NEW ENGLAND'S EARLY MUSIC CALENDAR

APRIL 2008

This calendar updated April 19, 2008.

Your New England event listings always welcomed! Please send new listings, updates and corrections to sheilabb@earthlink.net

These listings are accurate as of the date posted. For final program information or to confirm location and ticket price, please call the telephone number listed with the event.

All events in Massachusetts unless noted.

Tuesday, April 1

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12:15 pm

The Amaryllis Chamber Ensemble (Bonnie Cochran, flute; Melissa Bull, violin; Peter Cama-Lekx, viola; Kate Marsch, cello): Quantz Flute Quartet in g minor; Haydn Flute Quartet in D Major. King's Chapel, 58 Tremont St, Boston. 617/227-2155 $3 www.kings-chapel.org

8 pm

Marten Root, traverso & Menno van Delft, harpsichord: Music of W.F. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, Scheibe & Brede. First Church in Boston Chapel, 66 Marlborough St, Boston. 617/489-2062 $30 /25 sr/10 st/5 ch 12 www.csem.org

Wednesday, April 2

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12:15 pm

Music for a While (Peter Cama-Lekx, violin & viola; Rachel Cama-Lekx, viola da gamba; Tracy Cowart, mezzo-soprano; Seth Warner, lutes): The Sounds of Early 17th-Century Europe music by Dowland, Morley, Monteverdi, Caccini, Schütz & more. Cathedral Church of St. Paul, 138 Tremont St, Boston. 617/482-5800 $5 Suggested donation www.musicforawhile,org

Thursday, April 3

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6 pm

WHRB Radio 95.3 FM Baroque Choral Masterworks Charpentier Missa 'Assumpta est Maria,' H11 & Te Deum, H146; (Christie, Les Arts Florissants; Harmonia Mundi)

7:30 pm

Actors Shakespeare Project (Patrick Swanson, dir): William Shakespeare The Tempest. Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second St, Cambridge. 617/547-1982 $30-42/15 st www.actorsshakespeareproject.org Discussion to follow

8 pm

Cambridge Society for Early Music & Boston Clavichord Society. Marten Root, traverso & Menno van Delft, harpsichord: Galant & Learned Music for flute & harpsichord by J.S. Bach. The First Religious Society, 27 School St, Carlisle. 617/489-2062 $30 /25 sr/10 st/5 ch 12 www.csem.org

Friday, April 4

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10 am

Cambridge Society for Early Music & Boston Clavichord Society. Baroque flute masterclass with Marten Root. First Church, 11 Garden St, Cambridge. 617/489-2062 FREE to auditors www.csem.org

1:30 pm

Cambridge Society for Early Music & Boston Clavichord Society. Harpsichord masterclass with Menno van Delft. First Church, 11 Garden St, Cambridge. 617/489-2062 FREE to auditors www.csem.org

7:30 pm

Actors Shakespeare Project (Patrick Swanson, dir): William Shakespeare The Tempest. Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second St, Cambridge. 617/547-1982 $30-42/15 st www.actorsshakespeareproject.org Discussion to follow

8 pm

Handel & Haydn Society Orchestra & Chorus (Roger Norrington, dir): Sir Roger's Haydn Haydn Symphony No. 44 in e minor, "Trauer" & Mass No. 14 in B-Flat Major, "Harmony". Symphony Hall, Boston. 617/266-3605 $15-67 www.handelandhaydn.org

Schola Cantorum (Frederick Jodry, dir) & Musica Maris Baroque Orchestra (Michael Bahmann, dir): Johann Sebastian Bach Die Himmel erzahlen, BWV 76, Komm Jesu Komm, BWV 229; Harpsichord Concerto in d. Church of St. John the Evangelist, 35 Bowdoin St, Boston. 401/274-5073 $20/15 sr/ 7 st

Cambridge Society for Early Music & Boston Clavichord Society. Marten Root, traverso & Menno van Delft, harpsichord: Galant & Learned Music for flute & harpsichord by J.S. Bach. The Congregational Church of Weston, 130 Newton St, Weston. 617/489-2062 $30 /25 sr/10 st/5 ch 12 www.csem.org

Saturday, April 5

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9:45 am

Recorder Society of Connecticut Playing meeting. Karen Snowberg & Carol Liebman, leaders. Walnut Hill Community Church, 156 Walnut Hill Rd, Bethel CT. 860/354-9720 Visitors $20 www.geocities.com/rsceditor/

2 pm

Actors Shakespeare Project (Patrick Swanson, dir): William Shakespeare The Tempest. Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second St, Cambridge. 617/547-1982 $30-42/15 st www.actorsshakespeareproject.org

7:30 pm

Crescendo Choir; Kiri Tollaksen, cornetto; Lisa Rautenberg, violin; Jane Hershey, viola da gamba; Anne Trout, violone; Douglas Freundlich, theorbo; Mariken Palmboom, organ (Christine Gevert, cond): Polychoral works by Willaert, Andrea & Giovanni Gabrieli, Claudio Monteverdi & Heinrich Schütz. First Congregational Church, 251 Main St, Great Barrington. 860/435-4866 $25/10 ch www.crescendoberkshires.org

Actors Shakespeare Project (Patrick Swanson, dir): William Shakespeare The Tempest. Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second St, Cambridge. 617/547-1982 $30-42/15 st www.actorsshakespeareproject.org

