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It is my pleasure to represent the Boston Symphony Orchestra as this year’s Ambassador for the Guide for the Arts, Boston’s comprehensive resource for schedules, seating charts, and special event calendars. The BSO is proud to be a part of Boston’s culturally rich community through its six different components—the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops, Tanglewood, the Tanglewood Music Center, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and Symphony Hall. Through each of these entities, we remain committed to making classical music of the highest quality accessible to audiences of all ages and backgrounds. In addition, we strive to offer individuals throughout the Boston area the opportunity to develop relationships with the BSO through interactive education and community engagement experiences. Our combined institutional efforts allow us to bring music into the lives of more than 18 million people every year. Given Boston’s wide range of cultural offerings, I hope that you will find many ways to enjoy a season of fulfilling and exciting experiences.
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During its 32-year history, The Light Princess the A.R.T. has welcomed many major American and international theater artists, presenting a diverse repertoire that includes premieres of American plays, bold reinterpretations of classical texts, and provocative new music theater productions. The A.R.T. has performed throughout the U.S. and worldwide in 21 cities in 16 countries on four continents. The A.R.T. is also a training ground for young artists. The Theater’s artistic staff teaches undergraduate classes in acting, directing, dramatic literature, dramaturgy, voice, and design at Harvard University. EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT OBERON THE DONKEY SHOW Conceived by RANDY WEINER Directed by DIANE PAULUS & RANDY WEINER The celebrated smash hit The Donkey Show brings you the ultimate disco experience—a crazy circus of mirror balls and feathered divas, of roller skaters and hustle queens inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Come party on the dance floor to all the 70s disco hits you know by heart as the show unfolds around
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you. After the show, the party continues into the night so you can live out your own fantasy of disco fever! DECEMBER 11, 2013 – JANUARY 19, 2014 Loeb Drama Center THE HEART OF ROBIN HOOD Written by DAVID FARR Directed by GISLI ÖRN GARDARSSON In this spectacular rendition of the English legend, the notorious Robin Hood and his band of merry men steal from the rich, but refuse to share with the oppressed peasantry. As the wicked Prince John threatens all of England, it is down to Marion to boldly protect the poor and convert Robin Hood from outlaw to hero. First seen at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2011, this new production is filled with high adventure, epic romance, amazing fight choreography, and an original score inspired by contemporary British folk music. DECEMBER 21, 2013 – JANUARY 5, 2014 Loeb Drama Center THE LIGHT PRINCESS Book by LILA ROSE KAPLAN Music and Lyrics by MIKE PETTRY Directed by ALLEGRA LIBONATI A whimsical tale based on the short story by George MacDonald about a princess who is cursed to not have any gravity. The king and queen must find the princess’s gravity before her 16th birthday, or else the kingdom will fall into the hands of the witch that had cursed her. This world premiere is written for all ages. FEBRUARY 4 – MARCH 16, 2014 Loeb Drama Center WITNESS UGANDA Written by MATT GOULD & GRIFFIN MATTHEWS Directed by DIANE PAULUS
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When Griffin, a young man from New York City volunteers for a project in Uganda, he finds himself on a journey that will change his life forever. Inspired by a true story, this rousing new musical staged by Tony-Award-winning director and A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus exposes the challenges confronted by American aid workers around the world and explores the question: “Is changing the world possible?” APRIL 5 – 27, 2014 OBERON THE SHAPE SHE MAKES Conceived by SUSAN MISNER & JONATHAN BERNSTEIN Choreographed by SUSAN MISNER Written and Directed by JONATHAN BERNSTEIN IN THIS WORLD premiere piece, a precocious 11-year old seeks to understand what she’s inherited from her absent father and neglectful mother. This profoundly moving and heartrending production uses a fusion of dance and theater to explore how the echoes of childhood relentlessly shape our lives. MAY 10 – JUNE 15, 2014 Loeb Drama Center THE TEMPEST Adapted and Directed by AARON POSNER AND TELLER Magic by TELLER Music by TOM WAITS Experience Prospero’s wizardry as never before in this startling production, featuring magic created by Teller (of the legendary duo Penn & Teller). When shipwrecked aristocrats wash up on the shores of Prospero’s strange island, they find themselves immersed in a world of trickery and amazement, where Tom Waits’s Dust Bowl balladry and Teller’s magic animate the spirits and monsters. The Tempest is a co-production with The Smith Center for the Performing Arts in Nevada.
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Tickets & Contact Loeb Drama Center 64 Brattle Street Cambridge, MA 02138 OBERON 2 Arrow Street Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 547-8300 (Box Office) (617) 495-2668 (Administrative Offices) www.americanrepertorytheater.org
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Boston Ballet’s Misa Kuranaga and Jeffrey Cirio Photo: Gene Schiavone internationally acclaimed performances of classical, neoclassical, and contemporary ballets, combined with a dedication to world class dance education and community outreach programs have made the institution a leader in its field, with a 50 year history of promoting excellence and access to dance. Boston Ballet maintains a diverse repertoire ranging from timeless classics such as Marius Petipa’s The Sleeping Beauty and Giselle, John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet, and a rich collection of Balanchine choreography to cutting edge contemporary works by Resident Choreographer Jorma Elo and the visionary Jirí Kylián. Boston Ballet’s nationally acclaimed education programs include Citydance, Taking Steps, and Adaptive Dance. The programs are offered in partnership with the Boston Public Schools and in communities throughout the city and region. NOVEMBER 29 – DECEMBER 29, 2013 THE NUTCRACKER Choreographed by MIKKO NISSINEN Music by PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY FEBRUARY 20 – MARCH 2, 2014 CLOSE TO CHUCK
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Bella Figura Choreographed by JIRÍ KYLIÁN Music by LUKAS FOSS, GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI, ALESSANDRA MARCELLO, ANTONIO VIVALDI & GIUSEPPE TORELLI C. to C. (Close to Chuck) Boston Ballet Premiere Choreographed by JORMA ELO Music by PHILIP GLASS World Premiere Choreographed by JOSÉ MARTINEZ MARCH 13 – 23, 2014 CINDERELLA Boston Ballet Premiere Choreographed by SIR FREDERICK ASHTON Music by SERGEI PROKOFIEV MAY 8 – 18, 2014 PRICKED D.M.J. (1953-1977) American Premiere Choreographed by PETR ZUSKA Music by ANTONÍN DVORÁK, BOHUSLAV MARTINU & LEOŠ JANÁCEK
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Emeralds Music by GABRIEL FAURÉ Rubies Music by IGOR STRAVINSKY Diamonds Music by PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Tickets & Contact Administrative Offices 19 Clarendon Street Boston, MA 02116 (617) 695-6950 (617) 695-6955 (Box Office) Boston Opera House 539 Washington Street Boston, MA 02111 www.bostonballet.org
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Boston Symphony Orchestra
Now in its 133rd Boston Symphony Orchestra Performing with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus at season, the Boston Boston Symphony Hall Symphony Orchestra gave Credit: BSO its inaugural concert in 1881, realizing the dream of its founder, the Civil War veteran/philanthropist Henry Lee Higginson, who envisioned a great and permanent orchestra in his hometown of Boston. Today the BSO reaches millions of listeners, not only through its concert performances in Boston and at Tanglewood, but also via the internet, radio, television, educational programs, recordings, and tours. It commissions works from today’s most important composers; its summer season at Tanglewood is among the world’s most important music festivals; it helps develop future audiences through BSO Youth Concerts and educational outreach programs involving the entire Boston community; and, during the Tanglewood season, it operates the Tanglewood Music Center, one of the world's most important training grounds for young professional-caliber musicians. The Boston Symphony Chamber Players, made up of BSO principals, are known worldwide, and the Boston Pops Orchestra sets an international standard for performances of lighter music.
