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06/14/2025 in Chestnut Hill MA: We are offering a full day of sessions to help your nonprofit chorus (or other arts organization) and its leadership plan for the season ahead, including: “Marketing to Singers and Audiences”, “Engaging and Retaining Your Community of Singers, Board, and Volunteers”, “Fundraising”; Networking and reflection time; Singing. We welcome any and all members of your chorus who play a role in non-artistic operations, including board directors, staff, and those who simply wish to learn more. The day will be designed with time for networking with others as well as reflection among your own group. Registration fees range $30-$50 with group discounts available; lunch is included. Parking is free, and the venue is public transit accessible (MBTA Green D Line, Chestnut Hill). CONTACT: info@bostonsings.org.

05/03/2025 in Weston MA: 3oth anniversary concert and reception. Tickets: $20 advance, $25 at the door. Dr. Thérèse Provenzano, director. CONTACT: info@inchoronovo.org, 617-469-3705.

05/10/2025 in Beverly MA, 05/11/2025 in Newburyport MA: Aaron Copland: The Promise of Living; choral works by Charles Ives, Rosephanye Powell, Charlene Archibeque, Cecil Effinger, Bob Dylan, and more, with texts by Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, and others. Chris Rubén Winters, guitar; Benjamin Fox, oboe. CONTACT: Info@cantemus.org.

05/03/2025 in Concord MA: Libby Larsen: Concord Fragments; Melissa Dunphy: Grown Wild (text by Concord poet Melissa Apperson); Rosephanye Powell: To Sit and Dream (text by Langston Hughes); Tara Traxler: Birds of Passage; Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Concord Hymn (new arrangement). With piano, oboe, clarinet, and violin. In honor of the 250th anniversary of the historic battles of Concord and Lexington, a program of women composers writing for women’s voices. Jane Ring Frank, conductor. CONTACT: contact@concordwomenschorus.org, 978-369-6341.

05/18/2025 in Framingham MA: Alice Parker: "An American Kedusha"; Dominick Argento: "Walden Pond"; Margaret Bonds: "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"; other works by these composers and others, folk tunes "Loch Lomond" and "Shenandoah". Vera Broekhuysen, soprano; David Wolff, tenor. CONTACT: marketing@heritagechorale.org, 978-590-2747.

05/17/2025 in West Hartford CT: Andrew Thomson’s Requiem; Jeffrey Boratko: DNA; Paul Halley: Freedom Trilogy; Bob Chilcott: Jazz Mass. Joint concert by the children’s choir Chorus Angelicus, its adult counterpart Gaudeamus, and the Manchester CT State Community College Chorale. Dr. Gabriel Löfvall, conductor; Theresa Thomason, Jeffrey Boratko, and Andrew Thomson, guest artists. Tickets: #30, $10 students, free for children. CONTACT: info@ChorusAngelicus.com, 860-496-8841.

05/18/2025 in Wilmington MA: Over 80 singers from 29 towns across the North Shore and Merrimack Valley perform songs that celebrate our past, present, and future, including "Another Op’nin, Another Show," "Danny Boy," "No One is Alone," "Puttin’ on the Ritz," "What a Wonderful World," a medley from West Side Story, and more! Tickets: $20 adults, $15 age 6-18, free for children 5 and under. CONTACT: IpswichRiverCommunityChorus@gmail.com.

04/26/2025 in Boston MA: P.D.Q. Bach: The Seasonings, "My Bonnie Lass She Smelleth"; Anders Edenroth: "Words"; Nathan Howe: "I Want to Stare at My Phone with You"; Tom Lehrer: "Pollution"; "Chanukah in Santa Monica"; Nathan Howe: "All Star" (an English Madrigal); Jaakko Mäntyjärvi: "Announcements"; Henry Mollicone: "National Weather Forecast". CONTACT: admin@metropolitanchorale.org.

05/02/2025 in Northampton MA: Joel Thompson: "Last Words of the Unarmed" Black Men before they were killed by police officers; Alice Parker: "Heavenly Hurt: Songs of Love and Loss", a setting of 7 poems of Emily Dickinson. Hanif Lawrence, tenor; Gregory Hayes, piano; Karl Knapp, cello. CONTACT: pioneervalleycappella@gmail.com, 413-341-0214.

