobis pacem and Folk Songs of the Four Seasons. Conductors Miguel Felipe and Dr. William Cutter DEC 7 at the Boston Conservatory Theater, Wind Ensemble, “Prague-Buda-Pest”: Berlioz’s Hungarian March Rakoczy from The Damnation of Faust; Dvorák’s Serenade in D minor; Bartók’s Second Piano Concerto, first movement, with Karl Paulnack, piano; and Karel Husa’s Les Coleurs Fauves. Eric Hewitt, Conductor DEC 8 at the Boston Conservatory Theater, Faculty Recital Series, Marimolin Reunion, featuring Sharan Leventhal, violin, and Nancy Zeltsman, marimba. Music by Robert Aldridge, Simon Bainbridge, David Friedman, and others

BOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL
Box 1286, Cambridge, MA (map)
617.661.1812
http://www.bemf.org

Concerts begin at 8 pm. Tickets $25 to $65.

NOV 4 at First Church in Cambridge, the Flanders Recorder Quartet with guest Susan Hamilton, soprano. “The Darke is My Delight: English Consort Songs During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth”: music by Byrd, Morely, Dowland, and Ferrabosco on texts by Shakespeare and Jonson. Free pre-concert talk at 6:30 pm DEC 8 at Boston Symphony Hall, the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Chorus with soloists Lisa Larssen, soprano; Bogna Bartosz, alto, Jörg Dürmüller, tenor; and Klaus mertens, bass. Buxtehude’s Magnificat Primi Toni, Corelli’s Christmas Concerto, Bach’s Jauchzet, frohloket! Cantata I from the Christmas Oratorio, and Magnificat in D Major. Ton Koopman, Director JAN 26 at Paine Hall, Harvard University, Extravaganza à Due: recorder and harpsichord in dialogue, featuring Matthias Maute, recorder, and Kristian Bezuidenhout, harpsichord. Free pre-concert talk at 6:30 pm FEB 16 at Emmanuel Church, Boston, the Venice Baroque Orchestra presents Virtuosic Violin Concerti of Vivaldi and Tartini, featuring Giuliano Carmignola, violin. Andrea Marcon, Director. Free pre-concert talk at 6:30 pm MAR 24 at St. Paul Church, Cambridge, the Tallis Scholars present Music of Monteverdi, Palestrina, Gombert, Lassus, and others. Peter Phillips, Director MAR 30 at First Church in Cambridge, Trio Mediaeval presents Music of 13th-century France and Italy. Free pre-concert talk at 6:30 pm MAY 18 at Emmanuel Church, Boston, Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra and Chorus present Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s Marian Vespers (1732). Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs, Directors. Free pre-concert talk at 6:30 pm

BOSTON GAY MEN’S CHORUS
Box 1390, Boston, MA (map)
617.542.SING
info@bgmc.org
http://www.bgmc.org

Reuben M. Reynolds III is the music director of this 175-voice chorus. Tickets $15 to $45.

NOV 10 AND 17 at 7 pm in Club Café Moonshine Room, Chorus Cabaret DEC 15 THROUGH 19 at 8 pm, in the NEC’s Jordan Hall, Home for the Holidays. Enjoy favorite carols, festive music for Hanukkah, and the great songs and sounds from the childhood classic A Charlie Brown Christmas MAR 24 AND 25 Sat at 8 pm and Sun at 3 pm in the Cutler Majestic Theatre at Emerson College, Spring Concert: “You Gotta Have Friends.” Featuring the Songs of Bette Midler and Barry Manilow: “The Rose,” “Weekend in New England,” “Wind Beneath My Wings,” “Copacabana,” “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,” “From A Distance,” “One Voice,” and “Friends” JUN 8 at 8 pm, the Opera House, Boston, Pride Concert: 25th Anniversary Concert

BOSTON LYRIC OPERA
Shubert Theatre, 265 Tremont St, Boston, MA (map)
617.542.6772
http://www.blo.org

Evening performances are at 7:30 pm, and Sun matinees are at 3 pm. All performances at the Shubert Theatre, Boston. Admission includes pre-opera lectures. Tickets $33 to $166. Subscriptions available.

SEP 15 8 pm at the Wang Theatre, 30th Anniversary Celebration Concert, featuring artists, orchestra, and chorus in a program of operatic favorites including: Celeste Aïda from Aïda, several selections from Il barbiere di Siviglia, the thrilling finale from Faust, and more. Willie Anthony Waters, Conductor NOV 3, 5, 8, 10, 12, AND 14 Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. Featuring Kelly Kaduce, soprano; Gerard Powers, tenor; Melina Pineda, mezzo-soprano; and Carlos Archuleta, baritone. Keith Lockhart, conductor MAR 30, APR 1, 4, 6, 8, AND 10 Giuseppe Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera. Featuring Julian Gavin, tenor; Chen-Ye Yuan, baritone; Doina Dimitriu, soprano; Heidi Stober, soprano; and Nancy Maultsby, mezzo-soprano. Stephen Lord, conductor APR 28 THROUGH MAY 9 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro. Featuring Paulo Szot, baritone; Jennifer Casey Cabot, soprano; Ailyn Pérez, soprano; Kyle Ketelsen, bass-baritone; Kate Lindsey, mezzo-soprano. Stephen Lord, conductor

BOSTON MODERN ORCHESTRA PROJECT
New England Conservatory, Boston, MA (map)
617.363.0396
http://www.bmop.org

Tickets $15 to $42, $10 for students.

NOV 3 at Jordan Hall, 8 pm, Season Opening Event: Lisa Bielawa’s unfinish’d, sent (2002) and Roam (2001), Derek Bermel’s Thracian Echoes (2002), and works by John Zorn. Featuring Lisa Bielawa. Gil Rose, conductor DEC 5, FEB 6, AND APR 3 at the Moonshine Room, 7 pm (doors at 6), Club Concert: Lisa Bielawa hosts as BMOP's musicians take the stage for informal and interactive Tuesday-night concerts. Club Café's full menu and bar are available throughout each performance. JAN 20 at Jordan Hall, 8 pm, the Boston Connection: Mario Davidovsky’s Concertino for Violin and Chamber Orchestra (1995), Matthew Rosenblum’s Möbius Loop (1998), Michael Gandolfi’s Saxophone Concerto (2006, world premiere), David Rakowski’s Winged Contraption (1991), and the selected score from the 9th annual BMOP/NEC composition contest. Featuring Kenneth Radnofsky, saxophone, and the Rachèr Saxophone Quartet. Gil Rose, conductor MAR 9 at Jordan Hall, 8 pm, the All-French Program presents Betsy Jolas’ B-Day (2006, world premiere), and works by Pascal Dusapin and Bruno Mantovani. Gil Rose, conductor MAY 19 at the Sanders Theatre, 8 pm, Dreamhouse presents Evan Ziporyn’s Hard Drive (2007, world premiere), Anthony DeRitis’s Devolution: A Concerto for DJ and Orchestra (2004), and Steven Mackey’s Dreamhouse (2003). Featuring Rinde Eckert and DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid. Gil Rose, conductor

BOSTON MUSICA VIVA
Tsai Performance Center at BU, 685 Comm Ave, Boston, MA (map)
617.353.TSAI
bmv@bmv.org
http://www.bmv.org

Richard Pittman, music director. Call for ticket information. Performances begin at 8 pm at the Tsai Performance Center at BU, unless otherwise noted.

SEPT 29 Space: Willem Dagstra’s Stromenti Spezzati; Henry Brant’s Pathways to Security, featuring David Dravitz, baritone; Thomas Adès’s Catch; and Brian Robinson’s A field guide to North American car alarms (world premiere) NOV 17 Made in Germany I: Kurt Weill’s Frauentanz, featuring Elizabeth Keusch, soprano; York Hoeller’s Ex tempore; Wolfgang Rihm’s En plein air; and 4 Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke (world premiere), featuring Marting Brody, Peter Child, Shirish Korde, and Joseph Schwantner FEB 4 at 3 pm, 15th Anual Family Concert: Bruce Adolphe’s The Girl who Loved Wild Horses (world premiere), based on a book by Paul Goble, featuring PALS Chorus. Jody Simpson, director, and Steve Aveson, narrator. Also, Michael Gandolfi’s Pinocchio’s Adventures in Funland. Steve Aveson, narrator MAY 4 Roots: Mario Davidovsky’s Sefarad: Four Spanish/Ladino Folkscenes, Lee Hyla’s Polish Folksongs (world premiere), Olly Wilson’s A City Called Heaven, and Chou Wen-chung’s Twilight Skies (world premiere)

BOSTON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
295 Huntington Ave, Suite 210, Boston, MA (map)
617.236.0999
http://www.bostonphil.org

Benjamin Zander, conductor. Concerts are on Thurs at 7:30 pm at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre in Cambridge, on Sat at 8 pm at Jordan Hall in Boston, and on Sun at 3 pm at Sanders Theatre. Pre-concert lectures for the Jordan Hall series begin at 6:45 pm in the hall and for the Sanders Theatre series (Sun afternoons only) at 1:45 pm in the hall. Tickets $16 to $76.

OCT 19, 21 AND 22 Mediterranean Splendors: Ravel’s Rapsodie Espagnole, Rodrigo’s Conciento de Aranjuez, featuring Sharon Isbin, guitar, and Berlioz’ Symphonie fantastique NOV 16, 18 AND 19 Two Best Friends: Schumann’s Cello Concerto, featuring Alexander Baillie, cello, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 FEB 22, 24 AND 25 Beethovenian Spirit: Beethoven’s Egmont Overture and Violin Concerto, featuring Stefan Jackiw, violin, and Sibelius’ Symphony No. 5 APR 26, 28 AND 29 Ultimate Challenges: Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, featuring Gabriela Montero, piano, and Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra

BOSTON SECESSION
Box 5927, Boston, MA (map)
617.499.4860
info@bostonsecession.org
http://www.bostonsecession.org/

Jane Ring Frank, artistic director. Tickets $25 to 50. Subscriptions available. Call or visit Web site for tickets. All performances at 8 pm, at First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, unless otherwise noted.

SEP 29 at Sanders Theatre, Harvard University. “Raise the Roof: A Celebration of American Song,” benefit for Cambridge Housing Assistance Fund. Featuring music by Bernstein, Sondheim, and regardisregard (world premiere), a collaboration between installation artist Mary Oestereicher Hamill and composer Ruth Lomon, based on video interviews with local homeless people OCT 14 at the Goethe-Institut, Berlin on the Charles, a benefit for Boston Secession with German cabaret-inspired songs. Featuring Nancy Armstrong, soprano, and Jane Ring Frank, pianist and Artistic Director NOV 17 Altered States: Mysticism in Music. Featuring Benjamin Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb, plus works by Pauline Oliveros, Orlando di Lasso, George Crumb and others. Special guest artist Heinrich Christensen, organ FEB 2 “(Un)Lucky in Love”: Works by Donizetti, Mozart, P.D.Q Bach, Leonard Bernstein, and others. Featuring artists of the Boston Secession MAR 16 “Surprised by Beauty: Minimalism in Choral Music”: featuring three significant new choral masterworks of minimalism. William Duckworth’s Southern Harmony (1981), a choral work based on 19th-century shape-note hymns, Arvo Pärt’s The Beatitudes (1990) and Gavin Bryars’s And so ended Kant’s traveling in this world (1997) APR 27 “Mother Tongue: The Music and Meter of the English Language”: premiering Three 10th-Anniversary Commissions. Works by Handel, Purcell, Gilbert, and Sullivan, along with short choral compositions by Scott Wheeler, Ruth Lomon, and Byron Adams

BOSTON SYMPHONY CHAMBER PLAYERS
Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave, Boston, MA (map)
617.266.1200
http://www.bso.org

Concerts at Jordan Hall, Boston.

OCT 15 at 3 pm, the Boston Symphony Chamber Players with Joseph Kalichstein, piano, present Mozart’s Quartet in F for Oboe, Violin, Viola, and Cello, K. 370; Schuller’s Woodwind Quintet (1958); Kellaway’s Esque, for trombone and double bass (1971); and Schumann’s Quintet in E-flat for piano and strings, Op. 44

BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
301 Mass Ave, Symphony Hall, Boston, MA (map)
617.266.1200
http://www.bso.org

Call for a complete schedule. Pre-concert lectures offered before most performances. Tickets $28 to $108. Subscriptions available.

