Welcome to our 35th Anniversary Season!
Saturday, October 29, 2011, 8:00 p.m.
Tsai Performance Center
Pre-concert talk to begin at 7pm with Richard Pittman, Michael Gandolfi, and Dr. Chris Ward (University of Houston) to discuss Michael’s piece “Of Angels and Neurones.”
Michael Gandolfi | Of Angels and Neurones (first Boston performance)
Bela Bartok | Piano Concerto no. 3 | Stephen Drury, soloist
Michael-Thomas Foumai | The Light-Bringer (NEP Call for Scores winner)
Igor Stravinsky | Symphony in Three Movements
>>program notes
Sunday, December 11, 2011, 3:00 p.m.
Tsai Performance Center
Family Concert
Bernard Hoffer | Suite from Thundercats (world premiere)
Sergei Prokofiev | Peter and the Wolf |David Gullette, narrator
Franz Joseph Haydn | Concerto in D major|Zlatomir Fung, cello (Winner of the 2011 Young Artist Competition)
Saturday, March 3, 2012, 8:00 p.m.
Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Boston
35th Anniversary Concert
Benjamin Britten | War Requiem
Sarah Pelletier, soprano; Frank Kelley, tenor; Sumner Thompson, baritone
Chorus pro Musica and The Providence Singers | Betsy Burleigh, Director
Boston Children’s Chorus | Anthony Trecak-King, Director
Saturday, May 5, 2012, 8:00 p.m.
Tsai Performance Center
Simmons College Concert
Donald Harris | A Lyric Fanfare (first Boston performance)
Jacques Offenbach | Barcarolle from The Tales of Hoffmann
Hector Berlioz | The Death of Ophelia | Simmons College Concert Choir
Danica A. Buckley, Director
Andy Vores | An Other I | Danielle Maddon, violin soloist
David Rakowski | Winged Contraption
Maurice Ravel | Daphnis and Chloe Suite no. 2
