🔆 The summer programs page lists 16 programs (last change 5/2/25).

Auditions

Auditions are open for Boston Jazz Voices and Gloriae Dei Cantores. See the auditions page for more information.

May 4, 2025 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Arlington-Belmont Chorale [MA]: Sponsors’ Concert. With the Arlington Philharmonic Orchestra. For more information, call 617-240-1240 or email chorale@psarlington.org. First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, 630 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington MA 02476 ⓘ 🔗

3:00 PM. The Seraphim Singers [MA]: Light in the Treasure Trove. Sacred masterpieces from the Middle Ages to today, including the ancient chants of Hildegard von Bingen and the intricate harmonies of Britten, Ducasse, and Boulanger, as well as music by Bach, Dickinson/Maiben, Gibson, Hagenberg, Henderson, and Lusitano. Joshua Lawton and Maria Gajraj, organ; Miranda Loud, piano; Jessie Pierpont, conductor. Tickets: $25, $20 senior, $10 student, $15 virtual (Sunday 3 pm concert, view live or later at your convenience). For more information, call 617-312-8328 or email darylbichel@aol.com. First Church in Cambridge, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

4:00 PM. Zamir Chorale [MA]: Voices of Humanity. An interfaith concert that celebrates music from Jewish, Muslim, and Christian traditions. For more information, call 617-244-6333 or email manager@zamir.org. Vilna Shul, 18 Phillips Street, Boston MA 02114 ⓘ 🔗

May 9, 2025 (Friday)

8:00 PM. Vox Lucens [MA]: Rediscovering Appenzeller's Requiem. The first known modern performance of the requiem mass by Benedictus Appenzeller, in a newly transcribed edition by Vox Lucens’ director, Holly Druckman. For more information, email voxlucens.info@gmail.com. St. Peter's Episcopal Church, 838 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA 02139 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

May 10, 2025 (Saturday)

7:00 PM. Cantilena [MA]: Maternal Figures: Reflections on Mothering and Being Mothered. Patricia van Ness, Lingbo Ma, and Laura Nevitt: a newly commissioned three-movement work for treble voices on the topic of motherhood. The composers will be invited to give either a pre-concert talk or a post-concert “talk-back” with audience members. With other musical works on mothering and mother/child relationships by Bobby McFerrin, Ysaye Barnwell, Zae Munn, and others. ​A reception follows the performance. For more information, call 339-298-7730 or email info@cantilena.org. First Parish Arlington, 630 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington MA 02476 ⓘ 🔗

7:30 PM. Musica Sacra [MA]: From Screen to Stage: Settings of Movie and Video Game Music. Music from movies, TV, and video games, both previously composed and original to the medium, including movie music from Lord of the Rings and La Grande Bellezza; TV title themes from Game of Thrones and Outlander; and video game music from Civilization and Halo. Following the concert, there will be a reception in Margaret Jewett Hall celebrating Mary Beekman’s 45th year with Musica Sacra. For more information, call 617-349-3400 or email info@musicasacra.org. First Church Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

8:00 PM. Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus [MA]: For Our Common Home: Resounding Ecojustice. Linda J. Chase: For Our Common Home: Resounding Ecojustice (premiere). Edward Elwyn Jones, director. Text by Pope Francis; the music blends classical, jazz, gospel, and klezmer idioms. Tickets: $25, $15 for seniors, students free. Free parking available at the 52 Oxford Street Garage. For more information, call 617-496-2222 or email tickets@fas.harvard.edu. Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

May 17, 2025 (Saturday)

7:00 PM. Boston Choral Ensemble [MA]: To the Hands. Tracy Wong: Antata (Between); Sarah Quartel: “I Will Be With You”; Caroline Shaw: “To Thy Hands”; and other works by predominantly women composers that celebrate strength, resilience, and grace through the powerful metaphor of human hands. For more information, email info@bostonchoral.org. University Lutheran Church, 66 Winthrop Street, Cambridge MA 02138 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

7:30 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: The Waking Sun. Kile Smith: The Waking Sun; Giacomo Carissimi: Jephte. For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

