John Corigliano long resisted writing a symphony, seeing it as a form that served a composer’s ego over the audience and performers. At the height of the AIDS crisis, Corigiliano overcame that hesitation and wrote his Symphony No. 1 as a way to memorialize friends lost to the epidemic. Though he was a member of the so-called “Silent Generation,” Corigliano’s symphony served as influential composition for those coming of age in symphonic circles when it premiered in 1990. In this Gen X program curated by Thomas Adès, the milestone Symphony No. 1 is paired with music by Andrew Norman and Jonathan Bailey Holland.

John Corigliano long resisted writing a symphony, seeing it as a form that served a composer’s ego over the audience and performers. At the height of the AIDS crisis, Corigiliano overcame that hesitation and wrote his Symphony No. 1 as a way to memorialize friends lost to the epidemic. Though he was a member of the so-called “Silent Generation,” Corigliano’s symphony served as influential composition for those coming of age in symphonic circles when it premiered in 1990. In this Gen X program curated by Thomas Adès, the milestone Symphony No. 1 is paired with music by Andrew Norman and Jonathan Bailey Holland.

As part of their motet commissioning project, Emmanuel Music will premiere “The Mystery”, a motet based on the Victimae paschali laudes chant, written to precede Bach’s Cantata Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4.

This concert takes the listeners through a journey, looking at the stories that make us, and causing us to look inward as we see ourselves. We welcome Music Director finalist Nicholas DeMaison to conduct this concert.

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Fanfare in Honor of Richard Pittman

Jonathan Bailey Holland Stories from Home

George Tsontakis Violin Concerto No. 3
Danielle Maddon, Violin
Boston Premiere

Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 5

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.

Battle of Manassas
Thomas WIGGINS arr. Jonathan Bailey HOLLAND
World Premiere, Phoenix Commission

We are so pumped to be kicking off our first live performance in so long with a Phoenix commission: A brand new arrangement of Tom Wiggins’s amazing Battle of Manassas by Boston’s own Jonathan Bailey Holland. The piece uses impressionistic musical descriptions to take us through the narrative of the battle. From marching column and cannon shot to retreats and even the background noise of ducks and trains.

HOLLAND – Intimacy of Harmony
PREVIN – Quintet
HIGDON – Dark Wood 
PIAZZOLLA – Tango Suite (arr. Scott)

The KINESPHERE, or immediate space around one’s body, gained far greater significance during the pandemic than the modern dancer who coined the term could ever have imagined. We became obsessed with protecting this personal space, while also yearning for physical contact. Radius Ensemble opens its 2021-22 season by exploring this tension. From the sultry touch of dancers in Astor Piazzolla’s Tango Suite for wind quintet – performed here in celebration of the composer’s centenary – to the more private and metaphorical Intimacy of Harmony for solo piano by Boston composer Jonathan Bailey Holland, KINESPHERE investigates the proximity and physicality we are slowly reclaiming in COVID’s wake. Jennifer Higdon’s jaunty tribute to the bassoon, Dark Wood, rounds out the program along with André Previn’s Quintet for horn and strings.

Versipel New Music presents the Boston-based contemporary duo Transient Canvas in Glitter on the Undersurface, a new program that explores the hidden sounds of everyday life and their effect on our state of mind. From the white noise of a hundred conversations on a crowded street to the clanging claustrophobia of an MRI machine, our lives are shaped and shadowed by our own personal soundtracks. Featuring music by New Orleans’s own Kari Besharse and Philip Schuessler with additional works by Jonathan Bailey Holland, Emily Koh, and Crystal Pascucci.Boston-based contemporary duo Transient Canvas is on a mission to revolutionize the modern concert experience. Since 2011, their innovative performances have been praised as “superb” by the Boston Globe and “disarming” by Cleveland Classical, with the San Francisco Chronicle lauding “the versatile imagination they both display and inspire in others.” Bass clarinetist Amy Advocat and marimbist Matt Sharrock relish the creative potential of working with living composers, having amassed a varied repertoire of over 80 commissioned works in addition to working with hundreds of student composers from all over the world. Since 2017, they have hosted their annual paid Composer Fellowship Program that is free and open to composers of all ages. They maintain an active touring schedule with recent performances at the Charlotte New Music Festival, Music on the Edge, Composers, Inc., Music at the Forefront, and People Inside Electronics, among others. Recent educational residencies include the University of Southern California, University of Pittsburgh, North Carolina NewMusic Initiative, and Divergent Studio at Longy School of Music. They have three albums, Sift, Wired, and Right Now, in a Second, all released on New Focus Recordings. Transient Canvas proudly endorses Henri Selmer Paris and Marimba One. For more information, visit www.transientcanvas.com.

Love. Depression. Opportunity. Movement.
How readily can we perceive through the eye and ear?

Music by Michael Veloso, Clifton Ingram, Laurie San Martin, Eden McAdam-Somer, and JBH.

Friends and Family is a chamber concert that features ACO musicians performing works by a broad array of composers, many of whom are near and dear to the orchestra.

PROGRAM

STEVEN GERBER: Five Greek Folksongs (after Ravel)
AUGUSTA GROSS: Towards Night
ALVIN SINGLETON: Argoru VIII
KAREN LEFRAK: Daybreak; When
MELINDA WAGNER: Unsung Chordata
EDWARD THOMAS: Reflections
JONATHAN BAILEY HOLLAND: Mobius
ROBERT BEASER: Souvenirs

All audience members will be required to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 with a vaccine authorized by the World Health Organization or the Food and Drug Administration and must maintain appropriate face coverings in accordance with current CDC guidelines. We have capped attendance at 50% seating capacity at Cary Hall, and have arranged for a flexible, distanced seating arrangement. Learn more here.

Program includes:

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Fanfare in Honor of Richard Pittman 
Jonathan Bailey Holland Stories from Home 
George Tsontakis Violin Concerto No. 3
Danielle Maddon, Violin solo
Yehudi Wyner Fanfare in Honor of Richard Pittman
Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 5

Cheryl Duvall and the Thin Edge New Music Collective present a concert from the Canadian Music Centre in Toronto, ON. More information coming soon.

Join here for an interactive streamed performance of The Clarity of Cold Air, premiered by Radius in November of 2013, featuring a new video created by Dick Bartlett to accompany the music.

Transient Canvas conclude their remote residency at St Cloud State University with a livestream performance of their new program, Ebb & Flow, featuring music by Jonathan Bailey Holland, Jennifer Bellor, Osnat Netzer, Jeremy Barnett, Elliott Miles McKinley, and the world premiere of Impressions of the Sky from Underwater by 2020 Composition Fellow Caroline Louise Miller.

BBC3 Broadcasts a concert with the London Sinfonietta, conducted by Vimbayi Kaziboni title “Yet Unheard”, featuring works by Jason Yarde, Leila Adu-Gilmore, Hannah Kendall, Jonathan Bailey Holland, Tania León, George Lewis, Courtney Bryan, and others. Availabie to listen via the archived stream until November 27th, 2020.

Tune in on June 26th for the premiere of my 30 second miniature blurred glance for viola and piano, performed by Ashe Gordon and Anthony Green . https://www.instagram.com/castleskins/

Watch the performance here -

https://www.facebook.com/NotesofHopeBoston/videos/548349472734880/

Program:
Nina Shekhar: ice ‘n’ SPICE
Andy Akiho: Karakurenai
Fjola Evans: Eroding
Holly Harrison: Lobster Tales and Turtle Soup
-intermission-
Jessie Marino: Rot Blau
Viet Cuong: Electric Aroma
Jonathan Bailey Holland: The Clarity of Cold Air
Julius Eastman: Stay On It

Program:
Nina Shekhar: ice ‘n’ SPICE
Andy Akiho: Karakurenai
Fjola Evans: Eroding
Holly Harrison: Lobster Tales and Turtle Soup
-intermission-
Jessie Marino: Rot Blau
Viet Cuong: Electric Aroma
Jonathan Bailey Holland: The Clarity of Cold Air
Julius Eastman: Stay On It

Igor Stravinsky’s famous ballet suite, The Firebird, a staple masterwork of the orchestral catalog, soars with your BPO. Complemented by Modest Mussorgsky’s chilling Night on Bald Mountain; the high-spirited homage to the city of Detroit, Motor City ReMix by contemporary composer Jonathan Holland; and two steamy tango works by Argentinean composer Ástor Piazzolla, Libertango and Cuatro Estaciones featuring hometown favorite Jason Vieaux on guitar; this performance is too hot to touch! Guest conductor Josep Caballé-Domenech, music director of the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, makes his BPO debut with this sizzling concert.