Our season finale is a celebration of Jewish music throughout western classical music history. It's highlighted by Dmitri Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony, Op. 83a, an arrangement of his String Quartet No. 4 featuring Jewish musical themes and orchestrated by Rudolf Barshai.
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On May 3 we finish our Parlor Series season with a pair of firsts: The world premiere of the first commission from our partnership with the composition department at New England Conservatory, by composer Binna Kim, and our first ever performance in Boston’s Roslindale neighborhood. The world premiere by Binna Kim in joined by joyous and whimsical works by Carl Nielsen and Gioachino Rossini. Be sure to join us for our premiere concert at the WorkHub at the Roslindale Substation!
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We’re so excited to be returning to the magnificent Metropolitan WaterWorks Museum in Chestnut Hill for a program we're keeping a little secret until you come to the show. What we will tell you is that you will get to hear music written by Phoenix favorites Ludwig van Beethoven, Julius Eastman, Eric Nathan, Caroline Shaw, and Julia Wolfe.
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Join us as the Parlor Series returns to Bully Boy Distillers for a magical evening in the Barrel Room. Enjoy an intimate chamber music experience featuring work for string trio by Rebecca Clarke, Erno Dohnanyi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ignatius Sancho surrounded by whiskey casks and signature cocktails from our favorite local distillery!
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On December 2 at Jordan Hall Phoenix presents “Stories and Tales,” a concert bringing together four pieces attached by their ties to fantastic worlds and places. Caroline Shaw’s Entr’acte was inspired by Alice in Wonderland, Derrick Skye’s Sunlight Spread draws on elements on son huasteco folk music from Mexico, Maurice Ravel’s Mother Goose is made of five movements, each based on a separate children’s tale, and Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring tells the story of a young couple reminiscing about their lives together while preparing their home in the wilderness for their future.
Join us as we return to Bully Boy Distillers for the first time in three years for a magical evening in the Barrel Room. Enjoy an intimate chamber music experience surrounded by whiskey casks and signature cocktails from our favorite local distillery!
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Our season opens on September 30 at the Artists for Humanity EpiCenter with Music Director Joshua Weilerstein leading a concert featuring a chamber orchestra arrangement of Claude Debussy's La Mer, Charles Ives's Three Places in New England, and selections from Scott Joplin's Red Back Book.
Joshua Weilerstein, Conductor
Helen Zhibing Huang, Soprano
Join us as Phoenix PRIME returns for drinks, music, and a big Phoenix first as we tackle the music of Gustav Mahler, who is known for his epic symphonic journeys.
This program marks a Phoenix first as we tackle the music of Gustav Mahler, who is known for his epic symphonic journeys. We pair Mahler’s most gentle work, his Fourth Symphony (arranged for chamber orchestra by Iain Farrington), with a short work by Franz Schreker, a highly underrated contemporary of Mahler whose career was cut short by the rise of the Nazi power.
Joshua Weilerstein, Conductor
Join us for a special event as Phoenix returns to the stomping grounds of so many of our founding members to celebrate the beginning of a new collaborative partnership between Phoenix and New England Conservatory.
Our debut program with our new Music Director, Joshua Weilerstein, features folk-inspired music by Béla Bartók, Gabriela Lena Frank, Osvaldo Golijov, and Florence Price as well as Ludwig van Beethoven’s jubilant 7th Symphony!
Matthew Szymanski, Conductor
Christopher Voss, Narrator
Join us for a literal night at the theater as Phoenix Prime returns in person for the first time in over 18 months. We’re excited to be one of the very first groups to play in the fantastically renovated Crystal Ballroom at Davis Square’s iconic Somerville Theater. The night’s program is (you guessed it) all about the theater! We open our season with a premiere of an arrangement of Tom Wiggins’s theatrical Battle of Manassas by Boston’s own Jonathan Bailey Holland, then we’re joined by 99.5 CRB’s Christopher Voss for Igor Stravinsky’s two-act parable: L’Histoire du Soldat.
Jessie MONTGOMERY - Starburst
Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS - The Lark Ascending
Judd GREENSTEIN - Clearing, Dawn, Dance
Richard WAGNER - Siegfried Idyll
Tickets and more information coming soon.
Join us at Bully Boy Distillers for our second Parlor Series show of the year featuring Beethoven’s iconic Septet, Op. 20 in the Barrel Room!
Program
Caroline SHAW - Limestone & Felt
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN - Septet, Op. 20
Tickets and more information coming soon.
Phoenix Prime is BACK at the amazing Center for the Arts at the Armory with a program of Folk music from places near AND far. Even better, we’re joining forces with the AMAZING Britt Brown for Luciano BERIO’s Folk Songs. Charles IVES’s Putnam’s Camp is the 2nd movement of Three Places in New England, for those of you who caught our performance of the 1st movement The St. Gauden’s in Boston Common, at the Gardner Museum in the Fall!
Valerie COLEMAN - Afro-Cuban Concerto
Luciano BERIO - Folk Songs
Percy GRAINGER - Molly on the Shore and Irish Tune From County Derry
Charles IVES - Putnam’s Camp from Three Places in New England
Phoenix’s 2019 - 2020 Parlor season continues with “Nevertheless…”, a program curated by Boston legend Marti Epstein. Music on the program is joined by texts curated by the amazing Jen Deaderick.
Program to include works by Marti EPSTEIN, Laurie SAN MARTIN, and Ruth Crawford SEEGER.
Tickets and More Info —> HERE
Molly JOYCE - Light and Dark
David LANG - Breathless
Arnold SCHOENBERG - Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night)
Luigi BOCCHERINI - Night Music of the Streets of Madrid
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN - Eyeglass Duo for Viola and Cello
Robert Russell BENNETT - Suite for Flute and Clarinet
Judd GREENSTEIN - Clearing, Dawn, Dance
Missy MAZZOLI - Ecstatic Science
Allison Parramore, Flute
Nicholas Brown, Clarinet
Christopher Boulais, Trumpet
Freya Liu, Violin
Emily Brandenburg, Viola
Annie Jacobs-Perkins, Cello
Program
Richard WAGNER - Siegfried Idyll
Julia WOLFE - The Vermeer Room
Roberto SIERRA - Turner
Charles IVES - The St. Gaudens from Three Places in New England
Claude DEBUSSY orch. Benno SACHS - Prelude to Afternoon of a Faun
Jonathan Bailey HOLLAND - World Premiere