SEPT 29 at 6:30 pm, Opening Night, Copland’s Lincoln Portrait, Bolcom’s Lyric Concerto for flute and orchestra; Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 for soprano and orchestra; and Dvorák’s Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, From the New World. Featuring Sir James Galway, flute, and Renée Fleming, soprano. James Levine, conductor SEPT 3O Harbison’s Darkbloom: Overture for an imagined opera; Bolcom’s Lyric Concerto for flute and orchestra; Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 for soprano and orchestra; and Dvorák’s Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, From the New World. Featuring Sir James Galway, flute, and Renée Fleming, soprano. James Levine, conductor OCT 5, 6, AND 7 at 1:30 pm on Fri. Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht and Piano Concerto, and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in G, Op. 58. Featuring Daniel Barenboim, piano. James Levine, conductor OCT 12, 13, AND 14 Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1, Prokofiev’s Suite from Romeo and Juliet. Featuring Lynn Harrell, cello. Ludovic Morlot, conductor OCT 15 at 3 pm in Jordan Hall, Boston, Mozart’s Quartet in F for oboe, violin, viola, and cello, K. 370; Schuller’s Woodwind Quintet (1958); Kellaway’s Esque for trombone and double bass (1971); and Schumann’s Quintet in E-flat for piano and strings, Op. 44. Featuring Joseph Kalichstein, piano OCT 19, 20, AND 21 at 1:30 pm on Fri. Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Schumann’s Symphony No. 2. Featuring Peter Serkin, piano. James Levine, conductor OCT 26 AND 28 Schoenberg’s Moses and Aron. Featuring Philip Langridge, tenor (Aron); John Tomlinson, bass (Moses); Jennifer Welch-Babidge (Young Girl); Ellen Rabiner (Sick Woman); Mark Schowalter, tenor (Youth and Naked Youth); Sanford Sylvan, baritone (Man and Ephraimite); Sergei Koptchak, bass (Priest). John Oliver, conductor, and Johanna Hill Simpson, artistic director NOV 2, 4, AND 7 Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge, for string orchestra, Schoenberg’s Violin Concerto. Featuring Christian Tetzlaff, violin. James Levine, conductor NOV 9 AND 10 Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Brahms’s Symphony No. 1. Featuring Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano (Judith); Albert Dohmen, bass-baritone (Bluebeard); and Örs Kisfaludy, narrator. James Levine, conductor NOV 15 AND 17 at 10 and 11:50 am, Youth Series Concert NOV 16 at 10 am, Youth and Family Concert II NOV 18 at 10 am, Family Concert. At 12 pm, Family Concert NOV 24, 25, AND 28 at 1:30 pm on Fri. Schumann’s Symphony No. 3, Rhenish; Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 4; and Stravinsky’s Suite from The Firebird (1919 version). Featuring Yefim Bronfman, piano. Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor NOV 30, AND DEC 1, 2, AND 5 at 1:30 pm on Fri. Albéniz’s (orch. Frühbeck de Burgos) Suite española, Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez, for guitar and orchestra, Palomo’s Nocturnos de Andalucia, suite concertante for guitar and orchestra, and Falla’s The Three-cornered Hat, suites 1 and 2. Featuring Pepe Romero, guitar. Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor DEC 7, 8, AND 9 at 1:30 pm on Fri. Adams’ El Niño. Featuring Dawn Upshaw, soprano, Beth Clayton, mezzo-soprano; Eric Owens, bass; and Daniel Bubeck, Brian Cummings, and Steven Rickards, counter-tenors. David Robertson and John Oliver, conductors. Johanna Hill Simpson, artistic director

BOSTON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS
685 Comm Ave, Boston, MA (map)
617.353.3349
http://www.bu.edu/cfa

Performances are free and at 8 pm at Boston University’s Tsai Performance Center, 685 Comm Ave, Boston, except as noted. Consult Web site for Fringe Festival show times.

SEPT 23 at 7 pm in the CFA Concert Hall, Faculty Recital Series. Celebrating Mozart's 250th birth year, with soprano Sarah Arneson and pianist George Kern SEPT 25 Skalkottas Composers Project SEPT 26 tickets $10, $5 students. The Muir String Quartet, in residence at Boston University, presents works by Haydn, Mozart, and Tower SEPT 28 Boston University Symphony Orchestra presents Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 in E minor and Picker's The Encantadas, featuring Jim Petosa, narrator. David Hoose, Conductor SEPT 29 in the CFA Concert Hall, Boston University Chamber Orchestra presents works by Mozart, featuring James Demler, baritone. William Lumpkin, conductor SEPT 30 at 7 pm, ALEA III: 24th International Composition Competition. Tim Sullivan's Thoughts (USA), Tasos Stylianou's Stoes (Cyprus), Iluminada Peter Frutos' Callado lamento sin orilla (Spain), Cheryl Frances Hoad's The Dream Bearer (England), Nicolas Tzortzis' Senza Memoria (Greece), and Sebastian Rapacki's Rhapsodie (Sweden). Theodore Antoniou, conductor OCT 7 at the CFA Concert Hall, Boston University Chamber Chorus. Ann Howard Jones, Conductor OCT 14 at the CFA Concert Hall, BU Parents Weekend Choral Concert, featuring the Chamber Choir, Women's Chorale, and Concert Choir. Ann Howard Jones and students, conductors OCT 18 Faculty Recital Series, featuring Maria Clodes, pianist. Schumann's Arabeske in C Major, Schumann's 18 Davidsbundlertanz, and Schubert's Piano Sonata No. 20 in A OCT 19 Boston University Wind Ensemble, Gregson's Festivo, Milhaud's Symphony No. 5, Schumann's New England Triptych, and Smith's Symphony No. 2, The Odyssey. David Martins, conductor OCT 23 AND 27 Faculty Recital Series, featuring Ketty Nez, pianist, and Katie Wolfe, violinist. Messiaen's Theme et Variations, Nez's wrestless, Morris's In Variations, Schnauber's Those Infernal Exsanguinators, and Dzubay's Capriccio OCT 28 AND 29, AND NOV 2, 3, and 4 at the Boston University Theatre, Studio 210. Tickets $7. Fringe Festival: “Before Night Falls”, Music by Jorge Martín, Libretto in English by Mr. Martin with Dolores M. Koch, conductor William Lumpkin, guest stage director Beth Greenberg. Box Office 617.933.8600 OCT 30 Soloists of ALEA III: Robert Carl's “A Slow Arch,” Donald Martino's Fantasy Vaiations, Philippe Leroux's “AAA,” Ketty Nez's “Cirrulian Ice,” Betsy Jolas's “Episode sixieme,” and a new work by Christos Anastasiou. Theodore Antoniou, conductor NOV 5 at the Boston University Theatre, Studio 210. Tickets $7. Fringe Festival: “East Meets West” featuring singers from the International Music Center at Shenyang Conservatory of Music in excerpts from the contemporary Chinese opera The Savage Land by composer Jing Xiang. Conversation with the artists will follow. Metropolitan Opera baritone and BU alumnus Haijing Fu, Coordinator. Box Office 617.933.8600

BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY
Slosberg Recital Hall, Spingold Theater Center, Waltham, MA (map)
781.736.3400
http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/music/tickets.html

Concerts are held at the Slosberg Recital Hall on the Brandeis University campus in Waltham. Student-ensemble concert tickets are $10, $5 for Brandeis community and seniors, except as noted. Concerts at 8 pm unless otherwise noted. This year, the Lydian String Quartet presents “Around the World in a String Quartet,” a new concert series that explores string-quartet music in global settings within and beyond the European tradition. Lydian concerts begin at 8 pm, and are preceded by free 7 pm lectures. Single tickets are $20, $10 for Brandeis community and seniors. Additionally, the Lydians present free noon concerts in the Rapaporte Treasure Hall of the Goldfarb Library. Visit the Arts at Brandeis Calendar for more information.

OCT 29 at 3 pm, free. Celebrating the Music of Irving Fine and Martin Boykan. Fine’s Mutability, Alice in Wonderland (Set 2 and Music for Piano), and Boykan’s Motet, Piano Trio No. 3 (premiere), Second Chances, and Shakespeare Songs. Featuring Pamela Dellal, mezzo-soprano; Donald Berman, piano; Heidi Braun, violin; Mary Ruth Ray, viola; Rafael Popper-Keizer, cello; Mark Margolies, clarinet; Byron Schenkman, piano; and the Boston-based vocal ensemble Trium DEC 9 at 8 pm, An Evening of Brahms: Sonata in E Minor, Op. 38 and Trio in A Minor, Op. 114. Featuring Mary Ruth Ray, violin, with Joshua Gordon, cello, and Tanya Blaich, piano JAN 20 at 8 pm, Impressions of Ravel: Maurice Ravel’s complete works for violin and piano, as well as Gaspard de la nuit for solo piano. Featuring Daniel Stepner, violin, and Ya-Fei Chuang, piano AROUND THE WORLD IN A STRING QUARTET FEB 3 Paquito D’Rivera’s The Village Street Quartet, Yu-Hui Chang’s Shadow Chase, and Beethoven’s Quartet in C Minor, Op. 131 MAR 17 Joaquin Turina’s La oraciòn del torero, Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Quartet No. 6, and Ravel’s String Quartet BRANDEIS STUDENT ENSEMBLES OCT 28 at 7 pm, free, Music Fest 2006, all of Brandeis’s student ensembles unite for a memorable concert NOV 4 at 8 pm, Brandeis University Chorus present “Orpheus Ascending”: music and poetry on the myth of Orpheus drawn from ancient and modern works including Monteverdi and Gluck. James Olesen, conductor NOV 11 at 8 pm, tickets free, New Music Brandeis: world premieres by graduate composers NOV 19 at 3 pm, Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra presents Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 and the Eckhardt-Grammatté Bassoon Concerto, featuring Isabelle Plaster, soloist. Neal Hampton, conductor DEC 2 at 8 pm, Brandeis Early Music Ensemble presents vocal and instrumental works from the 15th- to 17th-century European repertoire. Sarah Mead, director DEC 3 at 3 pm, Brandeis Wind Ensemble presents Robert Russell Bennett’s Suite of Old American Dances, Scott Watson’s Aesop's Fables, and Dimitri Shostakovich’s Folk Dances. Thomas Souza, conductor. DEC 5, 6 AND 12, 13 Tues at 5 pm and Wed at 4 pm, tickets free, in the Shapiro Campus Center Atrium, Handel’s Messiah Community Sing-Along. Join the music ensembles and other music lovers for this annual sing-along. No experience necessary DEC 10 at 3 pm, tickets free, Chamber music recital: string and piano trio. Featuring Graham Patten, Sidney Coren, and Joshua Klein

BROOKLINE LIBRARY
361 Washington St, Brookline, MA (map)
617.730.2344
http://www.town.brookline.ma.us/library/BLMA/index.htm

The Brookline Library Music Association is a nonprofit organization offering free concerts six times a year. All concerts begin at 2:30 pm in Hunneman Hall at the Brookline Public Library. Members of the Brookline Library Music Association receive notification of each concert. Membership dues are $20 per year. Call 617.730.2344 for more information.

OCT 15 Varshavsky and Shapiro, piano duo NOV 19 New Piano Quartet: piano, cello, viola, violin JAN 7 Amaryllis Duo, flute and harp FEB 4 Clara Sandler, soprano MAR 4 Sarah Takagi, piano APR 8 Recital of young artists, celebrating the Library's 150th anniversary and the BLMA's 55th season

CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY FOR EARLY MUSIC
Box 336, Cambridge, MA (map)
617.489.2062
http://www.csem.org

Tickets $25, $20 for seniors, $10 for students, $5 for children. Concerts at 8 pm, except as noted.

OCT 19 THROUGH 23 Thurs at the Old North Church, Fri at Weston Congregational Church, Sat at the First Religious Society, Carlisle, Sun at 4 pm in the Heard House Museum, Ipswich, and Mon at 7:30 pm in Pickman Hall, Longy School of Music. “Teatro Lirico: Vocal and Instrumental Music from 17th Century Europe”: Featuring songs by Hidalgo (1614-1685), Marin (1618-1699), Strozzi (1619 -1664), Purcell (1659–1695), and Lully (1632 -1687). Instrumental music by Corbetta, Guerau, de Huete, and Lawes JAN 17 THROUGH 22 Wed at 7:30 pm in the Danforth Museum; Thurs in the First Religious Society, Carlisle; Fri in First Parish Church, Weston; Sat in the Old North Church; Sun at 4 pm in the Heard House Museum, Ipswich; and Mon at 7:30 pm in Pickman Hall, Longy School of Music. The Venere Lute Quartet presents Music of the 16th Century: Palestrina’s Lute and pieces from Sweet Division. Featuring Gail Gillispie, Douglas Freundlich, Christopher Morrongiello, and Phillip Rukavina, lutes MAR 8 THROUGH 12 Thurs at the First Religious Society, Carlisle; Fri at First Parish Church, Weston; Sat at the Old North Church; Sun at 4 pm in the Heard House Museum, Ipswich; and Mon at 7:30 pm in Christ Church Cambridge. David Yearsley and Peter Sykes, clavichords, present music by J.S. Bach and his contemporaries for one and two keyboard instruments

CANTATA SINGERS AND ENSEMBLE
Box 979, Boston, MA (map)
617.267.6502
bach@cantatasingers.org
http://www.cantatasingers.org

David Hoose, music director. Unless otherwise noted, performances are at 8 pm in Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston. Tickets $15 to $54. Subscriptions available.

