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Wow I was right! He graduated from college in 2024, got his masters degree in 2025. When I first saw him yesterday, I initially thought he was one of the middle school students 👦

TFW you show up to your child's middle school classroom and find out the teacher is young enough to be your child 👵🏼

Program leaflet H Music CBH Music ILLUMINATE BACH A HOLIDAY CELEBRATION! with host BRIAN McCREATH CORRINE BYRNE Soprano MATTHEW NEWHOUSE Tenor KRISTA RIVER Alto DAVID THOMAS MATHER Bass HEATHER BRAUN-BAKKEN Violin I RAFAEL POPPER-KEIZER Cello ROSE DRUCKER Violin Il RANDALL ZIGLER Bass JOAN ELLERSICK Viola JENNIFER SLOWIK & • FEATURING • EMMANUEL MUSIC RYAN TURNER Artistic Director CATHERINE WEINFIELD-ZELL Oboes / d'amore MICHAEL BEATTIE Harpsichord

Musicians in a studio setting in front of rows of audience. On the wall is the projected logo of GBH Music

You know it's December when the shows I go to are holiday-themed!

Solo outing tonight for @wgbh.org / @crbclassical.bsky.social A Holiday Celebration: Illuminate Bach feat musicians from Emmanuel Music

I love Copenhagen and it actually doesn't get that cold! But just be ready for the v short daylight hours.

We went in November 2 years ago and while days are short, it's great to not have 100000000000 tourists everywhere.

I thought you only have 2 cats and not 3!

Isn't it great to have friends who know you so well? 😊

You know it's #GivingTuesday when my inbox has 60+ emails by 1pm reminding me that it's #GivingTuesday

👽🛸🤣

Haha in my previous profession, every single person will start describing to me all their ailments and hoping for a diagnosis and a miracle cure

Screenshot of digital program

Stage red curtain before the show

Terrible shot of the artists on stage

Final show in November, no.14, kicks off the holiday season. Afternoon outing with the kid and 11 of our friends (yes, a group of 13!!!) , first for dim sum, then Cirque du soleil's

'Twas the Night Before...

Program book front cover

Program book Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors Gilbert Blin, Stage Director Robert Mealy, Concertmaster Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière, Movement Director Seth Bodie, Costume Designer Zachary Connell, Lighting Designer Jason McStoots, Assistant Stage Director Reed Demangone, Fight Choreographer Kathleen Fay, Executive Producer Saturday, November 29, 2025 at 8pm Sunday, November 30, 2025 at 3pm New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, Massachusetts

Program book VOCAL CAST Hannah De Priest, soprano - Stettidaura Aaron Sheehan, tenor - Orismoodo Richard Pittsinger, tenor - Armidoro Giuseppe Naviglio, baritone - Gampetro Mara Ritey, soprano - Armillo BOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL CHAMBER ENSEMBLE Robert Mealy, concertmaster Sarah Darling, viotiall Kathryn Montoya, recorder I Gaia Saetermoe-Howard, recorder I! Michelle Humphreys, percussion David Morris, nofoncello Maxine Eilander, Baroque harp Michael Sponseller, harpsichord Paul O'Dette, archlute & mandatino Stephen Stubbs, Baroque guitar

Cast, musicians, and production staff on stage taking a bow

After a brief break over thanksgiving, solo outing last night for Boston Early Music Festival's annual post-Thanksgiving weekend chamber opera:

Stellidaura's Revenge by FRANCESCO PROVENZALE

Cast:
Hannah De Priest,
Aaron Sheehan,
Richard Pittsinger,
Giuseppe Naviglio,
Mara Riley

Thank you

Haha I love my bluesky friends

Several of my favorite artists converge in Lucerne over a single weekend next May ... 🤔

www.lucernefestival.ch/de/programm/...

Their last leaf and keel road albums are my go-tos when I'm feeling the blues

The first half was lit! I didn't care much for second half, not because of their playing; just didn't care for Beethoven.

You do know that they will be in Boston at end of Feb, right?

Danish String Quartet Live from Ann Arbor, MI YouTube video by UMS

Enjoying this live recording of Danish String Quartet's recital at U of Michigan Ann Arbor from 4 days ago (Nov 22)
www.youtube.com/live/tRsRQD6...

Amen

Hand holding program book looking down from second balcony at symphony hall. Program book cover is a big portrait photo of Ben Zander who looks every bit his age of 85

Symphony hall stage filled to the brim with musicians - choristers, instrumentalists, and 4 soloists plus Zander

Closeup of 4 soloists plus Zander and Jamie Kirsch (leader of chorus pro musics). Photo credit: Sasherka

Today's outing w/ @sasherka.bsky.social + #operasqaud meetup

Nov performance no.12

Verdi's Requiem at Boston Philharmonic x Chrous pro Musica with a starry cast of soloists:
Ailyn Perez
Daniela Mack
John Osborn
Maharram Huseynov

led by Ben Zander

What an experience to hear this @ symphony hall

Set of little women; spare interior of a house with slanted roof; 4 clothing trunks and a wicker chair

Cast of little women holding hands receiving applause

Screenshot of digital program describing the opera

Screenshot of casting on digital program

Solo outing to November performance no. 11 last night

Mark Adamo's Little Women presented by Boston Conservatory

Another opera which I haven't seen for a decade. Don't really care for the music.

We really do not deserve him

Yo-Yo Ma didn’t want to do ‘just another’ sold-out Bach concert at Symphony Hall. So he found ways to let more people in. - The Boston Globe The famed cellist arranged to give away 1,000 tickets and livecast the performance to community centers around the state, hoping to create "moments that connect us."

Speaking of Yo-Yo Ma...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/20/a...

Hand holding program book

Big screen inside symphony hall showing Yo Yo Ma We the people graphics

Yo-Yo with his hands above his head making 🫶 sign, stage crew moving a grand piano on stage

Boston mayor Michelle Wu in a red dress next to the piano applauding Yo-Yo, while Yo-Yo holding his cello smiling back at Michelle Wu

November performance no. 10 last night with friends:

We The People: Celebrating Our Shared Humanity

Yo-Yo Ma plays Bach's Cello Suites

What an incredible experience exploring our potential for kindness and helping others. Boston mayor Michelle Wu joined Yo-Yo Ma for an encore. 🫶

www.harvard.com/event/caitli...

Hand holding program leaflet

Program leaflet listing the 2 student casts

Opening night cast with Robert Tweten and Josh major holding hands for a bow. The stage set looks like an airport terminal seating area

November performance no.9 tonight:

Jonathan Dove's Flight presented by New England Conservatory. Quarter of a century since its premiere, this opera hasn't aged one bit. Seeing this for a second time since 2015, I love it even more.
Conducted by Robert Tweten and directed by Josh Major

Just saw that you'll be in Boston in early Jan!!!

Hand holding Anything Goes program leaflet

Stage filled with HS students dancing in colorful costumes

Hadn't planned on this but went for November performance no. 8 this afternoon with the kid

A high school production of Cole Porter's Anything Goes 🛟🚢

I did not know about this! Thanks!

Thank you