Upcoming Concerts & Performances
5 upcoming concerts and performances from Back Bay Chorale, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All classical in Greater Boston →
Fri Oct 23 · 7:30pm
Walter Hussey commissioned both Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, and both frame this programme. Between them comes the world premiere of Zachary Wadsworth's De Profundis, setting texts Oscar Wilde wrote in prison, conceived as a modern counterpart to the Britten.
Fri Dec 18 – Sat Dec 19 · 7:30pm/4pm
Fri Dec 18 · 7:30pm / Sat Dec 19 · 4pm
Stephen Cleobury began commissioning a new carol each year at King's College, Cambridge in 1983; the Back Bay Chorale started its own carol competition in 2025. This programme includes commissions from King's alongside the world premiere of the 2026 Back Bay Chorale carol. Two performances.
Sat Feb 6 · 3:00pm
A participatory sing-in on Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, commissioned in 1965 by Walter Hussey for Chichester Cathedral and setting Hebrew texts. Anyone may join the singers or listen from the pews. Free, with registration, and singers bring their own score. The Chorale has built a run of these participatory evenings, on the Fauré and Mozart requiems in past seasons.
Sat Mar 6 · 4:00pm
Donald Nally, who leads The Crossing, the Philadelphia professional choir devoted to new music, and has won four Grammy Awards for Best Choral Performance, guest conducts the Chorale in a programme of his most celebrated commissions, among them Michael Gilbertson’s Cloud Anthem. Music director Stephen Spinelli also conducts. It is the third concert in a season the Chorale has built around figures who commissioned new music.
Fri May 7 · 8:00pm
Randall Thompson's Alleluia and Poulenc's Gloria both came from Koussevitzky commissions; the Gloria had its premiere with the soprano Adele Addison and the Boston Symphony in 1961. Addison is now in her 101st year. The programme frames Koussevitzky as the figure who made Boston a centre for new work.