NOV 10 Bach’s Cantata BWV 105, Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht mit deinem Knecht and Cantata BWV 34, O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe. Andrew Imbrie’s Adam JAN 19 Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C and Cantata BWV 101, “Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott.” John Harbison’s “But Mary Stood,” featuring Karyl Ryzek, soprano. “The Flight into Egypt,” featuring Janet Brown, soprano, and Sanford Sylvan, baritone MAR 16 AND 18 on Sun at 3 pm. Bach’s Mass in B minor MAY 11 Bach’s Cantata BWV 161, “Komm, du süße Todesstunde”; Concerto in C Minor for Oboe and Violin, featuring Peggy Pearson, oboe, and Danielle Maddon, violin; Oratorium auf Himmelfahrt, BWV 11, “Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen”; and Stephen Hartke’s Indicia Virtutis, featuring Peggy Pearson, oboe CHAMBER SERIES DEC 10 at 3 pm in the Pickman Concert Hall, Longy School of Music. “War and Peace”: Works of Rorem, Poulenc, Hoiby, Weill, Hindemith, Gurney, Greer, Tchaikovsky and others. Allison Voth, interim music director MAR 4 at 7 pm in the Pickman Concert Hall. “One Man, Two Minds”: music of Paul Bowles, Ivor Gurney, Virgil Thompson, and Ned Rorem. Allison Voth, interim music director

CAPE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
BHS Performing Arts Center, 744 West Main St, Hyannis, MA (map)
508.362.1111
tickets@capesymphony.org
http://www.capesymphony.org

Royston Nash, music director and conductor. Concerts are Sat at 8 pm and Sun at 3 pm. Tickets $20 to $55, $10 for students. Call for additional information.

SEPT 16 AND 17 “Changing His Tune”: Hindemith’s March from Symphonic Metamorphoses of Theses by Carl Maria von Weber; Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major, featuring Freddy Kempf, soloist; and Elgar’s Variations on an Original Theme, "Enigma” NOV 4 AND 5 “Two Mozartean Composers and the Village Butcher's Son”: Mendelssohn’s Overture for Ruy Blas; Saint-Saëns’s Violin Concerto No. 3 in B Minor, featuring Ben Thacher, soloist; and Dvorák’s Symphony No. 6 in D JAN 20 AND 21 “Beethoven and Schumann: Creators of the Romantic Era”: William Schuman’s American Festival Overture; Robert Schumann’s Cello Concerto in A Minor, featuring Lynn Harrell, soloist; and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 in E-flat, Eroica APR 14 AND 15 “The King of Instruments”: Rimskii-Korsakov’s Overture, The Great Russian Easter; Poulenc’s Concerto for Organ, String Orchestra and Timpani in G Minor; and Saint-Saëns’s Symphony No. 3, Organ, featuring James David Christie, soloist MAY 5 AND 6 “Opposites Attract”: Nicolai’s Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor; Grofé’s Grand Canyon Suite; and Tchaikovskii’s Violin Concerto in D, featuring Miriam Fried, soloist

CHAMELEON ARTS ENSEMBLE
6 Rocky Nook Terrace, Boston, MA (map)
617.427.8200
chameleon@chameleonarts.org
http://www.chameleonarts.org

Concerts are on Sat at 8 pm. Tickets are $16 to $36, $5 discount for students and seniors. Concerts take place at the Goethe-Institut, 170 Beacon St, Boston.

OCT 7 “More Thy Songs To Cheer”: Steve Reich’s “Clapping Music;” Barbara White’s Enough Rope for soprano & flute (World Premiere Koussevitzky Commission); Alberto Ginastera’s Cantos del Tucumán for soprano, flute, violin, harp & caja drums, Opus 4; Sofia Gubaidulina’s Der Seiltänzer Dancer on a Tightrope for violin and piano; Dmitri Shostakovich’s Sonata in D minor for cello and piano, Opus 40; and Mozart’s Trio in E-flat for clarinet, viola and piano, K. 498 NOV 11 “When a Hundred Years Are Told”: Beethoven’s Septet in E-flat, Opus 20 (1800); Albert Roussel’s Divertissement for winds and piano, Op. 6 (1906); and Peteris Vasks’s Piano Quartet (2001) FEB 3 “Continuous as the Stars that Shine”: Johannes Brahms’s Piano Quartet in C Minor, Opus 60; Alexander Zemlinsky’s Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano in D Minor, Op. 3; Arnold Schoenbert’s Selections from The Book of Hanging Gardens for soprano and piano, Op. 15; Earl Kim’s Now and Then for soprano, flute, viola and harp; and John Adams’s Road Movies for violin and piano MAR 17 “But Memory, Waked by Music”: Maurice Ravel’s Sonata for violin and cello; Peteris Vasks’s In Memory of a Friend for woodwind quintet; Francis Poulenc’s Sonata for oboe and piano; and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio in A minor, Opus 50, In Memory of a Great Artist MAY 12 “Of Love's Ephemeral Song”: Clara Schumann’s Drei Romanzen for violin and piano, Op. 22; Stephen Paulus’s Courtship Songs for flute, oboe, cello and piano; Einojuhani Rautavaara’s Die Liebenden for tenor and strings (US Premiere); Lou Harrison’s Ariadne for flute and percussion; and Robert Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E-flat 44

CHORUS PRO MUSICA
645 Boylston St, Boston, MA (map)
617.267.7442
chorusinfo@choruspromusica.org
http://www.choruspromusica.org

Jeffrey Rink serves as the music director in the 58th season of Chorus pro Musica. Concerts take place in various locations around the Boston area at 8 pm, except as noted.

NOV 3 at the Old South Church, Frank Martin’s Mass for Double Chorus, Henryk Górecki’s Miserere, and Herbert Murrill’s Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis DEC 10 at Saunders Theater, Cambridge, Chorus pro Musica performs with the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor DEC 22 at the Old South Church, “An English Christmas”: Benjamin Britten’s Ceremony of Carols MAR 23 at 3 pm in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Boston, J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion with a period instrument orchestra JUNE 3 at NEC’s Jordan Hall, Boston, Pietro Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Ruggiero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci

CIVIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Box 1082, Brookline, MA (map)
617.923.6333
info@csob.org
http://www.csob.org/

The CSO focuses on presenting a broad range of music by exceptionally skilled students and amateurs and on developing a broad-based audience. Max Hobart, music director and conductor. Tickets are $23 and $28, $12 for students. All subscription series concerts begin with a pre-concert talk at 2 pm with Steven Ledbetter.

OCT 22 at 3 pm in the Fine Arts Center, Regis College, Weston. Copland’s An Outdoor Overture; Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite; Dvorák’s Symphonic Variations, Op. 78; and Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 30 in D Minor, featuring Amira Acre, piano NOV 12 at 3 pm in the NEC’s Jordan Hall, Chadwick’s Hobgoblin: Scherzo Capriccioso a commissioned work by Andrew List, Mozart’s Recitative and Aria from Cosi fan tutte, and “Non so più,” from Le Nozze di Figaro, Elgar’s Sea Pictures, and Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 5, Opus 107 in D, Reformation, featuring D’Anna Fortunato, mezzo-soprano DEC 16 at 2 pm in the Fine Arts Center, Regis College, Holiday Pops: Traditional Christmas and Hannukah Celebration, with “Christmas Is For Children” sing-along and a visit from Santa. Featuring Donna Ames, mezzo-soprano MAR 11 at 3 pm in NEC’S Jordan Hall, Beethoven’s Consecration of the House Overture, Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy, R. Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration, and Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite (1919). Featuring Yuri Mazurkevich, violin APR 29 at 3 pm in the Fine Arts Center, Regis College, Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem. Featuring the orchestra-in-residence and the resident choruses of Regis College

CLARK UNIVERSITY
University Gallery, Department of Visual and Performing Arts, 950 Main St, Worcester, MA (map)
508.793.7711
http://www.clarku.edu/clarkarts

The Schiltkamp Gallery in Traina Center for the Arts at Clark University is open Mon through Thurs from 9 am to 9 pm, on Fri from 9 am to 4 pm, on Sat from noon to 4 pm, and on Sun noon to 9 pm. Razzo Hall in Traina Center for the Arts hosts a variety of artistic events including live music performed by groups such as QX, and a Boston-based string quartet, MisCreated. Schiltkamp Gallery Events below are held in Razzo Hall of the Traina Center for the Arts and require no entry fee, except as noted.

SEPT 20 THROUGH NOV 5 MisCreated, noon, Schiltkamp Gallery OCT 1 at 2 pm; Oleg Krysa, violin; Julian Milkis, clarinet; and Sima Kustanovich, piano OCT 13 at 7 pm, C2 (C-squared) OCT 26 at 7 pm, La Donna Musicale presents French and Italian Baroque Women Composers NOV 9-18 at 8 pm, Little Center Theater, tickets $5 or free with Clark ID, The Fifth of July NOV 18 at 7 pm, Worcester Chamber Music Society NOV 19 at 3 pm, Clark University Sinfonia

COLLAGE NEW MUSIC
Box 230150, Boston, MA (map)
617.325.5200
info@collagenewmusic.org
http://www.collagenewmusic.org

David Hoose, music director. Concerts are at the Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall, Longy School of Music, and begin at 7:30 pm, except as noted. Tickets $20, $7 for seniors and students.

OCT 22 Jonathan Harvey’s The Riot; Morton Feldman’s The Viola in My Life I-III, featuring Roger Tapping, viola; and Milton Babbitt’s The Head of the Bed (1997), featuring Judith Bettina, soprano JAN 29 at 8 pm, Martin Brody’s Millenium Sightings, John Heiss’s Arguments and Meditations (2006, world premiere), Olly Wilson’s A City Called Heaven, and Julian Anderson’s Towards Poetry MAR 25 at Paine Hall, Harvard University, Shulamit Ran’s Mirage, Sydney Hodkinson’s Stony Brook Jam, Michael Daugherty’s Jackie’s Song, and Charles Fussel’s Arias from The Astronaut’s Tale, and Goethe Lieder, featuring Janet Brown, soprano

COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON
34 Warren Ave, Boston (map)
617.482.7494
http://www.cmcb.org/

Concerts take place at 34 Warren Ave at 7 pm, and tickets are free, except as noted.

OCT 5 Bach and Rachmaninoff’s Partita in E Major for violin BWV 1006, Babbitt’s Semi-Simple Variations (1956), Schubert’s Sonata in A minor D. 845, Stockhausen’s Klavierstück VIII (1954), Brahms’s Romanze Op. 118 No.5, and Beethoven’s Sonata in C minor. Featuring John Ferguson, piano OCT 26 Guest Artist Concert. Gabriel Faure’s Berceuse (1880) Mozart’s Sonata No. 4 in E minor, KV 304 (1778), Frank Bridge’s Three Pieces for Violin and Piano (1901), and Brahms’s Sonata No. 1 in G major (1878-’79). Featuring Corporation Member Colleen Katsuki, piano, and guest Frank Graves, violin NOV 16 Schubert’s A major Sonata D. 959 and Liszt’s Legendes. Featuring Stephen Porter, piano NOV 18 10 am to 6 pm, 2006 "Performathon.” Students of all levels perform in all-day recitals to raise scholarship funds for the CMCB NEW GALLERY CONCERT SERIES, concerts at 7 pm. Sarah Bob, Director NOV 9 “Visual Sound”: Featuring members of the Firebird Ensemble, and performances and artwork by the Be Blank Consort. Music by Jon Deak, Frank Zappa, Harrison Birtwistle, and a world premiere by Aaron Trant ARCADIAN WINDS ENSEMBLE SERIES, concerts at 7 pm OCT 12 Featuring the Mozart piano quintet, and works by Holst, Vaughan-Williams and Pinkham. Stephen Yenger, piano

EMMANUEL MUSIC
15 Newbury St, Boston, MA (map)
617.536.3356
http://www.emmanuelmusic.org

Concerts in the Schumann Chamber Series are held at 4 pm, in Emmanuel Church. Craig Smith, Artistic Director. Schumann series tickets $10 to $55. Three opera performances at 7:30 pm; tickets $10 to $100.

