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iCal 7:30 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: The Waking Sun. Kile Smith: The Waking Sun; Giacomo Carissimi: Jephte. For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138 (View flier)  🔗

iCal 5:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: Of Hope and Destiny. Florence Price: Song of Hope; Johannes Brahms: Schicksalslied. For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street, Boston MA 02116 (View flier)  🔗

iCal 4:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: A Boston Christmas. Featuring brass, organ, and Boston's favorite carol sing-along. For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street, Boston MA 02116 (View flier)  🔗

iCal 7:30 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: A Boston Christmas. Featuring brass, organ, and Boston's favorite carol sing-along. For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street, Boston MA 02116 (View flier)  🔗

iCal 4:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: Beyond Bach. Music by Heinrich Schütz, Dietrich Buxtehude, Johann Schelle, and others. Reginald Mobley, counter tenor; Anna O'Connell, baroque triple harp; Stephen Spinelli, 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  🔗

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  🔗

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  🔗

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  🔗

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  🔗

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  🔗

iCal 8:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: Israel In Egypt. Georg Friedrich Händel: Israel In Egypt For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138  🔗

iCal 8:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: To the Hands. Caroline Shaw: To The Hands; Johann Sebastian Bach: Komm, Jesu, Komm, BWV 229; G.P. Da Palestrina: Super Flumina Babylonis; Caleb Burhans: Super Flumina Babylonis; Tomás Luis de Victoria: Missa O magnum mysterium: Credo; Nico Muhly: Like as the Hart; Sarah Kirland Snider: Mass for the Endangered: Credo. Emily Isaacson, conductor. For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston MA 02116  🔗

iCal 4:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: A Boston Christmas. A holiday family tradition. Jonathan Mott, conductor. For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street, Boston MA 02116  🔗

iCal 8:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: A Boston Christmas. A holiday family tradition. Jonathan Mott, conductor. For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street, Boston MA 02116  🔗

iCal 8:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: In beauty may I walk. Jonathan Dove: In beauty may I walk (words from a Navajo prayer); Alice Parker: Heavenly Hurt (poems by Emily Dickinson); Joanna Marsh: now i lay (with everywhere around) (poem by E.E. Cummings); Meredith Monk: Nightfall; Jeffrey Van: A Procession Winding Around Me (poems by Walt Whitman); Stephen Paulus: Hymn to the Eternal Flame (poem by Michael Dennis Browne). Jonathan Mott, conductor. For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston MA 02116  🔗

iCal 4:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: A Boston Christmas. We return to live performance to celebrate the season with our roots, our song, and our community. In addition to the familiar carols we hope you’ll enjoy singing with us, we are thrilled to premiere a new work commissioned by the Chorale during the pandemic: Karen P. Thomas’s Alchemy (text by Sara Teasdale). As Richard Leach's words proclaim in Carson Cooman's Come, Let Us Go Again: Come, let us go again into our day, fear turned to wonder, waiting to praise. Come, let us sing, come, let us sing. We will sing and make music all of our days, sing and make music all the days of our life!. All attendees must show proof of vaccination at the door, and must remain masked at all times. Doors will open 40 minutes prior to the concert. Concert length is approximately 75 minutes, with no intermission. For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street, Boston MA 02116  🔗

iCal 8:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: A Boston Christmas. We return to live performance to celebrate the season with our roots, our song, and our community. In addition to the familiar carols we hope you’ll enjoy singing with us, we are thrilled to premiere a new work commissioned by the Chorale during the pandemic: Karen P. Thomas’s Alchemy (text by Sara Teasdale). As Richard Leach's words proclaim in Carson Cooman's Come, Let Us Go Again: Come, let us go again into our day, fear turned to wonder, waiting to praise. Come, let us sing, come, let us sing. We will sing and make music all of our days, sing and make music all the days of our life!. All attendees must show proof of vaccination at the door, and must remain masked at all times. Doors will open 40 minutes prior to the concert. Concert length is approximately 75 minutes, with no intermission. For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street, Boston MA 02116  🔗

iCal 8:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: The Golden Age of Brass: Music from 17th Century Italy and Germany. Giovanni Gabrieli: Jubilate Deo; Johann Hermann Schein: Nun danket alle Gott; Heinrich Schütz: Selig sind die toten; Musicalische Exequien; Claudio Monteverdi: Deus in adjutorium; Dixit Dominus, from the Vespers of 1610. Sarah Yanovitch, soprano; MaryRuth Lown, soprano; Douglas Dodson, countertenor; Stefan Reed, tenor; Ethan DePuy, tenor; Jason Steigerwalt, bass. With Dark Horse Consort. Tickets from $23; students free with valid ID. For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston MA 02116  🔗

iCal 4:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: A Boston Christmas. With Majestic Brass and Handel and Haydn Society Youth Chorus. Katherine Chan, guest conductor. Tickets from $23; children 12 and under from $15. For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street, Boston MA 02116  🔗