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JANUARY 9, 2014, 8:00 P.M. JANUARY 10, 2014, 8:00 P.M. JANUARY 11, 2014, 8:00 P.M. ROBERT SPANO, Conductor ORQUESTA LA PASION, MIKAEL RINGQUIST & GONZALO GRAU, Leaders JESSICA RIVERA, Soprano BIELLA DA COSTA, Latin-American Alto REYNALDO GONZALEZ-FERNANDEZ, Afro-Cuban Singer and Dancer DERALDO FERREIRA, Capoeirista and Berimbau MEMBERS OF THE SCHOLA CANTORUM DE VENEZUELA Golijov, La Pasión según San Marcos Atlanta Symphony Orchestra music director Robert Spano returns to lead a work that was given its United States premiere by the BSO under his direction in 2001—Osvaldo Golijov’s La Pasión según San Marcos (“The Passion According to St. Mark”). Golijov’s vibrant, immediate, pan-Latin American approach draws on multiple musical and Christian traditions in presenting this universal narrative. The BSO is joined by a cast of stylistically diverse performers central to the original creation of this remarkable piece. JANUARY 14, 2014, 8:00 P.M. MEMBERS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA RICHARD GOODE, Piano ALL-MOZART PROGRAM Serenade No. 6 in D for Strings, K.239 Serenata notturna Piano Quartet in E-flat, K.493 Serenade No. 10 in B-flat for Winds, K.361, “Gran Partita” This special all-Mozart program brings intimate, smaller ensemble works to Symphony Hall. Pianist Richard Goode, renowned for his interpretation of Mozart’s piano music, joins BSO players for a work considered one of the composer’s greatest chamber music masterpieces, the Piano Quartet in E-flat. Also on the program are two popular serenades, multi-movement works designed for entertainment during parties.
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JANUARY 16, 2014, 8:00 P.M. JANUARY 17, 2014, 1:30 P.M. JANUARY 18, 2014, 8:00 P.M. CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH, Conductor and Piano Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 12 in A, K.414 Bruckner, Symphony No. 9 German conductorpianist Christoph Eschenbach returns as both soloist and conductor for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 12, a work of chambermusical understatement and surpassing elegance. On the other end of the symphonic scale is Bruckner’s magisterial Symphony No. 9, a work left incomplete (in just three movements) at the composer’s death in 1896. This cathedral-like symphony shows the continuing influence of Wagner in its harmonic language and scope, combined with the particular Austrian lyricism and gift for counterpoint for which Bruckner was known. JANUARY 23, 2014, 8:00 P.M. JANUARY 24, 2014, 1:30 P.M. JANUARY 25, 2014, 8:00 P.M. ANDRIS POGA, Conductor GARRICK OHLSSON, Piano Wagner, Overture to Rienzi Justin Dello Joio, Piano Concerto (World Premiere; BSO Co-Commission) Shostakovich, Symphony No. 15
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For his first full BSO subscription concerts, Latvian BSO Assistant Conductor Andris Poga is joined by eminent American pianist Garrick Ohlsson for the third newly commissioned work of the 2013–14 season, Justin Dello Joio’s Piano Concerto. The Piano Concerto is a joint commission of the BSO and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. Opening the program is Wagner’s boisterous overture to his early opera Rienzi. Shostakovich’s final symphony, No. 15, closes the program. JANUARY 30, 2014, 8:00 P.M. JANUARY 31, 2014, 1:30 P.M. FEBRUARY 1, 2014, 8:00 P.M. BERNARD HAITINK, Conductor SUSAN GRAHAM, Mezzo-Soprano TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS, Conducted by JOHN OLIVER ALL-RAVEL PROGRAM Alborada del gracioso Shéhérazade Daphnis et Chloé (complete) BSO Conductor Emeritus Bernard Haitink leads two consecutive weeks of concerts this season, beginning with an all-Ravel program featuring the dazzling mezzo-soprano Susan Graham as soloist in the atmospheric orchestral song cycle Shéhérazade. The composer’s Spanish-tinged, pictorial Alborada del gracioso opens the program, and the work Ravel considered his best, the complete “symphonie choreographique” Daphnis and Chloé, concludes it. FEBRUARY 6, 2014, 8:00 P.M. FEBRUARY 7, 2014, 1:30 P.M. FEBRUARY 8, 2014, 8:00 P.M. BERNARD HAITINK, Conductor MURRAY PERAHIA, Piano Stucky, Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, after Purcell Schumann, Piano Concerto Brahms, Symphony No. 4
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BSO Conductor Emeritus Bernard Haitink is joined by revered American pianist Murray Perahia for the powerful and lyrical Piano Concerto of Robert Schumann. Schumann wrote this piece over several years. Schumann’s protégé Johannes Brahms waited until his forties to complete a first symphony, but all four of his works in the genre remain central to the orchestral repertoire. In characteristic understatement, Brahms downplayed the intense, minor-mode Fourth. Opening the program is a wind ensemble re-composition, created by the American, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Steven Stucky of the 17th-century Englishman Henry Purcell’s funeral music for Queen Mary. FEBRUARY 14, 2014, 8:00 P.M. FEBRUARY 15, 2014, 8:00 P.M. FEBRUARY 16, 2014, 3:00 P.M. DAVID NEWMAN, Conductor Bernstein, West Side Story Experience a thrilling new presentation of this iconic film. The Boston Symphony plays Leonard Bernstein’s electrifying score live, while the newly re-mastered film is shown on large screens in high definition with the original vocals and dialogue intact. This classic romantic tragedy is one of the greatest achievements in the history of movie musicals. FEBRUARY 20, 2014, 10:30 A.M. & 8:00 P.M. FEBRUARY 21, 2014, 1:30 P.M. FEBRUARY 22, 2014, 8:00 P.M. MANFRED HONECK, Conductor ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER, Violin DvoRák, Romance for Violin and Orchestra DvoRák, Violin Concerto Beethoven, Symphony No. 3, “Eroica” The peerless German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter joins the BSO and Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck, music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, for two works by Dvorák: his Violin Concerto and the Romance for Violin and Orchestra, which began life as the slow movement of the composer’s F Minor String Quartet. Honeck also leads Beethoven’s groundbreaking Eroica Symphony, inspired by Napoleon’s rise to power. www.GuidefortheArts.com
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MARCH 6, 2014, 8:00 P.M. ANDRIS NELSONS, Conductor GUN-BRIT BARKMIN, Soprano (Salome) GERHARD SIEGEL, Tenor (Herod) EVGENY NIKITIN, Bass-Baritone (Jochanaan) Strauss, Salome Concert performance in German with English supertitles BSO Music Director Designate Andris Nelsons leads a stellar cast in this special, one-night-only concert performance of Salome, Richard Strauss’s 1905 leap into modernism. The libretto is a nearly exact German translation of Oscar Wilde’s lurid amplification of the well-known Biblical story of Herodias’ young daughter Salome, who dances for King Herod and in return demands the head of John the Baptist. The opera’s highly innovative music matches the psychological ambiguity and intensity of the plot. MARCH 8, 2014, 8:00 P.M. MEMBERS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA MENAHEM PRESSLER, Piano ALL-MOZART PROGRAM Serenade No. 6 in D for Strings, K.239 Serenata notturna Piano Quartet in G Minor, K.478 Serenade No. 10 in B-flat for Winds, K.361, “Gran Partita” Acclaimed for decades as a founding member of the Beaux Arts Trio, eminent pianist Menahem Pressler—who turns ninety in December 2013—joins members of the BSO for an intimate all-Mozart program of smaller ensemble works, including the Piano Quartet in E-flat, considered one of the composer’s greatest chamber music masterpieces.
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MARCH 13, 2014, 8:00 P.M. MARCH 14, 2014, 8:00 P.M. CHRISTOPH VON DOHNÁNYI, Conductor YEFIM BRONFMAN, Piano ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM Leonore Overture No. 1 Piano Concerto No. 1 Piano Concerto No. 2 German conductor Christoph von Dohnányi and the Soviet-born, Israeli-American pianist Yefim Bronfman collaborate with the BSO in a series of three all-Beethoven programs. This first program features the first two piano concertos—No. 2 and No. 1, a more mature work showing Beethoven’s independence of style within the language of Mozart and Haydn. The Leonore Overture No. 1 was actually the third overture written by Beethoven for his opera Leonore (eventually revised as Fidelio), for a projected 1807 Prague performance of the opera that never took place. As a result, the overture was not heard until nearly a year after Beethoven’s death, and today remains a rarity event in the concert hall.