NOV 5 Three Lieder: Ländlisches Lied, No. 1; Lied, No. 2, and Lieder, Op. 79. Featuring Margaret Johnson, soprano; Gail Abbey, soprano; Susan Trout, mezzo-soprano; and Craig Smith, piano. Märchenbilder, featuring Mary Ruth Ray, viola, and Craig Smith, piano. Arabeske and Kreisleriana featuring Russell Sherman, piano NOV 12 Humoresque featuring Judith Gordon, piano. Myrthen featuring Kendra Colton, soprano; Aaron Engebreth, baritone; and Craig Smith, piano MAR 4 Lieder and Three Lieder featuring Charles Blandy, tenor; David Kravitz, baritone; and Timothy Steele, piano. Waldscenen featuring Sally Pinkas, piano. Die Rose Pilgerfahrt featuring Jayne West, soprano, (as Rosa); the Chorus of Emmanuel Music; and Timothy Steele, piano. Craig Smith, conductor MAR 11 Blumenstück, Op. 19, featuring Leslie Amper, piano. Seven Lieder featuring Roberta Anderson, soprano, and Michael Beattie, piano. Mädchenlieder featuring Roberta Anderson, soprano; Pamela Dellal, mezzo-soprano; and Michael Beattie, piano. Abegg Variations featuring Leslie Amper, piano. “Mary Stuart Lieder” featuring Pamela Dellal, mezzo-soprano, and Michael Beattie, piano. Trio No. 3 in G Minor featuring Bayla Keyes, violin; Rhonda Rider, cello; and Lois Shapiro, piano MAR 18 Five Early Kerner Lieder featuring Frank Kelley, tenor, and Robert Merfeld, piano. Five Lieder and Four Lieder featuring Frank Kelley, tenor; Mark McSweeney, baritone; and Robert Merfeld, piano. Sonata No. 3 in F minor featuring Randall Hodgkinson, piano OPERA SERIES OCT 28 Handel’s Orlando OCT 27 Handel’s Ariodante APR 21 Handel’s Alcina

FROM THE TOP
Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston (map)
617.585.1260
info@fromthetop.org
http://www.fromthetop.org

The public-radio series described as “a cross between an Evening at Symphony and The Tonight Show is taped at Jordan Hall. Taping is on Oct 8 at 2 pm. The program airs on Boston’s WGBH-FM on Sun at 6 pm. For additional information, call 617.585.1260.

GOETHE INSTITUT
170 Beacon St, Boston, MA (map)
617.262.6050
info@boston.goethe.org
http://www.goethe.de/uk/bos/enindex.htm

Concerts are held at the Goethe Institut, except as noted. Donations appreciated. Call for additional information.

OCT 5 at 8 pm, tickets $25. “Café Goethe: The Magic Violin”: Gipsy Tunes, featuring Daniela Romacker, violin, and Ellen Braslavsky, piano OCT 22 at 3 pm. Piano Lecture Recital, “Viennese Classics and Romantics”: Haydn’s Sonatas No. 23 in F, and No. 34 in E minor. Beethoven’s Sonata in F minor (dedicated to Haydn), Brahms’s Intermezzo in A, and Schubert’s Three Pieces (edited by Brahms). Featuring Byron Schenkmann, klavier

GREATER BOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Boston University College of Fine Arts, 855 Comm Ave, Boston, MA (map)
617.353.5330
gbyso@bu.edu
http://www.gbyso.org

Dedicated to providing talented young musicians with opportunities for personal and artistic growth, GBYSO offers elementary- and secondary-school students a challenging rehearsal and performance experience in a professional environment. Call or visit the Web site for ticket information.

OCT 29 7:30 pm at Symphony Hall, the Senior Orchestra presents Britten's Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Debussy's La Mer, and Sibilius's Symphony No. 5 in E-flat. Sederico Cortese, conductor. Also featuring the Repertory Orchestra DEC 10 7:30 pm at the Church of the Covenant, the Senior Orchestra and Chorus Pro Musica present excerpts from Mozart's Idomeneo and Mozart's Mass in C minor. Jeffrey Rink, Music Director MAR 4 7:30 pm at Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, the Senior Orchestra and the Junior Repertory Orchestra present Shubert's Unfinished Symphony and Beethoven's Symphony No. 4. Adrian Slywotszky, conductor APR 22 3 pm at Symphony Hall, the Senior Orchestra and the Young People’s String Orchestra present Brahms's Symphony No. 1 in C minor. Bonnie Black, conductor JUNE 10 7:30 pm, Jordan Hall, the Senior Orchestra presents Ravel's Pavanne pour une infante defunte, Strauss's Don Juan, Martinu's Lidice, and Mahler's Symphony No. 10. Also featuring the Repertory Orchestra

HANDEL & HAYDN SOCIETY
Horticultural Hall, 300 Mass Ave, Boston, MA (map)
617.266.3605
info@handelandhaydn.org
http://www.handelandhaydn.org

All concerts are at Symphony Hall, Boston, at 3 pm on Sundays and at 8 pm other days, except as noted. Tickets $15 to $81.

SEPT 22, 23, AND 24 at the Shubert Theatre. Monteverdi’s Orfeo. Chen Shi-Zheng, Director, and Laurence Cummings, conductor OCT 27 AND 29 Classic Genius: Beethoven and Mozart, including Beethoven’s Symphonies No. 1 and 2, and Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto. Featuring Eric Hoeprich, clarinet. Grant Llewellyn, conductor DEC 1, 2, AND 3 on Fri at 7:30 pm and on Sat at 2:30 pm. Handel’s Messiah. Lawrence Cummings, conductor DEC 9 at 3 pm, Holiday Sing. Make a joyful noise and sing your favorite Christmas carols with the Handel and Haydn Chorus, with selections from Messiah. Also with the Back Bay Ringers handbell choir and the Handel and Haydn Young Women’s Chorus. John Finney, conductor DEC 17 AND 20 in the NEC’s Jordan Hall, A Baroque Nöel. Charpentier’s Midnight Mass for Christmas and Corelli’s Christmas Concerto. Emmanuelle Haïm, Conductor JAN 12 AND 14 “Welcome, Sir Roger Norrington!”: Haydn’s Symphony No. 49 in F Minor, La passione; Haydn’s Symphony No. 103 in E-Flat, Drum Roll; and Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos in E-Flat. Featuring Robert Levin and Ya-Fei Chuang, fortepiano. Sir Roger Norrington, conductor FEB 9 AND 11 in NEC’s Jordan Hall, “Baroque Brilliance”: Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C, Vivaldi’s Oboe Concerto, and Telemann’s Excerpts from Tafelmusik. David Stern, conductor FEB 23 AND 25 on Sun at 8 pm, in NEC’s Jordan Hall, “Love Songs”: German, French, and English choral works from the Romantic era, including Brahms’s Liebeslieder Waltzer. Grant Llewellyn, conductor MAR 2 AND 4 Mozart, Haydn, and Hogwood. Special pre-concert talk and performance of the Fantasia in F minor played by two organ virtuosi. Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto for flute (trans. Mueller); Fantasia in F minor, K. 608 for organ; and Haydn’s Symphony No. 98 in B-Flat Major. Featuring Christopher Krueger, flute. Christopher Hogwood, conductor APR 13 AND 15 Haydn’s The Seasons. Featuring Karina Gauvin, soprano (Jane); Christoph Genz, tenor (Lucas); and Günther Groissböck, baritone (Simon). Sir Roger Norrington, conductor.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (map)
617.495.9400
http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu

In honor of the 300th anniversary of the death of Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707), Buxtehude's Complete Organ Works will be performed in Adolphus Busch Hall. Call the Harvard Box Office at 617.496.2222 for more information.

SEPT 25, OCT 16, NOV 13, DEC 11, FEB 12, MAR 19, AND APR 2 AND 23 at 8 pm, tickets $25, $10 Harvard students, subscriptions available. James David Christie, organist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will perform the complete organ works of Buxtehude in eight concerts on the D.A. Flentrop organ. Call 617.496.2672 for tickets OCT 5, 12, 19, AND 26, AND NOV 2, 9, 16, AND 30 at 12:15 pm, free, Midday Organ Recitals. Edward Jones, Gund University Organist and Choirmaster in the Memorial Church, opens the 46th season of midday recitals on Oct 5

HARVARD UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (map)
617.496.2222
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~musicdpt/

Performances at 8 pm, in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, except as noted. Passes and information available at the Harvard Box Office.

SEPT 25, OCT 16, NOV 13, DEC 11, FEB 12, MAR 19, APR 2, AND 23 in Adolphus Busch Hall, tickets $25. The Complete Organ Works of Dieterich Buxtehude, featuring James David Christie, Organist of the Boston Symphony, on a 1958 D. A. Fleentrop organ SEPT 28 at 12:15 pm, Faculty Room, University Hall. University Hall Recital Series presents Two Pianists: Geoffrey Peters and Bill Jaeger OCT 12, 13, AND 14 Boston to Broadway: Concerts and Symposia at Harvard University featuring music of Leonard Bernstein NOV 3 the Blodgett Chamber Music Series presents the Ying Quartet, performing Shostakovich’s Quartet No. 3, Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s Quartet No. 7, and Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in A, K. 581. Featuring John Manasse, clarinet NOV 11 the Harvard Group for New Music presents new works by Harvard student composers NOV 18 the Composers’ Orchestral Concert. New works by 18 student composers played by a 45-piece orchestra. Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor

INDIAN HILL SYMPHONY
36 King St, Littleton, MA (map)
978.486.9524
info@indianhillmusic.org
http://www.indianhillmusic.org

Bruce Hangen, artistic director and principal conductor.

SEPT 22 Ice Cream Social and the New England Percussion Ensemble OCT 14 at 8 pm, Kalliroscope Gallery Chamber Music, featuring the Gramercy Trio OCT 21 at 7:30 pm in the Littleton Performing Arts Center, Opening Night, featuring the Orchestra of Indian Hill NOV 11 at 8 pm, Kalliroscope Gallery Chamber Music, featuring Max Levinson and Alison Eldredge DEC 10 at 3 pm, in the Littleton Performing Arts Center, “Holiday Pops: The Magic of Christmas,” featuring the Orchestra of Indian Hill

ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM
280 the Fenway, Boston, MA (map)
617.278.5156
concerts@isgm.org
http://www.gardnermuseum.org

The Composer Portrait Series is a two-concert series held on two Fri evenings at 7 pm. The concerts feature classical music by contemporary composers. The Sunday Concert Series and Young Artists Showcase take place nearly every Sun afternoon from Sept through May. Performances are held at 1:30 pm unless otherwise noted. Tickets $5 to $23. Call for additional information.

COMPOSER PORTRAIT SERIES DEC 1 Music of David Lang, featuring So Percussion, presents “Scraping Song,” Anvil Chorus, “Little Eye,” “Cheating, Lying, Stealing,” and “The So-Called Laws of Nature” (Boston premiere) FEB 16 Music of Conlon Nancarrow: Piece No. 1 for Small Orchestra, Three movements for Chamber Orchestra, Septet, String Quartets No. 1, Studies for Player Piano Nos. 2 and 3a (arr. AWS), Sonatina for piano. Alan Pierson, conductor YOUNG ARTISTS SHOWCASE SEPT 24 Laitman’s “Round and Round,” Barber’s “Despite and Still,” Corigliano’s Selections from “Mr. Tambourine Man” (texts by Bob Dylan), and selected American folk songs. Featuring Jennifer Check, soprano, and Laura Ward, piano OCT 8 the Willona Sinclair Memorial Concert presents Scarlatti’s Sonata in G Major and Sonata in F minor; Mozart’s Sonata No. 17 in D, K. 576; and Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 6 in A, Op. 82. Featuring Gleb Ivanov, piano DEC 3 the Wendy Shattuck Young Artist Concert presents Granados’s Goyescas (excerpts); Rachmaninoff’s Variations on a Theme by Corelli, and Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 2 in D minor. Featuring Wonny Song DEC 17 the Jupiter String Quartet presents Haydn’s Quartet in D Major, No. 4; Bartók’s String Quartet No. 3; Schoenfield’s The Sower (Boston premiere); and Brahms’s Quartet No. 2 in A minor SUNDAY CONCERT SERIES SEPT 10 the Claremont Trio presents the Complete Beethoven Piano Trios, Part Three: Trio in B-flat; Gassenhauer Variations in E-flat; Allegretto in B-flat; and Trio in B-flat, Archduke SEPT 17 at 12 and 3 pm, the Complete Cello Suites of J. S. Bach, featuring Colin Carr, cello OCT 1 the Gardner Chamber Orchestra presents Bartók’s Divertimento for String Orchestra and Haydn’s Symphony No. 6 in D, Le Matin. Douglas Boyd, conductor OCT 15 the Orion String Quartet presents the Complete String Quintets of W. A. Mozart, part one. Featuring Ida Kavafian, viola OCT 22 Music from China: ancient and modern music for traditional Chinese instruments, including the Boston premiere of Han Yong's Seven Brocades, an imaginative series of musical portraits of animals from the Chinese Zodiac. Wang Guowei, Artistic Director and Erhu OCT 29 the Orion String Quartet presents the Complete String Quintets of W. A. Mozart, Part Two featuring Ida Kavafian, viola NOV 5 the Borromeo String Quartet presents Brahms’s String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat, and Brahms’ String Sextet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 36 featuring Liz Freivogel, viola, and Daniel McDonough, cello NOV 12 Shostakovich’s Sonata in C Major; Kurtág’s Selections from Signs, Games, and Messages and Jatekok; Brahms’s Sonata in E-flat, No. 2 featuring Kim Kashkashian, viola, and Lydia Artymiw, piano NOV 19 Musicians from Marlboro present Beethoven’s Folk Songs for voice, violin, cello and piano; Brahms’s Zwei Gesänge for mezzo-soprano, viola and piano; Bartók’s String Quartet in C, No. 4; and Mozart’s String Quintet No. 5 in D, K. 593 DEC 10 the Gardner Chamber Orchestra presents “The Great Vivaldi”: Concerto for strings in D minor, Madrigalesco, Concerto for 2 violins in A from L'estro armonico, Concerto for Cello in A minor, RV. 422, Three Italian folksongs, Concerto for flute in C minor, Il Sospetto, and Concerto for Orchestra in G. Featuring John Gibbons, harpsichord and Paula Robison, flute and director