8 pm

The Harvard Holden Chamber Ensembles (Michael Barrett, dir): Music of the Spheres:, An Exploration of Mathematics in Music vocal works by Machaut, Ockeghem & later composers. Memorial Church, Harvard Yard. Cambridge. 848/250-2190 FREE

Music for a While (Peter Cama-Lekx, violin & viola; Rachel Cama-Lekx, viola da gamba; Tracy Cowart, mezzo-soprano; Seth Warner, lutes): The Sounds of Early 17th-Century Europe music by Dowland, Morley, Monteverdi, Caccini, Schütz & more. Cathedral Church of St. Luke,143 State St, Portland ME. 207/240-3017 $12/6 st, sr www.musicforawhile,org

Cambridge Society for Early Music & Boston Clavichord Society. Marten Root, traverso & Menno van Delft, harpsichord: Galant & Learned Music for flute & harpsichord by J.S. Bach. The Salem Athenaeum, 337 Essex St, Salem. 617/489-2062 $30 /25 sr/10 st/5 ch 12 www.csem.or

Schola Cantorum (Frederick Jodry, dir) & Musica Maris Baroque Orchestra (Michael Bahmann, dir): Johann Sebastian Bach Die Himmel erzahlen, BWV 76, Komm Jesu Komm, BWV 229; Harpsichord Concerto in d. First Unitarian Church, Benefit & Benevolent Sts Providence RI. 401/274-5073 $20/15 sr/ 7 st

Sunday, April 6

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6-9 am

WHUS 91.7 FM Off The Beaten Track (Dan Grieder, host) www.whus.org

10 am

Emmanuel Music (John Harbison, cond); Boston Children's Chorus: Bach Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden, BWV 6. Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St, Boston. 617/536-3356 Offering www.emmanuelmusic.org

11:15 am

Advent Choir (Mark Dwyer, dir): Solemn Mass, Third Sunday of Easter William Byrd Alleluia, cogneverunt discipuli; Andrea Gabrieli Maria Magdalene. Church of the Advent 30 Brimmer St, Boston. 617/523-2377 Offering www.theadvent.org

2 pm

Leon Schelhase, harpsichord & Janet Fink, recorder: Italian Baroque works by Alessandro & Domenico Scarlatti, Albinoni, Sammartini, Torelli, Ziani. Susan Bailis Assisted Living Community, 352 Mass Ave, Boston. 617/820-9006 FREE, donations welcome

Actors Shakespeare Project (Patrick Swanson, dir): William Shakespeare The Tempest. Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second St, Cambridge. 617/547-1982 $30-42/15 st www.actorsshakespeareproject.org

3 pm

Handel & Haydn Society Orchestra & Chorus (Roger Norrington, dir): Sir Roger's Haydn Haydn Symphony No. 44 in e minor, "Trauer" & Mass No. 14 in B-Flat Major, "Harmony". Symphony Hall, Boston. 617/266-3605 $15-67 www.handelandhaydn.org

The Brandeis University Early Music Ensemble (Sarah Mead, dir): Hero Worship, the story of Hero & Leander -- 16th-century Italian & English madrigals, 17th-century ballads, lute songs, dramatic arias. Slosberg Recital Hall, Brandeis University, Waltham. 781/736-3400 x5 $10/5 st

4 pm

Emmanuel Music Schumann Series. William Hite, tenor; Rafael Popper-Keizer, cello; Judith Gordon, piano: Schumann Bünte Blätter, Op. 99; Dichterliebe, Op. 48; Fünf Stücke im Volkston, Op. 102. Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St, Boston. 617/536-3356 $30/10 st/55 patron www.emmanuelmusic.org

A Joyful Noyse (Martins Aldins, dir): Ah, Sweet Distress madrigals of Monteverdi & instrumental music of Salomone Rossi. Hancock Church, 1912 Massachusetts Ave, Lexington. 781/862-4220 $10 donation for Hancock Church Music Fund

Cambridge Society for Early Music & Boston Clavichord Society. Marten Root, traverso & Menno van Delft, harpsichord: Galant & Learned Music for flute & harpsichord by J.S. Bach. The Heard House Museum, 54 South Main St, Ipswich. 617/489-2062 $30 /25 sr/10 st/5 ch 12 www.csem.org

Schola Cantorum (Frederick Jodry, dir) & Musica Maris Baroque Orchestra (Michael Bahmann, dir): Johann Sebastian Bach Die Himmel erzahlen, BWV 76, Komm Jesu Komm, BWV 229; Harpsichord Concerto in d. Congregational Church, The Commons, Little Compton RI. 401/274-5073 $20/15 sr/ 7 st

Crescendo Choir; Kiri Tollaksen, cornetto; Lisa Rautenberg, violin; Jane Hershey, viola da gamba; Anne Trout, violone; Douglas Freundlich, theorbo; Mariken Palmboom, organ (Christine Gevert, cond): Polychoral works by Willaert, Andrea & Giovanni Gabrieli, Claudio Monteverdi & Heinrich Schütz. Trinity Church, 484 Lime Rock Rd, Lakeville CT. 860/435-4866 $25 /10 ch www.crescendoberkshires.org

