World Premiere of Christopher Cerrone’s “Beaufort Scales.”

Tickets: https://www.bso.org/events/bso-lorelei-ensemble?performance=2023-07-28-20%3A00

Roomful of Teeth performs at WoCo Fest 2023

Tickets: https://www.strathmore.org/community-education/our-partners/woco-fest-2023/woco-fest-2023-awaken-roomful-of-teeth/

Living at the intersection of Loft Jazz, New Chamber, Improv and Electronic Music – deeply rooted in the traditions of Afro Cuban Yoruba music. Sonic Liberation Front brings together sounds and time periods in a manner like no other band around today. The ensemble has consistently won international critical acclaim and have been named #1 or Top 10 by the Village Voice, All About Jazz, Jazziz, and more. Some accolades: The WIRE, Ben Watson: “Ludicrously Superb” / John Tchicai: “How dare you give me goosebumps so early in the moring” / Flea: “wanted to tell you that i dig your record.” The band has recorded six internationally-distributed albums, including collaborations with Andy Gonzalez, Sunny Murray, and Oliver Lake. Live performance collaborators include: Marshall Allen, Odean Pope, Badal Roy, Thurman Barker, Michelle Rosewoman, Termite TV Collective, Kulu Mele African Dance Ensemble, Moor Mother, Prometheus Chamber Orchestra, Dr. Kariamu Welsh, and Shaness Kemp. Sonic Liberation Front has performed extensively in the Philadelphia and New York area, and at festivals and cultural institutions throughout the Midwest U.S. and Canada.

“The Book of Never, a world premiere from Aaron Helgeson
on texts of the Novgorod Codex

a world premiere from Tawnie Olson
with major support from the Barlow Foundation

The Woman Where We Are Living (2014) by Robert Maggio
on texts of Alois Alzheimer
with Elizabeth Steiner, harp

Three works that confront our use of words: writing, naming, calling.

Based on the Novgorod Codex — a 10th-century book of Russian psalms overwritten hundreds of times with heretical sermons — Aaron Helgeson’s The Book of Never confronts our complex present by unearthing phantoms of our ancient past. Dense harmonies build on layered echoes of ancient hymn fragments: a banished monk’s apocalyptic visions of a distant future. Tawnie Olson takes our new commission as an opportunity to hear our own words, or those like us: how we use our voices to refer to others, what it means, and how it feels. Following the success last year of Robert Maggio’s Aniara, we revisit his 2014 commission The Woman Where We Are Living, a look at aging through the notes of Dr. Alzheimer and the thoughts of the first patient diagnosed with the disease that bears his name.”

-from www.crossingchoir.org

“Watersheds (2018) by Nicholas Cline
on texts of Rachel Carson, Mary Austin, John Muir,
C.D. Wilber, and Henry Thoreau
Rothko Chapel (1971) by Morton Feldman

with films by Brett Snodgrass
Matthew Levy, tenor saxophone
Wendy Richman, viola
Nathan Davis, percussion

The friction between motion and stillness ties together these two extended works that speak to each other over a chasm of nearly 50 years. Drawing on texts from American environmentalists, Nick Cline’s Watersheds has its roots in the composer’s family history; his grand- father was a water witch. In this probing work, fueled by the words of some of our most eloquent and outspoken environmental thinkers, Nick explores our relationship with shared spaces created not by political borders, but by the flow of water.

And then there is Morton Feldman and Rothko Chapel, icons of the 1970s: abstract expressionism of the visual realm and experimentalism that presages minimalism of the aural realm synthesized in a contemplation of time and space. Transparent. Simple. In Feldman’s words, “An immobile procession not unlike the friezes on Greek temples.”

With films by Brett Snodgrass projected on the giant canvas of the walls of the Icebox, Philadelphia’s industrial acoustic marvel.”

-from www.crossingchoir.org

Akademie: Recreating Beethoven’s Historic 1808 Benefit Concert– Fine Arts Center

BEETHOVEN 

Symphony No. 5 in C minor

BEETHOVEN 

Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major

BEETHOVEN 

Symphony No. 6in F major

BEETHOVEN 

Choral Fantasy op. 80

Bach, the Sacred and the Secular:

Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf, BWV 226

Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227

Lobet den Herrn alle Heiden, BWV 230

Komm, Jesu, Komm! BWV 229

Fürchte dich nicht, BWV 228

Singet dem Herrn Erin neues Lied, BWV 225

Partita in D minor for solo violin, BWV 1004

Buxtehude-Membra Jesu Nostri

On Sunday, January 26 at 3 PM, the Concert Artists Series at Haverford College presents “VIVA VOCE!” featuring premieres of Curt Cacioppo’s arias, monodrama and motets on verses by the esteemed contemporary Venetian poet Luigi Cerantola.  This program marks the Philadelphia area recital debut of Marlboro Festival soprano Kristina Bachrach, and the ensemble debut of the Viva Voce Chamber Singers under the direction of Nathan Zullinger in Cacioppo’s motet cycle Women of Ancient Greek Myth for a cappella choir. Oboist Evan Ocheret makes a cameo appearance in Cacioppo’s Gloria. The composer accompanies Ms. Bachrach in the first half of the program. 

