past concerts

PAST events

December 11, 2024
11:00am

MIT Composer Readings

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA
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October 27, 2024
4pm

Moving Shapes

First Church Boston

Boston, MA

Works by Haydn, Crawford & Ruehr

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October 5, 2024
7:30pm

Newbridge on the Charles

Boston, MA
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October 4, 2024
7:00pm

Art in Residence

Laconia Gallery

Boston, MA

Works by Haydn & Crawford

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June 2, 2024
4pm

Unresolved

First Church Boston

Boston, MA

Works by Green, Mendelssohn Hensel, & Bartók

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May 30, 2024
7:30pm

Community Engagement

NewBridge

Deham, MA

Works by Green, Hensel & Bartok

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April 7, 2024
4pm

Pulsation

First Church Boston

Boston, MA

Susie Ibarra Pulsation (2018)
Susie Ibarra New Work TBD (world premiere)
Antonin Dvorak Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major, Op. 81

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March 3, 2024
4pm

Moonlight Wond

First Church Boston

Boston, MA

Works by Ruehr,  Epstein, Takemitsu & Debussy

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January 28, 2024
4pm

Wanderlust

First Church Boston

Boston, MA

Simon Warmth of Other Suns
Beethoven
String Quartet in Bb major, Op. 18 No. 6
Frank
Iberian Songs
Schumann
String Quartet in A minor, Op. 41 No. 1

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January 27, 2024
7:30pm

Community Engagement

NewBridge on the Charles

Dedham, MA

Works by Simon, Beethoven & Schumann

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November 28, 2023
7:30pm

Arneis at NewBridge on the Charles

Newbridge on the Charles

Dedham, MA

Works by Haydn & Bacewicz

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November 19, 2023
2:00pm

Resonance

Laconia Gallery

Boston, MA

Guest Ensemble Echo Bridge Cello

Wilhelm Fitzenhagen Ave Maria, Op. 41
Julius Klengel  Four Short Pieces, Op. 33
Luigi Forino Preghiere, Op. 27, No. 3
David Popper Polonaise de Concert, Op. 14
Astor Piazzolla Oblivion
Carols Gardel Por una Cabeza
George Gershwin Fragment

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October 29, 2023
4pm

Rising

First Church Boston

Boston, MA
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October 29, 2023
4:00pm

Rising

First Church Boston

Boston, MA

Haydn String Quartet in Bb major, Op. 76 No. 4, “Sunrise”
Tower Rising for Flute and String Quartet
Bacewicz String Quartet No. 4

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October 6, 2023
7:00pm

Asylum Hill

Laconia Gallery

Boston, MA

Franz Joseph Haydn String Quartet in D minor, Op. 76 No. 2 “Quinten”
Rachel Devorah asylum hill (2016)
Maurice Ravel String Quartet in F major (1903)

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September 15, 2023
5:30pm

Garden Concert with Arneis

Private Event

Brookline, MA

Works by Haydn & Ravel

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September 5, 2023

Private Event

NewBridge on the Charles

Dedham, MA

Works by Green, Hensel & Bartok

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May 13, 2023
7:30pm

Arneis and Friends

First Church in Boston

Boston, MA

Frank Bridge Lament, H.117
Grazyna Bacewicz Quartet for Four Violins (1949)
TBD Duo for Two Cellos
George Enescu Octet in C major, Op. 7

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March 31, 2023
7:30pm

Sounds from the Past

First Church in Boston

Boston, MA

Soo Yeon Lyuh Yessori Sound from the Past
Beethoven String Quartet in Bb major, Op. 130 (w/ Große Fuge)

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January 29, 2023
7:30pm

Tone Grafting

First Church in Boston

Boston, MA

Jonathan Bailey Holland Tone-Grafting (2008)
Sergei Prokofiev Quintet in G minor, Op. 39
Erwin Schulhoff Concertino, WV 75
Fred Lerdahl Waltzes (1981)

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November 6, 2022
3pm

LETTERS TO OUR CHILDREN

Old South Church

Boston, MA

ANDREA CLEARFIELD, Here I Am: I Am Here [World Premiere]
based on open letters by LGBTQ+ youth advocates Mimi Lemay and Sam Brinton
RONALD PERERA, When Music Sounds
OLA GJEILO, Dark Night of the Soul,
GJEILO
, Luminous Night of the Soul

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November 5, 2022
7:30pm

Veiled Symphonies: Brahms and Haydn

First Church Boston

Boston, MA

Brahms Piano Quintet
Haydn “Joke” String Quartet

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October 16, 2022
4pm

Terezin Music Foundation Gala

Symphony Hall

Boston, MA
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May 21, 2022
7:30pm

The Many Colors

St Paul's Episcopal Church

Brookline, MA

John H. Wallace String Quartet No. 2 (world premiere)
Ketty Nez
the many colors (world premiere)
Elena Ruehr
Insect Dances (String Quartet No. 8, world premiere)

RESCHEDULED TO MAY 21

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April 11, 2022
7:30pm

Arneis at St. Anselm

St. Anselm College Dana Center

Manchester, NH

Works by Beethoven, Kaminsky, and Frank.

