What: 60th Anniversary Benefit Concert featuring
- The Boston Cello Quartet –
- Founded in 2010 by four cellists of the BSO
- Dubbed “The groovy BSO chamber ensemble” by the Boston Globe
- Performs a wide repertoire ranging from classical music to jazz, tango, contemporary works and even comic medleys
- Debut concert at Tanglewood in July 2010 was described by The Berkshire Eagle as “The best Prelude Concert at Ozawa Hall since the hall was built” (in 1994).
- Dana Schnitzer, soprano
- "Dana Schnitzer, a sweet-voiced soprano....[appeared] as Giannetta, a country girl who knows what is going down in her rustic village...it was the exceptional cast that carried the show." - Review of L’elisir d’amore at the Caramoor Bel Canto Festival, 2009 - The New York Times
- Ethan Bremner, tenor
- Selected in 2010 as a Regional Finalist for the Metropolitan Opera Council auditions for New England
- “Gorgeous tenor voice!” “I love his voice!” – audience members at performance of Mendelssohn’s Elijah, by the Brookline Chorus, Lisa Graham conducting, May 9, 2009
- The Brookline High School Camerata, Michael Driscoll, Director
- Recent repertoire sung by Brookline High School’s honors choir includes the spiritual My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord, Lassus’s Mon coeur se recommande a vous, Gershwin’s But Not for Me, a Manhattan Transfer arrangement of Tuxedo Junction, Mozart's celebratory Regina Coeli and the Beatles' lyrical Blackbird.
When: April 1, 2012: Performance 3pm-4pm; Reception to follow.
