Good Friday Concert: Charles Wood’s St. Mark Passion
| Trinity Church Boston, 206 Clarendon Street Cost: Tickets: Gen: $20; Sr/Stu: $ Performing: LaFarge Ensemble of Trinity Church Choir/Richard Webster |
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| Details: Charles Wood’s St. Mark Passion was written in the span of 9 days at the request of the Rev. Dr. Eric Milner-White (then Dean of King’s College in Cambridge and institutor of the Service of Nine Lessons and Carols at King’s). The St. Mark Passion, a large scale work soloists, choir and organ, traces Jesus’ last days from The Last Supper to the Crucifixion. As with Bach’s Passions, hymns are interspersed throughout the narrative to draw the audience into the action. Presented by the La Farge Ensemble. | |
| Bio: https://www.advent-press.com/index.php/23-adventpress/1-richard-webster Contact: https://www.trinitychurchconcerts.org/woodpassion OrganInfo: https://trinitychurchboston.org/worship/music/organs [Map]     107395 | |
Celebrate: Prelude to Postlude
| First Congregational, 21 Church Street Cost: Free Performing: Savannah Curro |
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| Details: You are invited to support former YOI Scholarship Winner Savannah Curro, performing her Senior Recital Friday evening, April 26th at 7:30 PM at the First Congregational Church in Winchester. Savannah is a senior at Arlington High School and began her organ studies in high school and is currently the church music intern at Parish of the Epiphany in Winchester. Savannah is finishing her college auditions where she is pursuing BM programs in organ performance to eventually become a full-time church musician. | |
[Map]  107461 | |
Children's Event
| Methuen Memorial Music Hall, 192 Broadway (Route 28) Cost: Free Performing: Leonardo Ciampa |
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| Details: The Board of Trustees of the Methuen Memorial Music Hall, Inc., are pleased to announce a FREE Children’s Event, which will feature organist, Leonardo Ciampa. In addition to the free performance, the event is holding a story writing contest for children ages 12 and under. The Board is looking for stories to be submitted on or before Sunday, April 14 and can be submitted to MethuenOrganConcerts@gmail.com.
Submissions should aim to be 500 words or less, and can be submitted in English, Spanish, or Italian. Submissions should include the writer’s name and age, along with a parent’s name and contact number. Winners of the contest will be selected and contacted by Monday, April 22. The winning stories will have music composed around them by Leonardo Ciampa and will be read and played during the event.
Doors will open at 9:30 A.M. | |
| Bio: (link) Contact: joyceorganist@aol.com OrganInfo: (link) [Map] 107480 | |
Spring Chamber Music: Suzanne Bona and Brenda Miller
| Music at the Red Door - St. John's Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Avenue Cost: Free Performing: Suzanne Bona and Brenda Miller |
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| Details: All concerts are free admission, with a suggested donation. For full details, visit http://www.reddoormusic.org.
Sunday Baroque host and flutist Suzanne Bona, along with pianist and internationally recognized music educator Brenda Moore Miller, will perform a varied program of music for flute and piano on Saturday, April 27 at 3pm. Sunday Baroque began in September of 1987 as a local, 90-minute radio show hosted by Fairfield, CT native Suzanne Bona. It has since grown into the enormously popular, 6-hour program that airs every Sunday on WSHU…and which is distributed to 170 stations across the country and heard by more than a quarter million listeners nationwide. | |
[Map]  107309 | |
George Baker in Concert at the Church of the Transfiguration
| Church of the Transfiguration, Arts Empowering Life Inc., PO Box 2831 Cost: Tickets: Gen: $35; Sr/Stu: $30 - Students are Free Performing: George Baker |
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| Details: Experience the incredible improvisation of world-class concert organist, George
Baker, on the “overwhelmingly breathtaking” E.M. Skinner Organ. Join us on Sunday,
April 28 at 3:30 p.m. at the Church of the Transfiguration, Cape Cod, MA. | |
| Bio: (link) Contact: 508-240-2400 OrganInfo: (link) [Map] 107474 | |
Choral Evensong
| Music at the Red Door - St. John's Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Avenue Cost: Free Performing: Trinity Boys Choir from Trinity on the Green, New Haven; Walden Moore, Choirmaster |
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| Details: All concerts are free admission, with a suggested donation. For full details, visit http://www.reddoormusic.org.
