Historic Wisdom and Modern Creativity:
the Design of a New Performance Center
Thursday, June 11, 2:30 pm
The Boston Early Music Festival Exhibition
City Room, Radisson Hotel, Boston
To develop a new performance space for Cambridge, Massachusetts, the ConstellationCenter team and Cambridge architect Peter Rose created a design process that interweaves historic precedents with cutting edge techniques and insights. In conducting our research, we were reminded of the magnificence of many of these historical performance spaces. These structures offer superior acoustics, provide greater intimacy of experience, and support more cost-effective productions than their modern counterparts. The best of these historical venues, interpreted in terms of 21st century building materials, safety and comfort, are critical reference points for the design of ConstellationCenter.
The Center’s founder Glenn KnicKrehm and Project Architect Peter Rose will discuss this process, with an open forum to follow.
A Grand Entertainment: “Orchestral” Delights
Thursday, June 11, 8 pm
New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, Boston
“The magnificent period instrument band…is polished, focused, and perfectly tuned.”
-- The New York Times
Join the Boston Early Music Festival’s Chamber Ensemble for an evening of compelling 18th-century orchestral works, including Bach, Vivaldi, and Telemann, and harpsichordist Kristian Bezuidenhout’s dynamic Brandenburg Concerto No. 5. The evening will also feature virtuoso Paul O’Dette on Baroque mandolin.
As internationally-acclaimed early-music performers with a worldwide tour schedule, O’Dette and Bezuidenhout are uniquely qualified to serve as key advisers to ConstellationCenter.
Beethoven in Berlin
Friday, June 12, 5 pm
New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, Boston
Two world-class musicians – Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano, and Pieter Wispelwey, Baroque ’cello – will perform Beethoven’s Sonatas for Violoncello. Kris and Pieter will perform Beethoven’s work in the manner the composer himself presented these pieces, recreating the musical world of 1796. ConstellationCenter will include performance spaces with the nuanced acoustics and intimate, sumptuous settings that characterized the rooms for which Beethoven composed this work.
An Evening of Opera
John Blow: Venus and Adonis
Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Actéon
Saturday, June 13, 8 pm
New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, Boston
These one-act operas are among the best in the French and English Baroque repertory, with powerful ensemble singing, rousing choruses, spectacular dance, and lavish costumes. Under the direction of Paul O’Dette, Stephen Stubbs and Gilbert Blin, these vigorous, energetic performances display Baroque opera in all its rich complexity. All three exceptional directors advise ConstellationCenter on the intricacies of staging Baroque opera. With their help, ConstellationCenter is creating an optimal acoustical, visual, and mechanical environment for this exhilarating art form, even recreating, for the first time in 150 years, set changes performed as rapidly as movie scene dissolves.
Pipe Organ: Fantasies and Fugues
Played by William Porter
Friday, June 12, 2 pm
First Lutheran Church of Boston
Father and son J.S. and C.P.E. Bach composed some of the world’s best-loved organ music, here performed on one of Boston’s newest and best instruments and by one of the world’s foremost performers. William Porter is ConstellationCenter’s advisor on its Bach-style pipe organ, currently under construction by Taylor and Boody Organbuilders. He also advises on the restoration of the ConstellationCenter theater organ.
TICKET INFORMATION
To purchase tickets please visit the Boston Early Music Festival website or call 617.661.1812.
For more information on these events and ConstellationCenter, please call us at 617.939.1900.
Have a question about the ConstellationCenter project? Be sure to submit it to the ConstellationCenter team on our website. We will do our best to get back to you in a timely fashion. In addition, frequent questions will be added to our FAQ section.
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