iCal 7:30 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: A Boston Christmas. With Majestic Brass and Handel and Haydn Society Youth Chorus. Katherine Chan, guest conductor. Tickets from $23; children 12 and under from $15. For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street, Boston MA 02116  🔗

iCal 8:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: Mozart & Handel. W.A. Mozart: Coronation Mass; G.F. Handel: Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day; Zadok the Priest. Sherezade Panthaki, soprano; Kim Leeds, alto; Lawrence Wiliford, tenor; Dana Whiteside, bass. Tickets from $23; students Free with valid ID. For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston MA 02116  🔗

iCal 3:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: Back Bay Chorale presents Johann Sebastian Bach’s Mass in B Minor. J.S. Bach: Mass in B Minor. Sarah Yanovitch, soprano; Sonja Tengblad, soprano; Clara Osowski, alto; Patrick Muehleise, tenor; Edmund Milly, bass; Scott Allen Jarrett, conductor. With orchestra. Tickets from $23 - students free with ID. Free concert parking at Broadway Garage. For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138  🔗

iCal 8:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: Rachmaninoff Vespers. Sergei Rachmaninoff: Vespers (All-Night Vigil). Elizabeth Eschen, mezzo-soprano; Stefan Reed, tenor; Scott Allen Jarrett, conductor. For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. Parish of St. Paul, 29 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge MA 02138  🔗

iCal 4:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: A Boston Christmas. With Majestic Brass Ensemble; Justin T. Blackwell, organ. For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street, Boston MA 02116  🔗

iCal 7:30 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: A Boston Christmas. With Majestic Brass Ensemble; Justin T. Blackwell, organ. For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street, Boston MA 02116  🔗

iCal 8:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: Unfinished Masterpieces. Caroline Shaw: Seven Joys (Boston premiere, BBC co-commission). For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston MA 02116  🔗

iCal 3:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: Essential Voices: Ralph Vaughan Williams. Ralph Vaughan Williams: Toward the Unknown Region; Dona nobis pacem; Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus". With orchestra. Free Parking at Broadway Garage, Felton St, Cambridge. For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge MA 02138  🔗

iCal 8:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: Elements of Style: An American Songbook. Dominick Diorio: All Is; Samuel Barber: Reincarnations; John Coriglianao: Fern Hill; Morten Lauridsen: Mid-Winter Songs; Caroline Shaw: Fly Away I; David Lang: tell me, from battle hymns; Jennifer Higdon: Amazing Grace, from Southern Grace. Choral music is one of America’s richest contemporary art forms. From the 1940’s to today, this program offers works that will excite, challenge, and soothe the listener. For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. St. Paul's Church, 29 Mt Auburn Street, Cambridge MA 02138  🔗

iCal 7:30 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: Candlelight Christmas. Scott Allen Jarrett conducts the Back Bay Chorale and Majestic Brass; with Justin T. Blackwell, organ. Join the singing of new and old traditional carols with family, friends, and children. Tickets: $25 and up. For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street, Boston MA 02116  🔗

iCal 7:30 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: Candlelight Christmas. Scott Allen Jarrett conducts the Back Bay Chorale and Majestic Brass; with Justin T. Blackwell, organ. Join the singing of new and old traditional carols with family, friends, and children. Tickets: $25 and up. For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street, Boston MA 02116  🔗

iCal 8:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: Unfinished Masterpieces. W.A. Mozart: Requiem, K. 626; Felix Mendelssohn: Christus, Op. 97; Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D. 759 “Unfinished”. Amanda Forsythe, soprano; Margaret Lias, alto; Lawrence Jones, tenor; Woodrow Bynum, bass. Though unfinished at the time of each composer’s death, these three monumental works remain an important part of the Western musical canon. Tickets: $28-$69 ($5 senior/student discount). For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston MA 02115  🔗

iCal 3:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: Haydn - The Creation (sung in German). Jacquelyn Stucker, soprano; William Hite, tenor; Philip Cutlip, baritone; Scott Allen Jarrett, conductor. Spring-time in Boston reminds us of the unbridled beauty of the nature all around us, just as Haydn’s brilliant and pictorial score celebrates the glory of Creation, and our connection and responsibility within. Tickets: $28-$69 ($5 senior discount), $15 students. Free Parking at Broadway Garage, Felton St, Cambridge. For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge MA 02138  🔗

iCal 8:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: Essential Voices: Da Pacem. Musical and poetic conceptions of the idea of peace—peace as an ideal and as a practice, how we impart peace to one another, with music of Bach, Rachmaninoff, Stephen Paulus, Thomas Oboe Lee, Arvo Part and others. Curated and conductd by conducting Fellow Jonathan Mott. Tickets: $28-$69 ($5 senior/student discount). For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. St. Paul's Church, 29 Mt Auburn Street, Cambridge MA 02138  🔗

iCal 3:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: A Boston Christmas. Scott Allen Jarrett conducts the Back Bay Chorale and Majestic Brass. Join the singing of new and old traditional carols with family, friends, and children. Tickets: $28-$69 ($5 senior/student discount). For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street, Boston MA 02116  🔗

