Upcoming Engagements

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• Kansas City, MO
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• Considering Matthew Shepard by Craig Hella Johnson
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• Professional Ensemble
• Ben Spalding, conductor
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• Ticket and Event Info

• Yale Choral Artists
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• New Haven, CT
• NYC, NY
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• Music for Choir and Percussion, Part II
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• With the Percussion Collective, Robert Van Sice, Music Director
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• Memory of Water – Garth Neustadter
• The Doubter and the Doubt – Alejandro Viñao (world premiere)
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• Professional Ensemble
• Jeffrey Douma, conductor

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• Exeter, NH
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• Found in the Storm
• Chamber music by composer, Gregory W. Brown
• Featuring the Apple Hill String Quartet
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• Mary Hubbell, soprano
• Evangelia Leontis, soprano
• Megan Roth, mezzo-soprano
• Christina Wright-Ivanova, piano
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• Ticket and Event Info (coming soon)

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• New Moon
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• Calliope’s Call celebrates their 10th anniversary with a debut album, celebrating the work of female American composers, and exploring the themes of love, sexuality, and gender through the lenses of raw emotions and the power of nature. Featuring rarely-heard works by Marion Bauer, Jodi Goble, Sarah Hutchings, and Libby Larsen, this incredible program will be performed by soprano Evangelia Leontis, mezzo soprano Megan Roth, and pianist JJ Penna. Catch us on the road throughout New England, or in the comfort of your own home with the album!
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• Evangelia Leontis, soprano
• Megan Roth, mezzo-soprano
• JJ Penna, piano
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• Keene, NH
• Belmont, MA
• Norwalk, CT
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• Let’s Celebrate!
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• My Little Coquí (Maria) by Iván Enrique Rodríguez
• Jo Dooba So Paar (Khadija) by Omar Najmi
• Puja Kali (Kali) by Avik Sarkar
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• “Let’s Celebrate!” is an annual series drawing on diverse cultural traditions to supplement traditional holiday programming with shows reflective of White Snake Projects’ beautiful and diverse community of artists and opera lovers.
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• This iteration of “Let’s Celebrate!” will be embracing the traditions and stories of Puja Kali (a celebration of the Hindu goddess of death and rebirth, Kali), Eid al-Fitr (the breaking of the feast at Ramadan), Puerto Rico’s coqui frogs, as well as exploring how a multicultural family celebrates Thanksgiving.
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• Ticket and Event Info

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• Cincinnati, OH
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• Bach B Minor Mass
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• Professional Ensemble
• Craig Hella Johnson, conductor
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• Ticket and Event Info

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• Falmouth, MA
• Chestnut Hill, MA
• Newburyport, MA
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• Windswept Seas
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• Set sail with Skylark and GRAMMY®-nominated storyteller Sarah Walker for an exciting adventure on the high seas! Featuring sea shanties, siren songs, and other folk music about life on the water. This thrilling new storytelling concert is sure to make you long for the open ocean.
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• Professional Ensemble
• Matthew Guard, conductor
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• Ticket and Event Info

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• Tucson, AZ
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• Gloria & Bernstein
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• BERNSTEIN, A SUPERSTAR SOPRANO AND THE FRENCH CONNECTION
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• Poulenc: Gloria featuring soprano Nicole Cabell
• Bernstein: Chichester Psalms & Selections from Candide
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• Professional Ensemble
• Eric Holtan, conductor
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• Ticket and Event Info

• Yale Choral Artists
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• New Haven, CT
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• Water Rites
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• Malhaar: A Requiem for Water – Reena Esmail
• Walden Pond – Dominick Argento
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• Professional Ensemble
• Jeffrey Douma, conductor

Recent Engagements

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• New Milford, CT
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• Schubert Mass No. 6 in E-Flat
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• Megan Roth, alto soloist
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• James Knox Sutterfield, conductor

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• New Bedford, NY
• Falmouth, MA
• Greater Boston, MA
• Newburyport, MA
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• Clear Voices in the Dark
• Performances and Recording
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• Featuring Francis Poulenc’s Figure Humaine and songs of the American Civil War
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• This innovative concert program is a powerful cross-cultural statement about the expressive power of the arts, and specifically the human voice, in times of tragedy. Clear Voices in the Dark features Francis Poulenc's masterpiece Figure Humaine, composed in 1942 in occupied France, interspersed with simple yet powerful songs from the American Civil War era.
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• Matthew Guard, conductor

• Jubilate Chorale
• Sunday, May 7, 3:00pm
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• Brockton, MA
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• Duruflé Requiem
• Megan Roth, mezzo-soprano soloist
• Murray Kidd, conductor

