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Music
The Best Classical Music in the Berkshires, New York, and Boston, November 2007
Michael Miller November 2, 2007
All highly recommended!
Friday, November 2 2007, 8:00 PM
Williams Chamber Players
Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall, Williams College
"Schubertiade"

Schubert: Fantasie in F Minor
Schubert: Octet, D. 803
Saturday, November 3, 7:00 pm
Allison Mondel, soprano; Dan Foster, piano
Williams College Museum of Art

La chanson des rêveurs: Songs of Poulenc and Milhaud

Sunday, November 4th, 2007 | 3:00 p.m.
The Aoede Consort
St. Joseph’s Church, 416 3rd Street. Troy, NY

Requiem æternam: Music for All Soul’s Day
Ave Maria a 4 Josquin des Prez (c.1450-1521)
Ave Maria Robert Parsons (c.1528-1572)
In pace John Sheppard (c.1515-1558)
In manus tuas Sheppard
In manus tuas Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585)
Salvator mundi Tallis
Dum transisset Sabbatum John Taverner (c.1490-1545)
Adoramus te, Christe G.P. da Palestrina (c.1525-1594)
Missa Pro Defunctis (Requiem) Giovanni Francesco Anerio (1567-1630)

Sunday, November 4, 2007, 2 pm
First Congregational Church, Great Barrington, MA
Berkshire Bach Singers & Ensemble, James Bagwell, conudctor

Bach & Handel: Cantatas

Sunday, November 4th, 3.30 p.m. (also November 6, 8, 10, 14, and 17)
New York City Opera

Samuel Barber, Vanessa

Wednesday, November 7, 2007 12.15 PM (and every Wednesady during term)
Chapin Hall, Williams College (occasionally in Thompson Chapel. Check the Williams calendar.)
Midweek Music
program to be announced

All are invited to bring a bag lunch to these concerts by Williams music faculty and students.

Wednesday, November 7, 2007 8:00 PM
Symphony Hall, Boston
Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra
Beethoven, Symphony No. 7
Bernstein, Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

Thursday, November 8, 2007 8:00 PM (also rehearsal Thursday morning, 11/9, and 11/10)
Symphony Hall, Boston
Boston Symphony Orchestra
James Levine Conductor

Berg Violin Concerto, Christian Tetzlaff, violin
Symphony No. 9

Friday, November, 9, 8 pm
Brooks-Rogers Recital Hal, Williams College
St. Lawrence String Quartet

Dvorak, Selections from "The Cypresses"
R. Murray Schafer, String Quartet No. 3
Beethoven, Quartet in B Flat major, Op. 130 with the Große Fuge
November 9, 2007, 8:00 PM
Sweeney Hall, Smith College, Northampton
Walden Chamber Players

Bach | Trio sonata in G for violin, oboe and basso continuo, BWV 1038
Donald Wheelock | Ten bagatelles for oboe and string quartet
Julia Scott Carey | String trio (World Premiere!)
Bach | Prelude, Fugue & Allegro for solo harpsichord in E flat, BWV 998
Augusta Read Thomas | “Scat” for oboe, violin, viola, ‘cello & harpsichord
(World Premiere!)

November 9, 2007, 8 pm
Ignat Solzhenitsyn, piano
Brattleboro Music Center
Centre Congregational Church, Brattleboro, VT

Works by Johannes Brahms.

November 11, 2007, 3:00 PM
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
Walden Chamber Players

Bach | Trio sonata in G for violin, oboe and basso continuo, BWV 1038
Donald Wheelock | Ten bagatelles for oboe and string quartet
Julia Scott Carey | String trio (World Premiere!)
Bach | Prelude, Fugue & Allegro for solo harpsichord in E flat, BWV 998
Augusta Read Thomas | “Scat” for oboe, violin, viola, ‘cello & harpsichord
(World Premiere!)
Monday, November 12, 8 pm
Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall
Williams College
Michel Cardin, Lute

Music by Silius Leopold Weiss, J. S. Bach, and others

Thursday, November 15 (also Nov. 17 and 18)
Jordan Hall
Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Benjamin Zander, conductor

Schubert:  Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished"
Bruckner:  Symphony No. 5