KING’S CHAPEL
58 Tremont St, Boston, MA (map)
617.227.2155
http://www.kings-chapel.org

Tuesday recitals begin at 12:15 pm and last approximately 35 minutes. Suggested donation $3, which is given to the performing musicians. Tickets $12, $6 for students and seniors. Sunday concert series begin at 5 pm. Suggested donation $12, $6 for students and seniors. For more information, call or visit the Web site.

TUESDAY RECITALS SEPT 19 works by Bach, Honegger, and Pinkham featuring Neil Ewachiw, baritone, and Kimberly Hess, organ SEPT 26 works by Scarlatti and d'Anglebert featuring Suzanne Reine, harpsichord SUNDAY CONCERT SERIES OCT 15 “The Concert of 1789,” featuring King’s Chapel Choir and Soloists, and the Felsted Project Orchestra. A recreation of the program given in honor of George Washington’s visit to Boston in 1789. Handel’s Organ Concerto in F Major, HWV 292; Let the bright Seraphim; anthems by William Selby, music director at King’s Chapel in 1789; and Jonah a mini-oratorio composed by colonist Samuel Felsted. Heinrich Christensen, director and organ NOV 26 “Lead, Kindly Light”: Pieces include David Conte’s Songs of Consolation, Louis Vierne’s Les Angélus, and works by Heiller and Langlais. Featuring Mary Sullivan, soprano, and Heinrich Christensen, organ JAN 28 “A Brahms Portrait”: Selections from Brahms’s enormous output of choral music, ranging from folk-song arrangements to motets, interspersed with selections of his beautiful organ works, played by Ross Wood. Featuring King’s Chapel Choir and soloists, and Ross Wood, organ. Heinrich Christensen, director FEB 25 “Sound the Trumpet!”: Works by Martini, Albinoni, Krebs, Eben, Robert Coates, and more. Featuring Ashley Hall, trumpet, and Heinrich Christensen, organ MAR 25 “Mariamusik”: Swedish director Anders Öhrwall’s suite of traditional Marian carols, Mariamusik. Featuring the King’s Chapel Choir and soloists, and the instrumental ensemble. Heinrich Christensen, director

LONGWOOD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA (map)
617.585.1260
info@longwoodsymphony.org
http://www.longwoodsymphony.org

Longwood Symphony Orchestra is the “orchestra of Boston’s medical community.” Jonathan McPhee is the music director and conductor. Concerts are held at 8 pm in the New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall. Tickets $28, $15 for students and seniors. Subscriptions available.

OCT 7 Satie’s Parade (original version), Colin McPhee’s Tabuh-Tabuhan, and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4. To benefit the Reid R. Sacco Memorial Foundation DEC 2 Brahms’s Academic Festival Overture, Saint-Saens’s Cello Concerto No. 1, featuring Owen Young, cello; and Bernstein’s Symphony No. 1 Jeremiah, featuring Janna Baty, soprano. To benefit the Massachusetts Consortium for Children with Special Health Care Needs: A Program of New England SERVE MAR 10 Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture, Yehudi Wyner’s Epilogue, Debussy’s Nocturnes, Barber Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance, and Barber Andromache's Farewell, for soprano and orchestra, featuring Barbara Quintiliani, soprano. To benefit the Seven Hills Foundation APR 14 Mozart’s Symphony No. 35, K. 385 Haffner; Glazunov’s Violin Concerto, featuring Augustin Hadelich, violin; and Norman Dello Joio’s Triumph of Saint Joan. To benefit the Boston Shriners Hospital

LONGY SCHOOL OF MUSIC
Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall, 27 Garden St, Cambridge, MA (map)
617.876.0956
music@longy.edu
http://www.longy.edu

Concerts are at 8 pm at the Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall, unless otherwise noted. Preconcert talks one hour before the concerts. Admission is free, unless otherwise indicated, but tickets are required. To order tickets, download the mail-in ticket-order form or call 617.876.0956, ext. 500.

SEPT 15 “The Art of Teaching”: Schubert’s Fantasy in F minor, Ponchielli’s Il Convegno (Divertimento for Two Clarinets and Piano), Shostakovich’s Two Pieces for String Octet, and J.H. Morrison’s Hard Weather Makes Good Wood (for string quartet and tape). Featuring Yoko Kida, Victor Rosenbaum, Jonathan Cohler, Yuan Gao, Fumi Masugata, Laura Bossert, Terry King, and the Hausmann Quartet SEPT 16 “Evolving Ideas: The Dialogue Within”: vocal and piano repertoire by Hoiby, Baksa, Copland, and others will set the stage for a conversation about the creative process behind chamber-ensemble playing and coaching SEPT 17 at 7 pm, tickets $10, $5 seniors and students. Chopin’s Four Ballades, Krenek's Sonata No. 4, and Five Piano Pieces, featuring Naoko Sugiyama, piano SEPT 20 “Celebrating the Life of Lily Dumont”: performances by her students and friends include the Chaconne from Bach's Partita No. 2 in D Minor, the Adagio from Brahms's Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Chopin's Fantasy in F minor, and a Mozart viola quintet, featuring the Borromeo String Quartet with guest violist, Raphael Hillyer SEPT 25 “Shostakovich: A Composer's Legacy”: performances of Revol Bunin's Seven Songs on Esenin's Poetry; Vadim Salmanov's Trio No. 1 for Violin, Cello and Piano; and works for two pianos, including Britten's Introduction and Rondo alla Burlesca and Milhaud's Scaramouche; followed by a discussion of Shostakovich and the Russian Conservatory model, moderated by Experiential Education program chair Myran Parker-Brass. SEPT 27 in the Wolfinsohn Recital Room, students nominated by faculty from Longy's Conservatory, Preparatory and Continuing Studies programs perform solo and chamber works SEPT 29 7 pm pre-concert lecture/demonstration. “Shostakovich: A Centennial Celebration”: Dalcroze faculty and students present a pre-concert demonstration on interpreting music through movement in their Plastique Animée realization of Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor. Later concert featuring performances by Longy faculty and guest artists of his Spanish Songs and song cycle From Jewish Folk Poetry, the Concertino for two pianos, and Piano Trio in E minor SEPT 30 “The Art of Inspiration”: Vivaldi's Concerto in C for Two Trumpets, Howard Frazin's Sonata for Cello and Piano, Timothy Dusenbury's Sonata for Violin and Piano, and Bach's Concerto in C for Two Harpsichords. Two performances by exceptional Artist Diploma candidates and their teachers

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Office of the Arts, 20 Ames St, E15-205, Cambridge, MA (map)
617.253.4003
http://web.mit.edu/arts

MIT's Guest Artist Series will feature Professor Marcus Thompson, viola, celebrating the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth (1756), with performances of Mozart's viola quintets with visiting string quartets. Performances will start at 8 pm in Kresge Auditorium. Call 617.253.2826 for more information. The Artist Behind the Desk series will feature figures from campus in performances at noon in Killian Hall. Call 617.253.6857 or e-mail abd@mit.edu for more information.

SEPT 14, 15, AND 16 8 pm, in Kresge Little Theater, tickets $12, $9 MIT community, $6 MIT/Wellesley students, $3 new MIT students. Crazy for You, Musical Theatre Guild production of the "new" Gershwin musical. Call 617.253.6294 or e-mail mtg-tickets@mit.edu for tickets DEC 17 MIT Women's Chorale Holiday Concert. Nancy Kushlan Wanger, director. Call 781.643.0771 for additional information GUEST ARTIST SERIES OCT 1 the Jupiter Quartet presents Mozart’s Quartet for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Cello; String Quintet No. 5, K. 593. Featuring Marcus Thompson, viola NOV 3 the Vogler Quartet presents Haydn's String Quartet No. 52 in E-flat; Berg's String Quartet; Webern's Six Bagatelles; Mozart's String Quintet No. 6 for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Cello, in E-flat. Featuring Marcus Thompson, viola FEB 23 Audubon Quartet presents String Quintet No. 3 for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Cello, in C major. Series finale, featuring Professor Marcus Thompson, viola ARTIST BEHIND THE DESK NOV 1 Librarian Georgiana McReynolds performs classical works for clarinet NOV 15 the Silverwood Trio, a unique combination of flute/soprano, cello and piano, performs in a wide range of styles from Baroque to Contemporary DEC 6 Melanie Howell, saxophonist and local technology expert in the MIT Libraries, performs DEC 20 Alecia Batson, soprano and administrative assistant in the Office of the President, performs with David McGrory, piano

MASSACHUSETTS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Tuckerman Hall, Box 20070, West Side Station, Worcester, MA (map)
508.754.1234
info@tuckermanhall.org
http://www.tuckermanhall.org/pops.html

Concerts are at 8 pm, except as noted.

SEPT 22 tickets TBA, the Four Freshmen, WICN Public Radio Program OCT 21 tickets TBA, A Tribute to Johnny Hartman, featuring Kevin Mahogany, WICN Public Radio Program NOV 15 tickets $39 and $36, the Kremlin Chamber Orchestra presents Rossini’s Sonata for Strings No. 3 in C, Richard Strauss’s introduction to the opera Capriccio, Jacob’s Concerto for Horn and Strings, Schnauber’s In Memory of Henri Temianka, and Brahms’s String Sextet No. 1 in B flat. Featuring Michelle Perry, horn. Misha Rachlevsky, music director DEC 9 Mechanics Hall Holiday Pops Concert. Call 508.754.1234 for tickets JAN 13 tickets $39 and $36, the Claremont Trio. Emily Bruskin, violin; Julia Bruskin, cello; and Donna Kwang, piano, present Mozart’s Trio in C, K. 548; Schoenfield’s Café Music; Shostakovich’s Trio No. 1 in C; and Dvorák’s Trio in E, Op. 90, Dumky MAR 23 tickets $39 and $37, Orchestre de Chambre Français presents Vivaldi’s Concerto for Strings in A, Debussy’s Petite suite (1888), Godard’s Canzonette from Concerto romantique, Saint-Saëns’s Romance in C, Ravel’s Pavane pour une infante défunte (1899), Mozart’s Divertimento in F, K.138, Grieg’s Holberg Suite, and Saint-Saëns’s Rondo Capriccioso. Featuring Kyung Sun Lee, violin. Brian Suits, Conductor

MASTERWORKS CHORALE
Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA (map)
781.235.6210
info@masterworkschorale.org
http://www.masterworkschorale.org

All concerts are held at Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, Harvard University, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge. Ticket prices to concerts at Sanders Theatre are $42, $30, and $20. Discounts of $3 per ticket are available to groups of 10 or more and to WGBH members and WCRB Classical Advantage cardholders. Call 617.496.2222 for tickets.

