From an evening with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Kathryn Stott to a spate of concerts from the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the season is brimming with an impressive variety of classical events. Arts critic Lloyd Schwartz rounds up the performances he's looking forward to.
NEWBURYPORT — The Jean C. Wilson Music Series in Newburyport will host Winsor Music for an afternoon of violin, clarinet and piano music on Sunday, Feb. 11, from 4 to
Unity Temple Restoration Foundation will present its final public performance at the end of October, days before the 50-year-old organization sunsets.The performance, called “The Coming of Light," is a composition for oboe, baritone and a string quartet, and will feature the Avalon String Quartet and singer Dorian McCall, oboist Andrew Nogal.The piece was commissioned in 2009 to honor the centennial of Unity Temple’s dedication by UTRF and The Chicago Chamber Musicians along with Winsor Music, Inc. The score and concert were underwritten by Sidney K. Robinson of Oak Park.A second modern composition by Igor Santos called “as light becomes form,” will be performed by Duo Diorama. The composer describes it as a “musical response to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple, the building which inspired the work, and where the first performance took place.”