Concert Details
Friday, May 8, 2009 @ 7:30pm
Britten: The Company of Heaven
4th Grade Classes, 2009: Wrens and Robins; The Caterpillar
Andy Vores Natural Selection
First performance
Benjamin Britten Psalm 150
J.S. Bach Cantata BWV 50
Through vital performances of works old and new, familiar and unfamiliar, the Cantata Singers shares with the community the power of music to enrich the human spirit.
These are the words that describe our mission – and how appropriate that they describe the culminating concert of the 2008-2009 Britten season.
We celebrate the fifteenth year of our innovative education program, Classroom Cantatas, by bringing its fruits to the Jordan Hall series. Participating students and the Boston Children’s Chorus will perform one of their hot-off-the-press, original cantatas, coupled with a newly commissioned composition for Cantata Singers by Andy Vores. Both works will be based on the same texts - works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Christina Rossetti and Charles Darwin - that celebrate the wonders of the natural world.
Britten’s Psalm 150 challenges and delights performers and listeners, both young and old. This concert and the season close with Britten’s The Company of Heaven, a radio drama of poetry and music composed in 1937 – an endearing work of enduring vigor and freshness.
Where
New England Conservatory’s
Jordan Hall
30 Gainsborough Street, Boston
http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu/jordanhall/
Via public transportation:
Take the Green Line "E" train to the Symphony stop. Walk one block west on Huntington Avenue, towards the YMCA. Take the first left, onto Gainsborough Street. Jordan Hall is on the right. Note: this station is not wheelchair accessible.
Click here for detailed driving directions.
Parking lots
Gainsboro Garage
10 Gainsborough Street
From Copley: West on Huntington Avenue. Cross Massachusetts Avenue, passing Symphony Hall on the right. Left at the first traffic light onto Gainsborough Street. Pass NEC on the right. Uptown Garage is the next building on the right.
Westland Garage
35 Westland Avenue
From Copley: West on Huntington Avenue. Turn right onto Massachusetts Avenue. Take the first left onto Westland Avenue. Circular parking garage is on the right, above Bread and Circus.
Join us…
Join us for post-concert AFTER GLOW following the performance at Betty’s Wok and Noodle, 250 Huntington Avenue.
*NEC’s Jordan Hall is wheelchair accessible.
*Assistive Listening Devices are available at the coatroom just prior to performances, or by contacting the Head Usher or House Manager on duty.