Saturday, August 17, 2024 11:00 AM

Salem High School Jazz Band (11 a.m. – noon)

Kicking off our day is the talented Salem High School Jazz Band. These young musicians have earned outstanding ratings at national festivals and even performed at the French Quarter Festival in New Orleans! Led by the accomplished Cyndi Napierkowski, this ensemble represents the bright future of jazz and the excellence of Salem’s music education.

https://www.salemjazzsoul.org/

Thursday, August 8, 2024 7:00 PM

Shalin Liu Performance Center, 37 Main Street, Rockport, MA

https://rockportmusic.org/cape-ann-jazz-workshop-concert/

Enjoy an incredible performance of young jazz musicians (alongside a professional ensemble), led by saxophonist and Cape Ann Jazz Workshop director Alexa Tarantino. This showcase features student musicians from this summer’s Cape Ann Jazz Workshop highlighting their impressive jazz skills. Learn more

Saturday, 20 July 2024, 21:00

Place: Campanar. Plaza de Campanar

27 Festival de Jazz de València

Jazz al barris

MARTINA SABARIEGO QUARTET

Free admission

Friday, July 19, 2024 7:00 PM

Av. Professor López Piñero (Historiador de la Medicina), 7  Valencia

DATE: 17 July 2024

TIME: 19:30

PLACE SALA ITURBI sn. Palau de la Música

Paseo de la Alameda, 30;46023 - Valencia

https://palauvalencia.com/en/evento/joven-orquesta-nacional-de-espana-2/

Pablo González, conductor

Franciso Fullana, violin

PROGRAM

Richard Strauss: The Mischief of Till Eulenspiegel, Op. 28 

Camille Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61 

Isaac Albéniz: Suite Iberia: Evocation, El Albaicín, Triana

      Orchestration by Enrique Fernández Arbós 

Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2

DATE: 14 July 2024

TIME: 20:00

PLACE SALA ITURBI om The Palau de la Música de València

27 Festival de Jazz de València

Irakere 50th anniversary

Saturday, June 15 · 8 - 10pm EDT

Kresge Auditorium, 48 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA

The CSO concludes its 23/24 season with George Gershwin’s Concerto in F, featuring pianist, Michael Lewin, and Ravel’s masterful orchestration of Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

Valerie Coleman Umoja: Anthem of Unity

Gershwin Concerto in F

     Michael Lewin, piano

Mussorgsky, arr. Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition

https://www.cambridgesymphony.org/upcoming-concerts/gershwin-and-mussorgsky

Mon, May 20, 2024 | 7:30pm

NEC: Jordan Hall | 290 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA

Eli Epstein, Music Director, Youth Brass Ensemble

Jared Cassedy, Music Director, Junior Massachusets Youth Wind Ensemble

https://necmusic.edu/events/nec-preparatory-school-junior-massachusetts-youth-wind-ensemble-and-youth-brass-ensemble-520

PROGRAM

Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55 (“Eroica”) - Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

I. Allegro con brio

II. Marcia funebre: Adagio assai

III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace

IV. Finale: Allegro molto

∼ INTERMISSION ∼

The Rite of Spring (“Le sacre du printemps”) - Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

Part I: Adoration of the Earth

Introduction

The Augurs of Spring

Dances of the Young Girls

Ritual of Abduction

Spring Rounds

Ritual of the Rival Tribes

Procession of the Sage

The Sage

Dance of the Earth

Part II: The Sacrifice

Introduction

Mystic Circles of the Young Girls

Glorification of the Chosen One

Evocation of the Ancestors

Ritual Action of the Ancestors

Sacrificial Dance (The Chosen One)

Saturday, April 27, 2024, 7 – 9 p.m.

A. J. Gordon Memorial Chapel

The Gordon Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic Band present their annual Spring Pops Concert. This is event is free and open to the public. Livestream is also available at www.gordon.edu/music/live.

Spring Pops: Musicals & Mordor! 

