SUNDAYS AT TUFTS:
COMMUNITY CONCERT SERIES

Join us on Sunday afternoons for a series of special community music concerts. These concerts feature some of the best musicians of the department and area community. Most of these performances are free and do not require tickets . For further information, call 617.627.3679.

Concerts are free unless noted in their description.
THE FEBRUARY 15, 2009 PERFORMANCE OF OUR TOWN DOES REQUIRE TICKETS ($10, $7)
Program information is subject to change.

For events that require tickets, please call the Granoff Music Center Box Office at 617.627.3679. Box Office window and phone hours are: Mondays – Fridays, 10 am to 5 pm
The box office is closed on all Massachusetts and Federal holidays.

WINTER/SPRING 2009 SCHEDULE

Sunday, February 15, 2009, 3 pm • Tickets Required.
Sundays at Tufts - Community Concert Series

Tufts Opera Presents Our Town
The Boston Area Premiere of the Acclaimed New Opera by Ned Rorem
Music by Ned Rorem
Libretto by J.D. McClatchy
Based on the Thornton Wilder Play
Stage Direction by Carol Mastrodomenico
Music Direction by Steven Morris
Performed by Members of the Tufts Opera Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra

Tufts Opera presents the Boston area premiere production of Our Town, a new opera by Pulitzer Prize winning composer, Ned Rorem. Based on the Thornton Wilder play, the opera takes place in Grover’s Corners, N.H., 1901. Throughout the opera, you will experience and see a small, typical American town where some ordinary and extraordinary things are about to happen, and lessons about life are taught to all.

SUNDAY PERFORMANCE:
In the Distler Performance Hall at 3 pm. Tickets required. Seating is reserved. Tickets are $10 for adults/general public. Tickets are $7 for Tufts faculty/staff, students, or senior citizens. Ticket prices apply to this Sunday performance only.

The Opera will also be presented Thursday, February 12, Friday, February 13, and Saturday, February 14 at 8 pm. Click here for more information. Good seats available for all shows.

Sunday, February 22, 2009, 3 pm (Free)
Sundays at Tufts: The Community Concert Series
Japanese Chamber Music
Tufts Applied Music Faculty member Ayakano Cathleen Read (right) leads a concert of classical and contemporary Japanese chamber music for koto, voice, and shakuhachi.
Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall.

 

Sunday, March 1, 2009, 3 pm (Free)
Sundays at Tufts: The Community Concert Series
An Afternoon of Baroque Music
Members of the Tufts Applied Music Faculty present an afternoon of Baroque chamber music by various composers. Featuring Frances Conover Fitch, harpsichord, Jane Hershey, viola da gamba, Andrea Ehrenreich, soprano, and Thomas Gregg, tenor.
Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall.

Sunday, March 8, 2009, 3 pm (Free)
Sundays at Tufts: The Community Concert Series
The Tufts Wind Ensemble
Oh the Places You’ll Go! – The Wind Ensemble presents Roger Nixon’s Fiesta del Pacifico, Ticheli’s Vesuvius, Symphony No. 2 (the Big Apple) by Johann de Meis, and other works in a trip to a myriad of exotic musical destinations. Distler Performance Hall.
Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall.

 

 

Sunday, March 29, 2009, 3 pm (Free; Tickets required)
Sundays at Tufts - Community Concert Series
Boston Symphony Orchestra Community Chamber Concert
Five members of the BSO present a free community chamber music concert featuring D’Rivera’s Aires Tropicales, Toussaint’s Mambo, Piazzolla’s Libertango, and Milhaud’s Sorocabo and Ipanema. Free tickets are required for this performance. To reserve tickets, please call Symphony Charge at 888.266.1200.
Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall.

Sunday, April 5, 2009, 3 pm (Free)
Sundays at Tufts - Community Concert Series
Choruses of Tufts University and Brown University
The Tufts Choruses welcome the Brown University Chorus in a performance of choral masterworks.
Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall.

 

Sunday, April 19, 2009, 3 pm
Sundays at Tufts: The Community Concert Series
An Afternoon of Gamelan
The Boston Village Gamelan and the Tufts Gamelan perform a concert of traditional music of Java. Directed by Barry Drummond, with guest artist I.M. Harjito.
Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall.