We
are pleased to announce our 2005–2006 Concert Season
at Sanders Theater. Click here
to see our full season brochure.
Sunday, November 6, 2005, at 3 p.m.
Guest Conductor: David Hodgkins
Franz Josef Haydn: Mass in Time of War
Johannes Brahms: Nänie
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs
Haydn composed the Missa in Tempore Belli in 1796 while
Austria was mobilizing its troops, and some people hear the
distant thunder of cannons in the persistent tympani of the
mass. It is one of Haydn's finest works, richly devotional in
spirit, and exemplary in its synthesis of vocal and instrumental
music. One of Brahms' most radiant choral pieces, Nänie
is a personal take on grief composed in admiration after the
death of the painter Anselm Feuerbach in 1880. Five Mystical
Songs, set to poems of George Herbert, reveals Vaughan Williams's
supreme gift of writing for voices and orchestra; the effects
of the solo voice blended with chorus are quite magical.
Sunday, March 12, 2006 at 3 p.m.
Guest Conductor: Paul Phillips
Virgil Thomson: Four Songs on Poems of Thomas Campion
William Bolcom: The Mask
Wolfgang A. Mozart: Mass in C Minor, K. 427
Four Songs: Celebrating one of the master poets of
the English language, Virgil Thomson recreates the sound-world
of the Elizabethan lute song with the sensuous blending of
choral voices. The Mask: In this cycle of five poems
for chorus and piano, William Bolcom draws on poetry from
the Harlem Renaissance and other periods of African-American
literature to explore the theme of personal identity and struggle
in an eclectic musical style that includes elements of ragtime
and jazz. Mass in C Minor: In honor of the 250th anniversary
of the birth of Mozart in 1756, the Masterworks Chorale will
perform one of his greatest choral masterpieces. This will
be the Massachusetts premiere of the new version recently
completed by Robert Levin of Harvard University.
Saturday, May 13, 2006 at 8 p.m.
Guest Conductor: Jameson Marvin
A Psalm Concert (Renaissance, Recent and Romantic)
featuring Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms
Considered by many to be the choral masterpiece of the 20th
century, Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms was commissioned
by Serge Koussevitzky in 1930, the 50th anniversary of the
Boston Symphony Orchestra. Stravinsky conceived his Symphony
of Psalms in three movements which he labels in his writings,
"Prayer, Testimony, Praise", which take the form in Stravinsky's
hand of Prelude (Psalm 39), Fugue (Psalm 40), and Symphonic
Allegro (Psalm 150).
Order your tickets today!
Tickets will be available at the Harvard Box Office after
September
20, 2005. If you have any immediate questions, please contact
us at
info@masterworkschorale.org
or (781) 235-6210.
Ticket prices to concerts at Sanders Theatre are $39, $28,
$18.
Discounts of $3 per ticket are available to groups of 10 or
more and to WGBH members and WCRB Classical Advantage cardholders.
To order tickets, visit the Sanders Theatre box office, now
located in the Holyoke Center in Harvard Square, or call (617)
496-2222 . Tickets may also be purchased at Sanders Theatre,
45 Quincy Street, Cambridge on the day of the concert beginning
three hours prior to concert time.
Rush tickets are available to students who present a valid,
current student ID 30 minutes prior to concert time at Sanders
Theatre. Rush tickets are $5 each, cash only.
Become a Subscriber
Subscriptions to the 2004-2005 season are now on sale. Subscribers
get priority seating and prices 10% below regular box office
prices! Subscription prices range from $49 to $102 for the
three-concert series.
| Seating
Category |
Box office price |
Subscription |
Early-Bird Subscription
|
| A: Center orchestra, center
mezzanine, or front/center of balcony |
$117 |
$102 |
$97 |
| B: Front orchestra, side mezzanine,
or rear/center of balcony |
$84
|
$75 |
$70 |
| C: Sides of balcony |
$54 |
$49
|
$45 |
To receive a free season brochure, or to sign up for a subscription,
please call (781) 235-6210.
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