Gordon Symphony Orchestra & Symphonic Band 

Dr. Gabe Southard, conducting 

Gordon College Choirs 

Dr. Minji Kim & Dr. Ya Lin Huang, conductors 

Program 

• West Side Story- Selection for Orchestra  - Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) arr. Jack Mason 

Gordon Symphony Orchestra 

• Selections from H. M. S. Pinafore  - Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) 

  • Overture 

  • "We Sail the Ocean Blue" 

  • "I am the Captain of the Pinafore" 

  • "When I was a Lad" 

  • Selections from the Act 1 Finale 

Gabe Pollock - Captain Corcoran 

Dominic Hendrix and David Politis- Sir Joseph Porter 

Gordon College Choirs 

Gordon Symphony Orchestra 

• Symphony No. 1 "The Lord of the Rings"  - Johann de Meij (b. 1953) 

  • Gandalf, The Wizard 

  • Lothlorien, The Elvenwood 

  • Gollum, Smeagol 

  • Journey in the Dark 

    • The Mines of Moria 

    • The Bridge of Khazad-Dûm 

  • Hobbits 

Gordon Symphonic Band 

What an evening we have planned for you this Friday at the Me&Thee! The nationally acclaimed, Grammy nominated New Black Eagle Jazz Band will fill the Me&Thee with some of the most uplifting traditional New Orleans jazz you’ll ever hear.

For five decades, the New Black Eagles have paid homage to the greatest jazz musicians of the early era including Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington and others but has also devel­oped their own eclectic sound which incor­po­rates old spiri­tuals, popular songs of the 1920’s and 1930’s and even a few songs recorded by Elvis and Bob Dylan.

The seven member band recently played to a full house at the new Groton Hill Music Center and will be playing at the Suncoast Jazz Festival in Clearwater, Florida this fall. They’ve been featured at many of the greatest concert halls and festivals in the world includ­ing Newport, Kool, JVC, Tangle­wood, Edinburgh, Singapore and New Orleans as well as with the Scottish National Symphony, The Baltimore Symphony and the Boston Pops among many others. They’ve even been featured on the PBS show “This Old House.”

The Black Eagles are now led by Billy Novick (alto sax, clarinet and vocals) who has recorded 16 albums and has been featured on more than 250 recordings and 150 film and television sound­tracks. He has also scored two full-length ballets, The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises, which debuted to sold-out shows at the Kennedy Center.

Other members include Stan Vincent, trombone, who is the sole original member of the band, and has played with Gene Krupa, Roy Eldridge, Bobby Hacket. Jeff Hughes, cornet, has played with the Wolverine Jazz Band, The New Yankee Rhythm Kings and the Blue Horizon Jazz Band. Herb Gardner on piano, was a regular at the Metropole in New York City and played for the inauguration of George Bush and Bill Clinton’s victory party.

Bill Reynolds, drums, has played in more than 100 movies and TV soundtracks including Seabiscuit, Eight Men Out, and Sex in the City. Jesse Williams, bass, has recorded two Grammy and six W.C. Handy nominated albums. He’s performed at Lincoln Center and appeared on the Sesame Street TV show.

The New York Times wrote that the Black Eagles were “so far ahead of other traditional bands, there is scarcely any basis for comparison.” We can’t wait for the first down beat! See you Friday at the Me&Thee.

• Bria Skonberg & Benny Benack III, Trumpet and Vocals

• Mark Lewandowski, Bass

• Charles Goold, Percussion

March 22, 2024 , 8:00PM

Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport, MA

Jazz at Lincoln Center returns to Rockport, this time with a Sing & Swing program featuring two of the rising stars in the genre, both dual threats on trumpet and vocals; Bria Skonberg and Benny Benack III. This will be an evening of classics of the American Songbook…George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, all interpreted by New York’s best and brightest. Learn More

Saturday, February 24, 7:00 PM

Dr. Gabe Southard, Conductor

A. J. Gordon Memorial Chapel, 255 Grapevine Road, Wenham, MA

The Gordon Symphonic Band presents its annual Winter Concert. This is event is free and open to the public.

Friday, January 26, 2024 at Symphony Hall, Boston, MA

https://www.bso.org/events/casual-friday-leon-stravinsky?performance=2024-01-26-20:00

Andris Nelsons, conductor

Rudolf Buchbinder, piano

Aaron Diehl Trio (Ellington)

BEETHOVEN Consecration of the House Overture

MOZART Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K.488

Intermission

ELLINGTON New World A-Coming, for piano and orchestra

ELLINGTON/STRAYHORN Tonk, for piano four-hands

Carlos SIMON Four Black American Dances

From Austria to America: The program begins with Beethoven’s lively and festive Consecration of the House Overture, commissioned for the city of Vienna. Austrian soloist Rudolf Buchbinder then plays Mozart’s light and lyrical Piano Concerto No. 23, written during the composer’s years in Vienna. Aaron Diehl and his trio bring to life the American master Duke Ellington’s tone poem New World A-Coming. In closing, Carlos Simon, an Atlanta-raised composer, brings us deep into his community’s history with the motley and exuberant Four Black American Dances.