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April 10, 2022
3:00pm

Arneis at Framingham Public Library

Framingham Public Library

Framingham, MA

Gabriela Lena Frank Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout
L. V. Beethoven String Quartet in F major, Op. 18 No. 1

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March 4, 2022
7:30pm

Walkabout

St. Paul's Episcopal Church

Brookline, MA

Gabriela Lena Frank Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout
Antonin Dvorak
String Quartet in G major, Op. 106

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February 17, 2022
8:00pm

Community Engagement

Newbridge on the Charles

Deham, MA

Works by Dvorak and Frank.

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June 7, 2020
3:00pm

Octetfest! Arneis and Friends

First Church in Boston

Boston, MA

Mendelssohn Octet in Eb major, Op. 20
Enescu Octet in C major, Op. 7

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May 9, 2020
3:00pm

Original Endings

First Church in Boston

Boston, MA

Crawford String Quartet (1931)
Beethoven String Quartet in Bb major, Op. 130 (with Grosse Fuge, Op. 133)  

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May 2, 2020
8:00pm

Weill and Britten Cabaret

Parish Hall at Emmanuel Church

Boston, MA
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April 9, 2020
8:00pm

A Thousand Cranes

Boston, MA

Bartok String Quartet No. 3
Ruehr String Quartet No. 7 “A Thousand Cranes" (Boston Premiere)
Dvorak String Quartet in G major, Op. 106

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March 30, 2020
7:30pm

Arneis at St. Anselm

Dana Center, Saint Anselm College

Manchester, NH

Beethoven String Quartet in F major, Op. 18 No. 1
Vores String Quartet No. 5 "Confirmation Bias"
Janacek String Quartet No. 1 "Kreutzer Sonata"

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March 29, 2020
3:00pm

Britten Chamber Festival

Emmanuel Church

Boston, MA

Benjamin Britten
Phantasy in F minor for String Quintet
Folk Song Arrangements from British Isles for baritone
Canticle III: Still Falls the Rain for tenor, horn and piano (words Edith Sitwell)
Canticle IV: Journey of the Magi for countertenor, tenor, baritone, & piano, Op. 86
Three Divertimenti, for string quartet

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February 9, 2020
3:00pm

From My Life

Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor “From My Life”
Montgomery Strum
Schumann String Quartet in A major, Op. 41 No. 3

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November 15, 2019
8:00pm

Nostalgic Innovation

Old South Church

Boston, MA

Brahms String Quartet in A minor, Op. 51 No. 2
Shaw Entr’acte (2011)
Bartok String Quartet No. 1, Op. 7

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September 27, 2019
10pm

Weill and Britten Cabaret

Emmanuel Church

Boston, MA
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June 14, 2019
7:00pm

Guises of Romanticism

St. Pauls' Church

Brookline, MA

Beethoven String Quartet in F major, Op. 18 No. 1
Stephen Dankner
String Quartet No. 21 (2017) (World Premiere)
Dvorak
Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81

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May 18, 2019
8pm

Late Night at Emmanuel: Tango

Emmanuel Church

Boston, MA

Labro I’m Late, I’m Late for a Very Important Date
Piazzolla Fear
Villa-Lobos arr. Labro Melodia Sentimental
Bacalov arr. Labro Theme from “Il Postino”
Other Works TBD

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May 9, 2019
8pm

Hunger

First Church Boston

Boston, MA

Haydn String Quartet in D major, Op. 20 No. 4
Aaron Travers Hunger for Soprano and String Quartet (2017) (World Premiere)
Ravel String Quartet in F major

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April 19, 2019
12:00pm

Haydn Seven Last Words

Marsh Chapel

Boston, MA

Haydn's Seven Last Words

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April 5, 2019
8:00pm

Variations on Women's Voices

First Church Boston

Boston, MA

Amy Beach Theme and Variations for Flute and String Quartet, Op. 80
Elena Ruehr String Quartet No. 3 (2001)
Ketty Nez sea-changes (2010) for Viola and Piano
Grazyna Bacewicz Piano Quintet No. 1 (1952)