NOV 12 at 3 pm, Salzburg Splendor, featuring Mozart’s Venite Populi, K. 260 (248a; Te Deum, K. 141; The Sparrow Mass, K. 220 (196b); and Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339 MAR 11 at 3 pm, “The Winds of Change,” featuring Bach’s Cantata No. 118 Motet: O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht, Beethoven’s Bundeslied, Brahms’s Begräbnisgesang, and Bruckner’s Mass No. 2 in E minor. The chorus will be accompanied by a rich variety of wind and brass instruments MAY 12 at 8 pm, “A Mass Masterpiece,” featuring Bach’s Mass in B minor, BWV 232

MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
465 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA (map)
617.369.3306
http://www.mfa.org

Concerts are in the Remis Auditorium, except as noted.

OCT 1 at 3:30 pm, tickets $25, $20 for students, seniors, and members. “The Boston Museum Trio with Guy Fishman Celebrating Mozart”: two piano quartets, a sonata for violin and keyboard, and a piano trio. Featuring Daniel Stepner, baroque violin; Laura Jeppesen, viola de gamba; John Gibbons, harpsichord; and Guy Fishman, cello NOV 16 at 7:30 pm, tickets $25, $20 for students, seniors, and members. “Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonatas for Violin and Keyboard”: three Bach Sonatas for violin and keyboard and a sonata for violin and continuo. Featuring Daniel Stepner, baroque violin, and Jon Gibbons, harpsichord MAY 13 at 3:30 pm, tickets $25, $20 for students, seniors, and members. “The Boston Museum Trio with Kristin Watson: Mother's Day Concert”: Italian and Italianate instrumental and vocal works by Vivaldi (including his virtuoso cantata, Lungi dal vago volto), Corelli, Handel, and Scarlatti. Featuring Daniel Stepner, baroque violin; Laura Jeppesen, viola de gamba; John Gibbons, harpsichord; and Kristin Watson, soprano

MUSICA SACRA
Box 38-1336, Cambridge, MA (map)
617.349.3400
info@musicasacra.org
http://musicasacra.org/

All performances are at First Church Congregational, 11 Garden St, Cambridge, at 8 pm, except as noted. Tickets $20 to $40, $15 for students and seniors, group rates and subscriptions available.

SEPT 21 at 6 pm, the “Third Annual RiverSing” OCT 28 “The Devil Calls the Tune: Choral Music for Halloween”: works by William Schuman, Edward Elgar, Irving Fine, Josef Rheinberger, Samuel Barber, and others. Post-concert reception, costume party, and raffle for all audience members. DEC 16 “American Christmas”: Christmas music from the folksongs of Appalachia to the urbane music of Bostonian Daniel Pinkham. Post-concert sing-along for all audience members, plus a reception for all donors. MAR 31 “Yearning for the Holy in a Divided World”: choral works commissioned by the Foundation for Universal Sacred Music. JUN 2 “Lord, what Fools These Mortals Be: Renaissance Madrigals Celebrating Love”: works by Morley, Monteverdi, Tallis, Weelkes, Gesualdo and others.

MUSICIANS OF THE OLD POST ROAD
318 Bear Hill Rd, Suite 9, Waltham, MA (map)
781.466.6694
musicians@oldpostroad.org
http://www.oldpostroad.org

The core ensemble members are flutist Suzanne Stumpf, violinist Christina Day Martinson, violist Marcia Cassidy, cellist Daniel Ryan, and harpsichordist/fortepianist Michael Bahmann. Performances are at 8 pm unless otherwise noted. Tickets $22, $17 for students and seniors, and children 7 to 17 are free.

OCT 21 AND 22 on Sat in Emmanuel Church, and on Sun at 3 pm in the Worcester Historical Museum. Bach’s Brandenburg 5. Plus, one of Bach’s beloved works, along with four more lively chamber concertos by Telemann, Vivaldi, Corrette, and Stölzel DEC 15 AND 16 on Fri in Emmanuel Church, and on Sat at in First Parish, Sudbury. “A Joyful Christmas from Germany”: from the 17th and early 18th-centuries, intimate cantatas, arias, and instrumental works for the season by Telemann, Heinichen, Hoffmann, Bernhard and others. Featuring Pamela Dellal, mezzo-soprano FEB 3 AND 4 on Sat in Emmanuel Church, and on Sun at 4 pm in First Unitarian Church, Apollo e Dafne, Handel’s dramatic cantata, plus fine instrumental works by Handel. Featuring Jayne West, soprano, and Aaron Engebreth, baritone MAR 16 AND 17 on Fri in First Parish, Wayland, and on Sat in Emmanuel Church. “Haydn, Mozart, and the Gypsy Style”: chamber works with a gypsy flair by two classical masters and their Bohemian contemporaries

MUSIC IN DEERFIELD
393 Main St, P.O. Box 736, Greenfield, MA (map)
413.774.4200
info@musicindeerfield.org
http://www.musicindeerfield.org

Concerts are at 8 pm, with concert conversations at 7 pm. Concerts are at Sweeney Concert Hall/Sage Hall at Smith College, except as noted. Tickets $28 adults, $9 children and undergraduates

OCT 28 the St. Petersburg String Quartet presents Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8 in C minor and Quintet in G minor for Piano and Strings, and Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 7 in F, Razumovsk. Featuring Seth Knopp, piano NOV 17 Cuarteto Latinoamericano presents Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Quartet No. 6; Gershwin’s Lullaby, Astor Piazzolla’s Fuga y Misterio, Adios Nonino (solo bandoneón), Revirado, Picasso and Tanguedia; and Alberto Nuñez Palacio’s Desarraitango. Visit the Cuarteto Latinoamericano Web site at www.music.web.cmu.edu/cuarteto/index.html DEC 15 at First Church, in Deerfield. The Baltimore Consort presents “Wassail, Wassail.” Visit the Baltimore Consort Web site at www.baltcons.com JAN 26 Matt Haimovitz, with Jonathan Crow, violin, and Douglas McNabney, viola, present Jean Françaix’s String Trio, Ernst von Dohnányi’s Serenade in C, and Mozart’s Divertimento in E-flat, K. 563. Visit Matt Haimovitz's Web site at www.oxingale.com MAR 30 the Talich Quartet presents Haydn’s Quartet TBA, Mendelssohn’s Quartet in A minor, and Leos Janácek’s Quartet No. 2, Intimate Letters. Visit the Talich Quartet's Web site at www.talichquartet.cz APR 13 Miró Quartet presents Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga’s Quartet No. 3; Bartók’s Quartet No. 4; and Schubert’s Quartet in D minor, Death and the Maiden. Visit the Miro Quartet's Web site at www.miroquartet.com

MUSIC WORCESTER
Mechanics Hall, 321 Main St, Worcester, MA (map)
508.754.3231
http://www.musicworcester.org

In addition to the classical performances listed below, the 2006-2007 season includes world music, dance, and a spring series of children’s music. See Web site for details. Concerts are at 8 pm at Mechanics Hall, except as noted. Most concerts include a pre-concert talk at 7 pm.

OCT 18 tickets $46, $43. Boston Philharmonic Orchestra presents Ravel’s Rhapsodie Espagnol, Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra, and Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique. Featuring Sharon Isbin, guitar. Benjamin Zander, conductor OCT 25 tickets $46, $43. The Prague Chamber Orchestra presents Mozart’s Symphony No. 8 in D, K.48; Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat, K. 595; Janacek’s Suite for String Orchestra; and Schubert’s Symphony No. 5 in B flat. Featuring Menahem Pressler, piano NOV 4 tickets $26, at the United Congregational Church, in Boston. The Worcester Chorus presents “Illuminate: Innovative Voices, Past and Present”: Dvorak’s Mass in D, Vaughan Williams’s Lord Thou Has Been Our Refuge, Locklair’s St. Peter’s Rock, and Sharpe's award-winning setting of Psalm 22. Featuring Frank Corbin, organ, and Richard Watson, trumpet. Andrew Clark, music director NOV 15 tickets $39, $36, at Tuckermann Hall. The Kremlin Chamber Orchestra presents Rossini’s Sonata No. 3 in C, Strauss’s Introduction to the Opera Capriccio, Jacob’s Concerto for Horn and Strings, and Schnauber’s In Memory of Henri Temianka. Featuring Michelle Perry, horn. Misha Rachlevsky, music director DEC 2 tickets $37, $34. The Worcester Chorus presents Handel's Messiah JAN 13 tickets $39, $36, at Tuckermann Hall. The Claremont Trio presents Mozart’s Trio in C Major, K. 548; Schoenfield’s Café Music; Shostakovich’s Trio No. 1 in C minor; and Dvorak’s Trio in E minor, Dumky. Featuring Emily Bruskin, violin; Julia Brudkin, cello; and Donna Kwong, piano JAN 29 tickets $46, $43. The Hamburg Symphony Orchestra presents Mendelssohn’s The Hebrides, Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D, and Brahms’s Symphony No. 2, in D. Featuring Robert McDuffie, violin. Andrey Boreyko, Conductor FEB 13 tickets $46, $43. Matav Symphony Orchestra of Budapest presents Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain, Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 in E minor. Featuring Paaval Jumppanen, piano. András Ligeti, conductor

NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY
290 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA (map)
617.585.1270
boxoffice@newenglandconservatory.edu
http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu

Concerts are free and take place at Jordan Hall at 8 pm, except as noted. The Early Evening Series begins at 6 pm in Williams Hall, featuring the Borromeo String Quartet, NEC's quartet-in-residence.

