The Concert: A Tribute to ABBA

Lowell Memorial Auditorium

The Concert: A Tribute to Abba continues to be the top ABBA tribute group in the world, dazzling all who see with their fantastic performance while playing the most iconic hits, including “Mamma Mia,” “S.O.S,” “Money, Money, Money,” “Knowing Me, Knowing You,” “Waterloo,” “Gimme, Gimme, Gimme” and “Dancing Queen.”

Nashua Arts - Colin Mochrie & Brad Sherwood: Asking For Trouble

Nashua Center for the Arts

Get ready for an evening of sidesplitting laughter as Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood, the dynamic duo from TV’s “Whose Line is it Anyway?,” take the stage in a one-night-only uproarious live show, Colin Mochrie & Brad Sherwood: Asking for Trouble.
 
 Armed with their lightning-fast wits, Mochrie & Sherwood transform the audience’s suggestions into an unpredictable evening of non-stop comedy gold. No script? No problem! “Looking For Trouble” is a wild rollercoaster ride of hilarity, where two improv legends prove they are still the best in the business.

Shamrock Tenors

Lowell Memorial Auditorium

Direct from Belfast, SHAMROCK TENORS are Ireland’s most exciting new music sensation. Proudly supported by Tourism Ireland, the group features performers from both sides of the community across Northern Ireland, with vocalists from London’s West End along with the country's best multi-instrumentalists. Their show takes you on a journey through Ireland’s most beloved classic songs, in beautiful five part harmony. With all your favorites including "Danny Boy," "Whiskey in the Jar," "The Parting Glass," and "Wild Rover" this is a show for all ages, performed with that cheeky Irish charm!

Highland Glee Club - American Folk with HGC

War Memorial Auditorium

American Folk with HGC

Musicians of the Old Post Road - Through the Listening Glass

Worcester Historical Museum

Escape with the ethereal, other-worldly sound of the Glass Armonica, an invention of Ben Franklin! The instrument is paired with flute and strings in Mozart’s famous Adagio and Rondo alongside exotic gems by Reichardt, Naumann, and early American composers Antes and Moller. American ingenuity at its finest!

With Glass Armonica virtuoso Dennis James

New England Philharmonic - Paths of Peace

BU Tsai Performance Center

Paths of Peace

The NEP celebrates the conclusion of its 48th season by joining forces with Chorus Pro Musica to perform John Adams’ Harmonium, a powerful exploration of love and death featuring the texts of John Donne and Emily Dickinson. NEP concertmaster and perennial favorite Danielle Maddon explores Roxanna Panufnik’s beautiful Violin Concerto, reflecting on peace in challenging times. The dramatic Mathis der Maler from Paul Hindemith questions the role of the artist in an earlier politically complicated era. The season closes with Eric Nathan’s Open again a turn of light, which sets a text by Boston-based poet Sawako Nakayasu. The concert also celebrates Nathan’s contributions to the NEP, at the conclusion of his tenure as Composer-in-Residence.

Co-Production with Chorus Pro Musica

Roxanna Panufnik, Abraham (2015)
Boston Premiere
Danielle Maddon, violin

John Adams, Harmonium (1980)

Paul Hindemith, Mathis der Maler Symphony (1934)

Eric Nathan, Open again a turn of light (2023)
Boston Premiere

Vista Philharmonic Orchestra – Artistry Prevails

Groton Hill Music Center

Cadman, Charles Wakefield – Selections from Daoma
Shostakovich – Symphony No. 10

Guest vocalists: TBA

Our season finale is deeply meaningful to all of us in the Vista Philharmonic. This is a performance about change, about respect, and about standing up for the things we believe in. 

Charles Cadman set out to incorporate diverse influences and build a new American sound for his 1909 opera, Daoma. He used the stylistic language of his romantic classical training alongside elements of Omaha traditional music to compose something simultaneously fresh and reflective. This piece represents a moment in American history where cultural exchange, creation, and recording were all swirling together, and that excitement carries forward to our orchestra today.

Maestro Bruce Hangen was raised in Montana, a state steeped in Native American culture, and has made it part of his lifelong artistic mission to pay homage to people and practices that shaped him as a young man. Hangen last conducted this unique piece with the Omaha Symphony in 1992 after thoroughly researching its fascinating history, performing it just down the road from the Omaha Nation with representatives in the audience. 