5:30 pm

Oriana Consort & instrumental ensemble (Walter Chapin, dir): Baroque Legacies motets by Andrea & Giovanni Gabrieli; Claudio Monteverdi; J.S. Bach Nach Dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150. Swedenborg Chapel, Kirkland & Quincy Sts, Cambridge. 617/547-1789 $15/10 st, sr www.theorianaconsort.org

7 pm

WCRI Radio 95.9 FM Conducting Conversations (Mike Maino, host): Interview with Foundling Baroque Orchestra director Dana Maiben with selections from Foundling's recent performances, including Bach Brandenburg Concerto III:i & Double Violin concerto with Dana Maiben & Susanna Ogata, violins; Selections from Telemann Suite in a minor for recorder & strings & F Major Recorder Concerto, Marion Verbruggen, recorder soloist www.classical959.com for web broadcast

Monday, April 7

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11 am

Musical Instruments Gallery Talk. Marcus Thompson, viola: The Viola d'amore in the 18th Century music, design & role of the viola d'amore during the Baroque period. Thompson will demonstrate his own historical Bohemian instrument made in the mid-18th century; the MFA's South German instrument from the early 1700s will be available for comparison. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/267-9300 FREE with Museum admission www.mfa.org

7:30 pm

Cambridge Society for Early Music & Boston Clavichord Society. Marten Root, traverso & Menno van Delft, harpsichord: Galant & Learned Music for flute & harpsichord by J.S. Bach. Christ Church, Zero Garden St, Cambridge. 617/489-2062 $30 /25 sr/10 st/5 ch 12 www.csem.org

Tuesday, April 8

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Wednesday, April 9

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6 pm

WHRB Radio 95.3 FM Spanish Music Songs by Mudarra, Alfonso X, Pisador, others.

1 pm

MFA Lecture Series The Arts & Cultures of Spain, 1550-1650. Jonathan Ribner (Art History, Boston University), lecturer: Art & Architecture during the Golden Age of Spain. Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/369-3306 $25/20 st, sr, MFA members www.mfa.org

7:30 pm

Actors Shakespeare Project (Patrick Swanson, dir): William Shakespeare The Tempest. Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second St, Cambridge. 617/547-1982 $30-42/15 st www.actorsshakespeareproject.org

8:15 pm

William Hite, tenor & Judith Gordon, piano: Ein Liederabend, in memoriam Craig Smith songs of Schubert & Schumann, including Schumann Dichterliebe, Op. 48 on the poetry of Heine. Bezanson Recital Hall, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 413/545-2511 $10/5 st, sr www.umass.edu/music/calendar

Thursday, April 10

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6 pm

WHRB Radio 95.3 FM Baroque Choral Masterworks program TBD

7 pm

MFA Lecture Series Sights & Sounds in Spain's Golden Age. Mary Crawford-Volk (art historian), lecturer: Engaging Body & Spirit; Spanish Art 1550­1660. Riley Seminar Room, Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/369-3306 $25/20 st, sr, MFA members www.mfa.org

7:30 pm

Actors Shakespeare Project (Patrick Swanson, dir): William Shakespeare The Tempest. Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second St, Cambridge. 617/547-1982 $30-42/15 st www.actorsshakespeareproject.org

Friday, April 11

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7:30 pm

Lane Concert Series. Harmonie Universelle (Florian Deuter, dir): Bach's Pupils music of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, & the master himself, Johann Sebastian Bach. Recital Hall, University of Vermont, Burlington VT. 802/656-4455 $25/20 st www.uvm.edu/laneseries Pre-concert talk at 6:30pm

Actors Shakespeare Project (Patrick Swanson, dir): William Shakespeare The Tempest. Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second St, Cambridge. 617/547-1982 $30-42/15 st www.actorsshakespeareproject.org

8 pm

Justina Golden, mezzosoprano & Amiable Consort (Pamela Dellal, Mary GerbiPamela Getnick Mindell, Martin Near & Brenna Wells, voices; Robert Eisenstein, medieval fiddl): 12th-17th c works including troubadour songs, works by Hildegard von Bingen, Orlando di Lasso & others. Gordon Chapel, Old South Church, 640 Boylston St, Boston. 617/499-4860 $25 ($20 in advance)/15 sr/10 st www.bostonsecession.org

The Boston Camerata (Joel Cohen, dir) & The Dünya Ensemble (Mehmet Sanlikol, dir): Alla Turca Europe & the Ottomans, 1400-1800. First Church Congregational, 11 Garden St, Cambridge. 1-866/427-2092 $22-46/20% discount sr/10 st www.bostoncamerata.org

Musicians of the Old Post Road (Daniel Ryan & Suzanne Stumpf, dirs): Transatlantic Crossings Classical-era chamber works by John Antes, J. F. Peter, J. Gehot, J. C. Moller, Haydn & others. First Parish, Rtes 20 & 27, Wayland. 781/466-6694 $25/20 st, sr/ FREE ch 7-17 with adult www.oldpostroad.org

Saturday, April 12

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9:30 am

Recorders/Early Music MetroWest Playing Session: Leaves Be Green celebrating Spring in music. Sarah Cantor, Eric Haas, Sarah Mead & Sheila Beardslee, coaches. Trinity Episcopal Church, 81 Elm St, Concord. 978/264-0584 $12 visitors www.recordersearlymusic.org

