Upcoming Concerts & Performances
5 upcoming concerts and performances from St. Ignatius Concert Series, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All classical in Greater Boston →
Fri Oct 23
A French programme built around Debussy's String Quartet in G minor, his only work in the form, with music by Ravel and others alongside it; the addition of harp points to the repertory the two composers wrote for that instrument. The St Ignatius series presents it in the church at Chestnut Hill.
Fri Dec 11
The Nightingale Vocal Ensemble performs ’Twas the Nightingale Before Christmas, billed as “a choral retelling of the beloved holiday story,” its title a play on the opening line of Clement Clarke Moore’s 1823 poem A Visit from St. Nicholas. The St. Ignatius Concert Series brings parishioners and invited performers into the church’s worship space; admission is free, with a suggested donation.
Fri Jan 22
Pianist Marie-Elise Boyer plays Romantic repertory by Chopin and Florence Price, the Arkansas-born composer whose manuscripts were found in an abandoned house in 2009 and whose music has been widely programmed since. The St Ignatius series has published the two composers' names and no further programme detail.
Fri Feb 12
A baroque choir and period ensemble perform music by Bach and Buxtehude, the Lübeck organist Bach walked some two hundred miles to hear in 1705 and stayed to study for months. The St Ignatius series has posted the two composers and the date; no specific works have been named.
Fri Apr 16
Gilbert and Sullivan's 1878 comic opera, set aboard a Royal Navy ship where the captain's daughter is in love with a common sailor and the First Lord of the Admiralty has never been to sea. It made the pair's reputation and provoked the copyright fight that sent them to New York. The St Ignatius series presents it.