The ancient and beautiful service of Choral Evensong is presented on the last Sunday of selected months at St. John’s. Join us on April 28 at 5:00, with music by the Trinity Boys Choir, from Trinity-on-the-Green, New Haven; Walden Moore, choirmaster.
What is Choral Evensong? “Evensong … is a very tiny fragment of something else: it is a fragment of the worship which is offered to God by Christian people every hour in every part of the world. When you come to Evensong here it is as if you were dropping in on a conversation already in progress — a conversation between God and people which began long before you were born and will go on long after you are dead.”
Why celebrate Evensong? Evensong offers to us the opportunity to gather and spend time in prayer while listening and participating in music that is | |
| Contact: music@sjparish.net [Map]  107310 | |
Theatre Organ Concert
| Knight Auditorium, Babson College, 231 Forest St Cost: Tickets: Gen: $15; Sr/Stu: $ - $5 for age 18 & under Performing: Phil Kelsall at the Wurlitzer |
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| Details: http://emcatos.com/PipeOrganPopsAndSilentsInTheHouse/Events/Public_Events___Tickets/public_events___tickets.html | |
| OrganInfo: http://www.emcatos.com/PipeOrganPops_Satellite/organ%20specifications/babson%20college.pdf [Map] 107360 | |
Couperin to Messiaen: Four Centuries of French Organ Music
| First Church of Monson, 5 High Street Cost: Tickets: Gen: $10; Sr/Stu: $ Performing: Permelia Sears |
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| Details: Permelia will perform on the three manual 1892 Johnson and Son Organ, Opus 781. The eleven compositions will span four centuries of French Organ music. | |
| Bio: Organ Recitalist, MMus Yale University School of Music Contact: Gail Pelletier 413 267 4818 gailpelletier73@gmail.com OrganInfo: Three manual Johnson organ 1892 [Map] 107481 | |
Pipes Alive! - Jackson Merrill, Organist
| Music at the Red Door - St. John's Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Avenue Cost: Free Performing: Jackson Merrill, Organist |
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| Details: All concerts are free admission, with a suggested donation. For full details, visit http://www.reddoormusic.org.
Back by popular demand, the Pipes Alive! series continues with Jackson Merrill playing the St. John’s organ on Sunday, May 5 at 12:30 p.m. Jackson is organist and choirmaster at Trinity Episcopal Church, Hartford.