10 am

Eastern Connecticut Recorder Society Playing Meeting: Tricia van Oers, leader. Connecticut Forest & Park Association, Route 66, Middlefield CT. 860-442-8490 $10 visitor www.ct-recorders.org

12 noon

MFA Gallery Activity. Darcy Kuronen, MFA Musical Instruments curator: A Musical Masterpiece: the Sheraton-Broadwood Piano of 1796. Musical Instruments Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/369-3300 FREE with Museum admission www.mfa.org

1 pm

MFA Gallery Activity. Darcy Kuronen, MFA Musical Instruments curator: A Musical Masterpiece: the Sheraton-Broadwood Piano of 1796. Musical Instruments Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/369-3300 FREE with Museum admission www.mfa.org

2 pm

Actors Shakespeare Project (Patrick Swanson, dir): William Shakespeare The Tempest. Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second St, Cambridge. 617/547-1982 $30-42/15 st www.actorsshakespeareproject.org

MFA Gallery Activity. Darcy Kuronen, MFA Musical Instruments curator: A Musical Masterpiece: the Sheraton-Broadwood Piano of 1796. Musical Instruments Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/369-3300 FREE with Museum admission www.mfa.org

7:30 pm

Actors Shakespeare Project (Patrick Swanson, dir): William Shakespeare The Tempest. Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second St, Cambridge. 617/547-1982 $30-42/15 st www.actorsshakespeareproject.org

8 pm

Boston Early Music Festival. John Holloway, violin; Jaap ter Linden, cello & Lars Ulrik Mortensen, harpsichord: Music of Veracini, Vivaldi, Leclair, Corelli & others. First Church Congregational, 11 Garden St, Cambridge. 617/661-1812 $25-64/ 5 discount st, sr & HU affiliates www.bemf.org Pre-concert talk at 6:30 pm

The Orchestra & Chorus of Emmanuel Music (John Harbison, cond); Gail Abbey, Roberta Anderson, Kendra Colton & Jayne West, sopranos; Pamela Dellal, Krista River & Susan Trout, mezzosopranos; Frank Kelley & Jason McStoots, tenors; David Kravitz & Donald Wilkinson, bass/baritones: J.S. Bach Mass in b minor. Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St, Boston. 617/536-3356 $25-60/10 st/115 patron www.emmanuelmusic.org 7 pm Pre-concert talk by Christoph Wolff

Musicians of the Old Post Road (Daniel Ryan & Suzanne Stumpf, dirs): Transatlantic Crossings Classical-era chamber works by John Antes, J. F. Peter, J. Gehot, J. C. Moller, Haydn & others. Christ Church, Zero Garden St, Cambridge. 781/466-6694 $25/20 st, sr/ FREE ch 7-17 with adult www.oldpostroad.org

Longy School of Music Diploma Recital. Rachel Cama-Lekx & Zoe Weiss, viola da gamba; Peter Cama-Lekx, violin;, Tracy Cowart, mezzo-soprano; Ellen Pond, organ; Suzanne Reine, harpsichord: Music for lyra viol, divisions by Simpson & Rogniono, Buxtehude Jubilate Domino; solo & chamber music by Marais. Pickman Concert Hall, Longy School of Music, 27 Garden St, Cambridge. 617/876-0956 x500 FREE www.longy.edu

Sunday, April 13

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6-9 am

WHUS 91.7 FM Off The Beaten Track (Dan Grieder, host) www.whus.org

9 am

Advent Parish Choir (Mark Dwyer, dir): Solemn Mass, Fourth Sunday of Easter Johann Sebastian Bach Flocks in pastures green abiding, BWV 208; Thomas Tomkins My shepherd is the living Lord. Church of the Advent 30 Brimmer St, Boston. 617/523-2377 Offering www.theadvent.org

10 am

Emmanuel Music (John Harbison, cond): Bach Erwünschtes Freudenlicht, BWV 184. Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St, Boston. 617/536-3356 Offering www.emmanuelmusic.org

Newton Baroque & Choir of Second Church of Newton (Andrus Madsen, dir): Johann Sebastian Bach Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt, BWV 112 & O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht, BWV 118. Second Church of Newton, 60 Highland St, West Newton. 617/332-1446 Offering http://www1.shore.net/~second/index.htm

11 am

Harvard University Choir (Edward Jones, dir): Mozart Mass in c, K427 (selections). The Memorial Church, Harvard Yard, Cambridge. 617/495-5508 Offering

11:15 am

Advent Choir (Mark Dwyer, dir): Solemn Mass, Fourth Sunday of Easter Tomás Luis de Victoria Vidi aquam; Roland de Lassus Missa Paschalis & Surgens Jesus. Church of the Advent 30 Brimmer St, Boston. 617/523-2377 Offering www.theadvent.org

1:30 pm

West Gallery Music workshop (Bruce Randall, leader). St. Mary's Church, 258 Concord St, Newton Lower Falls. (978)373-5852 Donation

2 pm

The Borromeo String Quartet: Beethoven Quartet Op. 18/3; Grosse Fuge, Op. 133. Forsyth Chapel, Forest Hills Cemetery, 95 Forest Hills Ave, Jamaica Plain. 617/524-0128 $30-55/25 members

Worcester Hills Recorder Society Workshop. Sheila Beardslee & Daniel Meyers, leaders. Brooks Music Center, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester. 508/852-6877 $10 visitors mysite.verizon.net/recorders/whrs

Actors Shakespeare Project (Patrick Swanson, dir): William Shakespeare The Tempest. Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second St, Cambridge. 617/547-1982 $30-42/15 st www.actorsshakespeareproject.org

4 pm

WHRB Radio 95.3 FM Concert Special Paul-André Bempéchat, piano: Beethoven's last three sonatas (recorded in recital April 4, 2008).

