2021–2022
season
August 27
Beethoven's Symphony no. 9
Handel and Haydn Society under the direction of Marin Alsop
Hatch Shell at the Esplanade, Boston
October 22 & 23
Faithful and Pious Heart: Devotional Music in 17th-century Italy
In Stile Moderno: Agnes Coakley Cox, Parker Ramsay, Hideki Yamaya, Nathaniel Cox
Brattleboro, VT & Watertown, MA
November 12 & 14
Music of Orlando Gibbons, William Byrd and others
Schola Cantorum of Boston
Boston, MA & Providence, RI
November 26, 27, & 28
Handel’s Messiah
Handel and Haydn Society
Symphony Hall, Boston
December 3, 4, & 5
We Watch and Welcome
Ensemble Altera
Newport & Providence, RI
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January 28 & 30
Haydn Theresienmesse
Handel & Haydn Society
Symphony Hall, Boston
February 11, 12, & 13
Sing Willow
The Thirteen
Alexandria, VA, Washington D.C., and Bethesda, MD
March 11 & 12
Stay, time: Lute Songs of John Dowland
In Stile Moderno: Agnes Coakley Cox, Sophie Michaux, Corey Dalton Hart, Adam Simon, Nathaniel Cox
Brattleboro, VT & Watertown, MA
March 25 and 27
Fair Phoenix: Tales of the Winter Queen
Seven Times Salt with In Stile Moderno
Lincoln, MA & Brattleboro, VT
April 7
St. Matthew Passion
Orchestra of St. Luke's, La Chapelle de Quebec, Handel & Haydn Society Chorus, Boys of St. Thomas Choir
Carnegie Hall, New York City
POSTPONED due to COVID
Carissimi’s Jephte and Missa l'Homme Armé
Pablo Bustos, tenor (Jephte), Agnes Coakley Cox, soprano (Filia), with Peter Becker, bass solo, Crescendo Vocal Ensemble and period instruments
Great Barrington, MA and Lakeville, CT
June 18
Instrument of Peace
Zenith Ensemble
Contemporary choral works by Kamala Sankaram (Prayer of St Francis), Jake Runestad (I will lift mine eyes), David Griffiths (Beata Virgo), David Childs (Salve Regina), and Eric Whitacre (Alleluia) will fill the beautiful acoustic of St Bernards with exquisite sounds. Transporting you back in time, Zenith Ensemble will be joined by continuo team Lisa Willems, harpsichord, and Jane Hershey, viola da gamba, for J. S. Bach’s motet for double choir Komm, Jesu Komm and Giacomo Carissimi’s Jephte.
St. Bernard's Church, Keene, NH
June 23, July 28, August 25
Black Hole Symphony
This revolutionary new show is a unique collaboration between astrophysicists of the Harvard-Smithsonian CFA and Black Hole Initiative with the musicians of the Multiverse Concert Series. Composer David Ibbett has sonified the light of black hole galaxies as musical notes and chords, woven into a dramatic electro-symphonic score set to immersive 3-D visuals from the Charles Hayden Planetarium.
Museum of Science, Boston
August 20 & 21
The Lamb's Journey
Ensemble Altera
Cambridge, MA and Providence, RI