SEPT 17 at 3 pm, Fenwick Smith presents Scott Wheeler’s The Small Rain (world premiere) featuring Sally Pinkas, piano. Also on the program are seven études for solo flute by Siegfried Karg-Elert; a sonata by Jean-Marie Leclair with John Gibbons and Laura Blustein, harpsichord and cello; and three arias from Bach cantatas with tenor Frank Kelley SEPT 25 Daniel Pinkham’s Forest Music, featuring the Arcadian Winds, Barcarole, Blue Blazes, and Snowflakes (world premiere), featuring Evan Hirsch, piano. “When Love Was Gone” and “Love in a Warm Room in Winter,” featuring Joe Dan Harper, tenor, and Anne Kissel Harper, piano. Sonata Brevis, featuring Fenwick Smith, flute, and Sally Pinkas, piano. Wind Trio and Musings (world premieres) featuring Pinkas, piano, and “That Provoking Charm”; and “Called Home” with Aaron Engebreth, baritone, and Alison d'Amato, piano SEPT 27 in Williams Hall, the Callithumpian Consort presents two works by John Luther Adams for percussion and flutes, and an hour-long performance of Alvin Lucier's Small Waves. Lead by Stephen Drury of the NEC faculty OCT 4 NEC Philharmonia presents Sibelius's Tapiola, Harbison's Symphony No. 1, and Verdi's Overture to La Forza del destino. Joseph Silverstein, conductor OCT 8 at 2 pm, tickets $20 adults, $15 students, From the Top taping. Programs are produced in association with WGBH Radio Boston and New England Conservatory, the show's home and educational partner OCT 9 “Opening Our Doors Day”: at 11:15 am, student chamber group Parker Quartet at 2:30 pm. The Metropolitan Opera Regional Auditions present a concert by recent vocal winners and finalists, and at 8 pm, Copland's Sonata, Bach's Partita in D minor, Rochberg's Caprice Variations, and Prokofiev's Sonata in F minor. Featuring Masuko Ushioda, violin, and NEC piano faculty Randall Hodgkinson OCT 10 Callithumpian Consort presents Earle Brown's Sign Sounds; and Alvin Lucier’s Ever Present for flute, alto saxophone, and piano, with pure-wave oscillators OCT 10 NEC Chamber Orchestra presents Handel's Concerto Grosso No. 8 in C minor, Mendelssohn's Sinfonia No. 8 in D, and William Walton’s Sonata for string orchestra OCT 12 NEC Wind Ensemble presents Mozart's Serenade in C minor; Toensing's Concerto for Flutes and Wind Ensemble, featuring Fenwick Smith; Dana Wilson’s Day Dreams (world premiere), in tribute to former NEC Wind Ensemble director Frank Battisti; Rautavaara's A Requiem for Our Time; and Purcell's Funeral Music for Queen Mary, arranged by Steven Stuckey. Charles Peltz, conductor. OCT 12 in Brown Hall, “The Michele Auclair (1924-2005) Memorial Concert,” organized by former NEC strings chair Eric Rosenblith to bring together Auclair's former students and colleagues OCT 15 a series of world premiere compositions by NEC Preparatory School composition faculty member and theory chair Larry Bell, and Boston Symphony Orchestra double bassist and NEC faculty member James Orleans. Music of the Spheres for solo piano, featuring Bell, pianist; Dream Within a Dream, featuring D'Anna Fortunato, mezzo-soprano, and Bell, piano; Shakespeare Sonnets (Boston premiere) featuring Thomas Gregg, tenor, and Bell, piano; Piano Sonata No. 3 (“Remembering György Ligeti”), featuring Bell, piano; and Pop Set, featuring James Orleans, double bass, and Bell, piano. Also Roger Sessions’s Adagio for Piano, featuring Bell, piano; and James Orleans’s Lullaby, featuring James Orleans, double bass, and Bell, piano OCT 16 at 7:30 pm, “Concert X.” programmed by the New England Conservatory Student Association OCT 18 the NEC Symphony Orchestra presents Kirchner's Music for Orchestra, Sibelius's Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Beethoven's Overture from Coriolan, and Debussy's Afternoon of a Fawn, based on a pastoral of Stephane Mallarme. Joseph Silverstein, conductor OCT 23 “Monteverdi Evening”: the NEC Concert Choir, Chamber Singers, Women's Chorus, and Bach Ensemble present Monteverdi's music, including Hor che’l ciel, other accompanied and unaccompanied madrigals, and purely instrumental works. Featuring historical performance faculty John Gibbons, continuo harpsichordist. Amy Lieberman, choral director OCT 24 in Williams Hall, harpsichordist John Gibbons leads the NEC Bach Ensemble in vocal and instrumental works by Monteverdi and his contemporaries OCT 25 NEC Sinfonietta presents Enesco's Romanian Rhapsody, Haydn's Symphony No. 100 in D, Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B minor, and Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain. John Page, conductor OCT 26 The NEC Jordan Winds present Richard Strauss's Suite in B-flat, Steven Burke's Joy Ride, Jan Koetsier's Brass Symphony, Carl Reinecke's Octet, and Richard Rodney Bennett's Morning Music. William Drury, conductor NOV 2 NEC Philharmonia presents Brahms's Symphony No. 3. Joseph Silverstein, conductor NOV 5 at 7:30 pm, Norman Bolter, trombone. NEC faculty member Bolter traditionally invites BSO colleagues to join him in Jordan Hall for performances of his own compositions and brass classics NOV 8 Music of husband-and-wife composers and NEC faculty members Robert Cogan and Pozzi Escot NOV 9 NEC Wind Ensemble presents Kevin Volans's arrangement of Claude Debussy's L'Isle joyeuese, Robert Xavier Rodriguez's Seven Deadly Sins, a world premiere by Karl Henning, and György Ligeti's Sechs Miniaturen in memory of the late composer NOV 12 Robert Paul Sullivan, guitar NOV 12 at 4 pm in Williams Hall, Aldo Abreu, recorder NOV 14 The NEC Contemporary Ensemble presents works by Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Ives, Berio, Carter, Ligeti, prominent local composers, NEC faculty, and students. Guest composers have included Boulez, Kraft, Perle, Schuller, Maxwell-Davies, Lutoslawski, Saya, Stokes, and Child NOV 15 The NEC Chamber Orchestra presents Elgar's Introduction and Allego; Musica concertante by Sandor Veress, a teacher of the late Gyorgy Ligeti; and Haydn's Symphony No. 80 in D minor. Donald Palma, a founding member of New York's Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, coaches the conductorless NEC Chamber Orchestra NOV 16 tickets $10, $5 students and seniors. NEC Youth Symphony, en route to a summer 2007 tour of Greece. Steve Karidoyanes, Conductor NOV 19 Paula Robison and John Gibbons, flute and harpsichord NOV 19 AND 20 on Sun at 4 pm and on Mon at 8 pm in Brown Hall, NEC Opera Workshop, Patricia-Maria Weinmann directs NEC voice students in a program of opera scenes and arias ranging from the Baroque to 20th-century works NOV 20 NEC’s Jordan Winds present Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D, arranged by Donald Hunsberger, and Jacob Druckman's Engram. William Drury, conductor NOV 29 The NEC Symphony Orchestra presents Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3, featuring Yue Chu, student pianist. David Loebel, conductor NOV 30 Ravel's song cycle Chanson madecasses, Jake Heggie's “The Deepest Desire,” and a work by Handel. Featuring Heidi Skok, mezzo-soprano, and several members of the NEC faculty including Vivian Hornik Weilerstein, Fenwick Smith, Natasha Brofsky, and Martin Hennessy DEC 3 at 7:30 pm, the NEC Percussion Ensemble presents Robert Xavier Rodriguez’s El dia de los muertos DEC 5 in Williams Hall, “Tuesday Night New Music.” Featuring new music by NEC student composers, fresh off the page, performed by NEC students DEC 6 NEC Sinfonietta presents Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, and Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber, Overture to Carl Maria von Weber's Turnadot, and Overture to Wagner's Rienzi. John Page, conductor DEC 7 at 7 pm in Brown Hall, chamber music recital DEC 8, 9, AND 10 on Sun at 3 pm, in the Cutler Majestic Theatre, tickets $20, $16 students and seniors. The NEC Opera presents Grey Gardens. John Greer, Conductor, and Marc Astafan, Director DEC 10 in Jordan Hall, the NEC Junior Massachusetts Youth Wind Ensemble. David Samour, Conductor DEC 10 at noon, 4 pm, and at 7 pm, in Brown Hall, chamber music recital DEC 11 in Jordan Hall, the NEC choruses present Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols and Hugo Distler's Es ist ein Ros variations. Also on the program: Arvo Part's Magnificat and Renaissance works for brass. Amy Lieberman, conductor DEC 11 at 7 pm in St. Botolph Hall, James Buswell and Carol Ou seminar recital DEC 12 at 7 pm in Williams Hall, chamber music recital DEC 13 Chamber Music Gala DEC 14 in Brown Hall, the NEC Wind Ensemble and the NEC Jordan Winds, led by Graduate conducting students DEC 16 at 1 pm, NEC Preparatory School Winter Festival, featuring performances by the NEC Children’s Choruses, Jean Meltaus, conductor; the NEC String Training Orchestras, Peter Jarvis, conductor; the NEC Preparatory String Orchestra, Adam Grossman, conductor; and the NEC Youth Repertory Orchestra, Jane Ezbicki, conductor DEC 17 The NEC Massachusetts Youth Wind Ensemble. Michael Mucci, conductor DEC 18 AND 19 in Brown Hall, SCE Opera Scenes, Janice Giampa and Daniel Wyneken present select scenes and arias performed by adult learners FIRST MONDAYS AT JORDAN HALL OCT 2 Piano Quartet, featuring faculty members Randall Hodgkinson, Masuko Ushioda, Kim Kashkashian, and Laurence Lesser; Mozart's Flute Quartet in D, featuring Paula Robison, Ushioda, Kashkashian, and Lesser; and the Jupiter String Quartet, joined by NEC piano faculty Stephen Drury, presents Schnittke's Piano Quintet NOV 6 The Borromeo String Quartet presents Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Quintet, from NEC's Boston GuitarFest last June, featuring Eliot Fisk, guitar. The quartet also performs Crumb's “Black Angels.” Additionally, Beethoven’s Septet, featuring Miriam Fried, violin; Marcus Thompson, viola; Lawrence Wolfe, Boston Symphony Orchestra double bass; James Somerville, BSO horn; and Richard Ranti, BSO bassoon DEC 4 the Borromeo String Quartet and Alexander Korsantia of the piano faculty present Shostakovich’s Quintet; Lerdahl's waltzes, featuring Roger Tapping, violist; and Beethoven's String Trio, featuring Lucy Chapman, violin, Roger Tapping, viola, and Natasha Brofsky, cello EARLY EVENINGS SERIES OCT 14 Shostakovich’s Eighth Quartet NOV 21 Shostakovich’s Third Quartet FEB 20 Shostakovich’s Second Quartet

NEW ENGLAND PHILHARMONIC
Tsai Performance Center, 685 Comm Ave, Boston, MA (map)
617.868.1222
http://www.nephilharmonic.org

Richard Pittman, music director. Concerts are at the Tsai Performance Center, Boston, except as noted. Tickets $25, $20 for seniors, $15 for students.

OCT 15 at 3 pm, in MIT’s Kresge Auditorium. Peter Child’s Punkie Night (world premiere); Stephen Gorbos’s Diaphony (world premiere); Colin McPhee’s Concerto for Piano and Wind Octet, featuring Stephen Drury, piano; and Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique OCT 29 at 2 pm, Bank of America Celebrity Series. Paul Dukas’s The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Modest Mussorgsky’s A Night on Bald Mountain, Camille Saint-Saens’s Danse Macabre, Hector Berlioz’s March to the Scaffold from Symphonie Fantastique. Rob Kapilow, guest conductor DEC 10 at 3 pm, Family Concert. Richard Wagner’s The Ride of the Valkyries, George Antheil’s Tom Sawyer Overture, Richard Cornell’s Umai's Journey, with Steve Aveson, narrator, and the Young Classical Singers. Marie Stultz, director FEB 24 at 8 pm, “In Praise of Women”: Steven Stucky’s Son et lumiere; Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, featuring Danielle Maddon, violin; Claude Debussy’s La damoiselle elue, featuring Simmons College Chorale with Sharon Brown, director, and the Boston Conservatory Women's Chorus, Miguel Felipe, director; Richard Strauss’s Rosenkavalier Suite MAR 31 at 8 pm, tickets $125, NEP Benefit Recital. A program of opera arias and duets, plus selections from the American songbook, featuring David Kravitz, baritone, and Majie Zeller, mezzo-soprano. Call for details APR 21 at 8 pm, 30th Anniversary Concert. Alban Berg’s Wozzeck, concert performance, featuring Handel & Haydn Society Young Women's Chorus, Wellesley College Chamber Singers (Lisa Graham, director), and Worcester Polytechnic Glee Club (John Delorey, director)

NEW ENGLAND STRING ENSEMBLE
Box 2012, Wakefield, MA (map)
781.224.1117
info@newenglandstringensemble.org
http://www.newenglandstringensemble.org/

Federico Cortese, Music Director.

SEPT 30 AND OCT 1 at 7:30 pm on Sat in Rogers Center for the Arts, Merrimack College, North Andover, and at 3 pm on Sun in Jordan Hall. Program includes Schubert’s Salve Regina in A, featuring Jessica Tarnish, soprano; Stravinsky’s Apollon Musagete; Golijov’s Lua Descolorida; and Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence NOV 4 AND 5 at 7:30 pm on Sat in West Parish Church, Andover, and at 7:30 pm on Sun in First Church, Boston. The NESE Chamber Players present Rossini’s Duetto in D for Cello and Double Bass, Kodaly’s Serenade for Two Violins and Viola, and Dvorak’s Quintet in G JAN 6 AND 7 at 7:30 pm on Sat in Rogers Center for the Arts, and at 3 pm on Sun in Jordan Hall. Winter Concert, featuring Lully’s Le Triomphe de l'amour; Jakoulov’s Concerto for Viola, Harpsichord, and Strings, featuring Michael Zaretsky, viola; Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik; and Brahms’s Liebeslieder Waltzes

NEW PHILHARMONICA ORCHESTRA
Box 610384, Newton, MA (map)
617.527.9717
info@newphil.org
http://www.newphil.org

A non-professional, regional, and family-accessible orchestra. Tickets are $8 to $25. Family Discovery performances on Sat at 2 pm in the Sorenson Center, Babson College, with pre-concert activities at 1:15 pm. Classics Concert performances on Sat at 8 pm and on Sun at 3 pm.

FAMILY DISCOVERY SERIES OCT 28 Halloween Spirits. Join the conductor and the characters of the orchestra in their costumes for festive music of the season including the Witches Dance from Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique FEB 10 Tales of Trolls. Experience the fun and fantasy of the woods of Norway through the music of Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt. Join storyteller Jay O'Callahan and the New Philharmonia in this special musical journey. MAY 5 “Picture This!”: ignite the imagination and listen to the musical pictures of the countryside and ocean in works of Beethoven and Britten CLASSICS CONCERTS SERIES NOV 18 AND 19 on Sat in the Sorenson Center, and on Sun in the First Baptist Church in Newton, “Classics I: Fact and Fantasy,” featuring Kechley’s Wakeful Visions/Moonless Dreams: Four Short Pieces for Orchestra (world premiere), Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21, K. 467, Elvira Madigan, and Berlioz’s Symphony Fantastique MAR 10 AND 11 on Sat in the Sorenson Center, and on Sun in the First Baptist Church, “Classics II: Nordic Sketches,” featuring Grieg’s Suite from Peer Gynt with Jay O'Callahan, narrator; and Sibelius’s Violin Concerto with Haldan Martinson, violin APR 28 AND 29 on Sat in Medfield High School and on Sun in First Baptist Church, “Classics III: From the Country to the Sea Community Convergence Concert,” featuring Beethoven’s Overture to Fidelio, with Al Leisinger, guest conductor; Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, Pastorale; and Britten’s Peter Grimes: Four Sea Interludes. Sat performance features the Medfield High School Orchestra. Sun performance features the Newton All-City Treble Chorus, Charlotte Bumit, director

NEWTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Rashi Auditorium, 15 Walnut Park, Newton Corner, MA (map)
617.965.2555
office@newtonsymphony.org
http://www.newtonsymphony.org

Concerts are held at 7:30 pm in the Rashi Auditorium, Newton except as noted. Tickets $25 to $45; discounts for seniors, students, and children. Consult Web site for special events.

