Experience the musical brilliance of Boston's own in this special concert showcasing composers close to home. The program features the works of Boston’s early composers Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, and Leonard Bernstein, whose timeless pieces have left a lasting legacy.

We also celebrate the creativity of established and well-known composers such as Peter Child, John Harbison, Marti Epstein, and Elena Ruhr, whose compositions continue to enrich the musical landscape.

Additionally, discover the fresh and innovative sounds of young up-and-coming composer Omar Najmi, representing the future of Boston's vibrant music scene.

Join us for an evening that honors the past, present, and future of Boston's rich musical heritage.

Scott Perkins:
A Map to the Next World
Noah Horn, Music Director

A Map to the Next World is an ambitious, new, concert-length work about caring for our fragile and precious planet. Composer Scott Perkins takes us on a journey from creation, to destruction, to reconciliation and renewal through a nine-part choir, strings, percussion, and celesta. Drawing upon Indigenous American folklore and using words by seven celebrated poets, environmentalists, activists, and anthropologists—Tamiko Beyer, Rachel Carson, Harold Courlander, Joy Harjo, Rachel Morgan, Jay Parini, and Judith Wright—A Map to the Next World helps to guide us in our continued search for new paths as custodians of the earth.

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In a clever pairing of two chamber operas by famed Italian-American and French composers Menotti and Poulenc, we’ll experience The Telephone and La voix humaine (The Human Voice) in the same evening.

In The Telephone, a man tries repeatedly to get his girlfriend's attention so he can propose. Phone glued to her ear, she refuses to disengage from her conversations until the man makes a call to her himself.

La voix humaine recounts a similar scenario, though this couple is a pair of former lovers. A story replete with deceit, suspicion, and confusion, we are left wondering the true nature of their relationship and what its failure means for us.

As our own world continues down a path of technological revolution—artificial intelligence and virtual reality becoming ever more ingrained—perhaps we can consider that which distracts us from the relationships in our lives that matter most.

In a clever pairing of two chamber operas by famed Italian-American and French composers Menotti and Poulenc, we’ll experience The Telephone and La voix humaine (The Human Voice) in the same evening.

In The Telephone, a man tries repeatedly to get his girlfriend's attention so he can propose. Phone glued to her ear, she refuses to disengage from her conversations until the man makes a call to her himself.

La voix humaine recounts a similar scenario, though this couple is a pair of former lovers. A story replete with deceit, suspicion, and confusion, we are left wondering the true nature of their relationship and what its failure means for us.

As our own world continues down a path of technological revolution—artificial intelligence and virtual reality becoming ever more ingrained—perhaps we can consider that which distracts us from the relationships in our lives that matter most.