Our season finale is a celebration of Jewish music throughout western classical music history. It's highlighted by Dmitri Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony, Op. 83a, an arrangement of his String Quartet No. 4 featuring Jewish musical themes and orchestrated by Rudolf Barshai.
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We’re so excited to be returning to the magnificent Metropolitan WaterWorks Museum in Chestnut Hill for a program we're keeping a little secret until you come to the show. What we will tell you is that you will get to hear music written by Phoenix favorites Ludwig van Beethoven, Julius Eastman, Eric Nathan, Caroline Shaw, and Julia Wolfe.
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Our season opens on September 30 at the Artists for Humanity EpiCenter with Music Director Joshua Weilerstein leading a concert featuring a chamber orchestra arrangement of Claude Debussy's La Mer, Charles Ives's Three Places in New England, and selections from Scott Joplin's Red Back Book.
Joshua Weilerstein, Conductor
Helen Zhibing Huang, Soprano
Join us as Phoenix PRIME returns for drinks, music, and a big Phoenix first as we tackle the music of Gustav Mahler, who is known for his epic symphonic journeys.
This program marks a Phoenix first as we tackle the music of Gustav Mahler, who is known for his epic symphonic journeys. We pair Mahler’s most gentle work, his Fourth Symphony (arranged for chamber orchestra by Iain Farrington), with a short work by Franz Schreker, a highly underrated contemporary of Mahler whose career was cut short by the rise of the Nazi power.
Matthew Szymanski, Conductor
Christopher Voss, Narrator
Join us for a literal night at the theater as Phoenix Prime returns in person for the first time in over 18 months. We’re excited to be one of the very first groups to play in the fantastically renovated Crystal Ballroom at Davis Square’s iconic Somerville Theater. The night’s program is (you guessed it) all about the theater! We open our season with a premiere of an arrangement of Tom Wiggins’s theatrical Battle of Manassas by Boston’s own Jonathan Bailey Holland, then we’re joined by 99.5 CRB’s Christopher Voss for Igor Stravinsky’s two-act parable: L’Histoire du Soldat.
Phoenix Prime is BACK at the amazing Center for the Arts at the Armory with a program of Folk music from places near AND far. Even better, we’re joining forces with the AMAZING Britt Brown for Luciano BERIO’s Folk Songs. Charles IVES’s Putnam’s Camp is the 2nd movement of Three Places in New England, for those of you who caught our performance of the 1st movement The St. Gauden’s in Boston Common, at the Gardner Museum in the Fall!
Valerie COLEMAN - Afro-Cuban Concerto
Luciano BERIO - Folk Songs
Percy GRAINGER - Molly on the Shore and Irish Tune From County Derry
Charles IVES - Putnam’s Camp from Three Places in New England
Molly JOYCE - Light and Dark
David LANG - Breathless
Arnold SCHOENBERG - Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night)
Luigi BOCCHERINI - Night Music of the Streets of Madrid
