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Centennial bash
Special concerts and open house at Jordan Hall, plus The Boston Classical Orchestra and more

Jordan Hall centennial

New England Conservatory has announced that it will celebrate the centennial of its Jordan Hall with special concerts on October 24 and 25 and an open house on October 26. "The Best of Jazz," on the 24th, will feature four of NEC’s MacArthur Fellows: saxophonist and NEC faculty member Steve Lacy, pianist and NEC faculty member Ran Blake, pianist and NEC alumnus Cecil Taylor, and NEC artist-in-residence George Russell. On the 25th, "Gunther Schuller Meets the Stars of Tomorrow" will see the MacArthur Fellow and former NEC president return to conduct the world premiere of a new work that will incorporate a symphony orchestra, a jazz orchestra and prominent jazz soloists. There’ll be an all-star chamber-music performance from NEC’s "globetrotting concert artists," and NEC students will solo with the symphony orchestra. The concert will open with NEC’s BSO faculty and NEC student musicians joining forces to perform former NEC director George Whitefield Chadwick’s Melpomene, which was played at the inaugural Jordan Hall concert.

Both concerts will begin at 8 p.m. On Saturday, you’ll have the opportunity to see student musicians working with their mentors and to hear "rarely heard" instruments. There will also be open rehearsals of orchestra, chamber-music and choral works, plus performances on non-Western instruments.

Sunday’s open house will give children a chance to play instruments and adults an opportunity to compose their own music with help from NEC teachers and students. In the afternoon, there’ll be concerts from Lorna Cooke deVaron (who was NEC’s director of choral activities from 1947 to 1988) and the Alumni Festival Chorus, the NEC Ragtime Ensemble (reuniting "in the hall that reintroduced ragtime to the world"), and for the grand finale, Benjamin Zander and the NEC Youth Philharmonic Orchestra.

There’ll also be two panel discussions: "Quality and Commercialism in the Arts" at 2 p.m. Friday, and "The Intersection of Western and non-Western Musics" at 3 p.m. on Saturday. For updates on the centennial celebration, call (617) 585-1122 or visit www.newenglandconservatory.edu/centennial.

Boston Classical Orchestra 2003-2004

Under the baton of music director Stephen Lipsitt, the Boston Classical Orchestra will open the coming season with Robert Stallman and the BSO’s Fenwick Smith performing "The Flute Concerto Mozart Could Have Written" — actually Mozart’s K.448 Sonata for Two Pianos rearranged by Stallman for flutes and orchestra. The program will also include works by Boccherini and Persichetti, Mozart’s K.315 Andante for Flute and Orchestra (for Stallman), and Schubert’s Symphony No. 5. That’ll be September 19 at 8 p.m. and September 21 at 3 p.m. (all BCO concerts take place in Faneuil Hall).

"Celebrating Harry: Orchestral Favorites Honoring the Late Harry Ellis Dickson" (November 21 and 23) will feature the BSO’s Richard Given and Greg Whitaker in the "Trumpet Suite" from Handel’s Water Music and the BSO’s Sandra Stecher Kott and Kenneth Stalberg in the Andante from Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola, plus Barber’s Adagio for Strings and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5. "Heavenly Harp, Charming Tchaikovsky" (January 16 and 18) will showcase the BSO’s Ann Hobson Pilot in Handel’s Concerto for Harp and Orchestra and Debussy’s Danses sacrée et profane; also on the bill is Rossini’s Sonata No. 5 (you might sense a trend shaping up here) and Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings. "The Battle of the Comic Operas" (March 12 and 14) should appeal to any fan of Amadeus, since it couples Salieri’s Prima la musica, poi le parole ("First the Words, Then the Music") with Mozart’s Der Schauspieldirektor ("The Impresario"); the singers will come from Opera at Longy. For the season finale (April 23 and 25), Daniel Stepner, from the Lydian String Quartet and the Handel & Haydn Orchestra, will perform Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5, and the BCO will play Mozart’s Symphony No. 5, Warlock’s Capriol Suite for Strings, and Haydn’s Symphony No. 5. Former WCRB and current WBUR broadcaster Mary Ann Nichols will give a free talk one hour before each concert.

The BCO is also presenting a non-subscription Valentine’s concert, "It Takes Two To Tango (Or, A Good Wind Blows No Ill)," with BSO husband-and-wife duos: Linda Toote and Mark McEwen in Haydn’s Concerto for Flute and Oboe, Laura Ahlbeck and Richard Ranti in Vivaldi’s Concerto for Oboe and Bassoon, Catherine and William Hudgins in Stamitz’s Concerto for Two Clarinets, and Jane and Richard Sebring in Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two Horns. That one’s on February 13. And the orchestra will be giving a free performance of Schubert’s Symphony no. 5 on September 18 as part of WCRB’s "Classics at the Copley" series. For tickets and information, call (617) 423-3883, or visit www.bostonclassicalorchestra.org.