Kerry Krebill conducts Musikanten Montana and Orchestra in

Four concerts featuring the music of Antonio Vivaldi across Montana

​

VOCAL SOLOISTS

KATHRYN RADAKOVICH, SOPRANO
ABIGAIL CHAPMAN, SOPRANO
MARJORIE BUNDAY, CONTRALTO
DANIEL HUTCHINGS, TENOR
THOMAS A. GREGG, TENOR
ROBERT W. TUDOR, BARITONE
ART BUMGARDNER, BARITONE

​

GLORIA, BEATUS VIR, DIXIT DOMINUS

WINTER FROM THE FOUR SEASONS 

FEATURING CARRIE KRAUSE, VIOLIN

Kerry Krebill conducts Musikanten Montana and Orchestra in

Four concerts featuring the music of Antonio Vivaldi across Montana

​

VOCAL SOLOISTS

KATHRYN RADAKOVICH, SOPRANO
ABIGAIL CHAPMAN, SOPRANO
MARJORIE BUNDAY, CONTRALTO
DANIEL HUTCHINGS, TENOR
THOMAS A. GREGG, TENOR
ROBERT W. TUDOR, BARITONE
ART BUMGARDNER, BARITONE

​

GLORIA, BEATUS VIR, DIXIT DOMINUS

WINTER FROM THE FOUR SEASONS 

FEATURING CARRIE KRAUSE, VIOLIN

Kerry Krebill conducts Musikanten Montana and Orchestra in

Four concerts featuring the music of Antonio Vivaldi across Montana

​

VOCAL SOLOISTS

KATHRYN RADAKOVICH, SOPRANO
ABIGAIL CHAPMAN, SOPRANO
MARJORIE BUNDAY, CONTRALTO
DANIEL HUTCHINGS, TENOR
THOMAS A. GREGG, TENOR
ROBERT W. TUDOR, BARITONE
ART BUMGARDNER, BARITONE

​

GLORIA, BEATUS VIR, DIXIT DOMINUS

WINTER FROM THE FOUR SEASONS 

FEATURING CARRIE KRAUSE, VIOLIN

Kerry Krebill conducts Musikanten Montana and Orchestra in

Four concerts featuring the music of Antonio Vivaldi across Montana

​

VOCAL SOLOISTS

KATHRYN RADAKOVICH, SOPRANO
ABIGAIL CHAPMAN, SOPRANO
MARJORIE BUNDAY, CONTRALTO
DANIEL HUTCHINGS, TENOR
THOMAS A. GREGG, TENOR
ROBERT W. TUDOR, BARITONE
ART BUMGARDNER, BARITONE

​

GLORIA, BEATUS VIR, DIXIT DOMINUS

WINTER FROM THE FOUR SEASONS 

FEATURING CARRIE KRAUSE, VIOLIN

Variant 6 joins Mobius Percussion for a concert presentation of a new original work by Wally Gunn in May 2019.  It will be based on the true story of the 19th-century Australian outlaw Andrew George Scott, known as “Captain Moonlite.”

Captain Moonlite—a rogue, a brigand, a criminal, and a queer—is an outsider who chafes at the constraints of Victorian-era society. He dreams of founding a utopia for himself and the lover he met in prison, James Nesbitt. Unable to make a life in society upon their release, Scott and Nesbitt resign themselves to living outside it, and in pursuing this end, the pair, by misconduct and misfortune, fall foul of the law. Banding together with some other misfits, they set off on a gruelling trek through Australia’s arid outback and find themselves in a series of increasingly desperate situations which culminate in a stand-off and shoot-out with police. An officer is shot and killed, and Nesbitt, also shot fatally, dies in Scott’s arms. Scott, stricken and defeated, is imprisoned and sentenced to death by hanging for his crimes. In his cell, he writes heartrendingly of his love for Nesbitt, his terrible loss, and his hope that he will be reunited with his lover in the next world.

Variant 6 joins Mobius Percussion for a concert presentation of a new original work by Wally Gunn in May 2019.  It will be based on the true story of the 19th-century Australian outlaw Andrew George Scott, known as “Captain Moonlite.”

Captain Moonlite—a rogue, a brigand, a criminal, and a queer—is an outsider who chafes at the constraints of Victorian-era society. He dreams of founding a utopia for himself and the lover he met in prison, James Nesbitt. Unable to make a life in society upon their release, Scott and Nesbitt resign themselves to living outside it, and in pursuing this end, the pair, by misconduct and misfortune, fall foul of the law. Banding together with some other misfits, they set off on a gruelling trek through Australia’s arid outback and find themselves in a series of increasingly desperate situations which culminate in a stand-off and shoot-out with police. An officer is shot and killed, and Nesbitt, also shot fatally, dies in Scott’s arms. Scott, stricken and defeated, is imprisoned and sentenced to death by hanging for his crimes. In his cell, he writes heartrendingly of his love for Nesbitt, his terrible loss, and his hope that he will be reunited with his lover in the next world.

Often called the first great opera, Orfeo sounds as fresh and contemporary today as it did at its 1607 premiere. This poignant tale of love and loss comes to life in a compelling concert production directed by Grammy® winner Stephen Stubbs, with a stellar cast of vocal soloists.

Often called the first great opera, Orfeo sounds as fresh and contemporary today as it did at its 1607 premiere. This poignant tale of love and loss comes to life in a compelling concert production directed by Grammy® winner Stephen Stubbs, with a stellar cast of vocal soloists.