5:30 pm

Oriana Consort & instrumental ensemble (Walter Chapin, dir): Baroque Legacies motets by Andrea & Giovanni Gabrieli; Claudio Monteverdi; J.S. Bach Nach Dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150. First Lutheran Church, 299 Berkeley St, Boston. 617/547-1789 $15/10 st, sr www.theorianaconsort.org

Monday, April 14

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7 pm

WHRB Radio 95.3 FM Special Concert honoring conductor Jean-François Paillard (b. April 12, 1928). Mouret Fanfares (Jean-Marie Leclair Instrumental Ensemble; Westminster LP); Pachelbel Canon in D (Jean-François Paillard Chamber Orchestra; RCA Victor LP); Mouret Symphonies de chasse (Jean-François Paillard Chamber Orchestra; Erato LP)

Tuesday, April 15

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Wednesday, April 16

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1 pm

MFA Lecture Series The Arts & Cultures of Spain, 1550-1650. Mary Gaylord (Romance Languages & Literatures, Harvard University), lecturer: Visual Imagination in Early Modern Spanish Literature; works of Luis de León, Cervantes, Góngora & Quevedo. Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/369-3306 $25/20 st, sr, MFA members www.mfa.org

6 pm

MFA Gallery Activity. Elizabeth Mitchell, MFA staff: John Singleton Copley Squirrels, Sharks & High Society. 18th-Century American Colonial Arts Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/369-3300 FREE with Museum admission www.mfa.org

7 pm

MFA Gallery Activity. Elizabeth Mitchell, MFA staff: John Singleton Copley Squirrels, Sharks & High Society. 18th-Century American Colonial Arts Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/369-3300 FREE with Museum admission www.mfa.org

8 pm

MFA Gallery Activity. Elizabeth Mitchell, MFA staff: John Singleton Copley Squirrels, Sharks & High Society. 18th-Century American Colonial Arts Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/369-3300 FREE with Museum admission www.mfa.org

Thursday, April 17

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5 pm

Opera/Humanities Seminar. David Rosen (Cornell University), speaker. Barker Center 133, Harvard University, Cambridge. 617/496-6013 FREE www.music.fas.harvard.edu/calendar.html

6 pm

WHRB Radio 95.3 FM Baroque Choral Masterworks Galuppi Laetatus Sum; Nisi Dominus & Lauda Jerusalem (Kopp, Kornerscher Sing-Verein of Dresden; Delos)

7 pm

MFA Lecture Series Sights & Sounds in Spain's Golden Age. Elizabeth Rhodes, (Hispanic Studies, Boston College), lecturer: The Arts of the Inquistion during the Age of Velázquez & el Greco. Riley Seminar Room, Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/369-3306 $25/20 st, sr, MFA members www.mfa.org

8 pm

Voices Divine (Amy White, soprano & Dominic Schaner, lute): 16th Century Lute Songs from Continental Europe music by Thomas Crequillon, Alonso Mudarra & Hans Newsidler. Lindsay Chapel, First Church Congregational, Mason & Garden Sts, Cambridge. 617/547-2724 $5 Suggested donation

Friday, April 18

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5:15 pm

Yale Baroque Opera Project. Yale Schola Cantorum & Yale Collegium players (Ethan Heard, stage dir; Robert Mealy, Grant Herreid & Charles Weaver, music dirs): Monteverdi Orfeo. Trinity Lutheran Church, Wall & Orange Sts, New Haven CT. 203/432-5062 FREE www.yale.edu/ybop

7:30 pm

Renaissonics (John Tyson, dir) & Friends; Ken Pierce, dance leader: Renaissance Dance Evening social dancing from the 16th-17th centuries. Jewett Hall, First Church Congregational, 11 Garden St, Cambridge. 617/661-3353 $8

7:30 pm

Cappella Clausura (Amelia LeClair, dir) & Amphion's Lyre; Catherine Liddell, theorbo: Chiara Margarita Cozzolani Vespers of 1650. Gordon Chapel, Old South Church, 640 Boylston St, Boston. 617/964-6609 $20/12 st, sr www.clausura.org

8 pm

Boston Classical Orchestra (Stephen Lipsitt, cond); Linda Wang, violin: Brilliant Beethoven, Wonderful Wang! Beethoven Coriolan Overture; Violin Concerto & Eighth Symphony. Faneuil Hall, Boston. 617/423-3883 $32-57/29-54 st, MA teachers www.bostonclassicalorchestra.org Free preconcert lecture 7 pm by Mary Ann Nichols

The Ying Quartet: Beethoven Quartet in D Major, Op. 18, No. 3 & works of later composers. John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge. 617/496-2222 FREE, passes from Harvard Box Office required www.music.fas.harvard.edu/calendar.html