Join us for half-hour organ concerts featuring St. John’s magnificent Austin pipe organ, on the first Sunday of the month, January through June, 12:30 p.m. with regional organists. Free! | |
[Map]  107311 | |
Theatre Organ Concert
| Shanklin Music Hall, 130 Sandy Pond Rd Cost: Tickets: Gen: $25; Sr/Stu: $ - $15 for age 18 & under Performing: Phil Kelsall at the Wurlitzer |
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| Details: http://emcatos.com/PipeOrganPopsAndSilentsInTheHouse/Events/Public_Events___Tickets/public_events___tickets.html | |
| OrganInfo: http://www.emcatos.com/PipeOrganPops_Satellite/organ%20specifications/shanklin%20music%20hall.pdf [Map] 107361 | |
Carson Cooman performs Contemporary Music for Organ
| Memorial Church, Harvard University, Harvard Yard Cost: Free Performing: Carson Cooman |
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| Details: Carson Cooman performs a recital of contemporary organ music by Thomas Åberg, Burkhard Mohr; premieres of new works by Flemming Chr. Hansen and Lynn Trapp; and a performance in honor of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) of Andreas Willscher's Organ Symphony No. 1, "Gravestones." | |
| Works by Thomas Åberg, Burkhard Mohr, Flemming Chr. Hansen, Lynn Trapp, Andreas Willscher Contact: Carson Cooman OrganInfo: https://memorialchurch.harvard.edu/organs [Map] 107347 | |
Bruckner: Mass in E Minor and Choral Masterworks
| Middletown High School, 200 La Rosa Lane Cost: Tickets: Gen: $25; Sr/Stu: $20 - $10-$40 Performing: GMChorale - Joseph D\'Eugenio, Artistic Director |
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| Details: The Austrian composer Anton Bruckner may be best-known for his symphonies, eleven immense orchestral works that are vast in scale and dimension. But in his “day job” as an organist and choirmaster, he composed a wealth of exquisite sacred music for his choirs at Sankt Florian monastery (where he had been a choirboy in his youth) and at the cathedral at Linz. His ethereal Mass No. 2 in E minor, composed in 1866 to celebrate a new chapel in the Linz cathedral, is scored for eight-voice mixed choir and a small group of wind instruments. This Mass, widely acknowledged as among Bruckner’s best works, evokes the cathedralesque musical architecture of the Renaissance masters overlaid with the rich harmonies of the nineteenth century. The program also includes a selection of motets by Bruckner and others. Tickets $10-$40. | |
Bio: [Map]  107442 | |
Music at Trinity: Nathanial Gumbs, Organist
| Trinity Lutheran Church, 73 Lancaster Street Cost: Free Will Offering Performing: Nathaniel Gumbs |
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| Details: Yale University's brilliant young organist Nathaniel Gumbs plays an organ recital of diverse works on Trinity's Noack organ. | |
| Works by https://www.facebook.com/events/2008889932535821/ Bio: http://trinityworc.org/music-at-trinity/ Contact: Mark Mummert OrganInfo: http://trinityworc.org/welcome/history/pipe-organs/ [Map] 107262 | |
Sung Choral Vespers
| St. Mary's, 8 Church St Cost: Free Performing: St. Mary's Youth Choir |
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| Details: Come to the traditional ancient service of sung vespers! The event will take place, Wednesday May 8th at 7:00 pm! It will be sung by the St. Mary’s Youth Choir and is free and open to all. | |
| Contact: Kevin Lyczak [Map] 107471 | |
Boston Organ Studio Recital
Across the Millennia
| St. Mary;s Church, St. Mary's Church, 640 Main St., Shewsbury, MA 01545 Cost: Tickets: Gen: $25.00; Sr/Stu: $20.00 Performing: Assabet Valley Mastersingers |
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| Details: Assabet Valley Mastersingers will celebrate the end of its 40th Anniversary Season in a concert on Saturday, May 11th at 8 pm at St. Mary’s Church, 640 Main St. in Shrewsbury. The program titled “Across the Millennia” will combine two historic choral classics—JS Bach’s cantata #80 Ein Feste Burg and Mozart’s Regina Coeli K.276---with music by two of the 21st century’s most accomplished composers. Ola Gjeilo’s 2016 setting of Walt Whitman’s poem Song of the Universal sings of “optimism, exuberance and unwavering confidence in our deeper humanity.” The Latvian composer Peteris Vasks offers a fervent cry for peace in Dona Nobis Pacem. Orchestra and soloists will accompany the chorus | |
| Contact: Alene Cole 978-562-9838 [Map] 107483 | |
Lautengalanterie: German Baroque Lute Duets
| Somerville Museum, One Westwood Road (at Central St.) Cost: Tickets: Gen: $20; Sr/Stu: $15 Performing: Timothy Burris and Olav Chris Henriksen, baroque lutes |
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| Details: During the early baroque period, German lutenists embraced the new French baroque lute and its lyrical, expressive (yet intimate) musical style, but by the 18th century they had developed their own tradition – a much more outgoing kind of music. Timothy Burris and Olav Chris Henriksen will begin their concert with Johann Gumprecht’s French suite, then continue with Radolt’s musical experiments for two lutes, followed by a partita by Telemann. The concert will conclude with music in galant/early classical style, exemplified in sonatas by Corignani and Hagen. Of special interest is a recently-rediscovered concerto for two lutes by the great Silvius Leopold Weiss. Come hear the beautiful and seldom-heard sound of two baroque lutes together! | |
| Contact: For more information, call (617) 666-9810 or go to (link) [Map] 107484 | |
Music for Bach's Favorite Instruments
| The Parish of All Saints - Ashmont, 209 Ashmont Street, Dorchester, MA 02124 Cost: Tickets: Gen: $25; Sr/Stu: $18 - EBT Card Holder: $3, children under 13 f Performing: The Bach Project at Ashmont Hill Chamber Music |
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| Details: The second Bach Project event of the season, this concert features some of the nation’s finest period musicians performing solo works by the composer.