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• Belmont, MA
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• Faces of War
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• Throughout history, the terrors of war have torn nations and peoples apart. However, we often forget the collateral damage of war: the havoc wreaked on families, homes, and innocent bystanders. This thought-provoking program explores the often overlooked effects war has on those who cannot control its outcome.
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• Megan Roth, mezzo-soprano
• David Thomas Mather, baritone
• Claire Burreson, soprano
• Sophie Berman, soprano

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• Falmouth, MA
• Greater Boston, MA
• Newburyport, MA
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• Sauntering Songs
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• A love letter to wanderlust
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• Join us for a world premiere commission created by Nell Shaw Cohen for Skylark, weaving together art songs, choral music, and literature into an expansive cantata on the theme of walking. From Walt Whitman to the present day, Sauntering Songs celebrates diverse characters who search for freedom and fulfillment through subversive journeys on foot.
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• Matthew Guard, conductor

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• Green Valley, AZ
• Tucson, AZ
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• RACHMANINOFF Vespers
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• Vespers, also known as The All-Night Vigil, has been praised as Rachmaninoff’s finest achievement. In an explosion of creativity this glorious work poured out of the composer in less than two weeks. A rich tapestry of chants, complex multiple melodies and harmonies, Rachmaninoff’s a cappella masterpiece is a showcase for the entire choir while making a special featuring of the bass voice. For these concerts True Concord gathers the best of these unique lowest-of-low voices—the basso profondo—creating a sound you will FEEL!
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• Eric Holtan, conductor

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• Worcester, MA
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• Remembrances
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• Berlioz La mort de Cléopâtre
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• Artists from Calliope's Call, New England's premier art song organization, join forces with the musicians of the New England Repertory Orchestra for a program of magnificent songs for voice and orchestra at Clark University. Remembrances revolves around the memories of days gone by, both beautiful and painful, to remind us that we are shaped by our pasts, and learn from them to help mold our futures.

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• Green Valley, AZ
• Tucson, AZ
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• HAYDN The Creation
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• Artfully sculpting the English translation to Haydn’s music, these performances feature a new text underlay by True Concord Assistant Director and bass, Philip Moody.
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• Eric Holtan, conductor

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• New Bedford, NY
• Falmouth, MA
• Greater Boston, MA
• Newburyport, MA
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• La Vie en Rose
• A trip to Paris for Valentine's Weekend
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• Join a chamber group of Skylarks to celebrate romantic music inspired by the French capital in our first collaboration with GRAMMY®-nominated pianist Joy Schreier. From beautiful chansons by Debussy and Ravel, to jazz classics from American songwriter Cole Porter, to French singers Edith Piaf and Charles Trenet, and perhaps even a touch of Broadway, La Vie en Rose promises to be a charming musical bon bon for Valentine’s Day weekend.
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• Matthew Guard, conductor

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• NY
• DC
• MA
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• A Christmas Carol
• Northeast Tour
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• Skylark’s spellbinding version of the Charles Dickens Classic
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• In Skylark’s signature Christmas storytelling concert, Skylark again partners with master storyteller Sarah Walker to share our spellbinding musical interpretation of A Christmas Carol, ingeniously scored by composer Benedict Sheehan. Join us to experience a classic in a thrilling new way.
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• Matthew Guard, conductor

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• Lexington, MA
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• Home for the Holidays
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• As the song goes, “there’s no place like home for the holidays,” and there’s nothing quite like a cozy winter’s evening in a New England home. Join us for an intimate evening of festive songs and seasonal treats in the beautiful surroundings of a historic home to kick off the holiday season in style!
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• Evangelia Leontis, soprano
• Gwyneth Rix, soprano
• Megan Roth, mezzo-soprano
• Julia Carey, piano

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• Cincinnati, OH
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• Mass for the Endangered
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• Sarah Kirkland Snider’s six-movement Mass for the Endangered weaves together text from the traditional Latin and original text by Nathaniel Bellows to create a call to action and urgency in the ways we relate to the natural world. By revealing the miracles of life around us, the Mass shows the great responsibility we have to care for a planet that we are all meant to share.
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• Snider explains, “The origin of the Mass is rooted in humanity’s concern for itself, expressed through worship of the divine—which, in the Catholic tradition, is a God in the image of man. Nathaniel and I thought it would be interesting to take the Mass’s musical modes of spiritual contemplation and apply them to concern for non-human life—animals, plants, and the environment. There is an appeal to a higher power—for mercy, forgiveness, and intervention—but that appeal is directed not to God but rather to Nature itself.”
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• Craig Hella Johnson, conductor

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• Falmouth, MA
• Greater Boston, MA
• Newburyport, MA
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• Path of Miracles, Joby Talbot
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• The first choral Masterwork of the 21^st century
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• Joby Talbot’s Path of Miracles takes the listener on a mesmerizing vocal journey across the ancient Camino de Santiago, the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella in Northwest Spain. With its virtuosic score for 17 professional singers, its four varied and theatrical movements named for important cities along the pilgrim’s path, and its moving libretto by poet Robert Dickinson, Path of Miracles has been called “little short of a musical miracle in itself.”
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• Matthew Guard, conductor