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CHRISTOPH VON DOHNÁNYI, Conductor YEFIM BRONFMAN, Piano ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM Leonore Overture No. 2 Piano Concerto No. 3 Piano Concerto No. 4 For the second of this three-program series presenting Beethoven’s piano concertos, Yefim Bronfman, Christoph von Dohnányi, and the BSO join forces for the composer’s Third and Fourth concertos. With the stormy, C minor Third (1801), Beethoven acknowledges a direct debt to Mozart’s C minor concerto (No. 24) while asserting his own musical personality. The Fourth Concerto, completed in 1806, begins surprisingly with unaccompanied piano. Opening the concert is Beethoven’s dramatic Leonore Overture No. 2—actually the first of the Leonore overtures to be composed, for the original 1805 version of the opera that ultimately became Fidelio. MARCH 20, 2014, 8:00 P.M. MARCH 21, 2014, 1:30 P.M. MARCH 22, 2014, 8:00 P.M. CHRISTOPH VON DOHNÁNYI, Conductor YEFIM BRONFMAN, Piano GUY BRAUNSTEIN, Violin ALISA WEILERSTEIN, Cello ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM Leonore Overture No. 3 Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor” In these final concerts of the BSO’s Beethoven mini-festival, Christoph von Dohnányi and Yefim Bronfman are joined by violinist
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Guy Braunstein in his BSO debut and acclaimed American cellist Alisa Weilerstein for the composer’s Triple Concerto, an easygoing, classically balanced, middle-period work. Bronfman is also soloist in one of the greatest of all concertos, Beethoven’s Emperor (1809), a sprawling, powerful, symphonically conceived work requiring sparkling virtuosity. The program begins with Beethoven’s powerful Leonore Overture No. 3—the one most frequently heard in concert, composed originally for the 1806, revised version of Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio. MARCH 27, 2014, 8:00 P.M. MARCH 28, 2014, 1:30 P.M. MARCH 29, 2014, 8:00 P.M. ANDREW DAVIS, Conductor YUJA WANG, Piano Vaughan WILLIAMS, Symphony No. 6 Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No. 2 Rimsky-Korsakov, Capriccio espagnol English conductor Sir Andrew Davis returns to the BSO podium with music by his great 20th-century compatriot Ralph Vaughan Williams—the dark and powerful Symphony No. 6, composed at the end of World War II. Sir Andrew and the BSO are then joined by the exciting, Beijing-born pianist Yuja Wang for Prokofiev’s youthful Piano Concerto No. 2. Closing the concert is the scintillatingly orchestrated, romantic Capriccio espagnol by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. APRIL 3, 2014, 8:00 P.M. APRIL 4, 2014, 1:30 P.M. APRIL 5, 2014, 8:00 P.M. APRIL 8, 2014, 8:00 P.M. ROBERT SPANO, Conductor JONATHAN BISS, Piano Debussy, Nuages and Fêtes from Nocturnes Bernard RANDS, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (World Premiere; BSO Commission) Rachmaninoff, Symphonic Dances
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Robert Spano leads the orchestra’s final world premiere of 2013–14, Bernard Rands’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, a BSO commission composed for the probing American pianist Jonathan Biss. Claude Debussy’s Nuages and Fêtes are two contrasting movements from the impressionistic orchestral Nocturnes. Rachmaninoff wrote his colorful final work, Symphonic Dances, in 1940 for the Philadelphia Orchestra. APRIL 10, 2014, 8:00 P.M. APRIL 11, 2014, 1:30 P.M. APRIL 12, 2014, 8:00 P.M. DANIELE GATTI, Conductor BSO SOLOISTS TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS, Conducted by JOHN OLIVER J.S. Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F, BWV 1046 Stravinsky, Symphony of Psalms Beethoven, Elegiac Song, for Chorus and Strings Beethoven, Symphony No. 4 ITALIAN CONDUCTOR DANIELE GATTI leads a diverse program featuring BSO players as oboe, horn, and violin soloists in Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 1, one of the great works of the Baroque era. Gatti and the BSO are joined by the Tanglewood Festival Chorus for two works: Stravinsky’s austerely beautiful Symphony of Psalms and Beethoven’s Elegiac Song. Closing the program is Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4, one of his most consistently good-natured symphonies. APRIL 17, 2014, 10:30 A.M. & 8:00 P.M. APRIL 18, 2014, 8:00 P.M. APRIL 19, 2014, 8:00 P.M. LORIN MAAZEL, Conductor Mozart, Symphony No. 38, “Prague” (Apr.17 and 19 only) Mahler, Symphony No. 5 Famed American conductor Lorin Maazel conducts the final three weeks of the BSO’s 2013–14 season. On April 17 and 19, he leads Mozart’s elegant Prague Symphony. Anchoring these
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concerts is Mahler’s Symphony No. 5. Composed in 1901–02 following Mahler’s intensive study of Bach’s counterpoint, the Fifth, was the composer’s first completely instrumental symphony since No. 1. APRIL 22, 2014, 8:00 P.M. APRIL 24, 2014, 8:00 P.M. LORIN MAAZEL, Conductor BEHZOD ABDURAIMOV, Piano Mussorgsky, Night on Bare Mountain Rachmaninoff, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 5 Lorin Maazel begins the penultimate program of the BSO’s 2013–14 season with Mussorgsky’s eerie and thrilling Night on Bare Mountain, and finishes with Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, the second of his popular last three symphonies, all representing powerful musical takes on the subject of fate. In between comes Rachmaninoff’s characterful and inventive Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini for piano and orchestra, with the young Uzbek-born pianist Behzod Abduraimov making his BSO debut. APRIL 25, 2014, 1:30 P.M. APRIL 26, 2014, 8:00 P.M. LORIN MAAZEL, Conductor BEHZOD ABDURAIMOV, Piano Glinka, Overture to Russlan and Ludmila Rachmaninoff, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique To close the BSO’s 2013–14 season, Lorin Maazel leads another program showcasing the orchestra’s stylistically wideranging virtuosity. These concerts open with the breathless overture to Glinka’s 1842 opera Ruslan and Ludmila, followed by Rachmaninoff’s ever-popular Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, again featuring the young Uzbek-born pianist Behzod Abduraimov. The program closes with a work central to the BSO’s repertoire— Berlioz’s innovative Symphonie fantastique.
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Tickets For 2013/14 subscriptions and individual tickets call SymphonyCharge at (617) 266-1200, (888) 266-1200 (voice), or (617) 638-9289 (TDD/TTY), order tickets online at www.bso.org, or visit the Symphony Hall Box Office. Contact Boston Symphony Orchestra 301 Massachusetts Avenue Boston, MA 02115 (617) 266-1492 (Customer Service) www.bso.org
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deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
Established in 1950, Ethan Murrow, Make No Parley, 2012, Graphite on Paper, 30 x 60 deCordova Sculpture Park and inches. Museum is the largest park Courtesy of the artist and La of its kind in New England Galerie Particulière. encompassing 30 acres, 20 miles northwest of Boston. In 2009, deCordova changed its name from deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park to deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum to emphasize its renewed focus on sculpture and to support the institution’s goal of becoming a premier Sculpture Park by 2020. Providing a constantly changing landscape of large-scale, outdoor, modern and contemporary sculpture and site-specific installations, the Sculpture Park hosts more than 60 works, the majority of which are on loan to the Museum. Inside, the Museum features a robust slate of rotating exhibitions and innovative interpretive programming.
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THE 2013 deCORDOVA BIENNIAL OCTOBER 9, 2013 – APRIL 13, 2014 The 2013 deCordova Biennial is a survey exhibition focused on art-making in New England today. Showcasing sculptors and painters alongside filmmakers and installation artists whose practices traverse a wide range of subject matter, the Biennial fills four floors of the Museum and extends into the Sculpture Park. These artworks variously invite visitors to consider how history is written, the nature of perception, abstraction today, and the current state of biennial participation. Ultimately, the Biennial aims to demonstrate the active, ambitious art scene that exists across New England today. RED, YELLOW AND BLUE NOVEMBER 1, 2013 – SEPTEMBER 1, 2014 2011 Rappaport Prize recipient Orly Genger’s monumental installation Red, Yellow and Blue is among deCordova’s largest and most ambitious installations to date. Red, Yellow and Orly Genger, Red, Yellow and Blue, 2013, at Blue features Genger’s Madison Square Park, New York. Courtesy James Ewing Photography. renowned usage of handknotted, paint-covered rope, configured in bright, undulating walls in three primary colors that wind through deCordova’s 30-acre lawn, pathways, and hillsides.
