Music Department

Concert Calendar

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Violin close up at Gasson 100 performance The following lists only events sponsored by the Music Department and select other concerts, such as those by the University Chorale.  For a more complete list of arts-related events at Boston College, please visit the Arts Council home page.

For last minute changes and updates to Music Department events call our Concert Line at 617-552-6004.  We can be contacted at concerts@bc.edu.
Concerts are free of charge unless otherwise noted.



 FALL 2009


SEPTEMBER


Wednesday September 23
8 pm  --  St. Mary's Chapel, Jesuit Residence
Music at St. Mary's
Dos estrellas le siguen (Two stars will follow).  Xácaras, folías and chaconas in 17th century Spain and Latin America.
Música Ficta - Early Music Ensemble

 

Tuesday, September 29
4:15 pm -- Gasson Hall, Room 100
Music in the Afternoon
A Mallet Trip.  Works for percussion
Timur Rubinshteyn, performer


OCTOBER

 

Sunday, October 4
3:00 pm  --  Gasson Hall, Room 100
 "Long, Long Ago" Music and Poetry of the Civil War:  a concert in conjunction with the exhibit First HandCivil War Era Drawings at the McMullen Museum of Art

 

Tuesday, October 6
4:15 pm -- Gasson Hall, Room 100
Music in the Afternoon
Masters of the Baroque Violin - Bach, Handel and Biber
Krista Reisner, baroque violin and Ian Watson, harpsichord 

 

Wednesday, October 14
8:00 pm -- Gasson Hall, Room 100
Music for Piano Solo and Duo - program to include Brahms Haydn Variations and works of Rameau and Ravel
Ellie Perrone and Esther Ning Yau, performers

 

Sunday, October 18
3:00 pm -- Gasson Hall, Room 100
Works of Gershwin, Chopin, Scriabin and Rachmaninoff
Cecilia Farrell, piano

 

Tuesday, October 20
4:15 pm -- Gasson Hall, Room 100
Music in the Afternoon
Music for Violin and Piano
Miguel Garcia-Bender '11 and Eric Kim '11, Advanced Study Grant winners

 

Thurssday, October 22
 7:30pm -- Devlin 008
"Glocal Scene," A Documentary About a Global Local Music Scene
The story of the global pop/rock music industry as told by the artists themselves.  Directed and written by Phil Heron, Nick Shane and Robert Harrison.

 

Monday, October 26
8:00 pm -- Gasson Hall, Room 100
Annual Jazz Concert: An Evening of Cole Porter
Thomas Oboe Lee, flute; Alex Brown, piano; Daniel Durham, bass; Mark Walker, drums

 

NOVEMBER

 

Sunday, November 1
3:00 pm  --  Gasson Hall, Room 100
Family Opera
Brundibar by Hans Krasa. 
Barbara S. Gawlick, director
Dalcroze Music Center children and Boston College students, performers

 

Monday, November 2
8:00 pm -- St. Mary's Chapel, Jesuit Residence
Music at St. Mary's 
Blue Heron--Scott Metcalfe, director
15th Century Chansons for voices and instruments by Du Fay, Binchois, Ockeghem, Busnoys, Frye and others
 

Saturday, November 7
8:00 pm -- Gasson Hall, Room 100
Boston College Symphony Orchestra Annual Fall Concert
John Finney, conductor

 

Tuesday, November 10
8:00 pm -- Gasson Hall, Room 100
Boston College Artists-in-Residence
Music for LARGE and small Brass Ensemble 
Triton Brass Quintet and friends


Friday, November 13
8:00 pm -- Trinity Chapel, Newton Campus
Boston College University Chorale Annual Fall Concert
John Finney, conductor

Admission: $10, $5 with BC ID


 

Wednesday, November 18
8:00 pm -- Gasson Hall, Room 100
Music of Haydn, Martinu, Zemek and Kalabis
Hawthorne String Quartet, Boston College Artists-in Residence

 

Sunday, November 22
3:00 pm -- Gasson Hall, Room 100
Boston College Flute Choir
Judy Grant, director

 

Monday, November 23
4:15 pm -- Gasson Hall, Room 100
Music in the Afternoon
Boston College Chamber Music Society
Sandra Hebert, director

 

DECEMBER

 

Friday, December 4
8:00 pm -- Trinity Chapel, Newton Campus
University Chorale and Boston College Symphony Orchestra Annual Christmas Concert
John Finney, conductor

 

Saturday, December 5
8:00 pm -- Trinity Chapel, Newton Campus
University Chorale and Boston College Symphony Orchestra Annual Christmas Concert
John Finney, conductor

 

Sunday, December 6
2:00 pm -- Trinity Chapel, Newton Campus
University Chorale and Boston College Symphony Orchestra Annual Christmas Concert
John Finney, conductor

 

Thursday, December 9 (*Please note change of date, originally scheduled for 12/3*)
 7:30 pm -- Gasson Hall, Room 100
Boston College Chamber Music Society Fall Concert
Sandra Hebert, director

 

Thursday, December 10
4:00 pm -- St. Mary's Chapel
University Chorale Christmas Concert at St. Mary's
John Finney, conductor