05/17/2025 in Cambridge MA: Adolphus Hailstork: I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes (Terrence Chin-Loy, tenor); Chiara Margarita Cozzolani: Psalmus 121; Johannes Brahms: Psalm 13; Bobby McFerrin: Psalm 21; Jean Belmont Ford: The Passionate Shepherd To His Love; Sydney Guillaume: Renmen, Renmen; Alice Parker: Hear Me, O God, nor Hide Thy Face; To God in Whom I Trust; Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal; Edward Elgar: Nimrod, from Enigma Variations. Max Holman, conductor. CONTACT: info@spectrumsingers.org, 617-492-8902.

04/27/2025 in Boston MA: Patrice Tiedemann, soprano; Emily Harmon, alto; Neal Ferreira, tenor; Paul LaRosa, bass; Francisco Noya, conductor. CONTACT: manager@choruspromusica.org, 617-923-6333.

04/26/2025 in Roslindale MA: Forrest Pierce: Fire in the Meadow (premiere, commissioned; fuses mystical texts by Hildegard von Bingen with the 20th-century Sufi poetry of Inayat Khan); with choral works by Reena Esmail, Kerry Andrew, Andrew Balfour, Laura Jēkabsone, Russell Wallace, and others. CONTACT: treasurer@ensemblecompanio.org.

06/13/2025 in Boston MA: The first known modern performance of the requiem mass by Benedictus Appenzeller, in a newly transcribed edition by Vox Lucens’ director, Holly Druckman. CONTACT: voxlucens.info@gmail.com.

05/09/2025 in Cambridge MA, 05/10/2025 in Lincoln MA, 06/13/2025 in Boston MA: The first known modern performance of the requiem mass by Benedictus Appenzeller, in a newly transcribed edition by Vox Lucens’ director, Holly Druckman. CONTACT: voxlucens.info@gmail.com.

05/10/2025 in Cambridge MA: Music from movies, TV, and video games, both previously composed and original to the medium, including movie music from Lord of the Rings and La Grande Bellezza; TV title themes from Game of Thrones and Outlander; and video game music from Civilization and Halo. Following the concert, there will be a reception in Margaret Jewett Hall celebrating Mary Beekman’s 45th year with Musica Sacra. CONTACT: info@musicasacra.org, 617-349-3400.

06/08/2025 in Chestnut Hill MA: Christopher Marshall: Glimpses of Love (with chorus); Alexandre Kosmicki: Nitescence crépusculaire; Frank Ticheli: Concerto for Trumpet and Wind Ensemble (Jason Huffman, trumpet). Free admission, free parking. CONTACT: info@crwe.org.

05/04/2025 in Haverhill MA: Tickets: $25 in advance, $30 at the door, $10 for students. CONTACT: info@andoverchoralsociety.org, 603-893-5636.

05/10/2025 in Lewiston ME, 05/11/2025 in Lewiston ME: Tim Sharp: Come Away to the Skies: A High Lonesome Bluegrass Mass; and other music reflecting the stories, landscapes, and spirit of American culture as it evolves over time. With bluegrass ensemble. Tickets: $27 adult, $25 senior, $6 student (age 13+), free for children 12 and under when accompanied by adult. A few free tickets are available for this concert; contact us! CONTACT: info@mainemusicsociety.org, 207-333-3386.

05/10/2025 in West Hartford CT: Celebrating Connecticut composers from Charles Ives to today. Tickets: $20. CONTACT: cregeurstudio@gmail.com.

05/10/2025 in Cambridge MA: Linda J. Chase: For Our Common Home: Resounding Ecojustice (premiere). Edward Elwyn Jones, director. Text by Pope Francis; the music blends classical, jazz, gospel, and klezmer idioms. Tickets: $25, $15 for seniors, students free. Free parking available at the 52 Oxford Street Garage. CONTACT: tickets@fas.harvard.edu, 617-496-2222.