Concert
Calliope’s Call
Church of the Redeemer
379 Hammond Street, Chestnut Hill, MA
May 16, 2025, 7:30pm
An upcoming concert of art songs based on the work of two iconic women poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Heads Up – Calliope’s Call:
Eclipse: Schreker, Goodyear, Mendelssohn, Carreño
Concert
A Far Cry
Featuring Stewart Goodyear, piano
Jordan Hall
Symphony Hall area, Boston
May 9, 2025
A superb concert, including a piano concerto by the very young Mendelssohn, and some lesser known pieces, one of them composed by Stewart Goodyear who also plays a very mean piano here.
Decoding Shosktakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1, Symphony No. 8
Concert
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons conducting
Baiba Skride, violin
Symphony Hall, Boston
May 3, 2025
A riveting program with a superb violin soloist in the first violin concerto, and a moving and tempestuous rendition of the long, varied and compelling middle-period eighth symphony.
The Center Will Not Hold:
A Dorrance Dance Production
Dance
Created by Ephrat Asherie and Michelle Dorrance
Dorrance Dance
Global Arts Live
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre
April 25-26, 2025
A brilliantly conceived and executed performance with exhilarating percussion and exhilarating choreography combining tap and modern dance.
Crowns
Musical (2002)
by Regina Taylor
Adapted from the book Crowns: Black Women in Church Hats (2000) by Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry
Directed by Regine Vital
Associate Directed by Davron Monroe
Music Directed by David Coleman
Moonbox Productions
Arrow Street Theater
Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
April 11 – May 4, 2025
A rousing musical theater piece taking off from the historic practice of African-American women wearing very elaborate hats, mostly to church.