7:30 PM. Spectrum Singers [MA]: See, Hear, Speak [No Evil]. Adolphus Hailstork: I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes (Terrence Chin-Loy, tenor); Chiara Margarita Cozzolani: Psalmus 121; Johannes Brahms: Psalm 13; Bobby McFerrin: Psalm 21; Jean Belmont Ford: The Passionate Shepherd To His Love; Sydney Guillaume: Renmen, Renmen; Alice Parker: Hear Me, O God, nor Hide Thy Face; To God in Whom I Trust; Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal; Edward Elgar: Nimrod, from Enigma Variations. Max Holman, conductor. For more information, call 617-492-8902 or email info@spectrumsingers.org. First Church Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

8:00 PM. Boston Cecilia [MA]: Tipping Point. Reena Esmail: Tipping Point for chorus and tabla; works of Texu Kim, Kenneth Tay and others celebrating the rich and varied traditions of Asian and Asian-American choral music. For more information, call 617-232-4540 or email info@bostoncecilia.org. All Saints Parish, 1773 Beacon Street, Brookline MA 02445 ⓘ 🔗

8:00 PM. Cambridge Chamber Singers [MA]: Aphrodite and Friends: The Many Musical Manifestations of Love. A concert of exquisite a cappella works celebrating love. Love of place is represented by Hamid Mardkhanjari’s Konus Kale. Erotic love–often unfulfilled–by Renaissance madrigals by Cipriano de Rore, Vittoria Aleotti, and Claudio Monteverdi. The sensual and sacred nature of love is explored in neoclassical madrigals by Ildebrando Pizzetti. The love for a child is expressed in two madrigals using the Biblical text When David Heard by Thomas Tomkins and Norman Dinerstein. Isaac Lovdahl’s Quis amat valeat, leaves us with the blessing: “whoever loves, may they be well.” For more information, call 617-504-8155 or email information@cambridgemadrigals.org. Lindsey Chapel At Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston MA 02116 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

May 18, 2025 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Coro Allegro [MA]: In the Clearing. W.A. Mozart: Vesperae solennes de confessore; Ave Verum Corpus; Kenneth Fuchs: In the Clearing (text by Robert Frost). Dana Varga, soprano; Clare McNamara, mezzo-soprano; Jonas Budris, tenor; Ron Williams, baritone. For more information, call 617-236-4011 or email executivedirector@coroallegro.org. Church Of The Covenant, 67 Newbury Street, Boston MA 02116 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

3:00 PM. Masterworks Chorale [MA]: Mozart, Haydn...and George Washington? W.A. Mozart: Credo Mass, K. 257; Alma Dei creatoris, K. 277; Regina coeli, K. 276/321; Johann Michael Haydn: Te Deum, Hob. XXIIIc:1; F.J. Haydn: Ave regina, Hob. XXIIIb:3. Teresa Wakim, soprano; Emily Marvosh, contralto; Jason McStoots, tenor; Dana Whiteside, baritone; Kevin Leong, director. With Baroque ensemble. Why George Washington? Reenactor Web Tilney will welcome the audience, ‘revisiting’ First Church (as he did in 1775), drawing connections to his history training 15,000 militia on the Cambridge Common, and maintaining his headquarters in the George Vassall house on Brattle Street (now the Longfellow House). His appearance acknowledges connections with the 250th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord, and the founding of Masterworks Chorale in 1940 as the Lexington Choral Society. For more information, call 617-858-6782 or email info@masterworkschorale.org. First Church in Cambridge, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

4:00 PM. Cambridge Community Chorus [MA]: Brahms Requiem. With professional orchestra and soloists. For more information, call 617-517-3169 or email admin@cambridgechorus.org. Kresge Auditorium at MIT, 48 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA 02139 ⓘ 🔗

4:00 PM. Commonwealth Chorale [MA]: Community and Connection. Aaron Copland: Selections from Old American Songs; Nathaniel Dett: The Chariot Jubilee; Alice Parker: folk song and spiritual arrangements. For more information, call 617-527-7464 or email info@commonwealthchorale.com. Church Of The Holy Name, 1689 Centre Street, West Roxbury MA 02132 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

