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04/10/2024 in Boston MA: Morton Feldman: Rothko Chapel; Tod Machover: Gammified, for string quartet and electronics; Marti Epstein: Troubled Queen; Olivier Messiaen: Catalogue d’oiseaux, No. 3: Le Merle Bleu. Samy Rachid and Stephen Drury, conductors. Preceded at 7 pm by a Panel Discussion on "Composing the Future of Health" with Tod Machover, Li-Huei Tsai, Ph.D., and Psyché Lou. CONTACT: carduuschoir@gmail.com.

03/23/2024 in Cambridge MA: Michael Marissen, renowned authority on the music and spiritual vision of J.S. Bach, explores the text, musical rhetoric, theological framework, liturgical context, historical setting, and spiritual vision of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. Lecture with recorded music, study of the text (to be handed out), and Q&A. Refreshments and lunch provided. CONTACT: music@emmanuelmusic.org, 617-536-3356.

04/06/2024 in Chestnut Hill MA: Ralf Yusuf Gawlick: O Lungo Drom (The Long Road) (U.S. premiere); an oratorio that tracks the history of the Roma and Sinti peoples through the words of Roma/Sinti poets and writers themselves. Clara Meloni, soprano; Christoph Filler, baritone; László Rácz, cimbalom. Concert details at https://www.holycross.edu/faith-service/mcfarland-center-religion-ethics-and-culture/events-mcfarland-center and https://events.bc.edu/event/ralf_yusuf_gawlick_-_o_lungo_drom_the_long_road_an_oratorio_on_the_sinti_and_roma_people. CONTACT: ralf.gawlick@bc.edu, 617-552-2514.

04/05/2024 in Worcester MA, 04/06/2024 in Chestnut Hill MA: Ralf Yusuf Gawlick: O Lungo Drom (The Long Road) (U.S. premiere); an oratorio that tracks the history of the Roma and Sinti peoples through the words of Roma/Sinti poets and writers themselves. Clara Meloni, soprano; Christoph Filler, baritone; László Rácz, cimbalom. Concert details at https://www.holycross.edu/faith-service/mcfarland-center-religion-ethics-and-culture/events-mcfarland-center and https://events.bc.edu/event/ralf_yusuf_gawlick_-_o_lungo_drom_the_long_road_an_oratorio_on_the_sinti_and_roma_people. CONTACT: ralf.gawlick@bc.edu, 617-552-2514.

TBD in Edgartown MA, TBD in Edgartown MA: Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria; William Peek: new work, premiere. CONTACT: islandchorus@gmail.com, 508-693-6871.

03/23/2024 in Willimantic CT: Works by Rosephanye Powell, Francesca Caccini, Florence Price, Tracy Wong, Cyndi Lauper, and more, redirecting how we see ourselves through sharing music and exploring the mind-body connection through song, performed by Choir Matrix and Consonare Youth Choirs. Featuring m Free admissions, but donations are greatly welcomed. CONTACT: consonare.sing@gmail.com.

06/01/2024 in Boston MA: Aaron Copland: In The Beginning; music by Nightingale composers Laura Nevitt, Michal Nissimoff, Nicholas Ford, and Nathan Halbur. Felicia Gavilanes, mezzo-soprano. With string quartet and electronics. Chad Dorsey, visual collaborator. With Juventas New Music Ensemble. CONTACT: nightingalevocalensemble@gmail.com.

05/18/2024 in Lancaster NH, 05/19/2024 in Littleton NH: Lighter classics, popular Italian songs, some “Great American Songbook” selections, and a selection from Gilbert and Sullivan. CONTACT: bodmarketing@whitemountainvoices.com, 978-697-2834.

03/24/2024 in Brookfield CT: Come sing Händel's Messiah (Parts II & III). Francesca Federico, soprano; Holly Sorensen, mezzo-soprano; Nicholas Simpson, tenor; John Robert Green, bass-baritone; Linda Sweetman-Waters, organ; Eric Dale Knapp, director. With other Nexus Choral Artists. Whether you’re a singer or a classical music aficionado our annual sing-ins are for you! $20 suggested donation at the door to attend/sing. You may bring your own music or borrow a score at the door. CONTACT: valleypresct@gmail.com, 203-775-2624.