• Yale Choral Artists
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• New Haven, CT
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• Extra-Ordinary: Mass settings from Byrd to Weston
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• Cantus Missae (Mass in E-flat) – Josef Rheinberger
• Mass in A Minor – Imogen Holst
• Messe Ancienne – Trevor Weston
• Mass for Four Voices – William Byrd
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• Jeffrey Douma, conductor

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• Marblehead, MA
• Boston, MA
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• With One Voice
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• Calliope’s Call opens the season with a celebration of togetherness through song, a program of chamber music for vocal quartet. Four of Boston’s finest singers join forces to embark on a memorable musical journey, with one voice.
• Featuring works by American composers, Tom Cipullo and Kile Smith, alongside a time-honored favorite, Brahms' Zigeunerlieder.
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• Dana Lynne Varga, soprano
• Megan Roth, mezzo-soprano
• Chance Jonas-O’Toole, tenor
• Tyler Reece, baritone
• Edward Rothmel, piano

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• Boyce, VA
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• La Vie en Rose
• Professional Recording
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• Matthew Guard, conductor

• Yale Choral Artists
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• New Haven, CT
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• Music for Choir and Percussion
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• I Hate and I Love – Dominick Argento
• Memory of Water – Garth Neustadter (world premiere)
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• Newly commissioned work – Hannah Lash
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• With the Percussion Collective, Robert Van Sice, Music Director
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• Jeffrey Douma, conductor

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• Falmouth, MA
• Greater Boston, MA
• Newburyport, MA
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• Rachmaninoff All-Night Vigil
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• An apocryphal story recounts that when conductor Nikolai Danilin first heard Sergei Rachmaninoff play the score for his All-Night Vigil (‘Vespers’), Danilin said “Where am I to get such basses? They are as rare as Asparagus at Christmas!" In the fall of 2019, Skylark presented the greatest masterwork of a cappella music as it had never been heard before: a performance of the finest professional vocalists in the United States anchored by world-renowned basses joining forces for the first time ever. After what was described by many Skylarks as their most profound concert experience ever, we vowed to re-visit the work again soon. Join us again in June 2022 for an encore performance, this time working from a new edition of the score prepared by Artistic Director Matthew Guard and Skylark Soprano Fotina Naumenko.
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• Matthew Guard, conductor

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• Brookline, MA
• Dedham, MA
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• Evolution: The Composer's Journey
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• A special collaboration with renowned soprano Laura Strickling, pairing brand new songs with pieces from earlier in the same composer’s career—a musical “then and now” charting the course of a composer’s unique style.
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• Julia Carey, piano
• Michael Galvin, bass-baritone
• Megan Roth, mezzo-soprano
• Laura Strickling, soprano
• Edward Vogel, baritone

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• Kansas City
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• Awakening New Sounds
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• Collaboration with the Kansas City Youth Chorus
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• Explore a broad range of repertoire for organ and choir Featuring GRAMMY nominee and longtime Spire collaborator Jan Kraybill on organ. Cantos Sagrados by Sir James MacMillan is the central work, which sets poems by Ariel Dorfman and Ana Maria Mendosa about political repression in Latin America combined with traditional religious texts in Latin. Additional selections include music by Rosephanye Powell, Jonathan Dove, Florence Price, Herbert Howells, Benjamin Britten, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Johannes Brahms, and a new world-premiere by Ben A. Spalding. We welcome the Kansas City Youth Chorus (Sunday performance only) as our special guests for this thrilling program which is sure to uplift you long after the final note is played.
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• Ben Spalding, conductor

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• Falmouth, MA
• Greater Boston, MA
• Newburyport, MA
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• Emerald Isle
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• In celebration of St. Patrick’s Day in Greater Boston, join Skylark for a joyful celebration of traditional music from Ireland and other Celtic nations. We are fortunate to have two Skylarks with significant expertise in Celtic music: Fiona Gillespie (Soprano and Irish whistle) and Peter Walker (Bass-baritone, piper, harpist, and collector of unique musical instruments). Join Fiona, Peter, and a chamber group of Skylarks for an evening of airs, ballads, and folksongs.
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• Matthew Guard, conductor

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• Green Valley, AZ
• Tucson, AZ
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• True Concord Voices & Orchestra
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• From the Edge to Hope
• Imagine a world without the hanging threat of climate crisis. This program includes the world premiere of Jake Runestad’s work that explores the threat of inaction and the need for reversal and renewal through our shared commitment to positive change.
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• Eric Holtan, conductor

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