Programs

Performing Groups

New music programming and interest has been on the increase in recent years. Every few weeks we will acknowledge and encourage this trend by calling attention to groups in the area that present music by living composers through performance, commissions, competitions, and/or community education and outreach.

Featured Performing Group
The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) is one of the few professional orchestras in the United States dedicated exclusively to music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.  Founded in 1996 by Artistic Director Gil Rose, BMOP's mission is to illuminate the connections that exist naturally between contemporary music and contemporary society by reuniting composers with audiences in a shared concert experience.  BMOP has presented more than 40 concerts of contemporary orchestral music, including 30 world premieres and 16 commissioned pieces, and is a six-time winner of the ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming of Orchestral Music. The orchestra's commercial recordings include works by composers Arthur Berger, Lucas Foss, Lee Hyla, Reza Vali, Eric Chasalow, George Rochberg and Tod Machover.		Artistic Director Gil Rose rehearses members of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project.
Next Concert date: Boston Modern Orchestra Project Next Friday, May 21, 2004, 8pm New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, 290 Huntington Avenue, Boston BMOP will perform the world premiere of Evan Ziporyn’s War Chant. Guest soloist Richard Stoltzman will perform Stephen Hartke’s Clarinet Concerto, Landscapes with Blues, and pianist Ursula Oppens will play Augusta Read Thomas’ Aurora. Also on the program are David Rakowski’s Persistent Memory and Elena Ruehr’s Sky Above Clouds. Please for tickets and more information: visit www.bmop.org or call 617-363-0396 Jordan Hall is a wheelchair accessible venue.

Archived Performing Groups
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