Friday, November 16, 8:00 pm
Kevin P. Mahaney’84 Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
Claremont Trio (Emily Bruskin, violin; Julia Bruskin, cello; Donna Kwong, piano)

Debussy, Piano Trio in G
Frank Martin, Trio on Irish Folk Melodies
Arensky, Trio No. 1 in d minor

Friday, November 16, 8:00 pm
Thompson Memorial Chapel, Williams College
Williams Chamber Choir
Brad Wells, conductor

Music and the Departure of Soul

Benjamin Britten: Hymn to Saint Cecilia
Gustav Mahler/Gottwold: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
Galina Grigorjeva: On Leaving
Alfred Schnittke: "Complete this work" from Choir Concerto

Friday, November 16, 8.00 pm
Troy Savings Bank Music Hall
Albany Symphony Orchestra
Michael Morgan, Guest Conductor

Carolyn Yarnell: Yosemite and the Range of Light (World Premiere)
Grieg: Piano Concerto, Adam Golka, Piano
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5
November 16, 2007, 8 pm
Vermont Academy Saxtons River, VT
Windham Orchestra Inaugural Gala Concert
David Runnion, Music Director, conductor

Elgar’s Cello Concerto with Eric Bartlett of Marlboro, Beethoven’s Symphony no. 5
November 17, 2007, 8 pm, Brattleboro, VT
Brattleboro Union High School Auditorium, Brattleboro, VT
Windham Orchestra Inaugural Gala Concert
David Runnion, Music Director, conductor

Elgar’s Cello Concerto with Eric Bartlett of Marlboro, Beethoven’s Symphony no. 5

Saturday. November 17, 2007 8:00 PM
Symphony Hall, Boston
Boston Symphony Orchestra
James Levine Conductor

Haydn, Symphony No. 104, London
Carter, Horn Concerto (world premiere; BSO commission)
Mahler, Symphony No. 1

Saturday November 17 2007, 8:00 PM (also 11/15/07 and 11/20/07)
Chapin Hall
Williams Symphonic Winds
Steven Dennis Bodner, director.

"A Little Night and Day Music"
This concert will explore the ways that composers have treated--both literally and metaphorically--the concepts of day and night in music.

Toru Takemitsu: Day Signal (Signals from Heaven I)
Joseph Schwantner: New Morning for the World
Franz Joseph Haydn (arr. Triebensee): selections from The Creation
Darius Milhaud: La creation du monde
Joseph Schwantner: In Evening's Stillness
Toru Takemitsu: Night Signal (Signals from Heaven II)

Sunday, November, 18, 2007 - 3:00 PM
American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein, conductor

Human Elements
Johann Strauss, Sr.: The Four Temperaments Waltz, Op. 59 (1832) US Premiere
Carl Nielsen: Symphony No. 2, The Four Temperaments, Op. 16 (1902 Paul Hindemith: The Four Temperaments, Theme and Variations (1940)
Frank Martin: The Four Elements (1964)

Monday, November 19, 8pm
Symphony Hall (Boston Celebrity Series)
Berlin Philharmonic
Sir Simon Rattle, conductor
Ben Heppner, tenor
Thomas Quasthoff, bass-baritone

György Kurtág, Stele, Opus 33
Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde

Friday, November 23, 2007 1:30 PM (also Saturday, 11/24/07 and Tuesday 11/27/07)
Symphony Hall, Boston
Boston Symphony Orchestra. James Levine, conductor

Bedrich Smetana
Overture to The Bartered Bride
Má Vlast (complete)

Saturday, November 24, 2007, 7:30 pm
St. James Church, Great Barrington
Berkshire Bach Society, BBS Instrumental Ensemble, Kenneth Cooper


Messiah Sing-In

Tuesday, November 27, 4:15 pm.
Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall, Williams College
Lecture: Christian Wolff on Experimental Music
Friday, November 30, 2007
Sweeney Concert Hall/Sage Hall
Smith College
Green Street
Northampton, MA
American String Quartet
             
Mozart's: Quartet in C, K. 465, "Dissonance"
Beethoven, Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, “Rasumovsky” no. 2
Robert Sirota: A memorial to 9-11 victims.
Sunday, December 2, 2007, 3:30 pm
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
John Gibbons, harpsichord

J. S. Bach, Goldberg Variations
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