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January 27, 2019
3:00pm

Brahms Piano Quintet

Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34

with Joy Cline Phinney

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December 7, 2018
8:00pm

Crawford, Harbison, and Ruehr

MIT

Cambridge, MA

Elena Ruehr String Quartet No. 3
Ruth Crawford String Quartet
John Harbison String Quartet No. 3

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November 3, 2018
3:00pm

Britten String Quartet No. 2

Emmanuel Church

Boston, MA

Henry Purcell Job's Curse
Britten
The Holy Sonnets of John Donne for tenor and piano, Op. 35
Britten String Quartet No. 2 in C Major, Op. 36

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June 14, 2018
7:30pm

Vienna Transfigured

Haydn String Quartet in G major, Op. 33 No. 5
Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 (with guests Min Choi, viola and Hyun Ji Kwon, cello)
Beethoven String Quartet in F major, Op. 59 No. 1

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May 6, 2018
3:00pm

Framingham Library Concert

Framingham Library

Framingham, MA

Haydn Op. 33 No 5
Beethoven Op. 59 No 1

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May 5, 2018
9:30pm

Arneis Quartet and Julien Labro

Private Event

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May 4, 2018
7:30pm

Salon Concert

Portland, ME

Presented by the Portland Bach Experience

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May 4, 2018
5:00pm

First Friday Pop-Up Concert

Portland Museum of Art

Portland, ME

Presented by Portland Bach Experience

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April 13, 2018
8:00pm

The Raven Consort

St Paul's School

Concord, NH

THE RAVEN Music by Nicholas White
ON DREAMS ALONE Music by Nicholas White

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February 4, 2018
4pm

Mendelssohn/Wolf Chamber Series

Emmanuel Church

Boston, MA

Mendelssohn Three Lieder Duets, Op. 77
Mendelssohn Eichendorff Lieder
Mendelssohn Lieder ohne Worte, Book 3, Op. 38
Mendelssohn String Quintet No. 1 in A Major, Op. 18

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January 28, 2018
2:00pm

Wellesley Free Library

Haydn String Quartet Op. 33, No. 5 in G Major
Beethoven
String Quartet Op. 59, No. 1 in F Major

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January 24, 2018
8:00pm

Michelle LaCourse and Friends

Boston University Tsai Perfromance Center

Boston, MA

Joaquin Turina Scene Andalouse (vla, pno, & string quartet)
Gabriela Lena Frank
Cinco Danzas de Chambi (vla & pno)
Martin Amlin
Magic Maze (vla & pno) (Premiere)
Stephen Paulus
Exotic Etudes (vla & pno quartet)

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January 21, 2018
3:00pm

Crane Library

Haydn Op 33 No 5
Beethoven Op 59 No 1

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October 29, 2017
7:00pm

WordSong: "No Texting Please"

Parish Hall, Emmanuel Church

Boston, MA

new works by Howard Frazin, Tom Schnauber, and Andy Vores, along with Leos Janáček’s String Quartet No. 1, "The Kreutzer Sonata"

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October 15, 2017
3:00pm

Arneis at the Clark Museum

Clark Museum

Williamstown, MA
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Septermber 23, 2017
8pm

Late Night at Emmanuel

Emmanuel Church

Boston, MA

Elena Ruehr & Andy Vores A Supermarket in California
John Harbison The Right to Pleasure (Boston premiere of orchestration)
Lee Hyla Howl "Movements II and III"
John Harbison Schwartzsongs (World Premiere)

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Septermber 23, 2017
10:00pm

Late Night at Emmanuel

Emmanuel Church

Boston, MA

Elena Ruehr & Andy Vores A Supermarket in California
John Harbison The Right to Pleasure (Boston premiere of orchestration)
Lee Hyla Howl "Movements II and III"
John Harbison Schwartzsongs (World Premiere)

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May 21, 2017
3:00pm

Arneis Quartet at Cabot Theater II

Cabot

Beverly, MA

Janacek String Quartet No. 1, “Kreutzer Sonata”/
Schubert String Quintet in C major, D 956

with Erin Ellis, cello

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May 19, 2017
7:30pm

Wordsong: "No Texting Please"

St. Pauls' Church

Brookline, MA

Performing new works by Howard Frazin, Tom Schnauber, and Andy Vores, along with Leos Janáček’s String Quartet No. 1, ”The Kreutzer Sonata”

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April 22, 2017
8:00pm

MIT Recital

Arneis Quartet with David Kravitz, baritone

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April 14, 2017
12:00pm

Haydn Seven Last Words of Christ

Boston University's Marsh Chapel

Boston, MA

Arneis plays Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ during the Good Friday service at Boston University’s Marsh Chapel.

