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Show business tour de force and eight-time Tony Award-winning producer Jamie deRoy will bring her acclaimed Jamie deRoy & friends cabaret show to New York’s famed Birdland, Monday, December 6th, at 7:00 p.m.
BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons returns to Symphony Hall to lead the Boston Symphony Orchestra in music of Jörg Widman, Mahler, and Brahms, bringing the fall period of the 2021-22 BSO season to an end.
Clarinetist Anthony McGill, the 2020 Avery Fisher Prize recipient and the first African-American principal player of the New York Philharmonic, and pianist Gloria Chien, a noted soloist and chamber musician who frequently performs with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, offer a program comprised mostly of German Romantic masterworks central to the clarinet repertoire alongside the world-premiere recording of the clarinet and piano version of a new work by contemporary American composer Jessie Montgomery on an album to be released November 12, 2021, on Cedille Records.
The Lesher Center for the Arts announces the stellar lineup for its Headliners series, kicking off January 7 with Grammy and multi-award-winning singer LeAnn Rimes.
Russian-American violinist Yevgeny Kutik has announced his new album, The Death of Juliet and Other Tales on Marquis Classics, highlighting Russia's rich history of folklore and folktales portrayed in the music of Prokofiev.
Showcasing one of the greatest voices of our time, Linda Eder is best known for originating the role of Lucy in her Theater World Award-winning performance in the Broadway production of Jekyll and Hyde. Now the songstress returns to The Ridgefield Playhouse by popular demand on Friday, November 19 at 8pm
Russian conductor Dima Slobodeniouk, who made his BSO debut in 2018 at Tanglewood, leads a program including Tchaikovsky's towering Piano Concerto No. 1, with dynamic young Italian pianist Beatrice Rana as soloist, and Dvorák's Brahms-influenced Symphony No. 7, which reveals both the composer's love for his native Bohemia and the influence of his mentor, Johannes Brahms.
The BSO will spotlight electric bass virtuoso Victor Wooten, in the Boston premiere of his La Lección Tres, on a program with works by Coleridge-Taylor and Ellington, October 28–31, at Symphony Hall. Mr. Wooten’s appearance marks the first time an electric bass soloist will be featured in the BSO’s 141-year history of presenting concerts.
Russian-American violinist Yevgeny Kutik gives the world premiere of Joseph Schwantner's Violin Concerto in his Detroit Symphony Orchestra debut on October 15 and 16, 2021 at Orchestra Hall (3711 Woodward Ave.).
In the first weeks of their 2021–22 season, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Andris Nelsons continue their exploration of major works by Richard Strauss, alongside music of Mozart, Sibelius, and Still, and welcome acclaimed guest artists Lucas and Arthur Jussen and Lisa Batiashvili back to the Symphony Hall stage.
As the culmination of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 2021–22 season-opening weekend, the orchestra presents a special BSO/Boston Pops community concert under the direction of Andris Nelsons, Thomas Wilkins, John Williams, and Keith Lockhart (in order of appearance) on Sunday, October 3, at 3 p.m., at Symphony Hall in Boston.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Andris Nelsons are thrilled to welcome audiences back for the 2021-22 season opener on September 30, performing the first BSO concert for live audiences at Symphony Hall since March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated the closure of the Hall.
The Boston Pops has announced the return of the ever-popular Holiday Pops season at Symphony Hall, December 2 through 24.
Classical music is supposed to be serious, difficult to understand, intimidating, right? Who are all these people laughing at what the conductor says, ordering bottles of wine, jumping up to applaud, even, gasp, clapping between movements. Was I amongst Philistines? Had I trustingly followed Waze to the wrong concert? Wait, let me see the program again. No, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Dvorak, that sounds right. OMG! It’s gone too far. Now they’re exploding fireworks louder than cannons above the orchestra and from ships in the bay right next to the audience. And the audience is actually on its feet cheering!
Legendary star of Broadway, Brian Stokes Mitchell will perform for one night only at Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center on September 11th at 8pm.
The Boston Symphony will return to Tanglewood, its summer home in the beautiful Berkshires since 1937, and to welcome back audiences, July 4–August 26, for the first time since March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a 15-month performance hiatus.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Andris Nelsons will present a 2021-22 Symphony Hall season, September 30-April 30, that will first and foremost celebrate reuniting with their music community post-pandemic, while also continuing the orchestra’s commitment to welcoming new audiences.
After what will be a 23-month intermission, The Muny's 103rd season will open with the Muny premiere of Smokey Joe's Cafe, followed by The Sound of Music, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, On Your Feet! and Chicago.
This 2021 Boston Pops July 4th Spectacular will be a televised, live-streamed concert to take place under the direction of Keith Lockhart from the stage of Tanglewood’s Koussevitzky Music Shed, Sunday, July 4, 8-11 p.m., broadcast live on Bloomberg TV and Radio, as well as locally on WHDH-TV Channel 7.
