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| The Best Classical Music in the Berkshires, New York, and Boston, November 2007 |
| Michael Miller |
November 2, 2007 |
All highly recommended!
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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
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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)
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Sunday, November 4th, 3.30 p.m. (also November 6, 8, 10, 14, and 17)
New York City Opera
Samuel Barber, Vanessa
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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.
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Wednesday, November 7, 2007 8:00 PM
Symphony Hall, Boston
Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of VenezuelaGustavo Dudamel, conductor Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra Beethoven, Symphony No. 7 Bernstein, Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
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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
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Friday, November, 9, 8 pm
Brooks-Rogers Recital Hal, Williams College
St. Lawrence String QuartetDvorak, Selections from "The Cypresses" R. Murray Schafer, String Quartet No. 3 Beethoven, Quartet in B Flat major, Op. 130 with the Große Fuge
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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!)
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November 9, 2007, 8 pm
Ignat Solzhenitsyn, piano
Brattleboro Music Center
Centre Congregational Church, Brattleboro, VT
Works by Johannes Brahms.
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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!)
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Monday, November 12, 8 pm
Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall Williams College Michel Cardin, Lute
Music by Silius Leopold Weiss, J. S. Bach, and others
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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
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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
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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
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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
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November 16, 2007, 8 pm
Vermont Academy Saxtons River, VT
Windham Orchestra Inaugural Gala ConcertDavid Runnion, Music Director, conductor Elgar’s Cello Concerto with Eric Bartlett of Marlboro, Beethoven’s Symphony no. 5
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November 17, 2007, 8 pm, Brattleboro, VT
Brattleboro Union High School Auditorium, Brattleboro, VT
Windham Orchestra Inaugural Gala ConcertDavid Runnion, Music Director, conductor Elgar’s Cello Concerto with Eric Bartlett of Marlboro, Beethoven’s Symphony no. 5
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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
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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)
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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)
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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
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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.
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