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February 22, 2017
12:30pm

Brahms Clarinet Quintet

Wellesley College

Wellesley, MA

Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115

Katherine Matasy, clarinet

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February 8, 2017
6:30pm

Private Event

NewBridge on the Charles

Dedham, MA

Arneis plays Janacek and Mendelssohn at NewBridge on the Charles.

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February 5, 2017
3:00pm

Framingham Public Library

works by Janacek and Mendelssohn

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February 4, 2017
7:30pm

Urbanity Dance

Boston, MA

Arneis collaborates with Urbanity Dance and composer Beau Kenyon.

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February 3, 2017
7:30pm

Urbanity Dance

Boston, MA

Arneis Quartet collaborates with Urbanity Dance and composer Beau Kenyon.

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February 2, 2017
8:00pm

Arneis Quartet

Boston University

Boston, MA

Janacek String Quartet No. 1, "Kreutzer Sonata"
Dankner String Quartet No. 20 (world premiere)
Mendelssohn String Quartet in F minor, Op. 80

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November 16, 2016
12:30pm

Brahms Clarinet Quintet

Wellesley College

Wellesley, MA

Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115

Katherine Matasy, clarinet

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November 13, 2016
3:00pm

Arneis Quartet at the Cabot Theater

The Cabot

Beverly, MA

Haydn String Quartet in Bb Major, Op.64 No. 3
Wallace "pale reflection..."
Mendelssohn String Quartet in F minor, Op. 80

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July 23-26, 2016

Point CounterPoint Residency

Point CounterPoint

Leicester, VT
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May 1, 2016
4:00pm

Emmanuel Music Mendelssohn/Wolf

Emmanuel Church

Boston, MA

Mendelssohn Four Pieces for String Quartet
Mendelssohn String Quintet No. 2 in Bb Major, op. 87
Mendelssohn Lieder with string quartet

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April 26, 2016
12:5pm

Kallembach at King's Chapel

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April 3, 2016
3:00pm

Framingham Library Concert Series

Framingham Library

Framingham, MA

Details TBD

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December 7, 2015
7:00pm

Symphony for the City of the Dead

Brookline Main Library

Brookline, MA

Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8

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October 24, 2015
3:00pm

Haydn, Caplet and Debussy

Haydn String Quartet in D major, Op 71 No 2
Caplet Conte Fantastique (with Ina Zdorovetchi, harp)
Debussy
String Quartet

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September 26, 2015
6:00pm

2015 CFA Inspiring Young Alumni Awards

Boston University

Boston, MA

Uzo Aduba (’05), Emmy Award-Winning Actor
David Delmar (’06), Designer & Founder, Resilient Coders
Greg Hildreth (’05), Acclaimed Broadway Actor

(Private Event)

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September 25, 2015
8:00pm

Boston Harp Festival

Boston, MA

Arneis Quartet with Ina Zdorovetchi, harp

Debussy Dances
Caplet Conte Fantastique

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April 28, 2015
7:00pm

Arneis and the Fifth Floor Collective

Davis Square Theatre

Somerville, MA

Double bill concert featuring Loadbang and Arneis Quartet performing works by Eric Fernandez, Patrick Greene, Andrew Paul Jackson, Evan Johnson, Andy Kozar, Jenna Lyle, David Reminick, and John Wallace.

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April 25, 2015
3:00pm

Music on Saturday

Belmont Public Library

Belmont, MA

Gardel Por Una Cabeza
Wallace pale reflections...
Dvorak String Quartet in F major Op 96, "American"

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April 21, 2015
8:00pm

Settings of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets

Morse Auditorium at Boston University

Boston, MA

Stravinsky The Dove Descending
Berger String Trio No. 2 (2007)
List String Quartet No. 5 “Time Cycles” (2015), premiere

Part of our Poetry and Music Series

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April 10, 2015
6:00pm

Christopher Ricks Lecture

Christopher Ricks, William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University, will be giving a talk on T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets this Friday 04/10 at 6pm as part of our Poetry and Music Series.