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PLATFORM 12: AARON STEPHAN SECONDHAND UTOPIAS JULY 10, 2013 – APRIL 1, 2014 Aaron Stephan recreates iconic twentieth-century sculptures in the everyday materials of deCordova’s architecture and facilities. Stephan uses the Sculpture Park’s railings and trash barrels to recontextualize modern sculptural masterpieces into the reality of a working sculpture park. In doing so, the installation explores how these abstract forms, embodying utopian ideals that have informed the history of contemporary sculpture, can live within their environment rather than outside of it. CHARACTER STUDY MARCH 16, 2013 – APRIL 6, 2014 Over the past few years, deCordova has welcomed a fascinating cast of characters into its Permanent Collection—images by and of talented artists and performers, as well as portrayals of everyday people packed with personality. Character Study features several of the Museum’s most recent acquisitions accompanied by the works of contemporary artists similarly captivated by the concept of character. Tickets and Contact DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park 51 Sandy Pond Road Lincoln, MA 01773 (781) 259-8355 www.decordova.org
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A principal leader of Handel and Haydn Society Artistic Director, Harry Christophers Boston’s arts community Photo: Stu Rosner since 1815, the Handel and Haydn Society is dedicated to its mission to perform Baroque and Classical music at the highest level of artistic excellence and to share that music with as large and diverse an audience as possible through concert performances at Symphony and Jordan Halls, tours, recordings, radio broadcasts, and outreach initiatives for students and underserved communities. DECEMBER 14, 2013, 11:00 A.M. & 2:00 P.M. The Great Hall at Faneuil Hall HOLIDAY SING JOHN FINNEY, Conductor Handel and Haydn welcomes families to celebrate the holidays with the returning Holiday Sing. Associate Conductor and Chorusmaster John Finney and the H&H chorus and children’s choirs invite audiences to sing along with holiday favorites at Boston’s historic Great Hall in Faneuil Hall. DECEMBER 19, 2013, 8:00 P.M. DECEMBER 22, 2013, 3:00 P.M. NEC’s Jordan Hall
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A BACH CHRISTMAS SCOTT METCALFE, Conductor PERIOD INSTRUMENT ORCHESTRA & CHORUS Martin Luther, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland Michael Praetorius, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (from Polyhymnia caduceatrix) J.S. Bach, Cantata 62, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland J.C. Bach, Lieber Herr Gott, wecke uns auf J.L. Bach, Overture from Suite in G Major J.B. Bach, Suite No. 2 in G Major Praetorius, Vom Himmel hoch (from Polyhymnia caduceatrix) Praetorius, Puer natus in Bethlehem (from Polyhymnia caduceatrix) Samuel Scheidt, Gelobet seystu Jesu Christ a 8 Praetorius, In dulci jubilo a 8 (from Musae Sioniae) Blue Heron music director Scott Metcalfe makes his H&H debut in this festive program featuring Bach’s Cantata 62, composed for the first Sunday of Advent, and music from the 17th century German tradition, one of Metcalfe’s specialties. JANUARY 24, 2014, 8:00 P.M. JANUARY 26, 2014, 3:00 P.M. Symphony Hall BEETHOVEN, SYMPHONY NO. 4 RICHARD EGARR, Conductor ALISON BALSOM, Trumpet PERIOD INSTRUMENT ORCHESTRA Hayden, Symphony No. 104, “London” Hayden, Trumpet Concerto W.F.E. Bach, Symphony in G Major Beethoven, Symphony No. 4 Richard Egarr returns to the stage to treat audiences to Haydn’s final symphony and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4. Trumpet superstar Alison Balsom makes her H&H debut in Haydn’s groundbreaking concerto.
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FEBRUARY 21, 2014, 8:00 P.M. FEBRUARY 23, 2014, 3:00 P.M. Symphony Hall VIVALDI GLORIA HARRY CHRISTOPHERS, Conductor NATHALIE PAULIN, Soprano PERIOD INSTRUMENT ORCHESTRA & CHORUS YOUNG WOMEN’S CHORUS & YOUNG MEN’S CHORUS Handel, Overture to Saul Vivaldi, Ostro picta, armata spina RV642 Vivaldi, Gloria in D Vivaldi, Sinfonia dalla Dorilla in tempe Handel, Salve Regina Handel, Foundling Hospital Anthem Harry Christophers and the Period Instrument Orchestra and Chorus are joined by soprano Nathalie Paulin and members of H&H’s Young Women’s and Young Men’s Choruses for a program highlighted Handel and Haydn Society Period by Vivaldi’s Gloria. The Instrument Orchestra Photo: Kyle T. Hemingway program closes with Handel’s inspiring Foundling Hospital Anthem, which ends with the “Hallelujah” chorus from Messiah. MARCH 14, 2014, 8:00 P.M. MARCH 16, 2014, 3:00 P.M. NEC’s Jordan Hall BACH AND BYRD HARRY CHRISTOPHERS, Conductor HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY CHORUS
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Plainsong, Veni creator spiritus Byrd, Laudibus in sanctis Bach, Bist du bei mir Bach, Jesu meine freude Bach, Komm, Jesu Komm Byrd, Ye sacred muses Byrd, Agnes Dei Byrd, Ave verum corpus Bach, Singet dem herrn H&H’s superb chorus shines in a special program of joyful vocal works by J.S. Bach and William Byrd, celebrating their great vocal traditions. Come hear why Harry Christophers and the H&H chorus are considered the finest in New England. APRIL 4, 2014, 8:00 P.M. NEC’s Jordan Hall APRIL 6, 2014, 3:00 P.M. Sanders Theatre MENDELSSOHN’S LIBRARY AISSLINN NOSKY, Violin and Leader PERIOD INSTRUMENT ORCHESTRA Handel, Concerto Grosso in B Minor, Op. 6, No. 12 J.S. Bach, Concerto for 2 Violins, Strings, and Continuo in D Minor, BWV 1043 C.P.E. Bach, Sinfonia in B-flat Major, Wq. 182, No. 2 Mendelssohn, Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra in D Minor Mendelssohn’s extensive personal music library in Leipzig contained works by composers from Handel to Mozart, whose compositions greatly influenced the composer early in his life. Electrifying concertmaster Aisslinn Nosky leads her fellow string players in a chamber program of Baroque and Classical works by these composers. MAY 2, 2014, 7:30 P.M. MAY 4, 2014, 3:00 P.M. Symphony Hall HANDEL SAMSON
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HARRY CHRISTOPHERS, Conductor JOSHUA ELLICOTT, Tenor (Samson) JOÉLIE HARVEY, Soprano (Dalila) CATHERINE WYN-ROGERS, Alto (Micah) MATTHEW BROOK, Bass-Baritone (Manoah) DASHON BURTON, Bass-Baritone (Harapha) PERIOD INSTRUMENT ORCHESTRA & CHORUS Handel, Samson Handel’s dramatic oratorio Samson features epic instrumental color and sumptuous vocal writing that showcases Handel’s virtuosity. For this stunning season finale, Harry Handel and Haydn Society Chorus Christophers is joined Photo: Kyle T. Hemingway by an international cast of exceptional singers alongside the Period Instrument Orchestra and Chorus. Premiered in the U.S. by H&H in 1845, the oratorio tells the well-known Biblical story of the imprisoned hero who falls powerless after his wife, Dalila, cuts off his hair. MAY 15, 2014, 7:30 P.M. MAY 16, 2014, 8:00 P.M. MAY 17, 2014, 8:00 P.M. MAY 18, 2014, 3:00 P.M. Citi Performing Arts Center Shubert Theatre ACIS & GALATEA NICHOLAS MCGEGAN, Conductor THOMAS COOLEY, Tenor (Acis) SHEREZADE PANTHAKI, Soprano (Galatea) DOUGLAS WILLIAMS, Bass-Baritone (Polyphemus) ZACH FINKELSTEIN, Tenor (Damon)
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PERIOD INSTRUMENT ORCHESTRA & CHORUS MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP H&H performs with Mark Morris Dance Group for the first time since 1996 in a Celebrity Series of Boston presentation of the new, fully staged production of Mozart’s arrangement of Handel’s opera Acis & Galatea by director and choreographer Mark Morris and the Mark Morris Dance Group. Celebrated visual artist and scenic designer Adrianne Lobel, fashion icon and costume designer Isaac Mizrahi, and acclaimed lighting designer Michael Chybowski will set the stage for this epic tale set along the banks of the Mediterranean Sea. Tickets & Contact 300 Massachusetts Avenue Boston, MA 02115 (617) 262-1815 (General) (617) 266-3605 (Box Office) www.handelandhaydn.org
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Harvard Art Museums
The Harvard Art MUSEUMS, Rendering of Harvard Art Museum building renovation, among the world’s leading art view from Prescott Street institutions, comprise three Credit: Harvard Art Museums museums (Fogg, BuschReisinger, and Arthur M. Sackler) and four research centers (Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art, the Harvard Art Museums Archives, and the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis). Together, the collections include approximately 250,000 objects in all media. The Harvard Art Museums are distinguished by the range and depth of their collections, their groundbreaking exhibitions, and the original research of their staff. Integral to Harvard University and the wider community, the museums and research centers serve as resources for students, scholars, and the public. For more than a century they have been the nation’s premier training ground for museum professionals and are renowned for their seminal role in developing the discipline of art history in this country. Closed for renovations until Fall 2014