Shirley Hunt, baroque ‘cello
Michael Sponseller, harpsichord
Andrew Sheranian, organ
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Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major BWV 1009
Suite for Harpsichord in E minor BWV 996
Passacaglia and Fugue for organ in C minor, BWV 582 | |
| Bio: (link) Contact: 617-436-3520 OrganInfo: (link) [Map] 107476 | |
Anglican Musical Treasures from America AND England
| Trinity Church Boston, 206 Clarendon Street Cost: Tickets: Gen: $25-60; Sr/Stu: $ - https://www.trinitychurchconcerts.org/an Performing: Trinity Church Choir/Richard Webster |
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| Details: Help launch the Trinity Choirs on their August tour of the United Kingdom, where they will serve as choir-in-residence at Wells and Salisbury Cathedrals. This concert will feature works by American composers – Amy Beach, Joseph Jennings, Roland Martin and Richard Webster – as well as beloved classics from the English repertoire – Herbert Howells, Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton and Charles Wood. | |
| Bio: https://www.advent-press.com/index.php/23-adventpress/1-richard-webster Contact: https://www.trinitychurchconcerts.org/anglican-choral-treasures OrganInfo: https://trinitychurchboston.org/worship/music/organs [Map] 107396 | |
125th Anniversary Choir Concert
| Christ Church, 569 Main Street Cost: Free Will Offering Performing: Festival, Youth, and Children's Choirs of Christ Church (Robert Potterton III & the Rev. Carolyn Jones, directors) |
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| Details: The combined singing forces of Christ Church present a wide-ranging program in celebration of the 125th Anniversary of its choral program, including selections by Byrd, Getty, Howells, Parry, Rutter, Schutz, Stopford, and Vaughan Williams. Robert Potterton III (Organist-Choirmaster) will accompany on the 1928 III/67 Skinner-Moeller organ; the Rev. Carolyn G. Jones will direct the Children's Choir. | |
| Bio: (link) Contact: music@christchurchfitchburg.org OrganInfo: (link) [Map]  107421 | |
Choral Evensong & Reception
| Church of the Redeemer, 379 Hammond Street Cost: Free Performing: Choir of the Church of the Redeemer; Michael S. Murray; Stuart Forster |
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| Details: Anthem: O Lorde, the maker of al thing, John Joubert
Hymn: 34 - Innisfree Farm
Responses: Craig Phillips
Psalm: 8 & 84
Service: Evening Service in b-minor, T. Tertius Noble
Anthem: Lord, thou hast been our refuge, Ralph Vaughan Williams
Hymn: 24 - St. Clement
Postlude: Final (Symphonie No. 1), Louis Vierne | |
| Bio: (link) OrganInfo: (link) [Map]  107463 | |
Thomas Sheehan performs on the Skinner and Fisk organs of Memorial Church, Harvard
| Memorial Church, Harvard University, Harvard Yard Cost: Free Performing: Thomas Sheehan |
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| Details: Thomas Sheehan performs a recital on the Skinner and Fisk organs of Memorial Church, Harvard University | |
| Contact: Carson Cooman OrganInfo: https://memorialchurch.harvard.edu/organs [Map] 107348 | |
The GMChorale's Alchemy Choir Performs June 1 in Glastonbury CT
| First Church of Christ, Congregational, 2183 Main Street Cost: Free Will Offering Performing: Alchemy, the vocal chamber ensemble of the GMChorale; Joseph D'Eugenio, Artistic Director |