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March 31, 2015
8:00pm

T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets

Morse Auditorium at Boston University

Boston, MA

Beethoven String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132
Gubaidulina Homage a T.S. Eliot

Part of our Poetry and Music Series

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March 23, 2015
7:00pm

Arneis at Winsor Music

Visiting Nurse Association

Somerville, MA

Franz Josef Haydn: Quartet in D minor, Op. 42
Ludwig von Beethoven: Quartet in a minor, Op. 132
John Wallace
: pale reflections… (1999)

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January 20, 2015
8:00pm

BU Poetry and Music Concert

Boston University Concert Hall

Boston, MA

John Harbison The Rewaking
Scott Ordway Detroit
Lee Hyla Howl

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December 12, 2014
8:00pm

BU Poetry and Music Series Concert

George Sherman Union at Boston University

Boston, MA

Andrew List Eros Dialogues
Andy Vores A Supermarket in California
Charles Fussell Being Music

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December 9, 2014
5:30pm

BU Poetry and Music Series Lecture

Boston University

Boston, MA

Lecture by Elisa New, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University discussing the poets who are represented in the musical settings programmed on this series: Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg, Amy Lowell and William Carlos Williams.

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November 16, 2014
4:00pm

Emmanuel Music Chamber Series

Emmanuel Church

Boston, MA

Arneis plays Mendelssohn String Quartet in A minor, Op. 13 on Emmanuel Music’s Mendelssohn/Wolf Chamber Series.

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October 3, 2014
7:30pm

Alcyon Chamber Players

Parish Center for the Arts

Westford, MA
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September 19, 2014
8:00pm

The Music of John H. Wallace

Boston University

Boston, MA

Piano Quintet
pale reflections… (string quartet)
Structures (flute, bassoon, violin, viola and cello)

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May 31, 2014
7:30pm

Rich and Strange

Twenty Summers

Provincetown, MA

A Celebration of the Sea in Music and Words

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May 4, 2014
7:00pm

BELLY wine bar

Belly Wine Bar

Cambridge, MA

Justin Casinghino Prelude, Canon and Fugue
Andrew Smith Snap, Scratch, Slide
PoChun Wang Space
Mo Zhoa Fantasy and Dance (student award winner)
Michael Parsons An Instance Expanded (student award winner)
Ramon Castillo Pocket Hocket
Heather Gilligan Contemplation and Pursuit

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April 16, 2014
8:00pm

Boston Composers Coalition

Tsai Performance Center

Boston, MA

Justin Casinghino Prelude, Canon and Fugue
Andrew Smith Snap, Scratch, Slide
PoChun Wang Space
Mo Zhoa (student award winner) Fantasy and Dance
Michael Parsons (student award winner) An Instance Expanded
Ramon Castillo Pocket Hocket
Heather Gilligan
Contemplation and Pursuit

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March 29, 2014
3:00pm

Chamber Music Masterclass at Swarthmore

Swarthmore College

Swarthmore, PA
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March 29, 2014
8:00pm

Whitman and Ginsberg

Swarthmore College

Swarthmore, PA

Lee Hyla Howl (text by Allen Ginsberg)
Hugo Wolf Italian Serenade
Andy Vores A Supermarket in California (text by Allen Ginsberg)
Charles Fussell Being Music (text by Walt Whitman)

with David Kravitz, baritone

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March 28, 2014
7:00pm

Concert at James Turrell Skyspace

Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting

Philadelphia, PA

Erica Ball re(sil)i(ent) sound (world premiere)
Joseph Hallman
Compliments
David Hertzberg  Endymionis Somnum Dormire
Anne Neikirk  Years Later
Scott Ordway  The Sky Itself Was In This Very Room (world premiere)

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February 16, 2014
8:00pm

Arneis Quartet with Tony Arnold, soprano

Boston University College of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

Wolf Italian Serenade
Schoenberg String Quartet No. 2 in F# minor
Harbison The Rewaking
Beethoven String Quartet in Eb major Op. 74, "Harp"

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February 15, 2014
7:30pm

Arneis Quartet with Tony Arnold, soprano

Concord Public Library

Concord, MA

Wolf Italian Serenade
Schoenberg String Quartet No. 2 in F# minor
Harbison The Rewaking
Beethoven String Quartet in Eb major Op. 74, "Harp"

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December 8, 2013
3:00pm

Haydn, Wolf and Beethoven

Dana Hall School

Wellesley, MA

Haydn String Quartet in G major, Op. 77 No. 1
Wolf Italian Serenade
Beethoven String Quartet in Eb major, Op. 74 "Harp"

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