Events

Frederick Converse

Special Event Concert

American Century Music and Florestan Recital Project
present

Voices of the Early American Century

ST. PAUL’S CHURCH; 166 HIGH STREET, NEWBURYPORT, MA (MAP)

Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 7:30 PM
Pre-concert talk at 7 PM

Program

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First Church in Boston Series

ACM’s 2011/12 signature series will take place at First Church in Boston’s historic Back Bay.  The First Church in Boston Series is comprised of two parts: a half-hour lunchtime concert on the Second Thursday of each month and two full-length evening programs.

FIRST CHURCH IN BOSTON, 66 MARLBOROUGH STREET (MAP)

Mid-Day Concerts: “Second Thursdays”

12:15-12:45 PM

John Harbison: String Quartet No. 2

Thursday, October 13, 2011
Lydian String Quartet

Charles Wakefield Cadman: Piano Trio in D Major, Op. 56

Thursday, November 10, 2011
Claremont Trio

Piano works by Chadwick, Foote, Whiting, Nevin, and Paine

Thursday, December 8, 2011
Artem Belogurov, Piano

Piano works by Marion Bauer and Ruth Crawford-Seeger

Thursday, January 12, 2012
Virginia Eskin, Piano

Music for Flute and Piano

Thursday, February 9, 2012
Thomas James Wible, Flute
Ayako Yoda, Piano

Milton Babbitt: Homily for Snare Drum & Melismata for Solo Violin

Thursday, April 12, 2012
Jeffrey Means, Snare Drum
Curtis Macomber, Violin

Roger Sessions: Six Pieces for Cello

Thursday, May 10, 2012
David Russell, Cello

Friday Evening Program I

7:30 PM

Sonatas and Piano Trios by Frederick Converse, Walter Piston,
Roy Harris, and Arthur Foote

Friday, November 4, 2011

Gabriela Diaz, Violin
Rafael Popper-Keizer, Cello
Yoko Hagino, Piano

Concerts in the Courtyard Series

BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY COURTYARD, CENTRAL BRANCH, COPLEY SQUARE (MAP)

FRIDAY LUNCHTIME CONCERTS

12:30-1:30 PM

American Century Music offers two programs this summer on the Concerts in the Courtyard Series at the Boston Public Library. These free, one-hour lunchtime programs feature music from “The American Century” in the idyllic setting of the inner courtyard at the Boston Public Library in Copley Square.

Works by Leslie Bassett, Vincent Persichetti, and Virgil Thomson

Friday, June 24, 2011 — Free and open to the general public

Michael Norsworthy, Eb Clarinet
Sarah Darling, Viola
Whitacre Hill, Horn
Joe Foley, Trumpet
Hans Bohn, Trombone
Scott Parkman, Conductor

Music for Brass: Works by Michael Tilson Thomas, Bruce Adolphe, and Ingolf Dahl

Friday, August 19, 2011 — Free and open to the general public

Redline Brass Quintet
Kyle Spraker, Trumpet
Joe Klause, Trumpet
Steve Winter, Horn
Chris Moore, Tenor Trombone
Phil Hyman, Bass Trombone