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Italian Night: Mike Guggino and Barrett Smith

Italian Night: Mike Guggino and Barrett Smith

Mike Guggino and Barrett Smith, both members of the Grammy Award-winning band Steep Canyon Rangers, have been performing traditional Italian folk music on the mandolin and guitar for nearly two decades. When Mike and Barrett are touring with the band, they host “Italian Night” performances at local restaurants, music venues, and house concerts. Over the years, these widely popular events have provided them with the perfect setting to develop their own unique musical expression of these exotic, Italian folk... Read More

An Evening with Cole Porter

A glorious tribute to Cole Porter, the gifted composer and lyricist known for songs like “Night and Day” and acclaimed Broadway musicals including Anything Goes and Kiss Me, Kate.

Season Finale: Mahler 3

Scored for large orchestra, women’s and children’s choruses, and mezzo soloist, Mahler’s Third Symphony is a work of magnitude that has been said to transcend nature, man, and God through the pure dramatic force of his music.

Symphonie Fantastique

Symphonie fantastique is an epic for a huge orchestra rumored to have been at least partially written under the influence of opium and recognized by many through its popular use in films. As a part of BMC’s American Voices Festival, Keith Lockhart conducts Chadwick’s “Jubilee” and Randall Goosby performs Florence Price’s rhapsodic Violin Concerto No.... Read More

Sleeping Beauty + Boléro

The romantic and enchanting music of Sleeping Beauty embodies Tchaikovsky’s mastery of orchestration and melodic line. Ravel’s most well-known work Boléro builds suspense from a simple theme and relentless rhythmic structure until the pent-up tension is released perfectly in a glorious burst of musical... Read More

Transfigured Night

Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) is Arnold Schoenberg’s earliest important work. Inspired by Richard Dehmel’s poem of the same name, and influenced by a meeting with the woman who would later become his wife, this fin de siècle String Sextet embodies the rich harmonic and chromatic textures of late German... Read More

Mozart’s Musical Joke

Mozart breaks all the rules in this hilarious work for a string quintet and two French horns. Was he making fun of bad composers and incompetent musicians, or mocking those who adhered a little too close to the conventions of the time? Either way, Mozart entertains with a delightful piece that never takes itself too... Read More

Soloists of Tomorrow

Always the not-to-be-missed concert of the season! Celebrate BMC’s mission and the next generation of classical musicians as our most talented young students are showcased. Winners of the prestigious Jan and Beattie Wood Concerto Competition will be featured, as well as the student composition winner from... Read More

Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet

Sergei Prokofiev’s score for the ballet Romeo and Juliet was originally rejected as “impossible to dance to,” but audiences were so enamored with the orchestral suites that ballet companies ultimately vied for the right of the first production. In the present day, Sergei’s grandson Gabriel Prokofiev is a well-established composer with a large body of orchestral and chamber works to his credit – hear one of his three unique concertos for the... Read More

Dvořák Symphony No. 8

Follow conductor Keith Lockhart on an epic tour of the orchestra’s instruments with Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra before journeying through Dvořák’s lyrical and inspirational Bohemian work, Symphony No. 8, composed in appreciation of his election to the Bohemian Academy of... Read More

Man of La Mancha

“The Impossible Dream” is vibrantly realized in this operatic adaptation of Mitch Leigh’s Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, revealing the idealized story of poet Miguel de Cervantes as he takes on the role of the one and only Don Quixote. Sung in English with... Read More

Man of La Mancha

“The Impossible Dream” is vibrantly realized in this operatic adaptation of Mitch Leigh’s Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, revealing the idealized story of poet Miguel de Cervantes as he takes on the role of the one and only Don Quixote. Sung in English with... Read More