Lane Concert Series. The Acting Company: Shakespeare The Tempest. Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, University of Vermont, Burlington VT. 802/656-4455 $27-34/23-30 st www.uvm.edu/laneseries Pre-concert talk at 6:30pm

Saturday, April 19

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1 pm

Monadnock Chapter, ARS Play-In, 116 Birge St, Brattleboro VT. 802/254-1223 $3 kmvv56@hotmail.com

1:30 pm

BRS Workshop. Marilyn Boenau, leader: Spanish Gold ­ Musical Treasures of the Duke of Lerma;works by Guerrero, Lobo, Palestrina & others. First Parish of Watertown 35 Church St, Watertown. 781/646-9645 $30/25 ARS members, st, sr www.bostonrecordersociety.org

2 pm

Mary Therese Royal de Martinez, soprano, Audrey, baroque cello; Paul Cienniwa, harpsichord: Royal Tea & Italian Arias. Hotel Viking, 1 Bellevue Ave, Newport RI. 401/855-3096 $45 to benefit Newport Baroque Orchestra www.newportbaroque.org

Yale Baroque Opera Project. Yale Schola Cantorum & Yale Collegium players (Ethan Heard, stage dir; Robert Mealy, Grant Herreid & Charles Weaver, music dirs): Monteverdi Orfeo. Trinity Lutheran Church, Wall & Orange Sts, New Haven CT. 203/432-5062 FREE www.yale.edu/ybop

3 pm

Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum Chamber Singers (Matthew Hall, cond): Adieu ces bons vins Franco-Flemish Renaissance works. First Church Congregational, 11 Garden St, Cambridge. 617/496-2222 $12/7 st www.hrcm.net/cs.htm

7:30 pm

Newton Baroque (Lisa Brooke, violin; Sarah Cantor, recorder; Sang Joon Park, flute; Audrey Markowitz, oboe; Jim Mosher & James Baker, horn; Andrus Madsen, harpsichord/dir): Diverse Concerti Bach Brandenburg I; concerti by Vivaldi, Telemann & Sammartini. Second Church of Newton, 60 Highland St, West Newton. 617/332-1446 Suggested Donation $15/12 st, sr

8 pm

Cappella Clausura (Amelia LeClair, dir) & Amphion's Lyre; Catherine Liddell, theorbo: Chiara Margarita Cozzolani Vespers of 1650. Parish of the Messiah, 1300 Commonwealth Ave, Auburndale. 617/964-6609 $20/12 st, sr www.clausura.org

A Far Cry String Orchestra; Roger Tapping, viola: Words & the Night Palestrina motets; Mozart Divertimento #3; madrigals by Dowland & Gesualdo; works of later composers. Pickman Hall, Longy School of Music, 1 Follen St, Cambridge. 617/297-2796 $20/10 st www.afarcry.org

Sunday, April 20

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El Greco to Velazquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III(to July 27, 2008). Gund Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/369-3306 $23/21 st, sr 18+/7.50 youth 7-17/under 7 FREE www.mfa.org

6-9 am

WHUS 91.7 FM Off The Beaten Track (Dan Grieder, host) www.whus.org

9 am

Advent Parish Choir (Mark Dwyer, dir): Solemn Mass, Fifth Sunday of Easter Giovanni Croce Cantate Domino. Church of the Advent 30 Brimmer St, Boston. 617/523-2377 Offering www.theadvent.org

10 am

Emmanuel Music (John Harbison, cond): Bach Ihr werdet weinen und heulen, BWV 103. Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St, Boston. 617/536-3356 Offering www.emmanuelmusic.org

11:15 am

Advent Choir (Mark Dwyer, dir): Solemn Mass, Fifth Sunday of Easter Thomas Weelkes O Lord, arise into thy resting place. Church of the Advent 30 Brimmer St, Boston. 617/523-2377 Offering www.theadvent.org

12 noon

MFA Gallery Activity. Douglas Kirk & Daniel Stillman, cornetto, shawm, sackbut, dulcian & recorders: Spanish Musical Instrument Demonstration. Lower Rotunda, Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/369-3300 FREE with Museum admission www.mfa.org

3 pm

Boston Classical Orchestra (Stephen Lipsitt, cond); Linda Wang, violin: Brilliant Beethoven, Wonderful Wang! Beethoven Coriolan Overture; Violin Concerto & Eighth Symphony. Faneuil Hall, Boston. 617/423-3883 $32-57/29-54 st, MA teachers www.bostonclassicalorchestra.org Free preconcert lecture 2 pm by Mary Ann Nichols

Boston Recorder Society Series. Pentimento (Eric Haas, recorders & Renaissance flutes; Olav Chris Henriksen, lute): Musica Getutchst (Music Teutonicised)German, Austrian, & Polish music from the 16th & early 17th centuries.. Loring-Greenough House, 12 South St, Jamaica Plain. 781/646-9645 $15/10 BRS & other recorder society members, st, sr, low income/children FREE www.bostonrecordersociety.org

Cambridge Concentus (David Kjar & Leon Schelhase, dir); Ulrike Präger, soprano; Thea Lobo, alto; Jason Wang, tenor; Marika Holmqvist, violin; Robinson Pyle & Graham Dixon, trumpets: J.S. Bach Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen, BWV 43. First Church Congregational, 11 Garden St, Cambridge. 617/879-2619 Donation

