Concord Band - Music from Warm Places

Music from Warm Places

Our Winter Concert celebrates Latin musical themes with Concerto for Clarinet and Wind Band by Óscar Navarro featuring soloist Jerry Vabulas, Little Mexican Suite by Nubia Jaime-Donjuan, Volver al la Montaña by Shelley Hanson, Fantasia Latina by Terry White (2020 commission), and a guest performance by the Area 9 Saxophone Quartet.

Vista Philharmonic Orchestra – Remarkable Origins

Thompson, Stefan – Forward, Upward, Onward, Together (World Premiere)
Bartok, Bela – Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
Dvorak, Antonin – Cello Concerto

Special guest:
Nicholas Canellakis, cello

Our March program celebrates the global travels and diverse influences of some of our favorite composers, creating a rich tapestry of sound that will be meaningful for both the orchestra players and our audience. Czech composer Antonín Dvořák spent three years in America (from 1892-1895) as director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York City, which is where he composed his great Cello Concerto. We’ll be joined by guest cellist Nicholas Canellakis, a multifaceted artist who appears regularly with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Hungarian composer Béla Bartók was well known in America as a pianist, teacher, and ethnomusicologist, and his Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta is one of his most popular compositions. We’ll open the concert with a world premiere symphonic work from young Bahamian composer Stefan Thompson, a recent Boston Conservatory graduate, now studying for a PhD in Screen Scoring at New York University. The work’s title, Forward, Upward, Onward, Together, comes from the motto of the Bahamas.

Brookline Symphony - with Metropolitan Chorale

Collaboration with the Metropolitan Chorale

Johannes Brahms, German Requiem
conducted by Andrew Altenbach

Nashua Arts - The Rush Tribute Project

The RUSH Tribute Project is an homage to one of the most enduring and influential bands in rock music.

Combining skilled musicianship with exciting performances, The RUSH Tribute Project (known as RTP to its dedicated
fanbase) delivers the magic of Rush’s famous live concerts. Covering all 40-plus years of Rush’s amazing career, RTP
painstakingly recreates the sound and energy that made Rush one of the top-selling rock bands of all time. With a lineup
that has performed Rush tribute shows for over a decade across North America and around the world, including RushCon,
RTP stands out as one of the premiere tributes to this legendary, RnR HOF power-trio.

Using vintage instruments, multi-camera projections, state-of-the-art lighting, and signature virtuosity, RTP delivers an
unparalleled concert experience for the casual fan as well as the most discerning Rush loyalist.

Bull Run - Don White's Annual Birthday Show

There is no one word for what Don White does. He is equal parts storyteller-comedian-author- troubadour-folk singer-songwriter, and has been bringing audiences to laughter and tears for 30 years. White’s arc as an award-winning songwriter and performer has taken him from his industrial hometown of Lynn, MA across the country as hitchhiker, through Boston’s comedy clubs and coffeehouses and onto the stage with greats like Arlo Guthrie, Taj Mahal, Ritchie Havens, Patty Larkin, Bill Morrissey, Tom Rush, Louden Wainright III and Christine Lavin, with whom he toured for 8 years all across North America in a co-bill called The Funny Side of the Street. At every point, White has been the ultimate observer, infusing his work with his experiences as a husband, a father, a seeker, and a joker.

Merrimack Valley Phil - Modern Art (A Reflection in Music)

Treat yourself to a feast for the ears and eyes.  Conductor Dr. Dirk Hillyer pairs Debussy’s Afternoon of a Faunand Satie’s Gymnopedies with masterpieces by Picasso, Braque and DuChamps. Emily Richardson, harp, solos in Ravel’s Introduction and Allegro; and Eduardo Gomez is flute soloist in Griffes Poem for Flute and Orchestra.  Maestro Hillyer will share his knowledge of painting and music as he and the orchestra lead us on a journey through masterworks of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

CCMS - Wendy Putnam, violin, and Vytas Baksys, piano

Wendy Putnam, violin, and Vytas Baksys, piano

Program:
The Short-Tempered Clavier (S. 3.14159, easy as) by P.D.Q. Bach
Sonata for Violin and Piano by Aaron Copland
Andante con Espressione by Florence Price
Souvenirs d'Amérique, Op.17, by Henri Vieuxtemps

Brookline Symphony - with Metropolitan Chorale (2)

Collaboration with the Metropolitan Chorale

Johannes Brahms, German Requiem
conducted by Andrew Altenbach

Highland Glee Club - Game of Tones

Game of Tones

The Highland Glee Club goes medieval: songs of knighthood and valor

Mechanics Hall - Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields & Bruce Liu,

The Academy

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields is one of the world’s finest chamber orchestras, renowned for fresh, brilliant interpretations of the world’s greatest orchestral music.

Founded in 1958 by Sir Neville Marriner, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields has evolved into a musical powerhouse, an orchestra renowned across the world for its commitment to the musical freedom of its players and the sharing of joyful, inspiring performances.

Bruce Liu, piano

First prize winner of the 18th Chopin Piano Competition 2021 in Warsaw, Bruce Liu’s “playing of breathtaking beauty” (BBC Music Magazine) has secured his reputation as one of the most exciting talents of his generation and contributed to a “rock-star status in the classical music world” (The Globe and Mail).