Sponsored by the Colleges of the Fenway Chorus, join us for a selection of works composed by Gena Branscombe to celebrate her life and legacy. Plus, our 2021 Art Song Commission winner, Jane Kozhevnikova, will premiere the commissioned song at our concert.

In addition to an incredible program, we will be announcing our 2022 Scholarship Winners (for the first time!) and hearing Regan Russell, DMA share from her dissertation about Branscombe. Full program details to come.

We will host a reception with light refreshments after the concert.

From the Italian Commedia dell’arte to Falla’s Spanish ballet to Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, this program is inspired by characters, scenes, and stories of the stage. Please join us for a night of Scenes and Strings!

PERFORMERS

Gabriel Solomon, violin
Regan Russell, piano

PROGRAM

Gena Branscombe: Alluring Columbine (from Two Ballet Sketches for Violin and Piano), Pierrot’s Love Song (Scaramouche in Love)
Robert Schumann: Vogel als Prophet (from Waldszenen, Op. 82)
Manuel de Falla: Suite from El amor brujo
Erich Korngold: Four Pieces, Op. 11 (from the Incidental Music to Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing)
Claude Debussy: Sonata for Violin and Piano, L. 140

Program and program notes available here.

TICKETS

General Admission: $26
Children 12 & Under: $14
Livestream Only: $10

From the Italian Commedia dell’arte to Falla’s Spanish ballet to Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, this program is inspired by characters, scenes, and stories of the stage. Please join us for this night of Scenes and Strings!

PERFORMERS

Gabriel Solomon, violin
Regan Russell, piano

PROGRAM

Gena Branscombe: Alluring Columbine (from Two Ballet Sketches for Violin and Piano), Pierrot’s Love Song (Scaramouche in Love)
Robert Schumann: Vogel als Prophet (from Waldszenen, Op. 82)
Manuel de Falla: Suite from El amor brujo
Erich Korngold: Four Pieces, Op. 11 (from the Incidental Music to Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing)
Claude Debussy: Sonata for Violin and Piano, L. 140

TICKETS

General Admission: $20
Children 12 & Under: $15
Livestream Only: $10

Program and program notes available here.

Please join me for my FINAL DMA recital at Boston University! In the spirit of my love for stories, the program will feature four sets by French composers that each tells a musical tale, from the adventures of Don Quichotte to the fables of Fontaine. I will be joined by my talented friends Susan Bengston (viola), Sarah Rogers (soprano), Jacob O'Shea (bass baritone), and Jeannette Lee (mezzo soprano).

The pre-recorded event will be streamed on YouTube. We would love to "see" you there!

PROGRAM

Darius Milhaud: Quatre Visages for Viola and Piano, Op. 238
Claude Debussy: Proses lyriques, L90
Jacques Ibert: Chansons de Don Quichotte
André Caplet: Trois Fables de Jean de la Fontaine

Program notes available here.

Translations available here.

Artists have long been fascinated with the subject of sleep, for while it is universally common, it is extremely complex.  Every person’s experience of sleep is different; sleep can regenerate and revive us, but also evade and frighten us.  It is fertile ground for dreams and for escape from the painful experiences of life.  Death itself is a kind of eternal sleep, a gateway from our present reality into immortality.

The following program explores facets of the complexity of sleep. Tied with themes of nature, hope, death, eternity, and love, perhaps it will challenge our ideas of what “sleep is supposed to be”…

PROGRAM

Six Elizabethan Songs | Dominick Argento (1927-2019) | with Ann-Marie Iacoviello, soprano

In Sleep the World is Yours | Lori Laitman (b. 1955) | with Julianne Wolfe, soprano and Haley Russell, oboe

Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson | Aaron Copland (1900-1990) | with Jade Espina, mezzo-soprano

Tickets are $10 and available in the church office.