Community Calendar

Electric Earth Concerts continues its 2026 season with “Kind of Blue”, on Saturday, June 20 at 7pm at the First Church in Jaffrey, New Hampshire. A jazz-tinted program featuring some of the greats of 20th & 21st century American music. Works by Leonard Bernstein, Joan Tower, & Derek Bermel; plus, newly composed music (premieres!) by Scott Lindroth and Jamie Keesecker. With Lisa Emenheiser, piano; Ari Streisfeld, violin; Thomas Kraines, cello; Derek Bermel, clarinet & composer; Jonathan Bagg, viola & Laura Gilbert, flute.
For more information, contact joan.electricearth@gmail.com or call 603.499.6216.

Hailed as “the firm champion of contemporary American music (Classical Voice North America),” the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) presents a free Father’s Day concert on Sunday, June 21, 2026, at NEC’s Jordan Hall. Quickly approaching its 30th year, BMOP continues to champion American music of the last century. Led by its intrepid artistic director/conductor Gil Rose, BMOP programs an invigorating evening of new orchestral works by American composers: John Aylward’s potent History of the World, Avner Dorman’s cello concerto Inner Fire featuring internationally heralded cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper, Miami Variations by Pulitzer Prize-winning Paul Moravec, and Symphony No. 5 “Africa” by Bernard Rogers.

The Kids 4 Harmony Summer Concert Gala will take place on Tuesday, June 23, at Tanglewood. The evening will begin with a reception at 5:00 pm in the Tent Club, followed by a concert in Ozawa Hall at 7pm. The students will be joined by Ted Rosenthal, internationally acclaimed pianist and composer, and winner of the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition. The evening will honor Linda Glick Conway and Dorothy Altman Weber for their extraordinary leadership and steadfast belief in the power of music to transform lives. Kids 4 Harmony is a free ensemble-based string program in Pittsfield and North Adams. With a focus on musical excellence, student well-being, and family support, setting students up for success in music and beyond.

A concert of vocal gems ranging from Monteverdi, Handel, Debussy, and Irving Berlin to Brahms performed by these wonderful singers from the Philadelphia area, with the collaboration of Stephen Porter, piano.

The "Ragtime Five" Brass Quintet plays a concert of music from 1890s- 1920s featuring ragtime, swing, marches, and more! The Arbors is handicapped accessible. Admission is free. The concert is funded by the Arbors at Amherst, and from a grant from Amherst Cultural Council, which is supported by The Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

CMS Co-Artistic Director Wu Han opens the season with Mozart’s elegant Trio in E major, Ravel’s Sonata for Violin and Piano, Gershwin’s jazz-infused Three Preludes (in Heifetz’s dazzling arrangement), and Dvořák’s youthful Piano Quintet.

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Discover Burleigh’s Southland Sketches—the music that helped shape Dvořák’s vision for American classical style—followed by Dvořák’s Trio in G minor and Beethoven’s majestic Quintet in C major.

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A globe-spanning celebration of wind instruments: Beethoven’s Horn Sonata, Barber’s Summer Music, Villa-Lobos’ spirited Trio, Taktakishvili’s lyrical Flute Sonata, and Jongen’s dramatic Rhapsody.

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The acclaimed Calidore String Quartet performs a lively program including the F-major quartet once attributed to Benjamin Franklin, Haydn’s witty “The Joke” Quartet, Mozart’s graceful “Prussian” Quartet, Wolf’s Italian Serenade, and Wynton Marsalis’s At the Octoroon Balls.

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