Johann Vexo
Thursday, October 24, 2024   7:00 PM   Hartford, MA
  Cathedral of Saint Joseph, 140 Farmington Avenue
Cost: Free
Details: Sacred Sounds Concerts Series
Presents
Johann Vexo
Ezequiel Menéndez, Chapel Organ
The Cathedral Schola Cantorum
The Combined Choirs of Saint Patrick and Anthony Church
Maestro Gabriel Löfvall, Conductor

Messe Solenelle, Opus 36 by Louis Vierne
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Bach in Space
Friday, October 25, 2024   8:00 PM   Methuen, MA
Friday October 25, 2024 Methuen Memorial Music Hall, 2 Lookout Ter
Cost: Tickets: Gen: $; Sr/Stu: $ - Reserved Seating: $20 and $30 ; Student
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Details: This multimedia presentation pairs organ works by J.S. Bach with Earth movies taken by astronauts from the International Space Station. Brian Hoffman is Director of Music at St. Pius X Church in Albany, NY. His most recent project, begun during the pandemic, is the recordings of the complete organ works of Bach on organs from around the world via the Hauptwerk program. Dan Barstow, retired Senior Education Manager for the ISS US National Lab, now serves as Education Mission Specialist for the Association of Space Explorers and as Founding Director of Earth Music Theater.
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HSO's Tales of Halloween
Saturday, October 26, 2024   3:00 PM   Hartford, CT
Saturday October 26, 2024 Mortensen Hall at The Bushnell, 166 Capitol Avenue
Cost: Tickets: Gen: $; Sr/Stu: $ - Student Tickets start at $10; Tickets fr
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Details: Immerse yourself in the spirit of Halloween with a truly spooktacular musical experience. Led by Conductor John Jesensky, and featuring Chorus Angelicus, the Hartford Symphony Orchestra will perform the creepiest musical favorites the concert hall and silver screen have to offer, including Beetlejuice, The Phantom of the Opera, and many more! This scream-worthy performance for ghouls of all ages will be accompanied by interactive illustrations, lighting, and special effects. Guests are encouraged to attend in costume as The Bushnell transforms into a haunted theater with spellbinding decorations, festive activities, and enough tricks and treats to fill a graveyard! Don’t miss this frightfully fun event… or your chance to hear the might Austin Organ!
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HSO's Tales of Halloween
Saturday, October 26, 2024   3:00 PM   Hartford, CT
Saturday October 26, 2024 Mortensen Hall at The Bushnell, 166 Capitol Avenue
Cost: Tickets: Gen: $; Sr/Stu: $ - Student Tickets start at $10; Tickets fr
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Details: Immerse yourself in the spirit of Halloween with a truly spooktacular musical experience. Led by Conductor John Jesensky, and featuring Chorus Angelicus, the Hartford Symphony Orchestra will perform the creepiest musical favorites the concert hall and silver screen have to offer, including Beetlejuice, The Phantom of the Opera, and many more! This scream-worthy performance for ghouls of all ages will be accompanied by interactive illustrations, lighting, and special effects. Guests are encouraged to attend in costume as The Bushnell transforms into a haunted theater with spellbinding decorations, festive activities, and enough tricks and treats to fill a graveyard! Don’t miss this frightfully fun event… or your chance to hear the might Austin Organ!
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Thirty-fifth Annual Cathedral Organ Benefit Recital
Sunday, October 27, 2024   3:00 PM   Boston, MA
Sunday October 27, 2024 Cathedral of the Holy Cross, 1400 Washington St. Boston, MA 02118
Cost: Suggested Donation: Gen: $25; Sr/Stu: $15 - 17 and under FREE
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Details: The Cathedral of the Holy Cross continues the longstanding tradition! Thirty-third Annual Cathedral Organ Benefit Recital for the historic 101-rank 1875 E & GG Hook & Hastings Organ, Opus 801.
Several of New England's notable organists will perform a variety of works on the historic pipe organ of 5,292 pipes.
Performers:
• Leo Abbott, Cathedral Music Director & Organist Emeritus
• Dr. Janet Hunt, International Concert Artist
• Sarah Ku, Organ Scholar, Christ Church, Fitchburg
• Rosalind Mohnsen, Immaculate Conception, Malden
• Peter Krasinski, International Sonic Artist
• Richard J. Clark, Director of Music of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross
Works by Bach, Barber, Duruflé, Demessieux, Dunham, Karg-Elert, Widor
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CHORAL EVENSONG
Sunday, October 27, 2024   5:00 PM   Hingham, MA
  The Parish of St. John the Evangelist, 172 Main Street
Cost: Free
Details: Choral Evensong with St. John's Choir, directed by Buffy Gray with guest organist Andrew Sheranian.
Stanford Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in B-flat, Smith Preces & Responses, Howells "A Hymn for St. Cecilia" and congregational hymns will be sung. A Reception will follow the service. All are welcome!
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Pipes Alive! Andres Hornas, organist
Sunday, November 3, 2024   12:30 PM   West Hartford, CT
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Music at the Red Door - St. John's Episcoppal Church, 679 Farmington Ave
Cost: Free
Details: The 2024-2025 Pipes Alive! series begins with organist Ondres Hornas playing the St. John’s organ on Sunday, November 3, at 12:30pm. This event will be presented in person and by livestream.
PROGRAM:
Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884) - The Moldau from Ma Vltava
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) - Movement 4, Allegro con fuoco, from Symphony No.9 in E minor, From the New World
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Evensong with the Jubilate Chamber choir
Sunday, November 3, 2024   5:00 PM   Newton HIghlands, MA
  St Paul's Episcopal Church, 1135 Walnut Street
Cost: Free
Details: The Jubilate Chamber choir will present Evensong at St Paul's Episcopal Church in Newton Highlands.
Canticles are Stanford in B flat
Anthem " Gong Home " by Nicholas White
Jubilate will be in residence at Chichester Cathedral in August of 2025. We will be singing Evensong at different church's to get ourselves ready to go! A festive reception will follow.
Works by Stanford, and White
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Choral Concert: Eternal Voices and Sacred Landscapes
Saturday, November 9, 2024   8:00 PM   West Roxbury, MA
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Holy Name Parish, 1689 Centre St
Cost: Tickets: Gen: $25; Sr/Stu: $20/10 - For first-timer attendees see https://ww
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Details: Take a guided journey through time and culture to reflect on the ways music has given voice to our deepest desires, dreams, hopes, and even fears. Explore the intersections of nature, faith, and culture that illuminate the sacred spaces we create within and around us. Consider what gives you sanctuary through hearing works by James Macmillan, Imant Raminsh, Moses Hogan, Arvo Pärt, Kevin Siegfried, and more. Celebrate the echoing voices that bring us from darkness to light, from despair to hope, and from danger to sanctuary.

