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Heads Up – Calliope’s Call:
Art Songs based on poetry of Emily Dickinson and Edna St. Vincent Millay

May 13, 2025 by admin Leave a Comment

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.

Eclipse: Schreker, Goodyear, Mendelssohn, Carreño

May 9, 2025 by admin Leave a Comment

Felix Mendelssohn as a young boy

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

May 3, 2025 by admin Leave a Comment

Rostropovich Oistrakh Britten Shostakovich

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 Irish And How They Got That Way

March 6, 2025 by admin Leave a Comment

Four singers

Play, Performance (1997)
by Frank McCourt
Original Music Arrangements by
Rusty Magee
Additional arrangements by
Kirsten Salpini
Director A. Nora Long
Music Director Kirsten Salpini
Greater Boston Stage Company
Stoneham, MA
February 28 – March 16, 2025

A delightful song-filled tribute to Irish and Irish-American culture.

Scottish Fish Band

December 22, 2024 by admin Leave a Comment

Scottish Fish Band

Concert
Passim
Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
Live Stream

Scottish Fish Band
A band of five young women who have been playing Scottish-style fiddle music since they met in camp about fifteen years ago.

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