Susan Sontag at the MFA

Did you know that Susan Sontag is a member of the Japan Society Film Advisory Committee? We sure didn’t. Well, live and learn. And we expect to learn plenty when she shows up at the Museum of Fine Arts on September 10 to introduce "Susan Sontag’s Most Favorite Japanese Films." The film that evening will be Kenji Mizoguchi’s 1936 Sisters of Gion (it will also screen, sans Sontag, September 27). Sontag’s other "most" favorites, as represented by this selection, are Akira Kurosawa’s No Regrets for Our Youth (1946; September 11 and 20), Kozabura Yoshimura’s A Ball at the Anjo House (1947; September 12), Heinosuke Gosho’s Where Chimneys Are Seen (1953; September 13 and 18), Keisuke Kinoshita’s Twenty-Four Eyes (1954; September 14 and 18), Mikio Naruse’s Floating Clouds (1955 September 14 and 25), Nagisa Oshima’s Death by Hanging (1968; September 17 and 27), and Kazuo Hara’s The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (1987; September 18).

The series is presented in association with the Japan Society, New York, and the Japan Society, Boston. Tickets are $8 for MFA members, seniors, and students; $9 general admission. For information, visit www.mfa.org/film; for reservations, call the MFA box office at (617) 369-3306.

Northeastern Fall 2003

The Center for the Arts at Northeastern University has announced that its fall season will kick off on September 20 with the 26th annual John Coltrane Memorial Concert. This year’s edition, "The Sacred Music of John Coltrane," welcomes saxophonist Pharoah Saunders back to Boston for the first time in 10 years. On October 3, the Center will present the world premiere of a "martial-arts vision quest," The Black Panther Suite: All Power to the People!, with music and concept by Fred Ho, martial-arts choreography by José Figueroa, and video design by Paul Chan. On October 18, Comedy Central favorite and former Politically Incorrect host Bill Maher makes his first Boston appearance. And on October 29, Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club, appears in an evening of readings and conversation in conjunction with her first (and just published) non-fiction book, The Opposite of Fate.

All four events will take place at 8 p.m. at Northeastern University’s Blackman Theatre, in Ell Hall, 360 Huntington Avenue. Tickets are $25 for Coltrane, $20 for Fred Ho, $30 for Bill Maher, and $15 for Amy Tan; discounts for seniors, students, and groups are available for all performances except Maher’s. To charge tickets or for more information, call the NU Ticket Center at (617) 373-2247.

"Sea Revels Pub Sing" moves

Citing a "schedule conflict," Revels has moved its upcoming "pub sing" from Tuesday August 19 to Thursday August 21. The location remains the deck at Jimmy’s Harborside (indoors if it rains), 242 Northern Avenue; you can get directions and parking information at www.jimmysharborside.com. It’ll take place from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.; led by Revels music director George Emlen, the singing of sea songs, chanteys, and songs for the summer season will commence at 7:30. You’re welcome to suggest songs, and also to bring your own instruments. Tickets are $12 and include hors d’œuvre and a Sea Revels Pocket Pub Songbook; there’ll be a cash bar. You can pay at the door, but reservations are required by next Friday, August 15: call (617) 972-8300 extension 29 or e-mail owoodford@revels.org. For more information about the event, visit the Revels Web site, www.revels.org.

Reality bites?

In a move that’s either canny or desperate, ABC is adding a reality element to its long-running daytime soap opera All My Children. Two AMC characters Greenlee Smythe and Kendall Hart, have started their own cosmetics company, Fusion, and they’ve instituted a nationwide search to find just the right sexy spokesperson (that being, it seems, more important than creating just the right sexy cosmetics). This is where you come in, since you’ll be able to vote weekly, through August 29, for "five real-life contestants who have been sourced by network executives at locations nationwide. The winner of the contest is crowned America’s sexiest man and will win an on-air appearance on an upcoming episode of the popular daytime drama."

The catch, apart from who authorized ABC to select America’s "sexiest man," is that you have to vote via your text-message-enabled cell phone, and "premium text-message fees apply in addition to regular service charges." On the plus side, "viewers who text-vote at least three times a round will receive a special story scoop on their cell phone, revealing secrets of an upcoming episode." This promotion, we’re told, "marks the first time that a reality-TV concept has been integrated into the plot line of an actual show." We’re pretty sure it won’t be the last.

 


Issue Date: August 8 - August 14, 2003
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