Upcoming Classical & Jazz
North Shore Philharmonic - Spring Concert
- Howard Hanson (1896-1981), Symphony No. 2, Op. 30 "Romantic"
- Joseph de Boulogne (1745-99), Violin Concerto Op. 8 in G Major
· Robert Lehmann, Violin - Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Nashua Arts - iLuminate
From the moment the lights fade to darkness, you are transported into another world…another dimension, where the music moves you and the visuals are unlike anything you’ve ever seen. Welcome to the world of iLuminate, named “Best New Act in America” by America’s Got Talent in 2011. A fantastic fusion of cutting edge technology and dance that has been wowing the world ever since appearing on AGT over a decade ago…to performing one of Las Vegas’ top shows to this day. iLuminate features a brilliant cast of the country’s top dancers performing to energetic music – including top Pop and Rock hits from the 70s, 80s, and 90s, a little jazz, a little Latin, a little hip hop and more. The dancers are outfitted with customized LED suits synced to iLuminate’s proprietary software to create extraordinary lighting effects with each of the phenomenally choreographed dance moves.
iLuminate has been featured on shows like Dancing with the Stars, The X-Factor, Good Morning America, and The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The American Music Awards, MTV’s Video Music Awards, BET Awards, The Nickelodeon Awards, Billboard, and Latin Billboard Awards. The dancers (and Miral’s technology) have also shared the stage with stars like Chris Brown, Christina Aguilera, Black Eyed Peas, and Death Cab For Cutie.
Musicians of the Old Post Road - Through the Listening Glass
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
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
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"
"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.
Melrose Symphony - May Pops Finale
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"
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 |