William Ness plays the Taylor & Boody organ, Op. 9 : Georg Böhm Präludium in Cl Nicolas de Grigny Pange lingua; Georg Leyding Partita on Von Gott will ich nicht lassen; J.S. Bach Von Gott will ich nicht lassen, BWV 658 & Toccata, Adagio & Fuga in C, BWV 564. St. Joseph Memorial Chapel, College of the Holy Cross , Worcester. 508/793-2296 FREE

3:30 pm

Foundling Baroque Orchestra (Dana Maiben, dir); Marion Verbruggen, recorder; Susanna Ogata, violin; Anna Marsh, Baroque bassoon: Works for Recorder & Strings by Bach, Vivaldi &Telemann; Vivaldi Spring. Grace Church, 175 Mathewson St, Providence RI. 401/621-6123 $25/20 sr/10 st & low income www.foundling.org Donations of small Mothers' Day gift for a woman in a shelter welcomed

4 pm

Harvard University Choir & Orchestra of Emmanuel Music (Edward Jones, dir): Mozart Mass in c, K427. The Memorial Church, Harvard Yard, Cambridge. 617/496-2222 $10/5 non HU students/FREE HU students w/ID www.fas.harvard.edu/tickets

A Far Cry String Orchestra; Seymour Lipkin, piano: Words & the Night Palestrina motets; Mozart Piano Concerto #13; Gesualdo madrigals; works of later composers. St. Paul's Church, 15 St. Paul St,Brookline. 617/297-2796 $20/10 st www.afarcry.org

8 pm

St. John's Concert Series. Renaissonics: Beltane, Renaissance Rites of Spring. St. John's Church, 705 Hale St, Beverly Farms. 978/283-9046 $20/10 st, sr/ch & subscribers FREE www.sjcs.info

Monday, April 21

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11 am-2 pm

Old South Meetinghouse Vacation Week Program: Colonial Clothing & Games. Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington Street, Boston. 617/482-6439 $5/FREE OSMH members www.oldsouthmeetinghouse.org

Tuesday, April 22

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El Greco to Velazquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III(to July 27, 2008). Gund Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/369-3306 $23/21 st, sr 18+/7.50 youth 7-17/under 7 FREE www.mfa.org

11 am-2 pm

Old South Meetinghouse Vacation Week Program: Secrets of Old South. Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington Street, Boston. 617/482-6439 $5/FREE OSMH members www.oldsouthmeetinghouse.org

12:15 pm

Lee Ridgway plays the C.B. Fisk Organ: Bach Sonata in c minor. King's Chapel, 58 Tremont St, Boston. 617/227-2155 $3 www.kings-chapel.org

Wednesday, April 23

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El Greco to Velazquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III(to July 27, 2008). Gund Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/369-3306 $23/21 st, sr 18+/7.50 youth 7-17/under 7 FREE www.mfa.org

11 am

Old South Meetinghouse Vacation Week Program: Behind the Scenes Tour. Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington Street, Boston. 617/482-6439 $5/FREE OSMH members www.oldsouthmeetinghouse.org

1 pm

Vacation Week Program: Behind the Scenes Tour. Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington Street, Boston. 617/482-6439 $5/FREE OSMH members www.oldsouthmeetinghouse.org

1 pm

MFA Lecture Series The Arts & Cultures of Spain, 1550-1650. Michael Noone (Music, Boston College), lecturer: Music & Musicians in Renaissance Spain; Court, Chapel & Tavern. Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/369-3306 $25/20 st, sr, MFA members www.mfa.org

7:30 pm

Paul Cienniwa, harpsichord: Music by Froberger, Louis Couperin & Forqueray. The First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough St, Boston. 617/267-6730 FREE www.firstchurchboston.org.

Thursday, April 24

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El Greco to Velazquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III(to July 27, 2008). Gund Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/369-3306 $23/21 st, sr 18+/7.50 youth 7-17/under 7 FREE www.mfa.org

11 am-2 pm

Old South Meetinghouse Vacation Week Program: Where the Boston Tea Party Began. Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington Street, Boston. 617/482-6439 $5/FREE OSMH members www.oldsouthmeetinghouse.org

6 pm

WHRB Radio 95.3 FM Baroque Choral Masterworks Vivaldi Dixit Dominus (Kopp, Kornerscher Sing-Verein of Dresden; Delos); Gloria in D (Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Academy of Ancient Music, Preston, Nelson, Kirby; Oiseau-Lyre)

7 pm

MFA Lecture Series Sights & Sounds in Spain's Golden Age. Michael Noone (Music, Boston College), lecturer: Music & Musicians in Renaissance Spain; Court, Chapel & Tavern. Riley Seminar Room, Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/369-3306 $25/20 st, sr, MFA members www.mfa.org

Friday, April 25

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El Greco to Velazquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III(to July 27, 2008). Gund Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/369-3306 $23/21 st, sr 18+/7.50 youth 7-17/under 7 FREE www.mfa.org

11 am-2 pm

Old South Meetinghouse Vacation Week Program: Colonial Kids Faire. Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington Street, Boston. 617/482-6439 $5/FREE OSMH members www.oldsouthmeetinghouse.org