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| Details: Alchemy, the vocal chamber ensemble of the GMChorale, offers a series concerts that often feature collaborations with local ensembles and performers. Now in its third season, and led by founding director Joseph D’Eugenio, the ensemble, known for its ability to adapt its sound to a broad variety of repertoire, took the name \"Alchemy\" in recognition of the ancient, mystical art of creating gold through transformation and refinement. Already recognized for its vocal beauty, richness, and subtlety, this 24-voice ensemble brings a touch of gold to interpretations of Romantic and contemporary choral music. This season’s concerts, called \"Come to the Music\" features a cappella and accompanied choral music by Schumann, Brahms, Bruckner, Duruflé, Fauré, Siegfried, Vaughan Williams, Britten, Thompson, Vierne, and Clausen. Allan Conway accompanies. No tickets are required; a free will donation will be accepted. | |
| Bio: (link) Contact: gmcmedia@gmchorale.org [Map]  107444 | |
Pipes Alive! - Christa Rakich, Organist
| Music at the Red Door - St. John's Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Avenue Cost: Free Performing: Christa Rakich, Organist |
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| Details: All concerts are free admission, with a suggested donation. For full details, visit http://www.reddoormusic.org.
Back by popular demand, the Pipes Alive! series continues with Christa Rakich playing the St. John’s organ on Sunday, June 2 at 12:30 p.m.
Christa Rakich, Organ Artist-in-Residence at St. John’s, West Hartford, recently retired from a position as Music Director at St. Mark the Evangelist Church in West Hartford. She lives in Bloomfield and maintains an active career as a performer and recording artist. She has served on the faculties of Westminster Choir College, Brandeis University, New England Conservatory, and the University of Connecticut, and as Assistant University Organist at Harvard. Previous Artist-in-Residencies have included the University of Pennsylvania and First Lutheran Church in Boston.
As a Fulbright Scholar, Christa studied for two years with Anton Heiller at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienn | |
| Contact: music@sjparish.net [Map]  107312 | |
Lamlein in Concert on the 1864 Hook in Worcester
| Mechanics Hall, 321 Main St Cost: Free Performing: Scott Lamlein |
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| Details: Cited by The American Organist magazine as infusing his music with “virtuosic flair and fire,” Scott’s performances bring a unique emotional and spiritual inspiration to his audiences. Listeners find a place of solace, a time of wonder and awe. His playing has been described as inspiring, uplifting, powerful and flawless. | |
| OrganInfo: (link) [Map]  107450 | |
Young Artist Showcase - 1864 Hook in Worcester
| Mechanics Hall, 321 Main St Cost: Free Performing: Christopher Holman |
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| Details: Since winning the Albert Schweizer Competition, American organist Christopher Holman has performed on some of the most important historic and modern organs in Europe and North America. As a guest artist, he has most recently appeared at the BachFest Leipzig, Festival international de l’orgue ancienne in Sion, Switzerland (the oldest organ in the world), and the Eastman Rochester Organ Initiative. He has released two recordings, and his performances have been broadcast on German and Swiss national television and radio. Also active as a scholar, his research has most recently been published in Oxford University’s journal Early Music, and he is Editor of the journal Vox Humana and Director of Musicology for Bach Society Houston. | |
OrganInfo: [Map]  107451 | |
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