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JANUARY 3 – FEBRUARY 2, 2014 Avenue of the Arts – BU Theature VENUS IN FUR Written by DAVID IVES Directed by DANIEL GOLDSTEIN Vanda has her eyes on the lead role in Venus in Fur, an adaptation of the classic erotic novel. Her charged audition for the director becomes an electrifying game of cat and mouse—and the lines blur between fantasy and reality, seduction and power, love and sex. This hilarious and sexy new comedy was a smash Broadway hit. MARCH 7 – APRIL 6, 2014 Avenue of the Arts – BU Theatre THE SEAGULL Written by ANTON CHEKHOV Directed by NICHOLAS MARTIN Featuring KATE BURTON Nicholas Martin and Kate Burton (The Corn is Green and The Cherry Orchard)—renowned interpreters of Chekhov’s blend of humor and pathos—reunite for this emotionally rich classic. Celebrated actress Irina Arkadina’s visit to her aspiring playwright son with her successful novelist lover in tow kindles unrequited passions and petty jealousies in Anton Chekhov’s masterpiece about love, missed connections, and what it means to be an artist. Burton’s son Morgan Ritchie, who appeared with her in The Corn is Green, plays Arkadina’s son Konstantin. MARCH 28 – APRIL 26, 2014 South End – Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA BECOMING CUBA Written by MELINDA LOPEZ Directed by M. BEVIN O’GARA In 1898 Cuba, on the eve of the Spanish-American War, spirited widow Adela runs a pharmacy, indifferent to the mounting conflict around her. But when the rebellion comes home to Havana, she must choose between loyalty to country or to family. By
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turns funny, steamy, and political, this powerful new drama from Playwright-in-Residence Melinda Lopez (Sonia Flew) asks whether freedom is something we all want. Huntington Associate Producer M. Bevin O’Gara directs. MAY 23 – JUNE 21, 2014 South End – Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA SMART PEOPLE Written by LYDIA R. DIAMOND Directed by PETER DUBOIS Are our beliefs and prejudices hard-wired into us? Four Harvard intellectuals – a doctor, an actress, a psychologist, and a neurobiologist studying the human brain’s response to race – search for love, success, and identity in a complex world. With barbed wit, Huntington Playwriting Fellow Lydia R. Diamond (Stick Fly) explores the inescapable nature of racism and other tricky topics in this controversial and fiercely funny new play that will be directed by Huntington Artistic Director Peter DuBois (Rapture, Blister, Burn and Sons of the Prophet). Tickets & Contact Avenue of the Arts – BU Theature 264 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115 (617) 266-7900 (General) (617) 266-0800 (Box Office) www.huntingtontheatre.org
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Institute of Contemporary Art
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For more than The Refusal of Time, 2012 A collaboration with Philip Miller, a half century, the Catherine Meyburgh and Peter Galison. ICA has presented Five-channel video with sound, 30 min, with contemporary art megaphones and breathing machine ('elephant'). Installation at MAXXI Museo nazionale delle in all media—visual arti del XXI secolo, Roma.Image courtesy of arts, film and video, Fondazione MAXXI. performance, and Photo by Matteo Monti literature—and created educational programs that encourage an appreciation for contemporary culture. Throughout the ICA’s history it has been at the fore in identifying and supporting the most important artists of its time and bringing them to public attention. AMY SILLMAN: ONE LUMP OR TWO THROUGH JANUARY 5, 2014 This exhibition traces the development of Sillman’s work over the past 25 years—from her early use of cartoon figures and a vivacious palette, through to her exploration of the diagrammatic line, the history of Abstract Expressionism, and a growing concern with the bodily and erotic dimensions of paint. The exhibition focuses on the importance of drawing in Sillman’s practice, as well as the intensity with which she has embraced the dichotomy between figuration and abstraction.
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LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER: WITNESS NOVEMBER 13, 2013 – MARCH 2, 2014 LaToya Ruby Frazier’s stunning black-and-white photographs explore the psychological connections of intergenerational relationships within her family and community. Over the past nine years, Frazier has focused on images that deal directly with issues of access to health care and the social, economic, and environmental decline of the town of Braddock, the working-class Pittsburgh suburb where the artist was born and raised. CHRISTINA RAMBERG NOVEMBER 13, 2013 – MARCH 2, 2014 A central figure in the history of feminist art, Christina Ramberg explored traditional notions of beauty and their relationship to our bodies in her paintings from the 1960s and 70s, exhibiting a wide range of influences including costume history, surrealism, outsider art, Pop art, and comics. EXPANDING THE FIELD OF PAINTING THROUGH OCTOBER 2014 The exhibition examines key transformations in the practice of painting since the 1970s. MULTIPLE MOURNING ROOM: MIRRORED THROUGH MARCH 2014 In this monumental installation, Haegue Yang—in collaboration with Manuel Raeder—examines the copious hours travelers idle in airports, the symbol of global transience of our age. Tickets & Contact Institute of Contemporary Art 100 Northern Avenue Boston, MA 02210 (617) 478-3100 (General) (617) 478-3103 (Box Office) www.icaboston.org
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View of the new Renzo PianoIsabella Stewart he isabella stewart gardner designed wing of the Isabella Stewart View of the new Renzo Gardner, known Gardner Museum Museum displays an art Piano-designed wing also as “Mrs. Jack” Photo: Nic Lehoux, 2012 of the Isabella Stewart collection of world importance, in reference to her Gardner Museum. including works that rank among the husband, John L. Photo Courtesy: most significant their type. Isabella (“Jack”) Gardner,ofwas one of the foremost female patrons of the 2012 Nic Lehoux, Stewart Gardner collected and carefully arts. She was a patron and friend of leading artists and writers of displayed a collection comprised of more James McNeill Whistler, her time, including John Singer Sargent, thanHenry 2,500 objects—paintings, sculpture,of community social and James. She was a supporter furniture,and textiles, drawings, silver,She ceramics, services cultural enrichment. was anilluminated ardent fan of the manuscripts, rare books, photographs, and letters—from Boston Symphony, the Red Sox, and Harvard College football. ancient Rome, Italy, Asia,of what Isabella StewartMedieval GardnerEurope, was alsoRenaissance the visionary creator the Islamic 19th century France and America. remains oneworld, of theand most remarkable and intimate collections of art Built evoke a 15th century Venetian palace,ofthe museum in thetoworld today and a dynamic supporter artists of her time, itself providesmusic, an atmospheric Stewart encouraging literature, setting dance, for andIsabella creative thinking across Gardner’s inventive creation. artistic disciplines. Historical and scholarly endeavors at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, directed by the Curator of the THE INSCRUTABLE EYE: WATERCOLORS BY JOHN SINGER Collection,IN explore the museum’s permanent collection SARGENT ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER’S COLLECTION and the context of Isabella Stewart time in order OCTOBER 31, 2013 – JANUARY 20, Gardner’s 2014 to encourage new ways of thinking about art and culture. The Gardner Museum’s collection offers a rich trove of works Exhibitions examine historical and social perspectives by John Singer Sargent. Best known are his legendary Portrait of of works of art, resulting in a truly enriching experience Isabella Stewart the monumental El Jaleo, for visitors to theGardner and museum. The permanent collection is but dozens of other works of byinspiration Sargent arefor displayed throughout today a source educators, thinkers, the andgalleries.