03/24/2024 in South Hadley MA: Gabriel Fauré: Requiem; Paul Basler: Missa Kenya; works by Alice Parker and Anita Anderson Cooper. Ms. Anderson Cooper conducts 60-voice chorus and orchestra. Ludlow's Harris Brook Elementary School Chorus also performs. Tickets: $25 general admission; $20 seniors ($5 discount for advance purchase); $5 students/children age 12 and under. CONTACT: mail@southhadleychorale.org, 413-533-3833.

03/09/2024 in Hartford CT: Find the silence within you ... and allow yourself to find beauty in the moment. CONTACT: info@voceinc.org.

03/09/2024 in Cambridge MA: This program begins where last season’s March program left off—this year we are taking the old shape note tunes in a minimalist direction, inspired by William Duckworth’s monumental collection Southern Harmony. We will also explore what happens when you deconstruct music in a wider sense, so you will hear music with the use of a limited scale, music without pitch, music without rhythmic coordination, and so forth. William Walker/William Duckworth: Holy Manna; William Duckworth: Turtle Dove; The Mouldering Vine; Arvo Pärt: Solfeggio; Ernst Toch: Geographical Fugue; Scott Anthony Shell: I Am the Dance; Knut Nystedt: Immortal Bach; Alice Parker: Wondrous Love; William Duckworth: Wondrous Love; Philip Glass: Three Songs (settings of texts by Leonard Cohen, Dorothy Parker, and George Herbert, among others); Hilary Tann: Paradise; Heinrich Christensen: Very Short Songs. CONTACT: info@musicasacra.org, 617-349-3400.

03/09/2024 in Orleans MA: Renaissance and 21st century music, including works by William Byrd, Cristobal de Morales, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Franz Liszt, Arvo Pärt, Ēriks Ešenvalds, and Ola Gjeilo. Tickets are free for students and young people. CONTACT: info@artsempoweringlife.org, 508-255-3999.

03/08/2024 in Orleans MA, 03/09/2024 in Orleans MA: Renaissance and 21st century music, including works by William Byrd, Cristobal de Morales, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Franz Liszt, Arvo Pärt, Ēriks Ešenvalds, and Ola Gjeilo. Tickets are free for students and young people. CONTACT: info@artsempoweringlife.org, 508-255-3999.

03/17/2024 in Lewiston ME: W.A. Mozart: Coronation Mass, K.317; Michael John Trotta: A Breath of Ecstasy (with love poetry by Sara Teasdale). Richard Nickerson, director. With Chamber Orchestra. Tickets $27, seniors $25, student $15, under 12 free. CONTACT: info@mainemusicsociety.org, 207-333-3386.

05/11/2024 in Lewiston ME, 05/12/2024 in Lewiston ME: Music from a variety of genres from 1972, the year when the Maine Music Society Chorale was born. Join us as we take you back fifty years to a time that evoked an era of free spirit and creative musical expression. Tickets: $27 adults, $25 seniors (65+), $15 students, free for children 12 & under. CONTACT: info@mainemusicsociety.org, 207-333-3386.

03/16/2024 in Lewiston ME, 03/17/2024 in Lewiston ME: W.A. Mozart: Coronation Mass, K.317; Michael John Trotta: A Breath of Ecstasy (with love poetry by Sara Teasdale). Richard Nickerson, director. With Chamber Orchestra. Tickets $27, seniors $25, student $15, under 12 free. CONTACT: info@mainemusicsociety.org, 207-333-3386.

03/09/2024 in Melrose MA: Annelies is the first adaptation of the diary of Anne Frank into a large-scale choral work. It brings to life the diary written by Annelies Marie Frank between 1942 and 1944 when she and her family hid in the back of an Amsterdam warehouse. Please join us for this poignant and powerful concert. CONTACT: info@polymnia.org, 781-662-9381.

03/16/2024 in Cambridge MA: A concert of John Ehrlich’s favorites from the chorus’s 44-year history, including Johannes Brahms’s Neue Liebeslieder Waltzes, Béla Bartòk’s Four Slovak Songs, Gabriel Fauré’s Cantique de Jean Racine, and more. CONTACT: info@spectrumsingers.org, 617-492-8902.

03/03/2024 in Cambridge MA: Anton Bruckner: Mass No. 2 in E minor; Bernstein: "Make Our Garden Grow" and "and The Best of All Possible Worlds" from Candide; Riley Ferretti, A Prayer. CONTACT: manager@choruspromusica.org, 617-267-7442.