8 pm

Boston Early Music Festival. Ensemble Caprice (Matthias Maute, dir): La Follia & the Gypsies, Gypsy Music in the Renaissance & Baroque PeriodsMusic of Ortiz, Schmelzer, Anonymous, Telemann & Vivaldi. First Church Congregational, 11 Garden St, Cambridge. 617/661-1812 $25-64 www.bemf.org FREE Pre-concert talk at 6:30 pm

Yale Schola Cantorum (Simon Carrington, dir) & Yale Collegium players (Robert Mealy, dir); Elm City Girls' Choir (Rebecca Rosembaum, dir): Monteverdi Vespro della beata vergine (1610). Woolsey Hall, Yale University, College & Grove Sts, New Haven CT. 203/432-5184 FREE www.yale.edu/ybop

Saturday, April 26

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El Greco to Velazquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III(to July 27, 2008). Gund Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/369-3306 $23/21 st, sr 18+/7.50 youth 7-17/under 7 FREE www.mfa.org

1:30 pm

WHRB Radio 95.3 FM Metropolitan Opera Broadcast Donizetti La Fille du Régiment (Natalie Dessay, Felicity Palmer, Juan Diego Flórez, Alessandro Corbelli, Zoe Caldwell; Marco Armiliato, cond)

8 pm

Blue Heron (Scott Metcalf, dir) & Boston Shawm & Sackbut Ensemble: Music from the Era of El Greco & Velázquez. First Church Congregational, 11 Garden St, Cambridge. 617/960-7956 $35-50/20 sr/10 st, low income www.blueheronchoir.org Free Pre-concert talk by Douglas Kirk at 7:15 pm

Sunday, April 27

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El Greco to Velázquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III (to July 27, 2008). Gund Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/267-9300 $17/15 st, sr 18+/6.50 youth 7-17/under 7 FREE www.mfa.org

6-9 am

WHUS 91.7 FM Off The Beaten Track (Dan Grieder, host) www.whus.org

10 am

Emmanuel Music (John Harbison, cond): Bach Wahrlich, wahrlich, ich sage euch, BWV 86. Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St, Boston. 617/536-3356 Offering www.emmanuelmusic.org

11:15 am

Advent Choir (Mark Dwyer, dir): Solemn Mass, Fifth Sunday of Easter (Rogation Sunday) Tomás Luis de Victoria Vidi aquam. Church of the Advent 30 Brimmer St, Boston. 617/523-2377 Offering www.theadvent.org

12 noon

MFA Gallery Activity. Shirin Fozi, MFA research intern: The Art of Devotion in Europe, 1300-1500. Medieval Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/369-3300 FREE with Museum admission www.mfa.org

1 pm

MFA Gallery Activity. Shirin Fozi, MFA research intern: The Art of Devotion in Europe, 1300-1500. Medieval Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/369-3300 FREE with Museum admission www.mfa.org

2 pm

MFA Gallery Activity. Shirin Fozi, MFA research intern: The Art of Devotion in Europe, 1300-1500. Medieval Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/369-3300 FREE with Museum admission www.mfa.org

4 pm

Alta (Peter Braunfield, recorders & shawm, Daniel Green, recorders & sackbut; Gwendolyn Winkel, recorders & shawm), with guests Craig Dorschel, Susan Galereave, Karen Howard, and Charles Turner:: 25th Anniversary Concert. Spanish renaissance, lively dance music, classic chansons, Vivaldi La Primavera. Trinity Episcopal Church, 120 Sigourney St, Hartford CT. 860/231-1827 $15 www.altawindtrio.org

7 pm

Boston Recorder Society Monthly Meeting: Joyful Noise Drop-in Ensemble with Tom Zajac. Painters & Allied Trades Building, 25 Colgate Rd. Roslindale. 781/646-9645 $15/10 BRS Basic or other recorder organizations. www.bostonrecordersociety.org

Monday, April 28

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El Greco to Velazquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III(to July 27, 2008). Gund Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/369-3306 $23/21 st, sr 18+/7.50 youth 7-17/under 7 FREE www.mfa.org

Tuesday, April 29

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El Greco to Velazquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III(to July 27, 2008). Gund Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/369-3306 $23/21 st, sr 18+/7.50 youth 7-17/under 7 FREE www.mfa.org

12:15 pm

Sette Monti (Teresa Tam, soprano; Matthew Wright, archlute; Scott Lemire, theorbo; William Good, theorbo & dir): La Primavera 17th-century Italian songs by Monteverdi, Strozzi, D'India & others. King's Chapel, 58 Tremont St, Boston. 617/227-2155 $3 www.kings-chapel.org

Wednesday, April 30

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El Greco to Velazquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III(to July 27, 2008). Gund Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/369-3306 $23/21 st, sr 18+/7.50 youth 7-17/under 7 FREE www.mfa.org

1 pm

MFA Lecture Series The Arts & Cultures of Spain, 1550-1650. Ronni Baer (Senior Curator, European Paintings, MFA), lecturer: Virtual Exhibition Tour. Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/369-3306 $25/20 st, sr, MFA members www.mfa.org

8 pm

Five College Early Music Collegium (Robert Eisenstein, dir): German Renaissance music for voices & instruments, including works by Senfl & Isaac. Wesley Methodist Church, 98 N. Maple St, Hadley. 413/545-2227 FREE www.umass.edu/music/calendar