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This exhibition offers a look at the vibrant watercolors Sargent made for his own pleasure that were avidly collected by Gardner towards the end of her life. With their brilliant technique and fresh colors, these pictures reveal the stupendous qualities of Sargent’s draftsmanship. This exhibition brings together for the first time a selection of watercolors and personal artifacts that shed light on the lifelong friendship between Gardner and Sargent based on their shared passion for art. SOPHIE CALLE: LAST SEEN OCTOBER 24, 2013 – MARCH 3, 2014 Sophie Calle: Last Seen will include Calle’s 1991 Gardnerinspired work on display for the first time at the Gardner, as well as new work created in 2012. The 14 photographic and text-based works in Last Seen consist of two distinct series. The first, created in 1991, titled Last Seen… is a series of photographs and texts created shortly after the 1990 theft during which 13 objects were stolen from the Museum. The second series, titled What Do You See?, includes new work that Calle made in 2012 at the Museum while revisiting the earlier project. Tickets & Contact Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 280 The Fenway Boston, MA 02115 (617) 566-1401 (General) (617) 278-5156 (Box Office) www.gardnermuseum.org
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JOHN SINGER SARGENT WATERCOLORS OCTOBER 13, 2013 – JANUARY 20, 2014 “To live with Sargent’s watercolours is to live with sunshine captured and held,” according to the painter’s first biographer. Presenting more than 90 of Sargent’s dazzling works, this exhibition, co-organized John Singer Sargent, Simplon Pass: with the Brooklyn Reading, about 1911. Translucent and Museum, combines opaque watercolor, with wax resist, over graphite on paper. for the first time the The Hayden Collection—Charles Henry two most significant Hayden Fund. collections of watercolor paintings by John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), images created by a consummate artist with daring compositional strategies and a complex technique. John Singer Sargent Watercolors also celebrates a century of Sargent watercolors at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. SHE WHO TELLS A STORY: WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS FROM IRAN AND THE ARAB WORLD AUGUST 27, 2013 – JANUARY 12, 2014 She Who Tells a Story introduces the pioneering work of twelve leading women photographers from Iran and the Arab world: Jananne Al-Ani, Boushra Almutawakel, Gohar Dashti, Rana El Nemr, Lalla Essaydi, Shadi Ghadirian, Tanya Habjouqa, Rula Halawani, Nermine Hammam, Rania Matar, Shirin Neshat, and Newsha Tavakolian.
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AMERICAN GESTURES: ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM SEPTEMBER 21, 2013 – JUNE 1, 2014 American art of the 1940s and 50s was dominated by the gestural style known as Abstract Expressionism. In love with spontaneity and happy accidents, and favoring inspiration from the subconscious, artists invented a highly original American art language that triumphed internationally. American Gestures features drawings, prints, paintings, and sculpture from the late 1940s to the 70s by Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, David Smith, Mark Tobey, Alfred Leslie, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and a number of others. Many of these works are relatively recent acquisitions, some shown here for the first time. DAWIT L. PETROS: SENSE OF PLACE OCTOBER 26, 2013 – APRIL 13, 2014 Part of an annual series of MFA exhibitions focusing on SMFA graduates of the past decade whose work has achieved international acclaim, Dawit L. Petros: Sense of Place features the photographs, video art, and sculpture of this 2007 SMFA Masters degree recipient. THINK PINK OCTOBER 3, 2013 – MAY 26, 2014 From pinking shears to pink ribbons, the color pink is associated with fashion and femininity; perhaps no other color has as much social significance and gender association. The fascinating exhibition Think Pink explores the history and changing meanings of the color as its popularity ebbed and flowed in fashion and visual culture from the 18th century to the present day. An interdisciplinary show drawing from across the MFA collections, Think Pink juxtaposes clothing, accessories, graphic illustrations, jewelry, and paintings to shed light on changes in style; the evolution of pink for girls, blue for boys; and advances in color technology. Think Pink includes a selection of dresses and accessories from the collection of the late Evelyn Lauder, who was instrumental in creating an awareness of breast cancer by
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choosing the color as a visual reference. The opening of Think Pink in October coincides with Breast Cancer Awareness Month, when the MFA will be illuminated in pink. HOLLAND ON PAPER: THE AGE OF ART NOUVEAU AUGUST 10, 2013 – FEBRUARY 23, 2014 In the era of Art Nouveau, from the 1890s through the turn of the century, there was a flourishing of new, imaginative art and craft throughout Europe. Holland also saw an explosion of inventive art and design in this period, including many expressive works on paper—posters, decorative calendars, and illustrated books, as well as prints and drawings. The MFA has been actively collecting these Dutch works for the last 25 years, and this exhibition highlights 45 works—early drawings by well-known artists Piet Mondrian and Bart van der Leck, as well as works by such new discoveries as Jan Toorop, Theo Nieuwenhuis, Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita, Theo Hoytema, G. W. Dijsselhof, and C. A. Lion Cachet. REMBRANDT THE ETCHER AUGUST 10, 2013 – FEBRUARY 17, 2014 Etching as a printmaking medium emerged in the early 16th century in Germany and Italy, but its full creative potential only was realized with Rembrandt Harmensz. Van Rijn’s activity as an etcher from 1630 to 1661. This exhibition of 45 works, drawn primarily from the MFA’s collection, explores the unprecedented range of subject matter, format, and graphic vocabulary in the nearly 300 etchings that Rembrandt made during his career. He was the first etcher to seriously exploit the expressive effect of printing on different papers (the first Western artist to use Japanese paper, for example) to make radically different inkings of the same plate, and to dramatically alter the image on the plate. Rembrandt the Etcher examines how the artist’s etched images can be deliberately pale and delicate or consist of dense webs of profound darkness. They also can be rough sketches or highly finished, meticulously detailed compositions. Among the works on view are Old and New Testaments narratives—some of the most insightful Biblical illustrations ever conceived—as well as self-portraits, landscapes, nudes, and scenes of everyday life.
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AUDUBON’S BIRDS, AUDUBON’S WORDS JULY 27, 2013 – MAY 11, 2014 As author and illustrator of The Birds of America, John James Audubon (1785–1851) traveled thousands of miles throughout the United States and Canada to seek out and draw North American birds in their natural habitats. In the book’s enormous pages—each more than three feet high— Audubon captured the full range of avian life in North America, including many exotic creatures. Produced in England and issued in a limited edition between John James Audubon, The Birds 1827 and 1838, only of America, Plate 431, American Flamingo, 1824–38. Etching and about 120 complete aquatint, hand-colored. copies exist today. This Gift of William Hooper. exhibition features prints from the MFA’s copy of The Birds of America and some smaller works by Audubon. The artist was also a gifted writer, and the exhibition pairs his birds with his words, offering insight into Audubon’s methods, obsessions, and the trials associated with his giant project. SACRED PAGES: CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THE QUR’AN JULY 13, 2013 – FEBRUARY 23, 2014 Sacred Pages offers visitors a way to broaden their understanding of the Qur’an, Islam, and Islamic art. Drawing upon the MFA’s rich collection of loose pages from Qur’ans dating from
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medieval to modern times, this exhibition showcases 25 examples, illustrating their significance as masterful and sacred works of art and exploring how these objects are understood by individual followers of Islam living in the Boston area today. Twenty-four people, from all walks of life, have written labels for this exhibition. These individuals, all Muslims from the Boston area, visited the Museum in the early months of 2013 to meet one another and select a page to write about. These beautiful works of Arabic calligraphy, made as early as the 8th and as recently as the 20th century, were created in Egypt, Morocco, Iran, and Turkey. The diversity of time and place of production is mirrored by the manner in which they are displayed, as the exhibition pairs curatorial interpretations about developments in Islamic art with personal statements by members of Boston’s Islamic communities who were invited to share their comments and reactions to the pages. AN ENDURING VISION: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE LANE COLLECTION JULY 9, 2013 – MARCH 30, 2014