iCal 3:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: Music of the Spirit(s). Felix Mendelssohn: Die erste Walpurgisnacht, Op 60; Johannes Brahms: Nänie, Op 82; Ludwig van Beethoven: Mass in C, Op 86. Soloists: Sonja DuToit Tengblad, Margaret Lias, Patrick T. Waters, Ryne Cherry. Tickets: $23-$68 ($5 senior/student discount). Free Parking at Broadway Garage, 8 Felton St., Cambridge. For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St., Cambridge MA 02138  🔗

iCal 3:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: Bernstein and Beethoven. Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms; Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9. Karen Slack, soprano; Abigail Fischer, mezzo-soprano; Yeghishe Manucharyan, tenor; David Kravitz, baritone. With the New Bedford Symphony. Scott Allen Jarrett, conducting. Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138

iCal 7:30 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: Bernstein and Beethoven. Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms; Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9. Karen Slack, soprano; Abigail Fischer, mezzo-soprano; Yeghishe Manucharyan, tenor; David Kravitz, baritone. With the New Bedford Symphony, David MacKenzie, conducting. Zeiterion Arts Center, 684 Purchase St, New Bedford MA 02740

iCal 8:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: Verdi, Mozart, Poulenc. Giuseppe Verdi: Stabat Mater; W.A. Mozart: Symphony 39 in E-flat; Francis Poulenc: Stabat Mater. Jacquelyn Stucker, soprano; Orchestra of the Back Bay Chorale. Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge MA

iCal 3:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: A Boston Christmas. With Majestic Brass and the Lexington High School choruses. Old South Church, 645 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02116

iCal 8:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: The Romantic Generation. Johannes Brahms: Liebeslieder Walzer, Op 52; Four Songs for Harp and Horns, Op 17; Franz Schubert: Songs for Male Chorus—Nachthelle, Der Gondelfahrer, and Sehnsucht. St. Paul’s Church, 29 Mt Auburn St, Cambridge, MA 02138

iCal 8:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: Maurice Duruflé: Requiem. Maurice Duruflé: Requiem; Quatre Motet sur des Themes Gregorian, Op 10; Tarik O’Regan: "We Remember Them," from Triptych (2005); Morten Lauridsen: Ubi caritas et amor; Jake Runestad: I Will lift my eyes (Psalm 121); Jeremiah Ingalls: Northfield; Ingram Marshall: Hymnodic Delays: Bright Hour Delayed. Tickets: $27, $37, $53 ($5 Student/Senior Discount). For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. St. Paul’s Church, Harvard Square, 29 Mt Auburn St, Cambridge MA 02138

iCal 8:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: Ludwig van Beethoven: Missa Solemnis.. Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge MA

iCal 8:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: A Candlelight Christmas. Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston MA

iCal 8:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: W.A. Mozart: Great Mass in C Minor; Ludwig van Beethoven: “Hallelujah” from Christ on the Mount of Olives; F.J. Haydn: Te Deum; Arnold Schoenberg: Friede auf Erden. Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge MA

iCal 7:30 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: G.F. Handel: Saul. Featuring Sumner Thompson, Saul; Douglas Dodson, David; Matthew Anderson, Jonathan; Amanda Forsythe, Michal; Jacquelyn Stucker, Merab; Patrick T. Waters, Witch of Endor; Back Bay Chorale Orchestra. Tickets $27-$65, Student/Senior discount available. Free parking is available. For more information, call 617-648-3885. Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138

iCal 8:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: Bach And Beyond: Celebrating 40 Years. Featuring Bach motets Der Geist hilft unsrer Schwachheit auf, BWV 226 and Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 225, and works commissioned by the Chorale over the past forty years. Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston MA

iCal 3:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: Wagner And Verdi: Sunday at the Opera. Excerpts from Tannhäuser, Die Meistersinger, La Traviata, Nabucco, and Aida. Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138

iCal 7:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: I Have A Dream: 50th Anniversary Concert. Join the BBC and the Boston Landmarks Orchestra to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s "I Have a Dream" speech with a free concert at the Hatch Shell on the Esplanade on the date when the speech was delivered on the mall in Washington, D.C., in 1963. The concert will include the words of the iconic speech set to music, along with other works appropriate to a celebration of the civil rights movement. The Back Bay Chorale will sing with the New England Spiritual Ensemble and the One City Choir. Free Admission. DCR Hatch Shell, The Esplanade, Back Bay, Boston MA 02108

iCal 8:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: Carl Orff: Carmina Burana. Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge MA

iCal 3:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: W.A. Mozart: Requiem; Mohammed Fairouz: Anything Can Happen (Premiere). Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge MA

iCal 8:00 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: J.S. Bach: Magnificat. Great Hall, Faneuil Hall, Boston MA

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  • Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ [ME]: Grand Opera Meets the Mighty Kotzschmar. ChoralArt Masterworks performs opera transcriptions with the Mighty Kotzschmar organ in an evening of musical splendor! James Kennerley, Portland Municipal Organist; Robert Russell, ChoralArt Director; Philip Lima, Baritone. [11/17/2024] Portland ME