Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy St., Cambridge
In the third concert of our 214th season, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra will be premiering the third movement of Hannah Lash’s Forestallings in celebration of our conductor Federico Cortese’s 10th anniversary with the orchestra.
Dr. Lash is a 2010 PhD alumnus of Harvard who is now a faculty member and conductor at the Yale School of Music. We will also be playing Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy, featuring concerto competition winner Kevin Miura ‘25, and Kodaly’s Peacock Variations, featuring assistant conductor Camden Archambeau ‘23. Kevin was the junior 2nd place winner of the...
Harvard Memorial Church, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge
A selection of works celebrating Handel's time in Italy! We’re thrilled to return to the Memorial Church Sanctuary with this joyful program on the other side of the pandemic year. Featuring Benjamin P. Wenzelberg and Phoebe Carrai.
Handel: Selections from Rodrigo Handel: Selected arias Porpora: Cello concerto Dall' Abaco: Concerto Grosso in D Major Porpora: Selected arias
Free and open to the public. All attendees must be masked and will be asked to present either their Harvard ID at the door, or to show proof of vaccination, or to show a proof of...
Paine Hall (Harvard Music Building), 3 Oxford St., Cambridge
The Bach Society Orchestra, Harvard's premiere undergraduate chamber orchestra, kicks off its 2021-2022 Season with our first concert of the fall on Friday, October 8th, 2021. Reserve your free tickets now for this wonderful musical celebration!
Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 in F major
Manuel de Falla's El Sombrero de Tres Picos, Suite 1
Makoto Shinkai's remarkable feature film debut is set in a futuristic Japan on the verge of war. Takuya, a physicist, is drawn into a complex world of dreams, revolutionary fronts, government conspiracies and multiple realities. After many years, he reunites with his high school pal in their shared grief over their missing friend Sayuri, upon whose mysterious fate the whole world may depend.
Admission: $5 Weekend Matinee Admission or Free with Cambridge Public Library Card or current Harvard Student ID
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, 3 Oxford St., Cambridge
As part of the Blodgett Chamber Music Series, the Parker Quartet will perform the following: Esa-Pekka Salonen Homunculus for String Quartet (2007); Szymanowski String Quartet #2, Opus 56; Beethoven String Quartet in A minor, Opus 132.
Please note: This event is free but tickets are required, available February 16 at Harvard Box Office, Smith Campus Center. Box Office is open Tuesday—Sunday, 12:00pm–6:00pm. Tickets are also available by phone 617-496-2222 or online. There is a small service charge for online and phone orders.
Pedro Memelsdorff directs the University Choir in Messe en cantiques, a reconstruction of a mass as it would have been sung by freed and enslaved Africans in colonial Haiti.
Scullers Jazz Club, 400 Soldiers Field Rd., Boston
Join Scullers Jazz Club for the Third Annual "Battle of the Big Bands" with the Harvard and Yale Jazz Orchestras with Special Guests, Saxophonists Wayne Escoffery and Yosvani Terry!
Harvard's Jazz Band has performed worldwide, including 2017 performances in Cuba, and past concerts have included tributes to Herbie Hancock, Benny Golson, and many other important jazz artists. Performers in these concerts have included Terri Lyne Carrington, Lionel Loueke, Harold Mabern, George Coleman, Don Braden, and more.
The Yale Jazz Ensemble, a seventeen-piece big band...
Memorial Church Sanctuary, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
The Harvard University Choir presents an open rehearsal with Pedro Memelsdorff of "“Messe en cantiques," a reconstruction of a mass as it would have been sung by freed and enslaved Africans in colonial Haiti.
The Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet returns to the Harvard Ed Portal February 26 as part of their 2019-2020 season. Join us for an evening of classical music that explores 300 years of the string quartet genre, and its history of inspiring great composers to create their most personal and dynamic works. Covering a wide spectrum of artistic thought and expression, from humor and mysticism to a holy song of thanksgiving, the program will highlight select works from this exciting and unique medium. All are welcome!
Released to accommodate unconverted theaters, the silent Blackmail is leaner than the sound version and all the more disquieting for its subtle shifts in perspective. A documentary-style prologue establishes the rule of law in swift, precise strokes, but culpability ultimately proves elusive after a young woman grabs for a kitchen knife to defend herself from a darkly intimated rape. No sooner has the woman’s policeman boyfriend determined to cover up her crime than a supremely confident blackmailer materializes at the family shop. Hitchcock...
Thirty minutes of organ music will be performed on the Fisk and Skinner organs of The Memorial Church of Harvard University. Free and open to the public.
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, 3 Oxford St., Cambridge
Join the Parker Quartet for an afternoon of music on Sunday, November 17. The program includes Mozart, String Quartet in D major, K499 "Hoffmeister"; Kirchner, String Quartet #1 (1949); Schubert, and Cello Quintet in C Major (with guest cellist Roman Borys).
Free tickets will be available through the Harvard Box Office beginning November 3.
The ArtLab presents Claire Chase's Density 2036, part vi. A recital of new music commissioned for flute featuring Constellation Chor, the New York City based vocal performance ensemble.
2019 marks the is sixth year of Claire Chase's Density 2036, a 23-year project to commission an entirely new body of repertory for solo flute each year until the 100th anniversary of Edgard Varèse’s groundbreaking 1936 flute solo, Density 21.5.
Claire Chase will perform new works by Olga Neuwirth, Phyllis Chen, Pamela Z, Nathan David, Marcos Balter and Sarah Hennies...
Klarman Hall, Harvard Business School, Kresge Way, Boston
Enjoy a performance by the Longwood Symphony conducted by Ronald Feldman followed by a panel discussion by some of the Musical Medical Stars! The panel discussion will be around the intersection between Music and Medicine and Innovation.
Panelists:
Lisa Wong, MD (violin); Milton Pediatric Associates, HMS, CHB, MGH, BWH; Assistant Co-Director, Arts and Humanities Initiative at Harvard Medical School
Leonard Zon, MD (trumpet); Director, Stem Cell Program, Boston Children’s Hospital; Grousbeck...
Three-time Grammy nominated chamber orchestra A Far Cry returns to the Harvard Ed Portal for a cross-disciplinary exploration of Film Noir. Experience a whole evening of music written at the heydey of the Hollywood era: sumptuous, deeply felt, and acquainted with darkness, even psychosis.
Join A Far Cry for an open rehearsal and discussion that will preview the ensemble’s upcoming concert, American Noir, explore popular films of the era, and shed light on the composers behind the music: Jewish immigrants whose style set the tone for a generation of film music that...
Join us for the 2019 Bands of the Beanpot Concert, featuring the bands of Harvard University, Northeastern University, Boston University, and Boston College.
Harvard University Bands presents 2019 Montage Concert: Celebrating the Harvard Band’s 100th Anniversary. This concert will feature Harvard Monday Jazz Band, Harvard Wind Ensemble, and the Harvard Band. Guest Soloist, Boston Symphony Tubist, Mike Roylance.
Repeats every week every Wednesday until Wed Nov 20 2019 .
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Harvard Commons, Smith Campus Center, 1350 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge
Enjoy lunch or a study break in the Smith Campus Center! Stop by Harvard Commons every Wednesday to hear live music from Club Passim, a local folk music organization based in Harvard Square.
From an exploration of musical memories to a work that draws from the intricate patterns of stuttered speech, excerpts of four new works for solo flute will be presented in a lecture-performance format featuring four flute students of Professor Claire Chase: Jessica Shand, Mai Nguyen, Jennifer Wang and Taiga Ultan. Chase and guest composer Liza Lim will moderate a discussion with...
