Time to mark your calendars with some great upcoming musical events:
Chant Workshop
Saturday, November 12 at 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Free. Brighton Allston Congregational Church. Teri Kowiak will lead a workshop on the basics of performing chant, including historically-informed singing style, the basics of modes and modal tuning, rhythm and rhetoric, regional Latin pronunciation, and tips on how to perform chant as an ensemble. The workshop will also touch on historical and modern notation systems, featuring those used for Gregorian chant and the music of Hildegard von Bingen. The workshop will run approximately two hours.
Music Sunday at FUUSN
Sunday, November 13 at 10:15 am – 11:30 am
Glimpses of Eternity. Music of war, peace, consolation and joy, featuring excerpts from the Fauré Requiem and music by Daniel Elder, Dale Warland, and Gwyneth Walker, among others.
Newton North High School:
November 16 at 7:00 pm – HARVESTFEST I
NNHS Performing Arts Center
Jubilee Singers, Tiger Bebop, Jazz Ensemble 1, Symphonic Band, Wind Ensemble
November 17 at 7:00 pm – HARVESTFEST II
NNHS Performing Arts Center
Vocal Ensemble, Concert Choir, Family Singers, Orchestra, String Ensemble
Freude! Bach Jesu, meine Freude and Gjeilo Sunrise Mass
Saturday, November 19 at 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Nashoba Valley Chorale, Anne Watson Born, Music Director. Littleton High School, 56 King Street, Littleton, MA 01460. www.nashobachorale.org
Eloquence in Brass. Commonwealth Chorale, David Carrier, Music Director
Saturday, November 19 at 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Patricia Van Ness, a Commonwealth composer: Nocturnes ; Jongen: Messe en l’honneur du Saint-Sacrement, opus 130; Daniel Pinkham, a Commonwealth composer: Christmas Cantata.
December 16 at 7.30 pm: Annual Messiah Sing to benefit Project Bread. All Saints Parish, Brookline. Anne Watson Born, conductor.