OCT 29 Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2, featuring Henri Delbeau, piano; and Schumann’s Symphony No. 1, Spring JAN 28 at 7 pm, Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, in a semi-staged performance MAR 25 Beethoven’s Overture to the Consecration of the House Dietter’s Concerto in B flat No. 2 for Two Bassoons and Orchestra, featuring the Newton Symphony Orchestra with John Miller and Richard Schaul-Yoder, Principal Bassoon; and Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, Titan MAY 6 Brahms’s Violin Concerto, with Tamara Smirnova, associate concertmaster; and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 7

OPERA BOSTON
Cutler Majestic Theatre, Emerson College, 219 Tremont St, Boston, MA (map)
617.451.9944
info@operaboston.org
http://www.operaboston.org

Formerly the Boston Academy of Music. Carole Charnow, general director; Gil Rose, music director. Performances on Fri and Tues at 7:30 pm, and on Sun at 3 pm. Tickets $24 to $99. Free pre-opera talks one hour before curtain.

OCT 20, 22, AND 24 Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito FEB 23, 25, AND 27 Weill’s The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny MAY 4, 6, AND 8 Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers

PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM
East India Square, Salem, MA (map)
978.745.9500
http://www.pem.org

The museum brings its collections to life in a comprehensive schedule of concerts, films, lectures, workshops, and family programs. For reservations or additional information, call 978.745.9500, ext. 3011.

SEPT 16 AND 17 on Sat from 2:30 to 3:30 pm and on Sun from 1 to 2 pm in the Atrium, Music from Orfeo. Conductor Laurence Cummings provides commentary about Orfeo accompanied by dancers and Handel and Haydn Society musicians SEPT 23 THROUGH 29 10 am to 4 pm, various locations throughout the museum, The IIIZ+ Ensemble, open rehearsals SEPT 30 AND OCT 1 on Sat, noon to 12:30 pm, and on Sun, noon to 12:20 pm in the Atrium, The IIIZ+ Ensemble, mini-concerts SEPT 30 1 to 3:30 pm, various galleries, The IIIZ+ Ensemble, individual concerts OCT 1 2 to 3 pm, in Morse Auditorium, The IIIZ+ Ensemble, World Premiere Concert

PRO ARTE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF BOSTON
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, 45 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA (map)
617.661.7067
info@proarte.org
http://www.proarte.org

Isaiah Jackson, music director. Performances are on Sun at 3 pm at Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, except as noted. The pre-concert “Aperitif” series begins at 2 pm. All concerts are followed by an “Ask the Artist” question-and-answer session, and a meeting of the Pro Amore Club, “the only classical singles music group in the Boston area.” Tickets $15 to $50. Subscriptions available.

OCT 1 “Mediterranean Cruise”: Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeri: Overture, Skalkottas's Five Greek Dances, Respighi's Trittico Botticelliano, De Falla's El amor brujo: Ballet Suite, and Christos Koulendros's Mnemes ke Choroi (world premiere). Featuring Pamela Dellal, mezzo-soprano. Kevin Rhodes, guest conductor NOV 26 “Vive la France”: Milhaud's La Création du monde, Saint-Saëns's Carnival of the Animals, and Poulenc's Aubade for Piano and 18 Instruments. Featuring Per Tengstrand and Shan-shan Sun, piano duo. Federico Cortese, guest conductor JAN 31 at 7 pm, in the Back Bay Events Center, Boston. “From Russia with Love”: Stravinsky's Pulcinella: Suite (excluding movements 4, 5 and 6), Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings, and Shostakvich's Cello Concerto No. 1. Special concert and gala/auction reception. Yo-Yo Ma, featured soloist. Isaiah Jackson, conductor emeritus APR 1 “The Orient Express”: Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5, Turkish; Vivaldi's Sinfonia No. 3; and Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. Featuring Arturo Delmoni, violin. Gunther Schuller, principal guest conductor MAY 20 “South of the Border”: New transcription for guitar (arr. by Eliot Fisk) of Mark O'Connor's “Winter” from The American Seasons, Villa-Lobos's Concerto for Guitar and Small Orchestra, Revueltas's Homenaje a Federica Garcia Lorca, and Ginestera's Variaciones Concertantes. Featuring Eliot Fisk, guitarist. Gisèle Ben-Dor, conductor emerita

RADIUS ENSEMBLE
1555 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA (map)
617.792.7234
radius@radiusensemble.org
http://www.radiusensemble.org

A chamber-music ensemble of winds, strings, and piano, Radius Ensemble performs music from the classical period to the modern era, from beloved masterpieces to undiscovered gems. Concerts are at 8 pm at MIT's Killian Hall. Tickets $15 to $20, $10 students and seniors; including a pre-concert lecture and post-concert reception with the artists.

SEPT 30 Schumann’s Piano Trio; Loeffler’s Two Rhapsodies for oboe, viola, and piano; Roussel’s Trio for flute and strings; and Muczynski’s Duos for flute and clarinet NOV 18 Kulesha’s The Devil's Dictionary for wind quintet, Prokofiev’s Quintet for Winds and Strings, Ran’s Sonatina for two flutes, Brahms’s Piano Quintet in F minor MAR 3 Taffanel’s Wind Quintet in G minor, Ligeti’s Horn Trio (Homage à Brahms), and Mozart’s Quintet for Clarinet and Strings MAY 5 Françaix’s Divertissement for reed trio; Gubaidulina’s Silenzio for violin, cello and bayan; Vivier’s Paramirabo for flute, strings and piano; and Beethoven’s Quintet for Piano and Winds, Op. 16

SARASA CHAMBER MUSIC ENSEMBLE
14 High St, Cambridge, MA (map)
617.492.4758
http://www.sarasamusic.org

Performances on Sat at 8 pm in the Friends Meeting House, 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge, and on Sun at 7 pm in Parish Hall, First Parish in Concord, 20 Lexington Rd, Concord. Tickets $20, $16 seniors, $13 students, free for children under 12. Subscriptions available. Available through the Web site, by phone, or in person the night of the concert.

OCT 28 AND 29 “Mozart and his Fortepiano,” featuring Mozart’s Piano Quartet in E flat, Trio in G KV 496, Fortepiano Variations on Ah, vous dirai-je Maman KKV 265 (300e), Andantino for cello and piano in B flat K.anh.46 (374g), and Violin Sonata in E minor FEB 3 AND 4 “Italian Baroque”: Cantatas of Strozzi and others. Instrumental music by Marini and Castello, featuring Emily Van Evera, soprano MAY 5 AND 6 “The Baroque Violin”: concerti for multiple violins by Bach and Vivaldi, and chamber music of Biber and Schmelzer

SOUTH MOUNTAIN CONCERTS
Rtes 7 and 20, Pittsfield, MA (map)
413.442.2106
http://www.southmountainconcerts.org

All concerts are Sun at 3 pm at South Mountain’s Concert Hall on South Mountain, two miles south of Pittsfield at Rtes 7 and 20. Limited seating; reservations essential. Wheelchair seating available upon request.

SEPT 17 tickets $33, members of the Emerson String Quartet, freaturing Menahem Pressler, piano SEPT 24 tickets $30, Guarneri String Quartet OCT 8 tickets $30, Beaux Arts Trio

SYMPHONY PRO MUSICA
Box 332, Hudson, MA (map)
978.562.0939
spm@symphonypromusica.org
http://www.symphonypromusica.org

Mark Churchill, music director and conductor. Advance tickets $15, $12 for seniors, free for students.

NOV 4 AND 5 on Sat at 7:30 pm in Hudson HS, and on Sun at 3:30 pm in Mill Pond School, Westborough. John Adams’s A Short Ride in a Fast Machine; Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1, featuring George Li, piano; and Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5 JAN 20 AND 21 on Sat at 7:30 pm in Hudson HS, and on Sun at 3:30 pm in Westborough HS. Joan Tower’s Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman; Brahms’s Symphony No. 3; and Beethoven’s Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano. Featuring Sami Merdinian, violin; Christopher Guzman, piano; and Jacob Braun, cello MAR 16 time TBA in Nevins Hall, Framingham (tentative). Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel. Fully staged operetta, in collaborration with the Longwood Opera APR 28 AND 29 on Sat at 7:30 pm in Hudson HS, and on Sun at 3:30 pm in Mill Pond School, in Westborough. Work by a Hudson or Westborough young composer; Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, featuring Marylou Speaker Churchill, violin; and Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra

THE CENTER FOR ARTS IN NATICK
14 Summer St, Natick, MA (map)
508.747.0097
http://www.natickarts.org

The Center for Arts in Natick (TCAN) works to enhance, inspire and benefit the community through the arts. TCAN's Firehouse venue defines the ideal performance space for music concerts, theatrical and dance presentations, lectures, film programs and special functions in the MetroWest area.

SEP 17 at 7 pm, tickets $17, Ariel Wind Quintet OCT 29 at 7 pm, $18, Intermezzo presents The Old Maid and the Thief NOV 5 at 7 pm, $17, Judith Gordon, solo piano

TRINITY CHURCH
Copley Sq, Boston, MA (map)
617.536.0944
http://www.trinityboston.org

“Fridays at Trinity” organ concerts feature visiting organists from around the US and the world and are held on Fri from 12:15 to 12:45 pm at Trinity Church, 206 Clarendon St, Boston. Donations appreciated.

SEPT 15 Eric Dombrowski SEPT 22 Kimberly Ann Hess and Neil Ewachiw SEPT 29 Angela Kraft Cross OCT 6 Jared Johnson OCT 13 Richard Webster OCT 20 Brian Jones OCT 27 Alexander Pfeifer and Frank Zimpel NOV 3 Mario Duella NOV 10 George Sargeant NOV 17 Thomas Fielding NOV 24 Douglas Major DEC 1 Colin Lynch DEC 8 Ross Wood DEC 15 Michael Kleinschmidt and Richard Webster DEC 22 Wesley Hall DEC 29 Ray Nagem

WELLESLEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
50 Oakland St., Wellesley Hills, MA (map)
781.235.3584
welsym@hotmail.com
http://www.wellesleysymphony.org

Max Hobart, music director. All concerts Sundays at 3 pm, at MassBay Community College, 50 Oakland Street, Wellesley Hills. Pre-concert talks by Leslie M. Holmes, WSO President, at 2:15 pm. Tickets $18, $14 for students and seniors, $5 for children under 12.

OCT 15 “All American Program”: John La Montaine’s From Sea to Shining Sea; Julia Scott Carey’s Sabrina Lake Sketchbook; Aaron Copland’s Four Episodes from Rodeo; and George Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F, featuring Vytas Baksys, piano NOV 19 commemorating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart’s Concerto for Flute and Harp, K. 299, featuring Deborah Charness, flute, and Franziska Huhn, harp. Requiem, K. 626, featuring the Wellesley Choral Society with Andrea Matthews, soprano; Laura Chritton, alto; Lonnie Powell, tenor; and Ron Williams, tenor. Ted Whalen, director DEC 10 Holiday Pops. Christmas and Chanukah favorites, winner of WSO “Two Front Teeth” contest, plus a traditional sing-along and a visit from Santa. Featuring Lori Anderson York, soprano FEB 11 Symphonic Potpourri. Weber’s Overture to Turandot; Ravel’s Pavane for a Dead Princess; Britten’s Matinees Musicales’ and Sibelius’s Violin Concerto in D minor, featuring Alex Spivakovsky, violin MAR 12 Family Concert at MassBay, featuring the WSO 2006 Young Soloist Competition Winner and “Casey at the Bat” by Alan Feinstein. Special guests are the Wellesley High School Chorus. Pre-concert "Petting Zoo" and "Show 'n' Tell" beginning at 1:30 pm. Ms. Elizabeth Scanlan, host and director of performing arts, Wellesley Public Schools MAY 13 “Season Finale: Special Mother's Day Concert”: Brahms’s Double Concerto for Violin and Cello, featuring Oren Ungerleider, violin, and Tavi Ungerleider, cello; and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 in E minor, from the New World