2007-2008 Subscription Concerts
Listen to a pre-concert talk about the day's music by noted musicologist Steven Ledbetter, one hour before the concert. Meet the artists at the post-concert receptions.
All concerts are in the Rashi Auditorium, Newton.
| Sunday, October 28, 2007, 7:30 PM Subscription Concert #1 -- Guest Conductor: Yoichi Udagawa | |
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Brahms He Zhanhao & Chen Gang Holst |
Tragic Overture Butterfly Lovers concerto The Planets |
| Be transported to China to hear the legend of tragic lovers who are transformed into a pair of butterflies.Then hear portraits of seven planets, from Venus the bringer of peace, through war, jollity, old age, and mysticism. |
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| Sunday, February 3, 2008, 3:00 PM (Note the matinee time!) Subscription Concert #2 -- Guest Conductor: James M. Orent |
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Ravel Gershwin Resphigi |
Bolero Rhapsody in Blue The Pines of Rome |
| Listen to a masterpiece of orchestration, one of the most popular 20th century works for piano, and an impressionistic soundscape that will transport you to Rome. |
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Sunday, March 30, 2008, 7:00 PM (Note the date and time!) Subscription Concert #3 -- Guest Conductor: Beatrice Affron |
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Humperdinck |
Hansel and Gretel -- in English and semi-staged with supertitles. Leah Wool -- Mezzo-soprano (Hansel) |
| Into the woods for a fairy tale of redemption that will captivate adults as well as children. Folk melodies are woven into a lush Wagnerian sound palette in this, the first and most beloved opera written about children. Composed in 1893, it tells an ancient story of children outwitting a witch. | |
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Sunday, May 4, 2008, 7:30 PM Subscription Concert #4 -- Guest Conductor: Federico Cortese |
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Mozart Beethoven Mendelssohn |
Overture to The Marriage of Figaro Triple Concerto Symphony No. 3 "Scottish" |
| Join members of the Boston Artists Ensemble in a performance of Beethoven's Triple Concerto, "a hybrid of the rich harmonies of the early Romantic Era and the delicate precision of the Baroque concerto grosso." Then bask in the fresh air and brisk seas of the Hebrides, and reflect with Mendelssohn on the state of the ruined chapel of Mary, Queen of Scots. | |
