Concert
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, Music Director
Conductors: Andris Nelsons, Christoph Eschenbach, Keith Lockhart, Michael Tilson Thomas, John Williams
Host: Audra McDonald
With Midori, violin; Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Kian Soltani, cello; Jessica Zhou, harp; Nadine Sierra, soprano; Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano; Thomas Hampson, baritone; James Darrah, stage direction; Joshua Bergasse, choreography
Additional vocalists: Isabel Leonard, Jessica Vosk, Tony Yazbeck, Clyde Alves, DJ Petrosino, Ryan Ghysels, Christopher Rice, Alex Ringler, Clay Thomson, Mikey Winslow
Tanglewood Festival Chorus: James Burton, conductor
Tanglewood Music Center
Lenox, MA
Saturday, August 25, 2018, 8pm
An embarrassment of musical riches offered in tribute to Leonard Bernstein on the exact occasion of his hundredth birthday.
Concerts
Billy Novick and Guy Van Duser
Concert
Billy Novick, clarinet
Guy Van Duser, guitar
Club Passim
Cambridge, MA
August 4, 2018, 8:00pm
An astonishingly good pair of musicians, now celebrating an astonishing 42 years of musical collaboration.
Renée Elise Goldsberry and Phillipa Soo
Concert
Keith Lockhart, conductor
Boston Pops Orchestra
Symphony Hall, Boston
June 14, 2018 8pm
Two captivating popular vocalists who, among other things, were the Schuyler sisters in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s celebrated Hamilton on Broadway.
The Migration: Reflections on Jacob Lawrence
Performance, Dance, Concert
Directed by Jakari Sherman
Step Afrika!
ArtsEmerson
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre
May 3-6, 2018
An exuberantly varied dance-performance inspired by the series of paintings commemorating the great northern African-American migration of 1910-1930 by noted African-American artist Jacob Lawrence.
Tanya Bartevyan, pianist:
Schubert, Schoenberg, Beethoven, Bach, Chopin, Schumann
Concert
Tanya Bartevyan, piano
The Concord Free Public Library
Concord, MA
March 10, 2018, 8:00pm
A wide-ranging and lyrical account, replete with narrative, imagery and graceful lines.