7:00 PM. Cambridge Chamber Singers [MA]: Aphrodite and Friends: The Many Musical Manifestations of Love. A concert of exquisite a cappella works celebrating love. Love of place is represented by Hamid Mardkhanjari’s Konus Kale. Erotic love–often unfulfilled–by Renaissance madrigals by Cipriano de Rore, Vittoria Aleotti, and Claudio Monteverdi. The sensual and sacred nature of love is explored in neoclassical madrigals by Ildebrando Pizzetti. The love for a child is expressed in two madrigals using the Biblical text When David Heard by Thomas Tomkins and Norman Dinerstein. Isaac Lovdahl’s Quis amat valeat, leaves us with the blessing: “whoever loves, may they be well.” For more information, call 617-504-8155 or email information@cambridgemadrigals.org. Medford Public Library, 111 High Street, Medford MA 02155 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

June 1, 2025 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Boston Childrens Chorus [MA]: Leaders Among Us. Performance of all BCC choirs. For more information, call 617-778-2242 or email info@bostonchildrenschorus.org. The Strand Theatre, 543 Columbia Road, Boston MA 02125 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

June 5, 2025 (Thursday)

7:30 PM. Koleinu, Boston's Jewish Community Chorus [MA]: Spring Concert. For more information, call 617-433-7464 or email info@koleinu.org. Temple Ohabei Shalom, 1187 Beacon Street, Brookline MA 02446 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

June 8, 2025 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Charles River Wind Ensemble / Andover Choral Society [MA]: The Ambiguity of Love. Christopher Marshall: Glimpses of Love (with chorus); Alexandre Kosmicki: Nitescence crépusculaire; Frank Ticheli: Concerto for Trumpet and Wind Ensemble (Jason Huffman, trumpet). Free admission, free parking. For more information, email info@crwe.org. 300 Hammond Pond Parkway, Chestnut Hill MA 02467 ⓘ 🔗

June 13, 2025 (Friday)

2:00 PM. Vox Lucens [MA]: Rediscovering Appenzeller's Requiem. The first known modern performance of the requiem mass by Benedictus Appenzeller, in a newly transcribed edition by Vox Lucens’ director, Holly Druckman. For more information, email voxlucens.info@gmail.com. Old West Church, 131 Cambridge Street, Boston MA 02118 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

7:30 PM. Arlington-Belmont Chorale [MA]: Strawberry Festival and Pops! Concert. With the Arlington Philharmonic Orchestra. Strawberries and Ice Cream from 6:00 pm, Pops concert at 7:30 pm. For more information, call 617-240-1240 or email chorale@psarlington.org. Arlington Town Hall, 730 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington MA 02476 ⓘ 🔗

June 14, 2025 (Saturday)

10:00 AM. Greater Boston Choral Consortium [MA]: GBCC 2025 Choral Administrative Conference: Uplift. We are offering a full day of sessions to help your nonprofit chorus (or other arts organization) and its leadership plan for the season ahead, including: “Marketing to Singers and Audiences”, “Engaging and Retaining Your Community of Singers, Board, and Volunteers”, “Fundraising”; Networking and reflection time; Singing. We welcome any and all members of your chorus who play a role in non-artistic operations, including board directors, staff, and those who simply wish to learn more. The day will be designed with time for networking with others as well as reflection among your own group. Registration fees range $30-$50 with group discounts available; lunch is included. Parking is free, and the venue is public transit accessible (MBTA Green D Line, Chestnut Hill). For more information, email info@bostonsings.org. Brimmer and May School, 69 Middlesex Rd, Chestnut Hill MA 02467 (View flier) 🔗

7:30 PM. Coolidge Corner Community Chorus [MA]: ILLUMINATION. Works of Byrd, Bach, Forrest, Runestad & more. Richard Saber, conductor; Emma Campbell, piano. Suggested donation $19 ($5 students, seniors, low-income). For more information, call 617-905-2268 or email crispin@cccchorus.org. All Saints Parish, 1773 Beacon Street, Brookline MA 02445 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

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