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century American works assembled by William H. and Saundra B. Lane in the 1960s and 70s, the collection includes photographs that Saundra Lane acquired after her husband’s death in 1995. This wide-ranging group includes works by early European master William Henry Fox Talbot, the 19th-century inventor of positivenegative photography, all the way up to contemporary artists, among them Robert Adams, Francesca Woodman, Kenro Izu, Irving Penn, and others working today. This exhibition—a lively mix of early and late—highlights both sides of the collection, as it juxtaposes classic modernism with 19th-century European images, turn-of-the-century soft-focus Pictorialism, and strong contemporary work, exemplifying the ways that a highly personal vision like the Lanes’ is transformed over time. ELEGANT CONTORTIONS: RENAISSANCE PRINTS JULY 9, 2013 – MARCH 30, 2014 Mannerist artists went to extremes in their treatment of the human body. In the years after Raphael’s death in 1520, complex poses, intricate gestures, and esoteric symbolism replaced the harmony and balance of the High Renaissance. A self-consciously “stylish” style, Mannerism was an art of extremes: elongated proportions, exaggerated postures, ultra-gracefulness, and titillating eroticism. This sophisticated and courtly style transformed printmaking as well as painting. Elegant Contortions displays approximately forty engravings, etchings, and chiaroscuro woodcuts from the Museum’s rich collection. The exhibition focuses on Italian printmakers, such as Giorgio Ghisi; the French (and Italian) school of Fontainebleau; and Dutch engravers, such as Hendrick Goltzius, as well as the ultimate Mannerist printmaker, Jacques Bellange of Lorraine. FIRED EARTH, WOVEN BAMBOO: CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE CERAMICS AND BAMBOO ART NOVEMBER 12, 2013 – SEPTEMBER 8, 2014 During the last decade, the exciting shapes and technical finesse in Japanese contemporary ceramics and baskets have attracted new audiences among Western enthusiasts. Recently attention has centered on more abstract works produced by
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modern ceramic and bamboo artists, including pioneering female ceramists, who, beginning in the 1950s, turned to abstract sculpture or architecture for their inspiration, creating innovative, expressive sculptural pieces rooted in traditional materials and techniques, but that transcend utilitarian forms. Fired Earth, Woven Bamboo celebrates contemporary Japanese decorative arts at the MFA, thanks to the recent gift of works spanning the late 20th and early 21st centuries from Stanley and Mary Ann Snider. More than 60 dramatic ceramics and baskets from the Snider Collection are complemented by contemporary Japanese quilts and fabric screens, and an example of sophisticated paper sculpture, highlighting the revolution in these traditional media in creative abstraction. QUILTS AND COLOR: THE PILGRIM/ROY COLLECTION APRIL 6, 2014 – JULY 27, 2014 QUILTS AND COLOR celebrates the vibrant color palette and inventive design seen in the acclaimed Pilgrim/Roy Quilt Collection. The exhibition features 60 distinctive quilts from the renowned collection and is the first to explore how, over five decades, trained artists Paul Pilgrim and Gerald Roy searched out and collected quilts with bold, eye-popping designs that echoed the work of mid20th century Abstract Expressionist and Op Artists. LINDE FAMILY WING FOR CONTEMPORARY ART SEPTEMBER 18, 2011 – DECEMBER 31, 2016 Contemporary art has a dynamic home at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art, located in the MFA’s dramatic I. M. Pei-designed building. JEWELS, GEMS, AND TREASURES: ANCIENT TO MODERN JULY 19, 2011 – JUNE 1, 2014 What is a gem? Jewels, Gems, and Treasures: Ancient to Modern, the first exhibition in the Museum's new Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation Gallery, examines the various roles and meanings associated with a wide range of gem materials. Drawn from the MFA’s collection and select loans,
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these range from a 24th-century BC Nubian conch shell amulet, to Mary Todd Lincoln’s 19th-century diamond and gold suite, to a 20th-century platinum, diamond, ruby, and sapphire Flag brooch honoring the sacrifices of the Doughboys in World War I. ART OF THE AMERICAS WING NOVEMBER 20, 2010 – DECEMBER 31, 2016 The centerpiece of the MFA’s historic expansion is a spectacular new wing for the Art of the Americas collection, which will double the number of objects from the collection on view, including several large-scale masterpieces not displayed for decades. Tickets & Contact Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Avenue of the Arts 465 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115 (617) 267-9300 (General) (800) 440-6975 (Box Office) www.mfa.org
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NOVEMBER 23 – DECEMBER 22, 2013 Charles Mosesian Theater CAMELOT Book and Lyrics by ALAN JAY LERNER Directed and Choreographed by RUSSELL GARRETT Music by FREDERICK LOEWE Musical Direction by DAVID MCGRORY This beloved Tony Award-winning musical takes us back to the age of chivalry and the tumultuous love triangle between King Arthur, Queen Guenevere, and Sir Lancelot. A doomed romance, a yearning for a once and future better world, and magical music define a show for the ages and the entire family. At the 50-year anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy, we ponder yet again how youthful idealism and a desire to create a better social order are so often threatened by human passion and need. JANUARY 4 – 26, 2014 Black Box Theater IMAGINING MADOFF Written by DEBORAH MARGOLIN Directed by ELAINE VAAN HOGUE In Obie Awardwinning playwright Deborah Margolin’s recently controversial play, we witness intriguing imagined jail-time conversations between Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff and Solomon Galkin, a poet and philosopher. In high moral showdown, these two Jewish men banter about women, baseball, the Talmud, human decency, kindness, and the story of Abraham and Isaac. Through them, we learn how greed helped cause the Great Recession, marking the past half decade of American life. According to DC Theatre Scene, “we know the what already; in Imagining Madoff, we seek the why.”
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JANUARY 25 – FEBRUARY 15, 2014 Charles Mosesian Theater THE WHIPPING MAN Written by MATTHEW LOPEZ Directed by BENNY SATO AMBUSH As the Civil War ends, a Jewish Confederate soldier returns home to find that only his two former slaves, raised as Jews in his household, remain. As they cobble together a Passover Seder, they grapple with a changing social order, newfound freedom, and long-buried secrets that threaten them all. This story of self-definition, discrimination, and the pain of being an outsider forces all three men to ask what their futures hold in a new world of freedom. One of the most produced and popular plays of 2012, The Village Voice calls it “wonderfully satisfying.” MARCH 8 – 23, 2014 Black Box Theater TONGUE OF A BIRD Written by ELLEN MCLAUGHLIN Directed by EMILY RANII A story of lost mothers and daughters, Tongue Of A Bird follows Maxine, an emotionally wounded young search and rescue pilot, who returns to her childhood home in the Adirondacks to search for Charlotte, a missing 12-year-old girl. During the search, Maxine reconnects with her Polish refugee grandmother, and through her dreams, is forced to confront her memories of her mother, who committed suicide, abandoning her.
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APRIL 3 – 27, 2014 Black Box Theater OUR LADY Written and Performed by JAMES FLUHR Fresh off huge success in the New York Fringe Festival, this dynamic, gutsy one-person performance piece exposes James Fluhr’s stunning surprises through his own coming out as a gay man, created in response to toxic homophobia causing many gay suicides. APRIL 4 – 20, 2014 Black Box Theater IN BETWEEN Written and Performed by IBRAHIM MIARI Son of a Palestinian-Muslim father and a Jewish-Israeli mother, Ibrahim Miari recalls his childhood in Acco, Israel, memories of his Jewish and Palestinian grandmothers, and war. When he chooses to marry a Jewish American woman, he is ultimately caught again, between deeply divided communities. MAY 2 – 25, 2014 Charles Mosesian Theater ON THE VERGE Written by ERIC OVERMYER Directed by JIM PETOSA In this hilarious time-travel fantasy, three Victorian-era women set off to explore “Terra Incognita,” not realizing that they have warped into 1955 American pop culture. As they tromp through time and the outback of mid-century America,
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they recount past travels and face their challenges in language rich in word play, humor, and the vernacular of anthropologists. Playwright Eric Overmyer’s unique writing style, thick with lavish wit, made way for his television writing for acclaimed dramas The Wire, Law and Order, and Treme. Tickets & Contact Arsenal Center for the Arts 321 Arsenal Street Watertown, MA 02472 (617) 923-8487 www.newrep.org
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The roots of the Peabody View of the Peabody Essex here are many reasons to come PEMMuseum at night. Essex Museum date to the 1799 to PEM. Sometimes, looking at a founding of the East India Marine Photo Courtesy Peabody work of art with someone special Society, an organization of Salem Essex Museum by your side is all the motivation you need. captains and supercargoes who had sailed beyond either the Cape Sitting in the light-filled Atrium, having of Good Hope or Cape Horn. The society’s charter included a lunch outside in the Garden Restaurant, watching the and artificial provision for the establishment of a “cabinet of natural expression on a child’s facewe as she makes a collage—each curiosities,” which is what today would call a museum. Society experiencebrought is worthtothe trip. aPEM is thecollection place to come for from members Salem diverse of objects enjoyment, enrichment, sharing with friends, the northwest coast of America, Asia,family Africa,and Oceania, India and and creativeBy stimulation. elsewhere. 1825, the society moved into its own building, East WeMarine gain exciting insights about ourselves other India Hall, which today contains the and original display cases cultures through special Atrium Today, Alive weekend and some of the very firstexhibitions, objects collected. the mission of festivals, and Essex familyMuseum art-making programs. are vital artistic the Peabody is to celebrateYou outstanding to thecultural equation. Your experiences shape the art you and creativity by collecting, stewarding andlook interpreting at and the watch, making them more objects of performances art and cultureyou in ways that increase knowledge, enrich meaningful and transformative. PEM continues to touch the spirit, engage the mind and stimulate the senses. Through its lives and to make a difference. exhibitions, programs, publications, media, and related activities, PEM strives to create experiences that transform people's lives by broadening their perspectives, attitudes, and knowledge of themselves and the wider world.