We end our evening, and our 50th season, with a big work from a major symphonic composer. Dmitri Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony is all about Stalin’s criticism of his work – and the enduring lesson that artistry prevails. “For the listener of today,” wrote conductor Kurt Sanderling, who was there in 1953 when Shostakovich was composing the symphony, “it is perhaps more like a portrait of a dictatorship… of a system of oppression.” Music encourages us to think and to feel, and whether we’re performing on stage, listening in the audience, or composing deep into the night, it is that transformative power that truly carries us all forward.

Arcadia Players - "Venetian Vespers"

Grace Episcopal Church

"Venetian Vespers:" a reconstruction of Vespers at St Marks in Venice as celebrated in the 1640s

By the 1560s the music of St. Mark’s in Venice had more impact on European sacred music than any other church music institution, a dominance it maintained well into the 17th Century. During this period, Vespers took on even more musical importance than the Mass, and music became the focal point of the entire service. Prayers and readings were whispered underneath the sound of the music, so that Vespers was really more like a concert than a church service. This program features works by two of St. Mark's most important composers of the time, Giovanni Rovetta and Giovanni Rigatti. Their music was meant to appeal to the heart much more than to the mind, and is astoundingly sensual and almost overwhelming in its beauty.

Theatre III - Lucky Stiff

Theatre III

book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens

music by Stephen Flaherty

based on the novel by Michael Butterworth

Tony Award-winning writing team Ahrens and Flaherty's first produced show, Lucky Stiff is an offbeat, hilarious murder mystery farce, complete with mistaken identities, six million bucks in diamonds, and a corpse in a wheelchair.  Based on the novel "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo," the story revolves around an unassuming English shoe salesman who is forced to take the embalmed body of his recently murdered uncle on a vacation to Monte Carlo.  Should he succeed in passing his uncle off as alive, Harry Witherspoon stands to inherit $6,000,000.  If not, the money goes to the Universal Dog Home of Brooklyn... or else his uncle's gun-toting ex!

Melrose Symphony - May Pops Finale

Memorial Hall,

May Pops Finale

Join us for an unforgettable evening with the iconic music of John Williams, Henry Mancini, beloved selections from the musical Oklahoma, and the hypnotic rhythms of Ravel’s Bolero. Pianist Karen Walwyn joins the MSO to perform Addinsell’s Warsaw Concerto - composed for the 1941 film Dangerous Moonlight.

Met Winds - Spring Concert: "Scenes"

Scottish Rite Masonic Museum

Be transported through music to a variety of places and scenarios! In a nod to the afternoon's young guest artists, the concert opens with the recently composed Fanfare for a New Era. Scenes from Boston, New York, and Minnesota are depicted in Peter Schickele's wonderful Metropolitan Wind Serenade, written for and first premiered/recorded by the MetWinds in 1995. Another highlight is the musical experience of an African American Pentecostal church service re-created in AMEN! by GRAMMY-nominated composer Carlos Simon, recently named Composer Chair of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Local middle school and high school students join the MetWinds for Cajun Folk Songs by Frank Ticheli and Norman Dello Joio's soundtrack for a TV documentary on France's famous art museum, music which has now become a classic work for band, Scenes from "The Louvre."

Fanfare for a New Era	Pinkzebra
Metropoitan Wind Serenade	Peter Schickele
AMEN!	Carlos Simon
Cajun Folk Songs	Frank Ticheli
Mark Olson, conductor
Charm	Kevin Puts
Jack Tar March	J.P. Sousa/ed. Marine Band
Mark Olson, conductor
Scenes from "The Louvre"	Norman Dello Joio

Arlington Philharmonic - Sponsors' Concert

First Parish Universalist Church

The Arlington-Belmont Chorale, Stephanie Beatrice, Music Director and
The Arlington Philharmonic Orchestra, Orlando Cela, Music Director

SPONSORS’ CONCERT

Program yet to be determined. 

Musicians of the Old Post Road - Through the Listening Glass (2)

Old South Church

Escape with the ethereal, other-worldly sound of the Glass Armonica, an invention of Ben Franklin! The instrument is paired with flute and strings in Mozart’s famous Adagio and Rondo alongside exotic gems by Reichardt, Naumann, and early American composers Antes and Moller. American ingenuity at its finest!

With Glass Armonica virtuoso Dennis James