Daniel Parsley, Guest Conductor
Director of Choral Activities and
Director of Graduate Conducting Programs
School of Music at Boston University
Contact: Daryl Bichel, darylbichel@aol.com, 617/312-8328
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Choral Concert: Eternal Voices and Sacred Landscapes, The Seraphim Singers
Sunday, November 10, 2024   3:00 PM   Cambridge, MA
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First Church in Cambridge, 11 Garden St
Cost: Tickets: Gen: $25; Sr/Stu: $20/10 - For first-timer ticket incentive options
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Details: Take a guided journey through time and culture to reflect on the ways music has given voice to our deepest desires, dreams, hopes, and even fears. Explore the intersections of nature, faith, and culture that illuminate the sacred spaces we create within and around us. Consider what gives you sanctuary through hearing works by James Macmillan, Imant Raminsh, Moses Hogan, Arvo Pärt, Kevin Siegfried, and more. Celebrate the echoing voices that bring us from darkness to light, from despair to hope, and from danger to sanctuary.

Daniel Parsley, Guest Conductor
Director of Choral Activities and
Director of Graduate Conducting Programs
School of Music at Boston University
Contact: Daryl Bichel, darylbichel@aol.com, 617/312-8328
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Andiamo: Great Opera Choruses and Arias
Sunday, November 10, 2024   3:30 PM   Southborough, MA
Sunday November 10, 2024 Trottier Middle School, 49 Parkerville Road
Cost: Tickets: Gen: $25; Sr/Stu: $20 - Children under 12 = free
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Details: We at Assabet Valley Mastersingers are pleased to offer an invitation and ten tickets to our upcoming concert. Under the direction of Dr. Robert P. Eaton, we are pleased to invite all music enthusiasts and opera aficionados to experience “Andiamo: Great Opera Choruses and Arias” on November 10, 2024, at 3:30 PM. The concert will be held at Trottier Middle School, located at 49 Parkerville Rd, Southborough, MA 01772.

This enchanting concert will take audiences on a journey through the realms of Italian, German and French opera, featuring a captivating selection of beloved classics. Attendees can look forward to performances of iconic works such as Verdi’s “Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves” from Nabucco, the exhilarating “Triumphal March ” from Aida, and Puccini’s exquisite “Humming Chorus” from Madama Butterfly.

This concert will feature Erin Smith, Soprano and Michael Gonzalez, Tenor; they will join AVM during some of the concert selections. Audiences will leave the concert whistling something beloved and very familiar whether it is the drinking song from La Traviata, the wedding march from Lohengrin, or Carmen's seductive Habanera.
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GMChorale to Present Fall Concert on November 10
Sunday, November 10, 2024   4:00 PM   Middletown, CT
  Middletown High School, 200 La Rosa Lane
Cost: Tickets: Gen: $49; Sr/Stu: $44(25)
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Details: GMChorale has another fantastic Main Stage concert planned for the fall of 2024 in the Santo Fragilio Performing Arts Center at Middletown High School, 200 LaRosa Lane. Our fall concert of Baroque music on Sunday, November 10, at 4 p.m., will open with motets by German composer Heinrich Schütz, followed by two majestic works, J.S. Bach’s jubilant “Gloria in Excelsis Deo (Cantata BWV 191)” and G.F. Handel’s rarely performed “Dettingen Te Deum.” Composed within a couple of years of each other at a time of war, they both convey messages of gratitude and peace. The program will close with the “Dona Nobis Pacem” from Bach's divine “Mass in B Minor.”

