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NEC: Jordan Hall

NEC alumna Mary K. Schneider is tonight's guest conductor of the NEC Wind Ensemble in a program of Mozart, Roshanne Etezady, Steven Stucky, and Roberto Sierra. NEC faculty and BSO member Mickey...

Max Roach, drummer
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NEC: Burnes Hall

The NEC Jazz Department celebrates the music of Max Roach, an American jazz drummer and composer. A pioneer of bebop, he worked in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the...

Mahalia Jackson, Michael Ochs
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NEC: Jordan Hall

NEC's CMA department salutes two great voices of the 20th century, Chris Connor and Mahalia Jackson.  This program is curated by Hankus Netsky and Ran Blake

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NEC: Jordan Hall

Tonight the NEC Symphonic Winds, conducted by William Drury and Jackie Hu '24 MM, performs Jonathan Dove's Figures in the Garden and works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Krommer, and Saskia Apon.

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Anna Webber, composer
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NEC: Jordan Hall

Saxophonist, flutist, and composer Anna Webber, whose interests and work live in the aesthetic overlap between avant-garde jazz and new classical music, has been widely heralded for her “visionary and...

Queen of the Night
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NEC: Jordan Hall

NEC opera students join the NEC Philharmonia to present a concert version of Giacomo Puccini's La bohèmeRobert Tweten conducts and Steven Goldstein is the stage director.  Musical preparation was...

Charles Ives studio portrait
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NEC: Williams Hall

Tonight's performance of the complete sonatas for violin and piano by Charles Ives (1874-1954)  is part of NEC's celebration of the 150th anniversary of his birth.[nec]shivaree is joined by guest...

William L. Dawson, composer
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NEC: Jordan Hall

David Loebel and the NEC Symphony mark the first day of Black History Month with a performance of William L. Dawson's 1934 Negro Folk Symphony.  Also on the program is Aaron Copland's Suite from ...

Lotta Wennäkoski, Finnish composer
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NEC: Jordan Hall

Tonight's concert by NEC Philharmonia and Hugh Wolff includes Of Footprints and Light by Finnish composer Lotta Wennäkoski, Mendelssohn's "Scottish" Symphony and Bartók's Concerto for Viola and...

Jazz & CMA Faculty Spotlight Concert
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NEC: Jordan Hall

Faculty members from Jazz Studies and Contemporary Musical Arts present a wide-ranging program that highlights the breadth and depth of the departments with a diverse range of music.