Please join us for the fourth Boston concert of Music for Food’s 15th season: Yellow Barn Partnership Concert. This concert will feature Helena Tulve’s evocative silences/larmes, Arnold Schoenberg’s expressive song cycle The Book of the Hanging Gardens, and Francis Poulenc’s dramatic monodrama La Voix Humaine. A distinguished roster of performers, including Melissa Wimbish, Daniel Bates, […]
André Laplante presents a master class featuring students from the NEC piano studios. This masterclass is made possible by Edith Michelson Milender in honor of her mother Mildred Levinson ‘29. André Laplante is the 2024-25 Mildred Levinson Piano Artist-in-Residence. André Laplante, who in 2005 was honored to be named an Officer of the Order of […]
Cynthia Miller Freivogel presents a master class featuring students from the NEC violin studios. Cynthia Miller Freivogel is the leader and concertmaster of the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado and of the ARTEK chamber orchestra (New York)and Combattimento (the Netherlands) where she is also co-artistic director. This masterclass is made possible by the Pratt Early […]
Jason Moran presents a performance of solo piano and small ensemble pieces with students of the NEC Jazz Studies program. Moran: Jump Up Jordan: Choo Choo Ch'Boogie Booker T & The MGs: Booker's Notion Turner: Shake Rattle and Roll Memphis Minnie: Shout the Boogie Sister Rosetta Thorpe: Strange Things Happen Every Day Williams: Boogie Misterioso
Frans Helmerson hosts a master class featuring students from the NEC cello studios. Helmerson began his musical training with Guido Vecchi in Gothenburg before moving on to study with Giuseppe Selmi in Rome and William Pleeth in London. Sergiu Celibidache and his mentor Mstislav Rostropovich also played a very influential role in his artistic development. […]
Marie-Pierre Langlemet presents a master class featuring students from the NEC harp studio. She first become acquainted and enchanted with the harp from the children’s album Piccolo Saxo. Because Marie-Pierre Langlamet definitely wanted to learn a polyphonic instrument, and the piano class was full, she decided to take up the harp. She received her first […]
The Liederabend—literally, "evening of song"—dates back to the 1800s, when musicians and lovers of music would gather at someone's home, and one or more singers and a pianist would perform the songs of composers of the day. In the field of classical music, these songs are referred to as "art songs," and the German art […]
American Ledger No. 1 by Raven Chacon is a narrative score for performance, telling the creation story of the founding of the United States of America. In chronological descending order, moments of contact, enactment of laws, events of violence, the building of cities, and erasure of land and worldview are mediated through graphic notation, and […]