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🔆 The summer programs page lists 16 programs (last change 4/26/24).

May 10, 2024 (Friday)

iCal 7:30 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: Fragile Freedoms. David Lang: The National Anthems; Reena Esmail: When the Violin; F.J. Haydn: Missa in Angustiis (Nelson Mass) Hob. XXII/11. Deborah Selig, soprano; Christina English, mezzo-soprano; Gregory Zavracky, tenor; David McFerrin, baritone; Caron Daley, conductor. With orchestra. For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138 (View flier) ⓘ

March 2, 2024 (Saturday)

iCal 4:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: The Outer Edge of Youth. Scott Ordway: The Outer Edge of Youth, a choral opera that explores and critiques the relationships between childhood, landscape, aesthetics, and contemporary ideals of masculinity. Amy Nicole Broadbent, soprano; Emily Marvosh, contralto; Emily Isaacson, conductor. For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, 138 Tremont St., Boston MA 02111 (View flier) ⓘ

December 16, 2023 (Saturday)

iCal 4:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: A Boston Christmas: Bright Star. A Christmas triptych, featuring musical "scenes" from Leipzig (J.S. Bach, Georg Telemann, and Christoph Graupner), the Harlem Renaissance (Florence Price and William Grant Still, and "Bright Star," a yet-unpublished Christmas carol by Margaret Bonds), and the present day (Eriks Esenvalds and John Tavener). With brass, timpani, and organ. Stephen Spinelli, conductor. For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street, Boston MA 02116 (View flier) ⓘ

December 15, 2023 (Friday)

iCal 7:30 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: A Boston Christmas: Bright Star. A Christmas triptych, featuring musical "scenes" from Leipzig (J.S. Bach, Georg Telemann, and Christoph Graupner), the Harlem Renaissance (Florence Price and William Grant Still, and "Bright Star," a yet-unpublished Christmas carol by Margaret Bonds), and the present day (Eriks Esenvalds and John Tavener). With brass, timpani, and organ. Stephen Spinelli, conductor. For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street, Boston MA 02116 (View flier) ⓘ

October 28, 2023 (Saturday)

iCal 2:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: La Dolce Vita. Alessandro Scarlatti: Exultate Deo adjutori; Rafaella Aleotti: Ego Flos Campi; Surge Propera Mea; Claudio Monteverdi: Si ch'io vorrei morire; Ah! Dolente partita; Antonio Vivaldi: Domine ad adiuvandum me festina; Alessandro Scarlatti: Dixit Dominus; Domenico Scarlatti: Te Deum; Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Confitebor tibi Domine, P. 66; Antonio Vivaldi: Laetatus sum; Giuseppe Verdi: Ave Maria from “Quattro Pezzi Sacri”; Gioachino Rossini: Giunone, cantata for the birthday of Ferdinando IV. Robert Duff, conductor. For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. Saint Leonard's Church, 320 Hanover Street, Boston MA 02113 (View flier) ⓘ

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Archived Online Events

  • Musica Sacra [MA]: In Music is Such Art: Choral Music set to texts of Shakespeare. Brush up your Shakespeare! From the time of his contemporary, Thomas Morley, to the present day, composers have turned to his expressive poetry to further explore his keen observations of the human condition. Modern composers such as Mäntyjärvi, Diemer, Komulainen, Harris, Helldén, Johanson, and Hamilton, as well as 19th century ones such as Macfarren, Pearsall and Amy Beach have all set his texts, be they poetry or songs or famous soliloquies from his plays. [5/11/2024] Cambridge MA ⓘ
  • Pioneer Valley Symphony Orchestra: Oliver Towne: Streaming Free May 1. The PVS Orchestra’s 30th annual Mary Stuart Rogers Education Concert was performed on April 11th for almost one thousand 3rd & 4th graders in Greenfield, MA. A video of the world premiere of Oliver Towne, a radio play-style composition from Andrés Martín and poet Roger Arvid Anderson, will be available to stream free on our YouTube channel beginning May 1st. [5/1/2024] Visit archive