Under the baton of Artistic Director, Joseph D’Eugenio, GMChorale will join forces with the talented Orchestra New England and the heavenly voices of The Elm City Girls’ Choir. A pre-concert lecture by Wesleyan Professor Neely Bruce will begin at 3 p.m. For more information and tickets go to (link).
Contact: info@gmchorale.org
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An Appleton Extravaganza
Sunday, November 10, 2024   4:00 PM   Middle Haddam, CT
Sunday November 10, 2024 Second Congregational Church, 52 Middle Haddam Rd.
Cost: Free Will Offering
Details: Jared Lamenzo, organist of St. Patrick's Old Cathedral in New York City, plays the 1827 Appleton at Second Congregational in Middle Haddam. The program features music of Vivaldi, Valeri, Mendelssohn, Raynor Taylor, Chausson, and others. Jared plays the 1868 Henry Erben organ in NYC, which is currently under restoration. This Appleton was moved out of NYC by Erben in 1844; Brooklyn-based organ builder and restorer Larry Trupiano rebuilt and restored the instrument, re-dedicated in 1992 in a recital by John Ogasapian. Now approaching the organ's 200 birthday, it is time to celebrate!
Works by Vivaldi, Valeri, Mendelssohn, Taylor, Chausson, Boieldieu
Contact: Bob Marshall at 203.232.7387
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Romantic Recollections
Friday, November 15, 2024   6:30 PM   West Hartford, CT
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Congregation Beth Israel, 701 Farmington Avenue
Cost: Free Will Offering
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Details: Featuring internationally acclaimed artists Zhanna Alkhazova (Soprano) and Natasha Ulyanovsky (Organ). The concert will include works by F. Mendelssohn, M. Reger, F. Schubert, G. Verdi, S. Karg-Elert.
Works by Mendelssohn, reger, Schubert, Verdi, Karg-Elert
Contact: bethisrael@cbict.org
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Romantic Recollections
Friday, November 15, 2024   6:30 PM   West Hartford, CT
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Congregation Beth Israel, 701 Farmington Avenue
Cost: Free Will Offering
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Details: Featuring internationally acclaimed artists Zhanna Alkhazova (Soprano) and Natasha Ulyanovsky (Organ). The concert will include works by F. Mendelssohn, M. Reger, F. Schubert, G. Verdi, S. Karg-Elert.
Works by Mendelssohn, reger, Schubert, Verdi, Karg-Elert
Contact: bethisrael@cbict.org
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Pipes Alive! Walden Moore, organist
Sunday, December 1, 2024   12:30 PM   West Hartford, CT
Sunday December 1, 2024 Music at the Red Door - St. John's Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Ave
Cost: Free
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Details: The 2024-2025 Pipes Alive! series continues with organist Walden Moore playing the St. John’s organ on Sunday, December 1, at 12:30pm. This event will be presented in person and by livestream.
Contact: concerts@reddoormusic.org
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Candlelight Festival of Lessons & Carols
Sunday, December 15, 2024   3:00 PM   West Hartford, CT
Sunday December 15, 2024 Music at the Red Door - St. John's Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Ave
Cost: Free
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Details: Advent’s Lessons and Carols has been an important Anglican ritual since the late 1800’s. In the tradition of King’s College, Cambridge, an introspective journey of sacred stories and music help prepare us for the Christmas Season. On Sunday, December 15, at 3:00pm, Lessons & Carols will provide you moment of musical peace in this often-complicated world, as we offer spectacular carols and musical anthems from a long tradition of music of the season. This event will be presented in person and by livestream.

The St. John’s Choir School and Adult Choir; Walden Moore, interim choirmaster; Floyd Higgins, organist.
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Pipes Alive! Kari Miller, organist
Sunday, January 5, 2025   12:30 PM   West Hartford, CT
Sunday January 5, 2025 Music at the Red Door - St. John's Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Ave
Cost: Free
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Details: The 2024-2025 Pipes Alive! series continues with organist Kari Miller playing the St. John’s organ on Sunday, January 5, 2024, at 12:30pm. This event will be presented in person and by livestream.
Contact: concerts@reddoormusic.org
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New World Trio: Ensemble in Residence at the Red Door
Sunday, January 19, 2025   2:00 PM   West Hartford, CT
Sunday January 19, 2025 Music at the Red Door - St. John's Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Ave
Cost: Free
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Details: Join us on Sunday, January 19, at 2:00pm, for New World Trio, Ensemble-in-Residence at Music at the Red Door.
Anhared Stowe, violin
Peter Zay, cello
David Ballena, piano
This event will be presented in person only.
Contact: concerts@reddoormusic.org
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Pipes Alive! Madison Thompson, organist
Sunday, February 2, 2025   12:30 PM   West Hartford, CT
Sunday February 2, 2025 Music at the Red Door - St. John's Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Ave
Cost: Free
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Details: The 2024-2025 Pipes Alive! series continues with organist Madison Thompson playing the St. John’s organ on Sunday, February 2, at 12:30pm. This event will be presented in person and by livestream.
Contact: concerts@reddoormusic.org
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