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BEYOND HUMAN: ARTIST-ANIMAL COLLABORATIONS OCTOBER 19, 2013 – SEPTEMBER 7, 2014 The redesigned Art & Nature Center features new exhibition spaces, art studios, interactive stations and amenities for young families. Dynamic and welcoming, PEM’s Art & Nature Center features special programs, activity stations, multimedia elements, and annual exhibitions that highlight the vital connections between human creativity and the natural world. The center’s premiere exhibition Beyond Human: Artist–Animal Collaborations features nearly 40 paintings, installations, photographs and audio and video recordings by artists who co-create or investigate art with live animals. From bowerbirds that create elaborate displays to Asian elephants that have learned to paint and Weimaraners that patiently pose for photographs, Beyond Human explores the varied ways in which contemporary artists interface with animals to create original and surprising works of art. TOSHIO SHIBATA: CONSTRUCTED LANDSCAPES APRIL 20, 2013 – FEBRUARY 2, 2014 One of Japan’s preeminent landscape photographers, Toshio Shibata is known for exploring the delicate balance between human-made structures and nature. Photographing erosion control barriers, water catchments, roads, dams and bridges, he examines the unique appearance of such structures in his native land. Through his lens, riverbeds can look like origami, and waterfalls resemble kimono. This exhibition of 28 large-format works will be the artist's first solo show in an American museum since 1995 and the first time his color pictures will be shown in America. GOLDEN LIGHT: SELECTIONS FROM THE VAN OTTERLOO COLLECTION AUGUST 11, 2012 – MAY 30, 2014 Golden Light explores Dutch art and life in the 1600s through a selection of paintings from the internationally significant collection of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo. In 2011, more than 105,000 visitors viewed the namesake exhibition at PEM, Golden: Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van
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Otterloo Collection. This new installation features 15 paintings by Jan Lievens, Emanuel de Witte, Pieter Claesz, Jan Brueghel the Elder and notable others. A LEGACY OF CHANGE: NATIVE AMERICAN ART JUNE 19, 2012 – MAY 31, 2014 Following on the heels of the highly acclaimed 2012 headlining exhibition, Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art, PEM unveils an installation conveying the dynamism and vitality of Native artists. Selected from PEM’s Native American art collection—one of the world’s oldest and finest collections of its kind—the works on view include a cross-section of paintings, sculpture, ceramics, jewelry and textile arts created over the last 200 years. Each piece explores how Native artists have been continually innovative, reflecting their personal and cultural experiences in ongoing dialogue with new ideas, materials, technologies, and cultures. IMPRESSIONISTS ON THE WATER NOVEMBER 9 – FEBRUARY 17, 2014 As an artistic subject, there could be no better match for the Impressionists than the element of water. The play of light, sense of atmosphere, and physical experience of floating in a groundless world were irresistible for artists like Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Signac, and Caillebotte (an accomplished sailor in his own right)—key Impressionists who spent many hours at sea on river
Claude Monet, Sailboats on the Seine, 1874, Oil on Canvas, 21 1/4 x 25 3/4 (54 x 65.4 cm), Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Gift of Bruno and Sadie Adriani © Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
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boats, leisure craft, and floating studios. Through nearly 60 oil paintings, works on paper, models, and small craft, this exhibition illuminates the importance that access to the sea and France’s extensive inland waterways played in the development of one of the world's most enduring artistic movements. FUTURE BEAUTY: AVANT-GARDE JAPANESE FASHION NOVEMBER 16, 2013 – JANUARY 26, 2014 Japanese designers such as Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo, and Yohji Yamamoto reshaped fashion in the early 1980s. The narrow silhouettes of Western couture gave way to flowing, sculpted forms. A reduced range of color emphasized cut and proportion. The voluminous spaces they created between body and fabric boldly redefined Japanese avant-garde fashion and forced people to reconsider the relationship between art, design, and fashion.
Koji Tatsuno, Autumn/Winter, 1993, Collection of the Kyoto Costume Institute, Gift of Mr Koji Tatsuno. Photo by Richard Burbridge.
FREEPORT [NO. 007]: CÉLESTE BOURSIER-MOUGENOT JANUARY 18 – APRIL 13, 2014 Céleste Boursier-Mougenot produces music in surprising and unexpected ways through large-scale acoustic environments. This presentation at PEM marks the U.S. debut for BoursierMougenot’s immersive sonic installation, From Here to Ear. Within a gallery-turned aviary, the artist introduces a flock of 70 brightly
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plumed Zebra Finches to live among iconic Gibson Les Paul and Thunderbird bass guitars. At turns ambient and melodic, a constantly changing soundscape emerges as the finches explore their environment, eating, nesting, and perching on the amplified instruments. This boundary breaking exhibition asks us to consider the ways we perceive, create, and interact with music, while challenging traditional notions of artistic collaboration. CALIFORNIA DESIGN MARCH 29 – JULY 6, 2014 More than 200 examples of mid-century modern design reveal the distinctive role California had in shaping material culture from 1930–65. Featuring a diverse array of furniture, textiles, fashion, industrial and graphic design, ceramics, jewelry, metalwork, film ,and architecture, this exhibition celebrates the innovation and pervasiveness of mid-century modern design. The work of legendary designers, such as Charles and Ray Eames, Richard Neutra, and Greta Magnusson Grossman, are explored, as is the sociological and geographical context that gave rise to this unprecedented design movement. Organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), this exhibition is the first major study of California mid-century modern design. TURNER & THE SEA MAY 31, 2014 TO SEPTEMBER 1, 2014 In the first fullscale examination of Joseph Mallord William Turner’s lifelong preoccupation with the sea, this exhibition features iconic works spanning the artist’s career from his transformative Academy paintings of the late 1790s and early 1800s, to the unfinished,
Joseph Mallord William Turner, Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore, 1834, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Widener Collection, 1942.
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experimental seascapes produced towards the end of his life. At turns dramatic, contemplative, beautiful, and sublime, the sea’s mercurial properties captivated Turner and his contemporaries who repeatedly returned to the subject. Iconic Turner masterpieces are exhibited alongside works by other major European and American artists, providing a rich artistic context for Turner's groundbreaking maritime vision. CALDER AND ABSTRACTION: FROM AVANT-GARDE TO ICONIC SEPTEMBER 6, 2014 – JANUARY 4, 2015 Alexander Calder’s abstract works revolutionized modern sculpture and made him one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th-century. In collaboration with the Calder Foundation, this exhibition brings Blue Feather, c. 1948 together over 40 of the Alexander Calder artist’s mobiles (kinetic Sheet metal, wire, and paint 42 x 55 x 18 inches metal works Calder Foundation, New York © 2013 Calder propelled by air) and Foundation, New York/Artists Rights Society stabiles (dynamic (ARS), New York, Photo: Calder Foundation, New York/Art monumental Resource,NY sculptures) to explore how Alexander Calder introduced the visual vocabulary of the French Surrealists into the American vernacular. FREEPORT [NO. 008]: CANDICE BREITZ OCTOBER 11, 2014 – FEBRUARY 8, 2015 Internationally renowned video artist Candice Breitz explores how we create, define, and perform identities in a world
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of mass media saturation. In her newest work, a trilogy called The Woods, Breitz delves into the cinematic culture of three epicenters of global filmmaking—Hollywood, Bollywood, and Nollywood—to reflect the experiences of child actors and actors who perform childhood. With each section, shot in Los Angeles (The Audition), Mumbai (The Rehearsal), and Lagos (The Interview), The Woods cleverly splices together actor interviews to examine the movie industry’s nuanced culture of aspiration and emulation. Tickets & Contact Peabody Essex Museum East India Square 161 Essex Street Salem, MA 01970 (978) 745-9500 www.pem.org
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